 | As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry by H. L. Hix
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $10.47 H. L. Hix once reviewed a Kathy Fagan book
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 | MOVING & ST RAGE by Kathy Fagan
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $1.37 Moving & St Rage owes its existence to the missing letter O in a Moving & Storage sign in Ohio
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 | Letters to Wendy's by Joe Wenderoth
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $7.40 These letters are also about what's missing, but what's missing is even more existential than the O.
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 | The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self by Joe Wenderoth
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $1.97 These letters ache for what is missing in the land of the free, home of the brave.
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 | Selected Poems (Poets, Penguin) by John Ashbery
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $2.64 John Ashbery sounds an awful lot like John Ashcroft sometimes. Like John Ashcroft in a Convex Mirror.
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 | The New York School Poets As Playwrights: O'Hara, Ashbery, Koch, Schuyler and the Visual Arts (Literature and the Visual Arts) by Philip Auslander
Buy new: $38.95 / Used from: $32.00 The New York School of Poets wasn't a school at all, but did often find its home in New York.
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 | The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)
Buy used from: $11.74 The New Yorker magazine is more like a school, especially if one applies oneself to 8 DVD-ROMs for 8 days, fueled by methamphetamine and Vivaldi.
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| Ford Madox Ford and the Transatlantic review by Bernard J Poli
Buy used from: $5.50 The Transatlantic Review was occasionally better than the New Yorker, but it has been gone for many years now.
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 | The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $0.24 Ford Madox Ford was not as good a soldier as Gerald Ford.
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 | The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (American Presidency Series) by John Robert Greene
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $1.99 Gerald Ford knew less about the art of the pratfall than John Ford, but is paradoxically more identified with the pratfall than John Ford.
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 | John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $11.72 John Ford was not as rich as Henry Ford.
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 | Pattern for 34 Ford Coupe
Henry Ford was a vile anti-Semite and a ruthless businessman, but the 34 Ford Coupe was an aesthetic triumph.
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 | All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
Buy new: $8.37 / Used from: $1.65 Doesn't every coup originate in Langley, Virginia?
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 | Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency by Ronald Kessler
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.41 Where is Langley, Virginia?
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 | Incredible You! 10 Ways to let your greatness shine through by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.98 No one in Langley, Virginia, is happy Inside and Out. But, is anyone, anywhere?
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 | Happy Gilmore
Buy used from: $1.80 In college I loved a woman very much, but it did not work out. For a whole year I could not fall asleep except on the sofa, watching Happy Gilmore.
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 | Punch-Drunk Love (Two Disc Special Edition) (Superbit Collection)
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $1.75 Our love, however, was more funtional than the one portrayed in Punch-Drunk Love, but not more lasting.
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 | The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John M. Gottman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.99 I bought this book, but my marriage was already working, mostly because my wife is very patient and kind. Kindness and patience are not often enough explored in literature.
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 | Selected Stories by Andre Dubus
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.00 But Andre Dubus knew from kindness and pleasure. Killings and poverty, too. Great generosities in the midst of great pain.
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 | The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $2.00 C. S. Lewis wrestled with pain, too. He also liked pain, and engaged in an extended sadomasochistic affair with a dead friend's mother.
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 | Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $1.82 No one has written as eloquently about the proclivity that bedeviled C. S. Lewis as Stephen Elliott, and Happy Baby is his finest novel.
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 | Baby Einstein: Baby Mozart
Buy new: $6.98 / Used from: $2.28 A baby-friendly symphony.
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 | Halls of Fame by John D'Agata
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $2.03 Here is another kind of symphony, distinguishable in kind but not in intensity from Mozart's.
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 | Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $1.78 After death, sometimes fame and sometimes oblivion, but then, inevitably and always, oblivion.
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 | Rational Numbers: Poems (New Odyssey Series) by H. L. Hix
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $2.00 It is no small thing to be able to do what you criticize. Both are pleasurable, and we readers are grateful. Jesus Loves You, H. L. Hix.
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