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The Collected Poems, 1975-2005

10 best books like The Collected Poems, 1975-2005 (Robert Creeley): Black Skin, White Masks, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Leviathan, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, Beneath the Wheel, Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur, The Opening of the Field: Poetry, Hegel: Three Studies, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Black Skin, White Masks
AuthorFrantz Fanon
ISBN0802150845
Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.

“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
AuthorRobert Graves
ISBN0374504938
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who...
Leviathan
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0140431950
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign...
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
AuthorWalter Benjamin
ISBN0141036192
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
AuthorGyörgy Lukács
ISBN0262620200
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality,...
Beneath the Wheel
AuthorHermann Hesse
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel or The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows...
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur
AuthorMichael Eric Dyson
ISBN0859653226
Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African American intellectual of his generation. Now Dyson turns his attention to one of the most enigmatic figures of the past...
The Opening of the Field: Poetry
AuthorRobert Duncan
ISBN0811204804
Speaking of his own work, Robert Duncan (1919-1987) said: "I make poetry as other men make war or make love or make states or revolutions: to exercise my faculties at large." The Opening of the Field, his first major collection, was originally brought out in 1960; in it, Duncan introduced his "Structures...
Hegel: Three Studies
AuthorTheodor W. Adorno
ISBN0262510804
This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that...
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
AuthorTheodor W. Adorno
ISBN0804736332
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...
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