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9 best books like Warhorses (Yusef Komunyakaa): Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Rusty Brown, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Wade in the Water: Poems, American Smooth, You & Yours, Blues: For All the Changes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Signs Preceding the End of the World
AuthorYuri Herrera
ISBN1908276428
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.

Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0141026286
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries....
Rusty Brown
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN0224078135
Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. The perfect gift for graphic novel fans!

‘The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0140443339
Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, here

In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...
Wade in the Water: Poems
AuthorTracy K. Smith
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...
American Smooth
AuthorRita Dove
ISBN0393327442
An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove's magnificent poems pay homage to our kaleidoscopic cultural heritage; from the glorious shimmer of an operatic soprano...
You & Yours
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1929918690
In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she’s visited in this...
Blues: For All the Changes
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN0688156983
Intimate, edgy, and unapologetic, Blues: For All the Changes bears the mark of Nikki Giovanni's unmistakable voice.In a career that has spanned three decades, Giovanni has created an indispensable body of work and earned a place amoung the nation's most celebrated and controversial poets; Gloria...
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
AuthorRoland Barthes
ISBN0374521344
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...
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