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9 best books like Collected Essays and Poems (Henry David Thoreau): Leaves of Grass, Complete Works, Turtle Island, A Fan's Notes, The Complete Poems, New Collected Poems, Borges and The Eternal Orangutans, Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child, Glamour: A World Problem

Leaves of Grass
AuthorWalt Whitman
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."

As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
Complete Works
AuthorArthur Rimbaud
ISBN0060955503
Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen.

This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the...
Turtle Island
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0811205460
Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is "the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to 'North America'...
A Fan's Notes
AuthorFrederick Exley
ISBN0679720766


Fredrick Exley (1929-1992) – Photo of the writer as a vulnerable, sensitive young man. In many ways, much too vulnerable and sensitive for mid-20th century American society, a society where a man’s prime virtue is being tough.

A Fan's Notes is the odyssey of one man’s unending...
The Complete Poems
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN1556592175
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth’s poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love...
New Collected Poems
AuthorGeorge Oppen
ISBN0811214885
George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost...
Borges and The Eternal Orangutans
AuthorLuis Fernando Verissimo
Jorge Luis Borges is the hero of this literary whodunit by one of Brazil's most celebrated writers. Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern...
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child
AuthorJohn Bradshaw
ISBN0553353896
Using a wealth of practical techniques, informative case histories and unique questionnaires, John Bradshaw demonstrates how your wounded inner child may be causing you pain. You'll learn to gradually, safely, go back to reclaim and nurture that inner child - and literally help yourself grow up...
Glamour: A World Problem
AuthorAlice A. Bailey
ISBN0853301093
Reading Alice A Bailey is hard work. This is her 9th book but probably the first one the average person should read.

The books are written in such a away that certain things are written about as symbols and a teacher is required to make the meanings clearer or to speed up the learning process. This...
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