New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994
10 best books like New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994 (Stephen Dunn): Ministry of Moral Panic, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Les Fleurs du Mal, Vacation Under the Volcano, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Les Guérillères, The Collected Poems, Meditations in an Emergency, The Red Files, Good Poems
Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Rehash national icons: the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh living...
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
| Author | Gloria Steinem |
| ISBN | 0805042024 |
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions—a phenomenal success that sold nearly half a million copies since its original publication in 1983—is Gloria Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays. Both male and female readers have acclaimed it as a witty, warm, and life-changing...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0879234628 |
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?
In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
Vacation Under the Volcano
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0679890505 |
Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House!
Who wants to vacation next to a volcano?
Jack and Annie are about to find out when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the days of the Roman Empire. They arrive...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
To read Ocean Vuong's
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
| Author | Monique Wittig |
| ISBN | 0807063010 |
They say henceforward what they are is not subject to compromise. They say they must now stop exalting the vulva. They say that they must break the last bond that binds them to a dead culture. They say that any symbol that exalts the fragmented body is transient, must disappear. Thus it was formerly. They,...
| Author | Sylvia Plath |
| ISBN | 0808595040 |
The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to...
Meditations in an Emergency
| Author | Frank O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0802134521 |
Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, "which, by its vitality alone, became the...
| Author | Lee Winter |
| ISBN | 3955333302 |
Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chafing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival—the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace,...
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0142003441 |
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person...
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393323773 |
In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the persistence of utopian visions. Here Rich continues...
The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
| Author | Arthur E. Jongsma Jr. |
| ISBN | 0471763462 |
The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies. New edition features:
Empirically...
The Journals of Jim Elliot
| Author | Elisabeth Elliot |
| ISBN | 0800758250 |
Jim Elliot was part of a team of young missionaries murdered in Ecuador in 1956 by the Auca Indians to whom they were witnessing. At the age of 29, he left behind a young widow, a baby daughter, and volumes of personal journals written over many years.
In 1978, Revell published the complete and unabridged...
Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse
A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate—a theme that has never been more timely than it is now…
You think you know this story.
You do not.
A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers...
Neuroscience for Counsellors: Practical Applications for Counsellors, Therapists and Mental Health Practitioners
| Author | Rachal Zara Wilson |
| ISBN | 1849054886 |
This is an invaluable resource for counsellors and therapists looking to reinvigorate their practice and enhance their understanding of clients' needs. Each chapter focuses on different discoveries in neuroscience, explains them in plain English and provides guidance on how to put this knowledge...
| Author | Robin Brandeis |
| ISBN | 1892281171 |
Lane Montgomery is the chief investigative reporter for Louisville’s “reputable” newspaper, The Louisville Daily. Ann Alexander is her counterpart at The Metropolitan Inquirer, a tabloidish rival of the Daily. Lane claims to despise the beautiful but unethical Ann until they find themselves...
| Author | Elizabeth Woodcraft |
| ISBN | 0006514790 |
Frankie Richmond knows trouble. A London barrister whose career is teetering on the brink of ruin and whose search for the right woman is about as successful as the quest for a perfect pair of jeans, "Trouble" could be Frankie's middle name. But when she agrees to a routine appearance at a magistrate's...
| Author | Olivia Gatwood |
| ISBN | 1943735107 |
One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality,...
