Time Is a Mother

Charles Baudelaire

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women.Published posthumously in 1869, ...

Gabriel Dozal

A world-bending, lyrically rich poetry collection that reimagines the U.S.-Mexico border as both a real place and a living simulation--and tells the story of a pair of siblings trapped between the two"Word coyote Gabriel Dozal is crossing borders with this story. It's his job: narrative poetry discovering a new language."--Sandra Cisneros, author of Woman Without Shame"This cro...

Edgar Allan Poe

The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his maturity - such as his famous ballads ‘The Raven' and ‘Lenore' - to those he published in his youth and those that were collected ...

Whitney Hanson

"From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems "the bees aren't going to go away but they are going to change with you sometimes they will be chaotic sometimes they will rest sometimes they will give you sweet honey and sometimes they will remind you of how much love can sting but if...

Campbell Mcgrath

"A collection of profound and piercing poems from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, about navigating the modern world in search of beauty that will endure. The Radiance Archive opens at a remote crossroads, where the speaker considers the intersection of history, beauty, and destruction: "the past / is paper / and the present, a match . . ." What follows is a feverish tour of ...

John Ashbery

A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written ...

Vuong, Ocean

Un hijo escribe una larga carta a su madre, que no sabe leer. La carta es en realidad un examen de conciencia, un repaso a los elementos clave que han ido confor-mando su identidad: como hijo de una familia de vietnamitas que huyeron de su país rumbo a Estados Unidos y como joven que descubre y asume su homosexualidad. El entorno familiar del chico se compone de la abuela, que ...

Vuong, Ocean

Una novela deslumbrante sobre la belleza y la esperanza que residen en los detalles más humildes de la existencia. Es verano en Alegría Este, un rincón de Nueva Inglaterra en el que el tiempo parece haberse detenido y los espíritus del pasado se pasean entre coches abandonados. Alegría se alza sobre una costra de tierra a lo largo del río Connecticut; sobre el río se alza un pu...

Vuong, Ocean

The instant New York Times bestseller • Oprah's Book Club Pick • Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive"Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those living on the fringes of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive." —Oprah Winfrey"Mag...

Vuong, Ocean

From the New York Times bestselling poet and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong returns with his heart-rending novel about friendship as salvation and the stories to which we cling in the face of anguish.On a late summer evening, in the derelict town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai finds himself standing on the edge of a bridge in the pe...

Vuong, Ocean

A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty. ...

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