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After: A Novel

In 1945 the Allied forces are trekking across Europe, pausing incidentally to free the Jews from Hitler's camps. Newly emerged from the ashes, three ex-prisoners--a logician, a saint and a schemer--come together. Led by 19-year-old Isaac Kaufman, this trio joins forces in survival to exploit the only industry up and running in a crippled German town, the black market--until they discover and decide to steal a four foot cube: "18 tons of golden ingots created from the fillings pried from the teeth of the Jews of Eastern Europe.".

cover of After: A Novelauthor: Melvin Jules Bukiet
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0312167601
binding: Paperback
list price: $14.00 USD
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The Best Disguise

The Best Disguise by Susan McLean, recipient of the 2009 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable collection of varied lyric poems that examine contemporary life with wit, insight, and a profound intensity. As Philip Dacey comments, "In any mode -- plangent or bawdy, searing or witty -- the poems in this book consistently project both a consummate artistry and an affecting humanity." Despite the author s obvious erudition and formal skills, the poems in The Best Disguise are as accessible as they are affecting and memorable.

cover of The Best Disguiseauthor: McLean
Susan
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0930982681
binding: Hardcover
list price: $15.00 USD
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Permanent Address

Lorna Knowles Blake is a poet who writes with elegance, wit, and formal invention. Her subjects are love, marriage, family, and the kinds of commitment needed to sustain them. Reading her work, one sees again and again the contingencies of domestic life transformed by those rituals that give them place and permanence. Permanent Address is a wise and joyful collection by a poet of impressive accomplishment. - Charles Martin.

cover of Permanent Addressauthor: Lorna Knowles Blake
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0912592613
binding: Paperback
list price: $14.95 USD
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Sixty Sonnets

A.E. Stallings writes that “like the minutes of the hour, these Sixty Sonnets both combine to make a whole and shine as individual moments. While groups of these sonnets occasionally suggest a narrative—refreshingly, like the fugitives and weary academics that people these pages—they work alone. The newspaper crime blotter itself, from which, perhaps, some of these incidents are torn, speaks up as a single sonnet.

cover of Sixty Sonnetsauthor: Ernest Hilbert
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1597093610
binding: Paperback
list price: $18.95 USD
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Azores: Poems

Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene. The ever-present and uncomfortable realities of envy, lust, and mortality haunt the book from poem to poem.

cover of Azores: Poemsauthor: David Yezzi
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0804011133
binding: Paperback
list price: $12.95 USD
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The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets

The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets gathers the work of thirty–five of the most compelling and talented new poets writing today. Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology identifies a group of poets who have recently begun to make an important mark on contemporary poetry, and their accomplishment and influence will only grow with time.

cover of The Swallow Anthology of New American PoetsASIN or ISBN-10: 0804011214
binding: Paperback
list price: $19.95 USD
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The Hidden Model (Triquarterly Books)

From the huddling men in a Rembrandt print to an image in a bathroom mirror that might be Christ or a mere smudge, David Yezzi, with his precisely carved and subtly cutting language, questions and considers the surfaces of our perceptions and the life they conceal-that which suggests, asks, demands to be seen.

cover of The Hidden Model (Triquarterly Books)author: David Yezzi
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0810151456
binding: Paperback
list price: $16.95 USD
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The Ache of Appetite

cover of The Ache of Appetiteauthor: Rachel Hadas
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0914278843
binding: Paperback
list price: $12.00 USD
amazon price: $10.37 USD


Corridors

Corridors is a collection of visually refreshing, and literary accomplished poems. Samantha Le, in her debut effort, exhibits a vibrant confidence, alluding to a poetic preoccupation of the fist order. The poems are self-referential but compassionate, objective but personal. The prose is reminiscent of Paz’s Agulia y Sol, Dario’s Azul, and Rimbaud’s Illuminations in its tendency to expose the poetic and mystical side of intersubjective human experiences. The work, as a whole, forms a loose narrative of coming-of-age poetry.

cover of Corridorsauthor: Samantha Le
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1891823035
binding: Paperback

Little Sister Left Behind

This novel is a fictional memoir of a family's struggles through post-war Vietnam and their journey in search of a better life on foreign soil. It is the story of wounded pride, as personified by Father, silent resentment, as depicted by the conventional Mother, and the fragility of innocence, as embodied by our young heroine. The novel takes us from the private struggles of familial bonds to the public crumbling of old traditions. This novel tells the universal tales of all immigrants in the United States through the eyes of a young girl.

cover of Little Sister Left Behindauthor: Samantha Le
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1891823116
binding: Paperback

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