The Complete Poems
10 best books like The Complete Poems (Kenneth Rexroth): Collected Essays and Poems, Complete Works, Crawl Space, Turtle Island, A Fan's Notes, The Cannibal, Poem Strip, Kassel no invita a la lógica, New Collected Poems, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 1883011957 |
America's greatest nature writer and a political thinker of worldwide impact, Henry David Thoreau's remarkable essays reflect his speculative and probing cast of mind. In his poems, he gave voice to his private sentiments and spiritual aspirations in the plain style of New England speech. Now, The...
| Author | Arthur Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 0060955503 |
Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen.
This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the...
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1927668417 |
In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent creatures. But in the fraught realm of adolescence, can friendship survive the appeal of...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0811205460 |
Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is "the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to 'North America'...
| Author | Frederick Exley |
| ISBN | 0679720766 |
Fredrick Exley (1929-1992) – Photo of the writer as a vulnerable, sensitive young man. In many ways, much too vulnerable and sensitive for mid-20th century American society, a society where a man’s prime virtue is being tough.
A Fan's Notes is the odyssey of one man’s unending...
| Author | John Hawkes |
| ISBN | 0811200639 |
"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of...
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 1590173236 |
A New York Review Books Original
There’s a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just doesn’t show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, “like...
Kassel no invita a la lógica
Una extraña llamada interrumpe la rutina de un escritor. La enigmática voz femenina al otro lado de la línea le dice que los McGuffin quieren invitarlo a cenar para desvelarle la solución al misterio del universo. Pronto descubrirá que se trata de una convocatoria para participar en la Documenta...
| Author | George Oppen |
| ISBN | 0811214885 |
George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost...
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 0413772322 |
Leonard English, a sad and intense young man recovering from a suicide attempt, comes to Provincetown on Cape Cod to take a job as a disc jockey-cum-private detective. Provincetown is a last outpost of civilization, an end of the earth, a resort town emptied by autumn, where many of those who wear skirts...
Borges and The Eternal Orangutans
| Author | Luis Fernando Verissimo |
Jorge Luis Borges is the hero of this literary whodunit by one of Brazil's most celebrated writers. Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern...
