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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... -
![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... -
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![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... -
![The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson]()
The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool...Categorized as:
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![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 by Arthur Rimbaud]()
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... -
![Los ojos del perro siberiano by Antonio Santa Ana]()
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![Three Poems by John Ashbery]()
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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... -
![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... -
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![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... -
![Byron's Poetry by Lord Byron]()
Byron's Poetry by Lord Byron
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt includes eighteen of his lyrics; Cantos One, Three, and excerpts from Canto Four of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; two verse romances, The Prisoner of Chillon and The Giaour, the latter newly receiving critical attention for its prophetically disjunctive structure; Manfred; The Vision of Judgment; and Don Juan, presented in long self-contained extracts--the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Sixteenth...Categorized as:
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![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 Poems of St. John of the Cross by John of the Cross]()
The Poems of St. John of the Cross by John of the Cross
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSan Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re-creating the religious fervor of St. John's art...Categorized as:
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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... -
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![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)... -
![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... -
![Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman, Sarah Ponsonby]()
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman, Sarah Ponsonby
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Chloe Plus Olivia Lillian Faderman seeks no less than to radically redefine four centuries of lesbian literature, filling a need that has long been neglected: a literary anthology of lesbian writers over the past four centuries, with each piece set in historical and literary context... -
![The Poems of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope]()
The Poems of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text... -
![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... -
![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... -
![The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora y Argote]()
The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora y Argote
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness... -
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![The School for Wives / The Learned Ladies by Molière]()
The School for Wives / The Learned Ladies by Molière
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. “Wilbur...makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one” (John Simon, New York)... -
![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... -
![The Complete Poems by Ben Jonson]()
The Complete Poems by Ben Jonson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urbane elegance of his verse forms he contrived a directness and energy of statement clearly related to colloquial speech, and this characteristic fusion of restraint and vitality gave to the seventeenth-century lyric its most distinctive quality...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![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 House of Desires by Juana Inés de la Cruz]()
The House of Desires by Juana Inés de la Cruz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOriginally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others.Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season... -
![A Family Chronicle by Sergei Aksakov, Сергей Аксаков]()
A Family Chronicle by Sergei Aksakov, Сергей Аксаков
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis masterpiece of creative autobiography, which has been universally recognized as a classic of Russian literature, describes the opening of Russia's eastern frontier in the steppes of Bashkiria... -
![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... -
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![The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays by John Webster]()
The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays by John Webster
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJohn Webster was a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. This volume offers his two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi , together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case , and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold .The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation... -
![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... -
![Tales of Henry James: The Texts of the Stories, the Author on His Craft, Background and Criticism by Henry James]()
Tales of Henry James: The Texts of the Stories, the Author on His Craft, Background and Criticism by Henry James
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThese nine tales represent the major dimensions of the short fiction James wrote in the course of thirty years. The individual texts are those of the first book version, and thus illustrate the development of Jame's prose style... -
![Tea and Sympathy by Robert Woodruff Anderson]()
Tea and Sympathy by Robert Woodruff Anderson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDrama / 9m, 2f / Int. From the author of I Never Sang for My Father, this groundbreaking drama explores a sensitive young man's coming of age amid the taunts and suspicions of his classmates and teachers at a private boy's academy. Only a sympathetic act of compassion by the wife of the headmaster gives young Tom the courage to grow into a man. A hit onstage and film with Deborah Kerr... -
![The Visions of Dom Francisco De Quevedo Villegas ... by Francisco de Quevedo]()
The Visions of Dom Francisco De Quevedo Villegas ... by Francisco de Quevedo
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...
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