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Book Cover for: Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition, Paul Celan

Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

Paul Celan
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"While this idea that poetry is 'lost in translation' is pervasive in US poetry, it is antithetical to reading Celan’s work." @JohannesGoranss on MEMORY ROSE INTO THRESHOLD SPEECH by Paul Clean, trans. Pierre Joris : https://t.co/aQo3ge1lx8

Paperback, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, Francisco Cantú

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Francisco Cantú
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Keija Parssinen enjoyed SPEAK, OKINAWA by Elizabeth Miki Brina (@AAKnopf) and THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER by @_franciscocantu (@riverheadbooks), a "cerebral, haunting memoir recount[ing] his years spent in the border control." https://t.co/CrKSUtaGEf

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Snow White: The Classic Edition, Brothers Grimm

Snow White: The Classic Edition

Brothers Grimm
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Weekly writing prompt: take a fairy tale or myth and reimagine/retell it your own way (in poetry or prose). For example, here's Anne Sexton's ironic reimagining of "Little Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm: https://t.co/nfshY72o4w #KRprompts

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Book Cover for: Momma's Lost Piano: A Memoir, David Madden

Momma's Lost Piano: A Memoir

David Madden
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Congratulations to contributor (& former assistant editor), David Madden! His memoir "Momma's Lost Piano" was recently published by @utennpress. You can learn more and order it at the link below: https://t.co/j87lHvRmPb

Paperback, 2023

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi

Burnt Sugar

Avni Doshi
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.@RaiMisha recommends @avnidoshi's 2020 Man Booker Prize nominated novel, BURNT SUGAR (@overlookpress), which she calls "deliciously unsettling and a window into an India rarely seen before" and @_karentucker_'s WILDERNESS (@CatapultStory): "Funny, insightful, and oh so honest." https://t.co/bpBxnEhC4S

Paperback, 2022

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Snow's Wife, Frannie Lindsay

The Snow's Wife

Frannie Lindsay
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Consulting Editor Kathleen Aguero recommends THE ICE STORM by @KearneyMeg (@GreenLinden1), THE SNOW'S WIFE by Frannie Lindsay (@CavanKerryPress), LOVE TOOK THE WORDS by @corkery97 (@SlantBooks), and DAILY RITUALS: HOW ARTISTS WORK by @masoncurrey (@AAKnopf). https://t.co/E2Ud57RiT5

Paperback, 2020

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Each of Us Killers, Jenny Bhatt

Each of Us Killers

Jenny Bhatt
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.@Kothari_Geeta chooses EACH OF US KILLERS, "engrossing and inventive stories" by @jennybhatt (@713Books), and THE GOOD GIRLS by @soniafaleiro (@groveatlantic), "illustrating the oppressive forces of caste and poverty and their effects on every aspect of life." https://t.co/Ow2MZNmgSU

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Book Cover for: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, Sonia Faleiro

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

Sonia Faleiro
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.@Kothari_Geeta chooses EACH OF US KILLERS, "engrossing and inventive stories" by @jennybhatt (@713Books), and THE GOOD GIRLS by @soniafaleiro (@groveatlantic), "illustrating the oppressive forces of caste and poverty and their effects on every aspect of life." https://t.co/Ow2MZNmgSU

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays, Rebecca McClanahan

In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays

Rebecca McClanahan
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Thank you so much for your reading tonight, Rebecca. And thank you all for joining us. "See you on the other side of Mars!" Pick up your copy of Rebecca McClanahan's IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY from @Bookshop_Org: https://t.co/nOoPRYYPzc https://t.co/ZWI7IIWTYb

Paperback, 2020

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: White Dialogues, Bennett Sims

White Dialogues

Bennett Sims
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@LucasESchaefer @raviddice We recommend "White Dialogues," as well as Bennett Sims's novel "A Questionable Shape." @TwoDollarRadio

Paperback, 2017

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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