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Art Heist, Baby! by otrtbs
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen James Potter answers a mysterious ad in his local coffee shop, the last thing he expects is to be thrown into a world of white collar crime, but how can he resist when the mastermind behind the operation has dark hair and brooding eyes and promises wealth beyond James' wildest imagination? He would do anything for that boy named after a star, including stealing millions of dollars of fine... -
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Flightless Bird by AudreyHornesHeart
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAU where Louis Tomlinson is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet. When his rival from ballet school, moody dance prodigy Harry Styles joins the company, old wounds are reopened and old passions reignited... -
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Collected Poems by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work"And I who was walkingwith the earth at my waist,saw two snowy eaglesand a naked girl.The one was the otherand the girl was neither."--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves"Federico García Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers... -
![Olhos d'Água by Conceição Evaristo]()
Olhos d'Água by Conceição Evaristo
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEm Olhos d’água Conceição Evaristo ajusta o foco de seu interesse na população afro-brasileira abordando, sem meias palavras, a pobreza e a violência urbana que a acometem.Sem sentimentalismos, mas sempre incorporando a tessitura poética à ficção, seus contos apresentam uma significativa galeria de mulheres: Ana Davenga, a mendiga Duzu-Querença, Natalina, Luamanda, Cida, a menina Zaíta... -
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![A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud]()
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAlthough Arthur Rimbaud stopped writing at the age of 19, he possessed the most revolutionary talent of the century. His poetry & prose have increasingly influenced major writers... -
![The Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca]()
The Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca has introduced generations of readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty... -
![Poésies complètes by Arthur Rimbaud]()
Poésies complètes by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings*ILLUSTRATED EDITION French poet and adventurer, who stopped writing verse at the age of 19, and who became, after his early death an inextricable myth in French gay life. Rimbaud's poetry, partially written in free verse, is characterized by dramatic and imaginative vision... -
![C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by Constantinos P. Cavafy]()
C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by Constantinos P. Cavafy
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsC. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature... -
![The Collected Books by Jack Spicer]()
The Collected Books by Jack Spicer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Collected Books includes all the poems written from After Lorca (1957) up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962)... -
![A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud]()
A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, "A Season in Hell" has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century... -
![Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson]()
Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval... -
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Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about fifteen and twenty-one, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world... -
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![In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather's House by Denton Welch, William S. Burroughs]()
In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather's House by Denton Welch, William S. Burroughs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeenly observed autobiographical fiction and journal entries from acclaimed writer Denton Welch, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs “In Youth Is Pleasure” recounts the summer vacation of Orvil Pym—a sensitive, withdrawn, and deeply unhappy boy of fifteen. Following a trying year at public school, Orvil spends the summer with his father and two older brothers...Categorized as:
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![Crystal Boys by Pai Hsien-yung]()
Crystal Boys by Pai Hsien-yung
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCrystal Boys is the first Chinese novel on gay themes. A-qing, the adolescent hero, comes from an impoverished family. His father casts him out after learning that his son is gay. A-qing drifts into New Park, a gay hangout in Taipei, and begins his life as a hustler... -
![Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters]()
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsReturn to Darkover, the planet of the Bloody Sun, with this collection of stories written by the originator of this world... -
![The Complete Plays by Joe Orton]()
The Complete Plays by Joe Orton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis volume contains every play written by Joe Orton, who emerged in the 1960s as the most talented comic playwright in recent English history and was considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward... -
![Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.]()
Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOf special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only a small part of it... -
![Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli]()
Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLeo is an Italian writer in his thirties. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas?s home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas?s flat in Montmartre and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that spells the end for Leo and Thomas? languid, erotic life together. Leo travels to find anonymity... -
![Un beso de Dick by Fernando Molano Vargas]()
Un beso de Dick by Fernando Molano Vargas
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEsta es la historia de Felipe y Leonardo, dos adolescentes colombianos, compañeros de clase y de equipo de fútbol, que transcurre en Bogotá a fines de los años 80. La novela narra una historia de amor (y sus consecuencias) entre dos amigos... -
![The Complete Poems by Hart Crane, Harold Bloom]()
The Complete Poems by Hart Crane, Harold Bloom
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on April 27, 1932, an apparent suicide... -
![The Complete Poems by John Wilmot]()
The Complete Poems by John Wilmot
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, was an english libertine and close friend of King Charles II. Known as one of the greatest poets of the Restoration, he wrote and published popular satirical and bawdy poetry... -
![Paradiso by José Lezama Lima]()
Paradiso by José Lezama Lima
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the wake of his father's premature death, Jose Cemi comes of age in a turn of the century Cuba described in the Washington Post as "an island paradise where magic and philosophy twist the lives of the old Cuban bourgeoisie into extravagant wonderful shapes... -
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![Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti]()
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPublished to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses... -
![Grease by Ron De Christoforo]()
Grease by Ron De Christoforo
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Thunderbirds, the Pink Ladies, and Rydell High's class of '59 rumble, rock and roll, and fall in love... -
![The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca]()
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn these three plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernada Alba), García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life... -
