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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the United States, this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda’s various styles and themes... -
![Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh]()
Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication in 1973, this bilingual publication instantly became "a revolution... a classic by which masterpieces are judged" (Review)... -
![Three Clicks Left by Katerina Gogou, Κατερίνα Γώγου]()
Three Clicks Left by Katerina Gogou, Κατερίνα Γώγου
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the poems of Three Clicks Left, it is the plight of woman in a world of betrayed politics which forms the drama...a consistent pitch of colloquial street-lingo woo, savvy and quotidian wail... -
![The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah]()
The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFiction. African Studies. THE HEALERS tells a story of the conflict and regeneration focused on replacing toxic ignorance with the healing knowledge of African unity...Categorized as:
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![Collected Poems by Robert Hayden]()
Collected Poems by Robert Hayden
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRobert Hayden (1913-1980) was one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including American Journal , which was nominated for a National Book Award in its first publication... -
![Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης]()
Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΡΩΜΙΟΣ: Αρκετά!... Και τώρα μια τελευταία διευκρίνιση. Είπα ότι το έργο μας είναι κωμωδία. Αλλά δεν είναι απλώς διότι έτσι γράφτηκε ή διότι το λέμε εμείς. Είναι κωμωδία για έναν άλλο σοβαρότερο και πολύ πιο έγκυρο λόγο: Το δηλώσαμε ως κωμωδία, το υποβάλαμε στη λογοκρισία ως κωμωδία και ενεκρίθη ως κωμωδία δια της υπ’ αριθμόν 199 αποφάσεως... -
![Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish, Jeffrey Sacks]()
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish, Jeffrey Sacks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to his displaced people and to the rich Arabic language... -
![The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan]()
The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHonored, during the course of her literary career, with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. The Blue Estuaries contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work, fully representing a unique and distinguished contribution to modern poetry over five decades... -
![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... -
![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... -
![The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera]()
The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoint winner of The Guardian Fiction Prize, this book is a collection of stories about growing up in Rhodesia... -
![Project for a Revolution in New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet]()
Project for a Revolution in New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself or a foreigner's nightmare of New York as its true protagonist... -
![The Day the Flowers Died by Ami Blackwelder]()
The Day the Flowers Died by Ami Blackwelder
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn historical fiction set in Munich, Germany in the early 1930’s before the outbreak of War World II. Eli Levin and Rebecca Baum fall passionately in love and while their differences should have separated them, they instead forged a passionate bond that would change their lives forever...Categorized as:
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![The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed]()
The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The Terrible Twos" is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing instant gratification--Americans. Ishmael Reed's sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too believable future where mankind's fate depends upon St. Nicholas and a Risto rasta dwarf named Black Peter, who together wreak mischievous havoc on Wall Street and in the Oval Office... -
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![The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks]()
The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRussell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean... -
![The Zafarani Files: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
The Zafarani Files: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo's old city, making notes of their comings and goings, their quarrels, their triumphs, descriptions of dress and biographical details...Categorized as:
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![21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph]()
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer...Categorized as:
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![Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso]()
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an American hero whose courage, vision, and dedication helped change history. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s... -
![The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde]()
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour... -
![Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks]()
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal...Categorized as:
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![An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan]()
An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis inspiring memoir by the Gold Star parent and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream and why--especially in these tumultuous times--we must not be afraid to step forward for what we believe in when it matters most... -
![Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Paul Kennedy]()
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Paul Kennedy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn an unprecedented effort, sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers traveled to thirty nations around the globe to live for a week with families that were statistically average for that nation... -
![Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus]()
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA powerful first-hand account of life in the streets of São Paulo from 1955 to 1960 that drew international attention to the plight of the poor... -
![...καλά, εσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς by Χρόνης Μίσσιος, Chronis Missios]()
...καλά, εσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς by Χρόνης Μίσσιος, Chronis Missios
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsΤι να σου πω, όλα αυτά τα χρόνια που εσύ έλειψες, τα χρόνια λέω που μας άντρωσαν μέσα στην κρεατομηχανή, μ' έχουν μπερδέψει... -
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![Dark Days by James Baldwin]()
Dark Days by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world... -
![الأعمال الكاملة - لافتات by أحمد مطر]()
الأعمال الكاملة - لافتات by أحمد مطر
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsأحمد مطر شاعر عراقي الجنسية ولد سنة 1954 ابناً رابعاً بين عشرة أخوة من البنين والبنات، في قرية التنومة، إحدى نواحي شط العرب في البصرة. وعاش فيها مرحلة الطفولة قبل أن تنتقل أسرته وهو في مرحلة الصبا، لتقيم عبر النهر في محلة الأصمعي... -
![Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne Michaud]()
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne Michaud
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhy do good women stay with bad men?What if political wives are just as calculating as their infamous husbands?If Hilary Clinton had left her marriage, she might only be known as the spurned wife of a retired politician. Instead, she became the first woman to run for U.S. president on a major party ticket... -
![Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman]()
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the 2022 Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award and the 2022 NLGJA Excellence in Book Writing Award. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbriath Award for Nonfiction, the Gotham Book Prize, and the ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award . A 2021 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice...Categorized as:
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![James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe]()
James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only... -
![The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya]()
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPalden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture...
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