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Language
English
Description
"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
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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Description
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
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...
15) Lit: a memoir
Author
Series
Language
English
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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.
16) Pale fire
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
xxvii, 239 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Shade, a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A., writes a 999-line poem in the last twenty days of his life which is then acquired and annotated by his crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
17) Snow
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
425 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After years of political exile in Western Europe, Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral, where he learns of a series of bizarre events that have changed his childhood hometown and threaten its future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
614 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight...
19) 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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