![La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín by Adolfo Bioy Casares]()
La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEl argentino Adolfo Bioy Casares, nacido en 1914, tiene en su haber una larga y consistente labor literaria finalmente reconocida al concedérsele el Premio Cervantes en 1990. En el presente volumen se ofrecen dos de sus obras más características, la novela La invención de Morel y la colección de cuentos cortos El gran Serafín... -
![E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon]()
E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou are about to enter fantastic worlds beyond your wildest imaginings--worlds of mystery and monster, terror and ethereal love, sudden death and miraculous life, jet-propelled shivers and humor.On this incredible, awesome journey you will meet:• a strange, yet exquisitely beautiful and profoundly wise, race of.. -
![Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction by Patrick Califia-Rice]()
Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction by Patrick Califia-Rice
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen it was first published in 1988, Patrick Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing. Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky potential of woman-to-woman sex (and nobody has ever done it any better)... -
![The Love Poems of Lord Byron: A Romantic's Passion by Lord Byron, David Stanford Burr]()
The Love Poems of Lord Byron: A Romantic's Passion by Lord Byron, David Stanford Burr
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTruly the epitome of the Romantic Poet, Lord Byron traveled and loved throughout Europe and wrote picaresque verse that proved immensely popular to audiences of his day. The man whose name is synonymous with romance gave his life in the noble cause of Greek liberty at the young age of thirty-six... -
![Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru]()
Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range... -
![Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba by Reinaldo Arenas]()
Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba by Reinaldo Arenas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, we meet a young couple who leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them... -
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![In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip by Radclyffe, Karin Kallmaker]()
In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip by Radclyffe, Karin Kallmaker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGames of chance, games of passion, games of love--roll the dice for a week in Las Vegas with games mistresses Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Whether a public table or a back room invitational, the players want to score and everybody can't wait to go all in. A pit boss who thinks she's seen it all thinks again. A shy novelist considers research in a hospitality suite... -
![Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini]()
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
![The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde]()
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBorn in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde dazzled the salons of his day with supremely witty conversation and his ardent championship of a philosophy of aestheticism. As a writer, he produced The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the finest comedies in English, and other classic plays... -
![A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee]()
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
![Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Yukio Mishima]()
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Yukio Mishima
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English... -
![Alexis: Ou, Le Traite Du Vain Combat (Suivi De) Le Coup De Grace (Le Livre De Poche) by Marguerite Yourcenar, Theo Kars]()
Alexis: Ou, Le Traite Du Vain Combat (Suivi De) Le Coup De Grace (Le Livre De Poche) by Marguerite Yourcenar, Theo Kars
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was with Alexis that, in 1929, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. Few literary debuts in this century are quite as astonishing; for this profound analysis of a man's homosexuality was written by a young woman of only twenty-four. Alexis was a daring book for its time in its exploration of sexuality and in the distinction its protagonist insists upon between pleasure and love... -
![The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau]()
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn late 19th-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character... -
![Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück]()
Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the opening line ("It is not the moon, I tell you") Gluck claims absolute control of subject, craft, and perception. We see what we are instructed to see; we understand what Gluck insists we understand. Gluck's sensitivity to emotional nuance is extreme: "I ask you, how much beauty/ can a person bear? It is/ heavier than ugliness, even the burden/ of emptiness is nothing beside it... -
![Crazy for Vincent by Hervé Guibert]()
Crazy for Vincent by Hervé Guibert
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEn autofiktiv dagbog om aids-syg kærlighed af den franske forfatter og fotograf Hervé Guibert – og et monomant gravskrift for den unge Vincent, der invaderede hans dagbøger, oplivede hans tilværelse og fornedrede ham i de seks år, de kendte hinanden... -
![Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg]()
Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAllen Ginsberg’s poems, from “Howl” to “Kaddish” to “The Fall of America,” have influenced generations of writers and made him a defining figure of the twentieth century. Ginsberg’s Collected Poems, first published in 1984, and expanded in 1997, was originally thought to contain all of his poetic work... -
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![Hard Candy by Tennessee Williams]()
Hard Candy by Tennessee Williams
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHard Candy contains Tennessee Williams’s short stories written after the publication of his first collection of short fiction, One Arm , and before the stories appearing in The Knightly Quest . These volumes have established him as an original, compelling, and honest master of the short story. The stories in Hard Candy display Mr. Williams’s mastery of several very different styles... -
![The American Dream & The Zoo Story by Edward Albee]()
The American Dream & The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee is one of our most important American playwrights. And nowhere is his dramatic genius more apparent than in two of his probing early works, The American Dream and The Zoo Story.The New Yorker hailed The American Dream as "unique ... brilliant ... a comic nightmare, fantasy of the highest order... -
![Three Tall Women by Edward Albee]()
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlbee's best plays have always walked a line between heightened realism and dark comedy. Even his most surreal works are populated with characters who wouldn't seem out of place in real life. His 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner runs true to form. It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room... -
![The Beforelife by Franz Wright]()
The Beforelife by Franz Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery... -
![Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde]()
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular BALLAD OF READING GAOL, also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-sex years old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have survived the test of NINE editions... -
![Book of Sketches by Jack Kerouac]()
Book of Sketches by Jack Kerouac
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts...
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