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10 best books like Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar (Richard Brautigan): The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems, The Sonnets, You Can't Catch Death, The Back Country, Fully Empowered, Platte River, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, Sorry, Tree

The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
AuthorFrank Stanford
ISBN0918786509
Poetry. Frank Stanford was called by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alan Dugan a brilliant poet, ample in his work, like Whitman. He was the founder of Lost Roads Publishers and the author of a number of important works, among them the epic THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU, reprinted by Lost...
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
AuthorRichard Fariña
ISBN0140189300
There are two big things this book had working in its favor before I even cracked open Richard Fariña's under-appreciated final gem: The Pynchon connection (which is was what nudged me in the direction of this novel in the first place, albeit more than a year after "Gravity's Rainbow" mournfully introduced...
The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
AuthorCharles Simic
Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary...
The Sonnets
AuthorTed Berrigan
ISBN0140589279
Originally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship...
You Can't Catch Death
AuthorIanthe Brautigan
ISBN0312264186
In all of the obituaries and writing about Richard Brautigan that appeared after his suicide, none revealed to Ianthe Brautigan the father she knew. Through it took all of her courage, she delved into her memories, good and bad, to retrieve him, and began to write. You Can't Catch Death is a frank, courageous,...
The Back Country
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0811201945
This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"—poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"—poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"—poems inspired...
Fully Empowered
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0374513511
An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems.

"The Sea"
A single entity, but no blood.
A single caress, death or a rose.
The sea comes in and puts our lives together
and attacks alone and spreads itself and sing
sin nights and...
Platte River
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0803259735
Rick Bass is one of the foremost writers of his generation, charging headlong past the hard surface of modern life to illuminate human beings and their relationship to the natural world. Platte River is a collection of three novellas, each a singular exploration of the human heart set against the backdrop...
Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
AuthorWilliam Hjortsberg
ISBN1582437904
Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists...
Sorry, Tree
AuthorEileen Myles
ISBN1933517204
“One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.”—Dennis Cooper

Eileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB in 1974. BUST magazine calls...
Other Electricities
AuthorAnder Monson
ISBN1932511156
Meet “Yr Protagonist”: radio amateur, sometime vandal and “at times, perhaps the author” of Monson’s category-defying collection:

I know about phones. While our dad was upstairs broadcasting something to the world, and we were listening in, or trying to find his frequency and...
All of Us: The Collected Poems
AuthorRaymond Carver
ISBN0375703802
This prodigiously rich collection of poems suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America’s finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical...
Zirconia
AuthorChelsey Minnis
ISBN0966332482
I got this bk from my girlfriend, Amy Catanzano. Chelsey & Tina Brown Celona are 2 of Amy's best friends. I'm reading 1 of Tina's bks now. "Zirconia" is probably the most sensual poetry bk I've ever read. Minnis is hyper-aware of color & texture. I almost HATE to do this but I actually ENDORSE this...
Giles Goat-Boy
AuthorJohn Barth
ISBN0385240864
MJ Nicholls inquires:

"I have been tempted to read this for some time, but Nate's review put me off. What do you make of his thoughts?:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..."


The first part.
I am an not an impartial commentator on John Barth's work. I...
A Window on the Universe
AuthorJennifer Bassett
ISBN0194226948
What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities...
The Free-Lance Pallbearers
AuthorIshmael Reed
ISBN1564782255
"For all the talk of the black aesthetic, few black novelists have broken sharply with the traditional devices of the realistic novel. One writer who departs from such conventions, however, is Ishmael Reed. . . . The Free-Lance Pallbearers uses an explosive combination of straightforward English...
The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
AuthorPaul Simpson
ISBN1843533871
This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your Jim Thompson, you''ll still find it hard to resist a book which tells you which cult novel has been implicated in assassinations, which world famous novelist...
The Bushwhacked Piano
AuthorThomas McGuane
ISBN0394726421
Imagine:

(1) A bona-fide American freak tooling across country in a green Hudson Hornet hotly pursuing (2) a darling little millionairess who thirsts for "real experience" (3) teamed up with a double amputee, the world's fastest talking con man with a scheme to build bat towers for day-glo...
Collected Stories, 1939-1976
AuthorPaul Bowles
ISBN0876853963
stunning. some of these stories really approach perfection. i read many of them about 10 years ago, but i reread every last one this summer and found no fault with any of them. bowles' tendency toward a concomitant sensitivity and roughness is irresistible, and i am very attracted by his ability to write...
Dangling in the Tournefortia
AuthorCharles Bukowski
ISBN0876855257
Yes

no matter who I’m with
people always say,
are you still with her?
my average relationship lasts
two and one half years.
with wars
inflation
unemployment
alcoholism
gambling
gambling
and my own degenerate nervousness
I think I...
The Captain Lands in Paradise
AuthorSarah Manguso
ISBN1882295331
Holy fuck.

This is one of those books of poetry I keep next to my elbow while writing prose, so I can read it and be inspired when my own prose starts not to sound beautiful enough.

It's also one of those books of poetry that makes you desperate to be best friends with the author, and SURE that...
The Midnight Meat Train
AuthorClive Barker
In 1984 the Books of Blood by Clive Barker were published and quickly gained a following worldwide. Literary eminences like Stephen King noticed early on the creativity and powerful prose throughout the Books of Blood, bringing Clive Barker's stories to the forefront of horror fiction. One of these...
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