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The Beauty of the Husband
The Beauty of the Husband
Written by Anne Carson
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307554567
Our Price: $13.95
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The Beauty of the Husband
A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Written by Anne Carson


Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $13.95

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.

This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a... Read more >
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Men in the Off Hours
Men in the Off Hours
Written by Anne Carson
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307557872
Our Price: $13.00
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Men in the Off Hours

Written by Anne Carson


Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $13.00

Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.


In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
If Not, Winter
If Not, Winter
Written by Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307556981
Our Price: $15.95
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If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
Written by Sappho
Translated by Anne Carson


Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $15.95

A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.

Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said... Read more >
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That Night We Were Ravenous
That Night We Were Ravenous
Written by John Steffler
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781551992242
Our Price: $14.95
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That Night We Were Ravenous

Written by John Steffler


Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $14.95

A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.

Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have... Read more >
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That Night We Were Ravenous
That Night We Were Ravenous
Written by John Steffler
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771082665
Our Price: $14.95
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That Night We Were Ravenous

Written by John Steffler


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95

A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.

Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
If Not, Winter
If Not, Winter
Written by Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375724510
Our Price: $15.95
 Quantity: 1 
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If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
Written by Sappho
Translated by Anne Carson


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95

Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.
The Beauty of the Husband
The Beauty of the Husband
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375707575
Our Price: $13.95
 Quantity: 1 
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The Beauty of the Husband
A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Written by Anne Carson


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2002
Price: $13.95

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.

This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Men in the Off Hours
Men in the Off Hours
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375707568
Our Price: $13.00
 Quantity: 1 
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Men in the Off Hours

Written by Anne Carson


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.00

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Plainwater
Plainwater
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375708428
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Plainwater
Essays and Poetry
Written by Anne Carson


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2000
Price: $15.00

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern... Read more >
Handwriting
Handwriting
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375705410
Our Price: $11.00
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Handwriting
Poems
Written by Michael Ondaatje


Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $11.00

"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --Newsday

Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes... Read more >
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