Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
10 best books like Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (Mahmoud Darwish): The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, Address Unknown, The Natural History of Selborne, What the Living Do: Poems, The Country Between Us, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Room Temperature, Il filo dell'orizzonte, Man in the Holocene, Map: Collected and Last Poems
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable...
| Author | Kathrine Kressmann Taylor |
| ISBN | 0743412710 |
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high...
| Author | Gilbert White |
| ISBN | 0140431128 |
Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood."
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| Author | Marie Howe |
| ISBN | 0393318869 |
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Living Do reflects "a new form of confessional poetry, one shared...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0060909269 |
“Here is poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called ‘political’ at the same time. This is a major new voice.” — Margaret Atwood
The Country Between Us opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Carolyn Forché...
| Author | Yehuda Amichai |
| ISBN | 0520205383 |
Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems, including forty new poems from his recent...
| Author | Nicholson Baker |
| ISBN | 1862070997 |
The fact is a large cadre of klutzes (call them Baker-deniers) consider our man Nicholson to be a lightweight author. An inward bourgeois bore picking fluff from his well-gazed navel. Stephen King is to blame thanks to his ungenerous quote about thumbnail pickings (this coming from a man that publishes...
| Author | Antonio Tabucchi |
| ISBN | 8807811464 |
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Literaryness Made Easy: "The Edge of the Horizon" by Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks (Translator)
Of course it's the old "can you teach talent" argument, isn't it? That's the meaty question, the puzzler of substantial...
| Author | Max Frisch |
| ISBN | 0156569523 |
Climate Change
Floods, avalanches, landslides, mass extinctions. What are we to make of these randomly destructive events? Do they exist if there is record, no memory of them? And what difference would it make to not know about them? Or to receive no news from the rest of the world at all? Catastrophe...
| Author | Wisława Szymborska |
| ISBN | 0544126025 |
A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize–winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection
One of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws...
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| ISBN | 0060803274 |
A junkie without access to his stash is in a state of crisis. The 'energy crisis' that exists intermittently when the flow of fuel from unstable countries is cut off or threatened, is a crisis in the same sense. In this essay, Illich examines the question of whether or not humans need any more energy than...
| Author | Karel Čapek |
| ISBN | 0826486258 |
It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The Gardener's Year is a charismatic product of Karel Capek's...
