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David Hayden Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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'Darker With the Lights On' is a book of my stories and it is available from @transitbooks.

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Book Cover for: The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964, Galway Kinnell

The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964

Galway Kinnell
David HaydenDavid Hayden

we did hide ourselves Galway Kinnell, from ‘The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World’ https://t.co/PR9dFJeok9

Paperback, 2002

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Shutter of Snow, Emily Holmes Coleman

Shutter of Snow

Emily Holmes Coleman
David HaydenDavid Hayden

Emily Holmes Coleman's 1930 novel 'The Shutter of Snow' is an exceptional story of post-partum psychosis. It's great that this startlingly vivid, vertiginous and unsettling book is being reissued. https://t.co/6sDeXsInJm

Paperback, 2025

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: English Hours, Henry James

English Hours

Henry James
David HaydenDavid Hayden

Liverpool is not a romantic city Henry James, from ‘London’, in ‘English Hours’, 1876/1905 (P.S Liverpool *is* a romantic city, in my opinion) https://t.co/XJLep2jxao

Paperback, 2021

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Voice Imitator, Thomas Bernhard

The Voice Imitator

Thomas Bernhard
David HaydenDavid Hayden

the same thing Thomas Bernhard, ‘Beautiful View’, in ‘The Voice Imitator’, tr Kenneth J. Northcott https://t.co/lYKaTMkasD

Paperback, 1998

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant

Paris Stories

Mavis Gallant
David HaydenDavid Hayden

@susiemesure Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano or, for an outside view, Mavis Gallant's Paris Stories.

Paperback, 2002

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Princess Casamassima, Henry James

The Princess Casamassima

Henry James
David HaydenDavid Hayden

One walked of course with one’s eyes greatly open Henry James, from 'Preface' to 'The Princess Casamassima', 1886 https://t.co/oRHcPf3WmP

Paperback, 2022

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles, Delmore Schwartz

The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles

Delmore Schwartz
David HaydenDavid Hayden

@DavidCollard1 @dantjenks Helen Levitt’s photo James and Alma Agee, with Delmore Schwartz in the back seat. Schwartz who wrote the excellent ‘The ego is always at the wheel’. https://t.co/YGPaQhcLfL

Paperback, 1987

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Genoa, Paul Metcalf

Genoa

Paul Metcalf
David HaydenDavid Hayden

@Md1819 @chris_power It's a wonder in its own right. As is my other favourite Melville-inhabiting book, Paul Metcalf's Genoa.

Paperback, 2015

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People, Stephen Unwin

Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People

Stephen Unwin
David HaydenDavid Hayden

Rather than relitigate nonsense claims about how a glover's son couldn't conceivably have been Shakespeare, Stephen Unwin wrote 'Poor Naked Wretches': a stimulating and original book about the dramatic representation of working people in Shakespeare (which I helped publish). https://t.co/Jd9Vzmr0ph

Hardcover, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems, Dionne Brand

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems

Dionne Brand
David HaydenDavid Hayden

Dionne Brand’s ‘Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems’ is an essential gathering of work by one of the most compelling poets working today. Published in America last year @DukePress, it will be published @PenguinUKBooks in July. https://t.co/nbn54kQTue

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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