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English
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"For its twentieth anniversary, a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, with a new foreword by Lena Dunham When it was first published twenty years ago, The Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes how after a series of life-altering events, including her husband of fifteen years announcing his homosexuality and near-fatal car accident, the California poet journeys back to her family to heal within the Mennonite community that she had parted with years before.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1991, c1981
Edition
Expanded and revised ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 197 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the famous American poet, detailing the events of his frequently unhappy life, his love for his wife and children, and the way all of this was woven into his poetry.
Author
Publisher
Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems by the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, taken from his first three books published between 1913 and 1915, and including eighteen early works that have never appeared in any of Frost's books of poetry.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 514 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Robert Frost and discusses his childhood in San Francisco, his college days at Dartmouth, his friendships with Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound, his writing career, and other related topics.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
195 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former United States poet laureate Donald Hall reflects on his life, discussing his childhood in Connecticut, the works that influenced him, his education, his success and failures as a writer and father, his friendships, and other related topics.
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
xx, 607 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T.S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A memoir in which Nick Flynn discusses his growing obsession with learning about terror, torture, and political crime in the years since the terrorist attack on the U.S., and tells how his desire to learn about U.S.-sanctioned torture became tangled up with his efforts to understand his own difficult childhood and family in the months before the birth of his daughter in 2007.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1120 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An engrossing new biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual growth and achievement, restoring the vivid creative woman behind the longtime Plath myths perpetuated by a pathology-based approach to her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark here brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, MA who had poetic ambition from a very young age, and was an accomplished, published...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
"In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander--poet, mother, and wife--finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 49. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grappling with the subsequent void, and feeling a re-energized devotion to her two teenage sons, Alexander channels her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose that describes a very personal and...
18) Lit: a memoir
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Series
Language
English
Description
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
19) Just kids
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Language
English
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In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
20) Cherry: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poet Mary Karr recounts her tumultuous adolescence in Texas, including her sexual awakening, her problems with authority, and her adventures with an eccentric group of friends.
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