Against Love Poetry: Poems
10 best books like Against Love Poetry: Poems (Eavan Boland): Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Make it Scream, Make it Burn, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, A Fortune for Your Disaster, After, Field Guide, The Pleasure of the Text, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 1416553649 |
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away."
Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed...
Make it Scream, Make it Burn
| Author | Leslie Jamison |
| ISBN | 0316259632 |
A new collection of essays about obsession and longing from Leslie Jamison, the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams. A combination of memoir, criticism, and journalism, Make It Scream, Make It Burn is Leslie Jamison's profound exploration of the oceanic depths...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| ISBN | 1610395697 |
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
A Fortune for Your Disaster
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060779195 |
My first sustained meeting with Jane Hirschfield, and I've a feeling we'll sit for coffee again, given her knack for subtle metaphor and fascination with, oh, dogs and mortality and personification. I felt it was stronger BEFORE than After, but maybe it was me. The beginning of the book I read at 4 a.m.,...
| Author | Robert Hass |
| ISBN | 0300076339 |
The Winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, presents sensations, and the impingements of the past upon the present. Running through the...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521603 |
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics...
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
”Manson himself had a fondness for the same phrase: ‘I am the man in the mirror,’ he said. ‘Anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free.”
Who is Charles Manson?
This book began as a 5000 word piece for Premiere Magazine with the...
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
| Author | Terrance Hayes |
| ISBN | 0143133187 |
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares....
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1555974074 |
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the...
