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12 Short Stories and Their Making

• Paperback | Engels
• Here is a fascinating and enlightening book for fiction readers and writers alike. Written by some of our most powerful contemporary authors, the twel... Lees meer

Straight Razor

Randall Mann

• Paperback | Engels
• Randall Mann combines the regal and ribald, his ear for poetic form matched by his unrelenting eye for lasciviousness, in this fetching chronicle of o... Lees meer

The Last Thing

Patrick Rosal

• Hardcover | Engels
• For nearly two decades, Patrick Rosal has been one of the most beloved and admired poets in the United States, bringing together the most dynamic aspe... Lees meer

Dirt Angel

Jeanne Wilmot

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions
• An electrifying debut collection of short fiction, Dirt Angel is informed by an original voice from the urban landscape of crossover culture. In these... Lees meer

First Awakenings

Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Poems written from 1920-1926, never before collected. Lees meer

Sky High

Helen Falconer

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' rollLondon stylein a racy second novel about a teenager's taboo extracurricular activities. Disenchanted pretty-boy Ferdia is... Lees meer

A Walk in My World

• Paperback | Engels
• A treasury of short stories about young people, written by some of the world's best writers. This volume of sixteen stories written by some of the wor... Lees meer

Big City Cool

• Paperback | Engels
• In these fourteen authentic short stories, young people growing up in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, New York, and elsewhere contend with city ... Lees meer

Loves You

Sarah Gambito

• Paperback | Engels
• In Loves You, Sarah Gambito explores the recipe as poetic form and a mode of resistance. Through the inclusion of real recipes that she and her family... Lees meer

The Eloquent Poem

• Paperback | Engels
• From the New York Times best-selling anthologist, Elise Paschen, comes The Eloquent Poem , a groundbreaking collection of new poems by 128 contemporar... Lees meer

Working Days

Columbia University Press

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this anthology of fifteen, nearly all original, contemporary short stories, teenagers go to work, many of them for the first time. They take jobs t... Lees meer

Orexia

Lisa Russ Spaar

• Paperback | Engels
• Thrumming with the triune hungers of mind, mouth, and spirit, Lisa Russ Spaar's fifth book plumbs daily life in order to transcend it, discovering and... Lees meer

Date of Birth

Shawn R Jones

• Paperback | Engels
• The poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse, and addiction, incest, and infidelities of th... Lees meer

How I Found America

Anzia Yezierska

• Paperback | Engels | Uran Gift Fund
• Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next; taken togeth... Lees meer

Jessie de La Cruz

Gary Soto

• Hardcover | Engels
• This inspiring story of Jessie De La Cruz, the United Farmer Workers, and la Causa is told as only Gary Soto-novelist, essayist, poet, and himself a f... Lees meer

Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender

Wayne Koestenbaum

• Paperback | Engels
• The collection's cornerstones are two rhapsodies - long poems which combine the richness of a novel, the intimacy of a lyric, and the immediacy of a p... Lees meer

Still

Sandra Meek

• Paperback | Engels
• Still re-imagines the Renaissance concept of the studiolo , a room displaying cabinets of wonder, each juxtaposing human-made art objects, such as min... Lees meer

Brooklyn Antediluvian

Patrick Rosal

• Paperback | Engels
• Rosal finds trouble he isn't asking for in his unforgettable new poems, whether in New York City, Austin, Texas, or the colonized Philippines of his a... Lees meer

Unexpected Elegies

Thomas Defendant Hardy

• Hardcover | Engels
• After the death of his wife, Emma, in 1912, the great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy began to write a series of poems about her. Although the ... Lees meer

Working Days

• Paperback | Engels
• An ALA Best Book: fifteen short stories about teens in the adult workplace. Lees meer

Places I've Taken My Body

Molly McCully Brown

• Hardcover | Engels
• In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body--in her case, one shaped since birth by ... Lees meer

The Last Thing

Patrick Rosal

• Paperback | Engels
• For nearly two decades, Patrick Rosal has been one of the most beloved and admired poets in the United States, bringing together the most dynamic aspe... Lees meer

Our House in the Last World

Oscar Hijuelos

• Hardcover | Engels
• This debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, bears all the hallmarks of Hijuelos's later work-exuberan... Lees meer

American Analects

Gary Young

• Paperback | Engels
• American Analects uses the Analects of Confucius as an inspiration to mediate upon the life, death, and the subsequent loss of the poet's influential,... Lees meer