Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts

7 best books like Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts (William H. Gass): Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, Poems New and Collected, Fences, The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, The Caretaker

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

Author	John Joseph Adams
ISBN	1597801054

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands.

From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world,...

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems

Author	Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN	0811200418

This is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time, and, although that is no guarantee of poetic excellence—after all, Rod McKuen and Martin Farquar Tupper both sold a lot of books in their day—it is a sign that the author had his finger on the pulse of his time, that his work embodies the yearnings...

Poems New and Collected

Author	Wisława Szymborska
ISBN	0156011468

Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously...

Fences

Author	August Wilson
ISBN	0452264014

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Now a Major Motion Picture directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning...

The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille

Author	Georges Bataille
ISBN	0802313256

This is the first collected English translation of Georges Bataille's poems. Bataille's poetry is definitely the poetry of a philosopher, but it is also a poetry with an obsessively erotic, often scatological edge to it, frequently pushing the boundary of what is or isn't obscene. Bataille believed...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521344

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...

The Caretaker

Author	Harold Pinter
ISBN	0822201844

It’s funny, you know. As soon as a play is called something like The Caretaker you just know that the person who gets the job of caretaker, who is referred to throughout as the caretaker, won’t be able to take care of anyone, not even himself. You know that he will be the one who is taken care of and he will...