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10 best books like 7 Greeks (Guy Davenport): Citizen: An American Lyric, Pale Fire, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Day of the Locust, Rocannon's World, The Collected Poems, The Suppliants, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Citizen: An American Lyric
AuthorClaudia Rankine
ISBN1555976905
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media....
Pale Fire
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0141185260
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?...
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
AuthorFernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
AuthorThomas C. Foster
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character -- and there's that sneaking...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
AuthorWilliam Blake
ISBN0486281221
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...
The Day of the Locust
AuthorNathanael West
ISBN0451523482
The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by...
Rocannon's World
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0441732968
A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars. Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he sees his friends murdered and his spaceship destroyed. Marooned...
The Collected Poems
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0679726691
i fell in love with two men in my undergrad senior seminar. it was on wallace stevens and t.s. eliot.

the way i loved both of these writers hurt. (i'll set eliot aside for another time).

stevens kills me when he uses very innocent symbols - making ice cream, in "the emperor of ice cream",...
The Suppliants
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN1419184431
Hear us, you gods of marriage: let Justice triumph;
Let wild youth not accomplish
Its wicked lust; let pride
Be quelled by your abhorrence;
Fulfill for us such wedlock as is right.
Even for those who fly the trampling of battle
There is an altar of refuge from destruction,
Where...
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
AuthorRoland Barthes
ISBN0374521344
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...
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