She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

9 best books like She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (M. NourbeSe Philip): Deaf Republic: Poems, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Titus Andronicus, A Small Place, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, The Mass Strike, Eye Level: Poems, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, چنين گذشت بر من

Deaf Republic: Poems

Author	Ilya Kaminsky
ISBN	1555978312

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Author	Chen Chen
ISBN	1942683332

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces...

Titus Andronicus

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0671722921

Literally years after people began suggesting that I do this, I finally got around to reading the damn play. So in the words of Bette Davis: fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Because here's

TITUS ANDRONICUS, ABRIDGED:

TITUS: Man, it's great to be me! I'm an awesome...

A Small Place

Author	Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN	0374527075

Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization...

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Author	Saidiya V. Hartman
ISBN	0393285677

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer...

The Mass Strike

Author	Rosa Luxemburg
ISBN	0906224292

La revolución rusa, que tiene sus comienzos en enero de 1905, sorprende a Rosa Luxemburgo en Alemania. Durante todo este año Rosa Luxemburgo se dedica a hacer comprender a los socialistas alemanes el significado de aquellos acontecimientos revolucionarios. En diciembre de 1905 decide partir...

Eye Level: Poems

Author	Jenny Xie
ISBN	1555978029

Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on...

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...

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Author	Natalia Ginzburg
ISBN	9649210644

E' la storia di un amore disperato e geloso, rivissuto a ritroso da una moglie assassina. E' una confessione di dolorosa chiarezza che racconta un matrimonio di solitudine dove una donna, schiacciata da un diffuso senso d'inferiorità, sopporta per anni la stramba relazione extraconiugale del marito....