The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems

10 best books like The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems (Emily Dickinson): Spring, The Raw Shark Texts, Unicorn on a Roll, The Collected Poems, 1956-1998, The Weary Blues, That This, Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time, Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales, Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children, The Coquette

Spring

Author	Ali Smith
ISBN	0241207053

From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...

The Raw Shark Texts

Author	Steven Hall
ISBN	1841959111

Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to see a Dr. Randle immediately, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of acute memory loss that is a symptom of his severe dissociative disorder. Eric's been in Dr. Randle's care for two years...

Unicorn on a Roll

Author	Dana Simpson
ISBN	1449470769

Been to school and paid my dues
Feel like I've gone and lost my clues
Unenthused and all confused
What have I really got to lose?

My unicorn's my newest muse
She taught me now to lose my blues
From her I'll chose to take my cues
And take a snooze without my shoes What's...

The Collected Poems, 1956-1998

Author	Zbigniew Herbert
ISBN	0060783907

This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm. Collected Poems: 1956-1998, as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's...

The Weary Blues

Author

Langston Hughes

A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when he was just twenty-four.
From the opening "Proem" (prologue poem) he offers in this first book-"I am a Negro: / Black as night is black, / Black the depths of my Africa"-Hughes spoke directly, intimately,...

That This

Author	Susan Howe
ISBN	0811219186

“What treasures of knowledge we cluster around.” That This is a collection in three pieces. “Disappearance Approach,” an essay about the sudden death of the author’s husband (“land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth”), begins the book with paintings by Poussin, an autopsy,...

Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

Author	Fanny Fern
ISBN	0140436405

In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard...

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

Author	Marta McDowell
ISBN	1604693630

A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Garden Writers Association Gold Award

There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in...

Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children

Author

Shelley Jackson

"Shelley Jackson is a writer of such extraordinary, uncanny power that the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I encounter her work. What an exhilarating, prickling, blistering book Riddance is! I made myself read it as slowly as possible in order to stay in as long as I could." —Kelly Link, author...

The Coquette

Author	Hannah Webster Foster
ISBN	0195042395

The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut.

Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly...