Their Dogs Came with Them
10 best books like Their Dogs Came with Them (Helena María Viramontes): 1919, Spoon River Anthology, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Wade in the Water: Poems, Jews Without Money, Selected Poems and Three Plays, Please, How to be Famous, Tender Buttons
| Author | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN | 0618056823 |
With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental...
| Author | Edgar Lee Masters |
| ISBN | 1406946133 |
From spoonriveranthology.net: "Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology was an immediate commercial success when it was published in 1915. Unconventional in both style and content, it shattered the myths of small town American life. A collection of epitaphs of residents of a small town, a full...
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
| Author | Judith Lewis Herman |
| ISBN | 0465087302 |
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims.
In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 0486223051 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring...
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States
Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they...
| Author | Michael Gold |
| ISBN | 0786713453 |
As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Money--the...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0020715609 |
My favorite poems are as follows:
The Lake of Innisfree
When you are Old
The Second Coming
On Woman
The People
However, my favorite lines came for "The Death of Cuchulain" (1939)
When they told me that I could have my own way I wrote certain guiding principles...and...
| Author | Jericho Brown |
| ISBN | 1930974795 |
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. PLEASE explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, PLEASE is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African...
| Author | Caitlin Moran |
| ISBN | 1443448524 |
A hilarious, heartfelt sequel to How to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who the New York Times called, "rowdy and fearless . . . sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways."
You can’t have your best friend be famous if you’re not famous. It...
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| ISBN | 0486298973 |
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. (Kellner, 1988, p. 61-62). Its publication in 1914 caused a great dispute between Mabel Dodge Luhan and Gertrude,...
