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10 best books like A Monster's Notes (Laurie Sheck): Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, The Works of Anne Bradstreet (John Harvard Library), Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, How It Ended: New and Collected Stories, Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems, A Hunger, Chronic, The Collected Poems, Speak Low

Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
AuthorJennifer Bartlett
ISBN1935955055
Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.

Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and...
The Works of Anne Bradstreet (John Harvard Library)
AuthorAnne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a woman more unusual still. Born in England and brought up in the household of the Earl of Lincoln where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward, Anne...
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
AuthorHelen Vendler
ISBN0674048679
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's...
How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
AuthorJay McInerney
ISBN0307268055
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation and whose seventh and most recent, The Good Life, was an acclaimed national best seller, a collection of stories new and old that trace the arc of his career over nearly three decades. In fact, the short story, as A. O. Scott...
Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN1853264202
There are some truly outstanding poems in this collection. The most well known among them would be 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner', although Christabel is one of my personal favourites.

There are varying themes within this volume, ranging from love and loss and bereavement, to praise for...
Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems
AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy
ISBN0374526982
The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry

"The next illogical step
in love poetry
The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
always do sound like diseases.
It is because they are engorged.
G., I am a fool.
What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
Halfway...
A Hunger
AuthorLucie Brock-Broido
ISBN0394758528
"Brock-Broido's talismanic words open into a magical territory of 'Domestic Mysticism' . . . A violently skewed portrait of the female poet and her Muse, a hyped-up version of Stevens and his interior paramour, locked in a soliloquy 'in which being there together is enough' . . . Something in Brock-Broido...
Chronic
AuthorD.A. Powell
The first poetry collection by D. A. Powell since his remarkable trilogy of Tea, Lunch, and
Cocktails, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

so many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness
that easily falls among the dropseed: a rind, a left-behind
—from...
The Collected Poems
AuthorMuriel Rukeyser
ISBN0822959240
Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness-of the Scottsboro...
Speak Low
AuthorCarl Phillips
ISBN0374267162
Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course...
The Language of Inquiry
AuthorLyn Hejinian
ISBN0520217004
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection...
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorAlfred Habegger
ISBN0812966015
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography,...
Holy Sonnets
AuthorJohn Donne
ISBN0907482244
The second in my series (3) of reviews of John Donne as read in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne.

This collection of his Holy Sonnets (often called the "Westmoreland sequence") contains 19 sonnets written by Donne from his conversion to Anglicanism up until his death. These...
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, The Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel
AuthorE.F. Bleiler
ISBN0486212327
One of the most interesting phenomena in the history of literature, the Gothic novel — which flourished from about 1765 to 1825 — still has much to offer to the modern reader. Supernatural thrills, adventure and suspense, colorful settings, and, in the better examples, literary quality are all...
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
AuthorJ. Jack Halberstam
ISBN0822316633
In this examination of the monster as cultural object, J. Jack Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as Silence...
Museum of Accidents
AuthorRachel Zucker
ISBN1933517425
"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X's likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Sharon Olds."—The Believer

Rending the terrorizing forces of modern existence from abstraction and placing them directly in our laps, Museum of Accidents is a brutally...
The Last Single Woman in America
AuthorCindy Guidry
ISBN0525950524
The funniest, freshest essayist since David Sedaris, Cindy Guidry examines American culture and present-day gender relations in all their confusing, heartbreaking, and hilarious glory.

After losing both her job and a potential husband, Cindy sets off to figure out why on earth she's so...
Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century
AuthorCate Marvin
ISBN1932511296
This groundbreaking anthology offers a broad and representative introduction to some of the most exciting, fresh voices on the contemporary poetry landscape by gathering together generous selections from the work of 85 younger American poets.

The poets selected were born after 1960,...
Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
AuthorAemilia Lanyer
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published...
The Amputee's Guide to Sex
AuthorJillian Weise
ISBN1933368527
Tired of seeing “cripples” portrayed as asexual characters, Jillian Weise created this stunning lesson in desire and disease. The first section presents disability in a historical context, from the first “deaf and dumb” person granted the right to have sex to the surgeon who first cauterized...
Master Letters of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN1558491554
These three letters, which Emily Dickinson drafted to a man she called "Master," stand near the heart of her mystery. Although there is no evidence the letters were ever posted, they indicate a long relationship, geographically apart, in which correspondence would have been the primary means of communication....
The Book of Beginnings and Endings
AuthorJenny Boully
ISBN1932511555
“Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.”—John D’Agata

“Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.’ Jenny Boully has done it.”—Mary...
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
AuthorLydia Millet
ISBN0156031035
Oppenheimer's first full day at the motel was devoted to television. He located the remote on the bedside table, where it sat beside the enigmatic telephone with its sheet of intricate numeric instructions, and eventually by pressing the button marked power discovered its function. -from OH PURE...
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
AuthorDorothy Wordsworth
ISBN0192840622
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the insight they give into the daily life of the poet and his friendship with Coleridge, they are also remarkable for their spontaneity and...
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