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10 best books like T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Gareth Reeves): Mother Love, Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846 Vol I (1899), Selected Writings, The Essential Ginsberg, The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry, Don Giovanni in Full Score, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Selected Poems, Speaking of Siva

Mother Love
AuthorRita Dove
ISBN0393314448
Just pulled this collection off my shelves and dove into it, and by the third poem or so wondered what took me so long to find it and actually read it.

The poems in this volume are tough but delicate. Dove's use of imagery and voice are stunning; I'm drawn into the ways in which Dove weaves her personal...
Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
AuthorMatsuo Bashō
ISBN1570627169
Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644–1694)—who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior,...
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846 Vol I (1899)
AuthorRobert Browning
Excerpt from Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846, Vol. 1 of 2
After all, I need not give up the thought of doing that, too, in time; because even now, talking with whoever is worthy, I can give a reason for my faith in one and another excellence, the fresh strange music,...
Selected Writings
AuthorMeister Eckhart
ISBN0140433430
Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart...
The Essential Ginsberg
AuthorAllen Ginsberg
ISBN0062362283
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem “Howl,” this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.

One of the Beat Generation’s most renowned...
The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry
AuthorJahan Ramazani
ISBN0393977919
Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry now available in two paperback volumes...
Don Giovanni in Full Score
AuthorWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ISBN0486230260
This is the complete orchestral and vocal score of Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered by many to be the greatest opera ever written. This edition contains all the music Mozart wrote for Don Giovanni, both for the original version performed in Prague (1787) and the alterations―Don Ottavio's aria...
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
AuthorMerry E. Wiesner-Hanks
ISBN0521778220
This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the...
Selected Poems
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811210669
Selected Poems, the first selection to encompass the rich diversity of Hilda Doolittle's poetry, is both confirmation and celebration of her long-overdue inclusion in the modernist canon. With both the general reader and the student in mind, editor Louis L. Martz of Yale University (who also edited...
Speaking of Siva
AuthorA.K. Ramanujan
ISBN0140442707
Speaking of Siva is a selection of vacanas or free-verse sayings from the Virasaiva religious movement, dedicated to Siva as the supreme god. Written by four major saints, the greatest exponents of this poetic form, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, they are passionate lyrical expressions...
Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
AuthorDiane Seuss
ISBN1555978061
Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Still life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned Dreamsicle
Still life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinder
Still life with whiskey...
Of Empire
AuthorFrancis Bacon
ISBN0143037560
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker’s art. Offering great literature...
A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy
AuthorHarvey Mansfield
ISBN1882926439
The ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines are reader-friendly introductions to the most important fields of knowledge in the liberal arts. Written by leading scholars for both students and the general public, they will be appreciated by anyone desiring a reliable and informative tour of important...
A Pirate's Night Before Christmas
AuthorPhilip Yates
ISBN1402742576
Young mateys will find plenty of holiday joy in this humorous, colorful, and thoroughly piratical version of the beloved Clement C. Moore classic. On this ship of mischievous brigands—who have visions of treasure chests, not sugarplums, dancing in their heads—you wouldn’t expect a visit...
Poems of the Night
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0143106007
Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly...
The End of the Alphabet
AuthorClaudia Rankine
ISBN0802116345
Born in Jamaica and now making her home in the United States, Claudia Rankine writes poems that draw breath from alienation -- from her home, her body, her mind. Hailed by Robert Hass as "a fiercely gifted young poet," Claudia Rankine has welded the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque....
Serious Concerns
AuthorWendy Cope
ISBN0571167055

Cope's second collection came out in 1992, a full six years after her first. It's another slim volume, Cope never being the most prolific poet – nevertheless, it was this that cemented her reputation, and when Ted Hughes died in 1998 she was the popular choice to replace him as Poet Laureate. Instead...
Cook 1.0: A Fresh Approach to the Vegetarian Kitchen
AuthorHeidi Swanson
I really like the idea of this book.

Introduce a basic recipe concept (e.g. frittata, smoothie, 'smooth soup') and then offer variations presented in a way that reinforces that the recipes are really all kinda the same. It reminds me of "Ratio" in that way - the goal is to convey a skeleton and...
Architecture Depends
AuthorJeremy Till
ISBN0262012537
Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.

Architecture depends--on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes...
Informal
AuthorCecil Balmond
ISBN3791337769
Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its completely innovative conception of the engineer's contribution to architecture. The plasticity...
The Endless City
AuthorRicky Burdett
ISBN0714848204
Books like this are essential to understand the challenges that the urban era poses on humans and pretty much everything else in this planet. In particular, megacities are a phenomenom that cannot be obviated and that is growing at an alarming rate, with the subsequent effects on all kinds of life.

With...
Stray Birds
AuthorRabindranath Tagore
ISBN1596050179
"Stray Birds" contains ideas on nature, man, and his environment as may be entertained by a man sitting by a window where the stray birds of summer sing and fly away. These short, sometimes merely one-line poems are often just an image or the distillation of a thought, but they stay in the mind and do not...
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