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Sleeping it Off in Rapid City

10 best books like Sleeping it Off in Rapid City (August Kleinzahler): Sabrina, In the Lake of the Woods, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, Space, in Chains, Ooga-Booga: Poems, Engine Empire: Poems, El espíritu de la ciencia ficción

Sabrina
AuthorNick Drnaso
Video games, conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right—until it isn’t...

How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression...
In the Lake of the Woods
AuthorTim O'Brien
This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century’s legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the...
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
AuthorLawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN0811200418

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...
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
AuthorGeorge Saunders
ISBN1594481520
In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time, citizens waiting to enter the country fall under the rule of the power-hungry and tyrannical Phil, setting off a chain of injustice and mass hysteria.An Animal Farm for the 21st century, this is an incendiary...
The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story
AuthorPeter Schneider
ISBN0226739414
"Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

When the Berlin Wall was still the most tangible representation...
The Widening Spell of the Leaves
AuthorLarry Levis
ISBN0822954540
For my money, this is Levis' best book. I admit there are times when I fluctuate between it and Elegy, which seems to be most people's favorite. But the longer sequence in this book, "The Perfection of Solitude," is one of the most sincere, confounding, and ambitious explorations into the lyric Levis...
Space, in Chains
AuthorLaura Kasischke
ISBN1556593333
Laura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. Through ghostly voices, fragmented narratives, overheard conversations, songs, and prayers in language reminiscent of medieval lyrics converted into contemporary idiom, the poems in Space,...
Ooga-Booga: Poems
AuthorFrederick Seidel
ISBN0374226555
From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror,
rage, and desire.


Here I am, not a practical man,
But clear-eyed in my contact lenses,
Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others,
Seeking sexual pleasure above all else,
Despairing...
Engine Empire: Poems
AuthorCathy Park Hong
ISBN0393082849
Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences, Cathy Park Hong explores the collective consciousness...
El espíritu de la ciencia ficción
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
ISBN8420423912
El espíritu de la ciencia ficción transcurre en México DF durante los años setenta y narra la vida de dos escritores jóvenes que intentan vivir de la literatura. Mientras Remo Morán busca incansablemente la manera de subsistir sin abandonar su sueño, Jan Schrella vive confinado en la pequeña...
Hard Night
AuthorChristian Wiman
ISBN1556592205
Make no mistake: Christian Wiman’s poetic endeavors are ambitious. From the personal lyrics of solitude and loss to “Being Serious,” the long poem that concludes Hard Night, his poems examine emotions clearly, without sentimentality. A profound reverence for form and passion for poetry...
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