 | Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.75 Joe Christmas is one of Faulkner's most terrific creations. He embodies Faulkner's great theme: the indestructibility of the human spirit.
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 | Above the River: The Complete Poems by James Wright
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $5.75 The domesticity of Ohio and of alcoholism and even death are treated with anthracite diction and visionary clarity. James Wright is my favorite poet of his generation.
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: $7.70 / Used from: $1.55 This book will have the immediacy of real experience forever.
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 | Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters (Library of America) by Elizabeth Bishop
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $16.00 These wonderful poems are enhanced by Bishop's letters. Her mind was unique, her eye clear, and her ear nearly unerring.
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 | Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995 by Hayden Carruth
Buy new: $13.30 / Used from: $0.34 I have a special room in my heart for Hayden Carruth. May he rest in peace.
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 | The Dream Songs by John Berryman
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $7.20 "Once in a sycamore I was glad
all at the top, and I sang.
Hard on the land wears the strong sea
and empty grows every bed."
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 | Talking to My Body by Anna Swir
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $6.28 A poet of immense compassion.
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 | Murphy by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $2.14 If you are tired of laughing only from the neck up, read Murphy and Beckett's other novels for full-body conniptions.
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 | Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.99 With respect to John Updike, Carver is the major prose stylist of suburban America. His poetry is also excellent.
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 | Andersonville (Plume) by MacKinlay Kantor
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $0.81 A major achievement, now largely forgotten.
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