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Don't Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys—and challenges—of the genreIn Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literar...
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Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams r...
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Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The classic Chinese poetry anthology in a handsome English-Chinese format.Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems ...
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely desc...
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Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most p...
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Coloring Into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Argues that queer picture books with main characters of color can disrupt structures of power in both literature and real life Coloring into Existe...
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Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inch...
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780863565...
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100 Poems from the Japanese
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /It is remarkable that any Westerner—even so fine a poet as Kenneth Rexroth—could have captured in translation so much of the subtle essence of cl...
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The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing a...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /On the 150th anniversary of his birth, a definitive new biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dun...
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Rashomon: And Other Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fic...
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Wait for Me Yesterday in Spring (Light Novel)
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Childhood friends use time travel to try to avert tragedy in this bittersweet book about growing up, love, and loss--by the creators of the light n...
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Selected Poems
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets--now available in English for the first time in a generation and...
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Classical Telugu Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The classical tradition in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least explored of all ...
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The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"An essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic...and its perennial place ...
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A new and substantially expanded version of Hinton’s landmark translation of Tu Fu, published on the thirtieth anniversary of that original editi...
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The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (Light Novel) Vol. 1
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This highly acclaimed mystery tale about a young man teaming up with a handsome jewelry appraiser inspired a popular anime–and a manga adaptation...
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The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (Light Novel) Vol. 2
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /DEADLY BEAUTYSeigi’s eye for cut, carat, and clarity grows sharper by the day as he works under the beautiful and talented Richard. He’ll need th...
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The Call of the Tribe
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represen...
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Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East. In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling,...
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Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-...
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Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Oscar Wilde is remembered as a wit and a dandy, as a gay martyr, and as a brilliant writer, but his philosophical depth and political radicalism ar...
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Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identi...
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