The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New
10 best books like The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New (Denis Johnson): Collected Poems, 1909-1962, Underworld, On Bullshit, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Pulp, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense, The Collected Poems, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Hot Water Music, A Theft
Collected Poems, 1909-1962
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151189781 |
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that T.S. Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.
Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0330369954 |
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the Cold War and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people...
| Author | Harry G. Frankfurt |
| ISBN | 0691122946 |
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon...
Tales of Ordinary Madness
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0872861554 |
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski...
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0876859260 |
Pulp (novel), Charles Bukowski
Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. Pulp is a pulp fiction novel which acts also as a meta-pulp. Pulp comments on the obsessions of the pulp fiction genre, making...
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0876856830 |
Man, I wish you guys could see how banged-up and dog-eared my copy of "You Get So Alone" is. I think that's the only way I can do this collection justice. The poet as an older man lacks the vinegar and vitriol of his younger self, but being eight years from his death certainly infused these poems with the magnetic...
| Author | Theodore Roethke |
| ISBN | 0385086016 |
There a several poems by Roethke that I quite like. Once in a while I think he is brilliant. But I've decided I can't read collections of his work. There is too much I don't care for, and too much repetition -- primarily repetition of a mood of self-absorption that gets old fast. Lust, guilt, poor you, whatever....
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0872860744 |
"People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well....
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0876855966 |
With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.
The stories in Hot Water Music dash around...
| Author | Saul Bellow |
| ISBN | 0140119698 |
This is the second novel I've read by Saul Bellow, a Nobel Prize-winning author. The first, Seize the Day, is very good, about a destructive American obsession with success. A Theft is a little trickier. It's about a woman, Clara Velde, with a successful career life, though a failed love life. What makes...
| Author | Theodore Roethke |
| ISBN | 0385046928 |
With Roethke's sudden, tragic death in 1963, a great poetic career was brought to an untimely end. "The Far Field" presents the most rewarding of his many volumes of poetry, both in brilliance of style and inner meaning. All of the poems have appeared previously in periodicals such as "The Atlantic Monthly,...
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jenifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily...
