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21) The grammarians
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From the author compared to Norah Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret "twin" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel-gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café...
23) The deceptions
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A middle-aged poet finds herself adrift in her marriage and life now that her child has moved away to college. Her job teaching Greek myth to high school boys at a prestigious New York City academy has its small pleasures-her students offer surprising insights to stories she's studied for decades-but as her debut poetry collection approaches publication she starts to notice the seams of her life becoming unloosed. The chorus of voices in her life...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ever since her husband left her -- seemingly vanishing into thin air -- Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal. But when her estranged mother remarries -- prompting an unplanned reunion -- Charleen finds herself moving out of her familiar existence. -- from the back cover
26) Martyr!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past - toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
As he cleans out his dead father's workshop, Jess Kirkman of North Carolina discovers a treasure map with the names of women. He goes to see them and obtains new insights into his father's character. Fourth installment in a family saga by the author of Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You.
28) The wood wife
Author
Series
Brian Froud's faerielands volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life--and death. Maggie is astonish by the power of this harsh but beautiful land and captivated by the uncommon people who call it home--especially Fox, a man unlike any...
Author
Series
Publisher
Interlink Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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The dozen lyrically descriptive stories in this eclectic collection by Lebanese-born poet and novelist Adnan range over a startling period of time and place, from 1930s Beirut through early '60s San Francisco to the first Gulf War.
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries ... Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith, arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city's poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil ... A war that threatens not only to destroy Cadenza but remove it from history altogether"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Steeped in writer's block in the months after losing her husband, writer Stacey Lane enters a secret affair with Hollywood star and poetry fan Tommy DeMarco, who offers her a chance to escape into his glamorous world before they are forced to evaluate their growing bond.
33) Euphoria
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A woman’s life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and yearning for so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life. As Plath’s marriage to Ted Hughes unravels, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Out of print since 1987, "Life Is Elsewhere" is available again in an outstanding new translation. Kundera's epic of adolescence tenderly erodes such sacrosanct values as childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry, in a "remarkable portrait of an artist as a young man" ("Newsweek").
35) Death fugue
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
""Sometimes art is the only means by which we may find out the truth." One morning, a nine-story tower of excrement inexplicably appears in the capital of Dayang. The government performs a hasty cover-up, sparking protests that quickly explode in unrest. Mengliu, a young poet, and his girlfriend Qizi are swept up in the movement -- but in the brutal crackdown that follows, Qizi, along with thousands of other protestors, disappears. Years later, while...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America's...
Author
Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be, it's no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she's taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the poète maudit, she shuttles between...
40) Poemsia
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
VEerity Wolf dreams of being a poet-not that she'd ever admit it to anyone. Her best friend, Jess, thinks she's definitely got what it takes, while her cat, Zorro, is characteristically indifferent. As for the cute boy she's just met, he's about to discover her best kept secret. When Verity stumbles on an old, mysterious book, Poemsia, she finds herself suddenly thrust into the dizzying world of social media stardom, where poets are the new rock stars...
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