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The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present

Three thousand years of the greatest Greek poetry, exquisitely translated and assembled in a handsome volume sure to be a modern classic. This landmark volume captures three millennia of Greek poetry—more than 1,000 poems and 200 poets. From the epics of Homeric Greece to the historical and erotic ironies of Cavafy, from the romances, hymns, and bawdy rhymes of Byzantium to the innovative voices of a resurgent twentieth century, this anthology brings together the diverse strands of the Greek poetic tradition.

cover of The Greek Poets: Homer to the PresentASIN or ISBN-10: 0393060837
binding: Hardcover
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All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song

Poetry. "Foust brings to life an immense range of experience and feeling. This poet's emotional intelligence correlates, too, with her formal skill, that unique talent for phrase and rhythm with which she makes a whole world palpable. A superb poet and a tremendous book"--Peter Campion.

cover of All That Gorgeous Pitiless Songauthor: Rebecca Foust
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1886976244
binding: Paperback
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Heidegger's Glasses: A Novel

Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at the seams. The Third Reich’s strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes—translators responsible for answering letters written to those eventually killed in the concentration camps.Into this covert compound comes a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, who is now lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz. How will the scribes answer this letter?

cover of Heidegger's Glasses: A Novelauthor: Thaisa Frank
ASIN or ISBN-10: 158243719X
binding: Hardcover
list price: $25.00 USD
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Able Muse Anthology (best of the poetry, fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry

The Able Muse Anthology — from the new Able Muse Press — celebrates Able Muse's journey through its first decade and beyond, by showcasing the best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography, including a foreword by Timothy Steele. This anthology has received high praise and acclaim from Dana Gioia, David Mason, Charles Martin, Catharine Savage-Brosman, X.J. Kennedy, Catharine Savage Brosman and others. PRAISE FOR THE ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY:

cover of Able Muse Anthology (best of the poetry, fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetryASIN or ISBN-10: 0986533807
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Sharon Passmore

Sharon Passmore is the art moderator at Able Muse’s Eratosphere workshops. Sharon lives in California, soon to be South Carolina, and is a self-unemployed mural artist and color consultant.

Able Muse, Volta Issue: Poetry, Prose & Art

Stories Of An Imaginary Childhood (Library of American Fiction)

In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social, and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.

cover of Stories Of An Imaginary Childhood (Library of American Fiction)author: Melvin Jules Bukiet
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0299180743
binding: Paperback
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While the Messiah Tarries: Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)

A collection of imaginative and humorous short stories by Melvin Jules Bukiet which often end in madness, death or religious epiphany.

cover of While the Messiah Tarries: Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)author: Melvin Bukiet
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0815604971
binding: Paperback
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A Faker's Dozen: Stories

The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories. The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists. An aspiring writer stalks Vladmir Nabokov across midtown Manhattan one afternoon in the summer of Watergate. A young co-ed's seduction of her elderly philosophy professor delivers her an A and him lasting happiness. Max, "a liar and a voyeur, like any true artist," wanders the East Village taking photographs of murder victims.

cover of A Faker's Dozen: Storiesauthor: Melvin Jules Bukiet
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0393058166
binding: Hardcover
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Strange Fire: A Novel

Blind, homosexual, Russian émigré speechwriter Nathan Kazakov has enough problems even before his left ear is obliterated by a bullet presumably meant for the Israeli prime minister. Determined to solve the mystery, Nathan begins exploring a web of conspiracies involving messianic orthodox settlers, Arab terrorists, and the Israeli secret service. Was the bullet intended for Nathan after all? or perhaps for the prime minister's son Gabriel, an archaeologist who shuns his father's politics? One trail leads to Leviticus, another beneath the Temple Mount.

cover of Strange Fire: A Novelauthor: Melvin Jules Bukiet
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0393323595
binding: Paperback
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