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Book Cover for: Voyaging Portraits: Poetry, Gustaf Sobin

Voyaging Portraits: Poetry

Gustaf Sobin
Kim DormanKim Dorman

However long its tether, poetry wounds itself in our hands as we are wounded, in turn, by its escaping. -René Char (tr. Gustaf Sobin)

Paperback, 1988

$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Meditations: With Selected Correspondence, Marcus Aurelius

Meditations: With Selected Correspondence

Marcus Aurelius
Kim DormanKim Dorman

To my grandfather: Integrity and sweetness of temper. To my mother: The sense of reverence; generosity . . . the simplicity of her life. To my adoptive father: Gentleness. Marcus Aurelius, from the opening section of Meditations (tr. William Arrowsmith)

Paperback, 2011

$9.94$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Back Country, Gary Snyder

The Back Country

Gary Snyder
Kim DormanKim Dorman

Gary Snyder / The Back Country (this poem an old friend after how many years) https://t.co/jcMEDw9980

Paperback, 1971

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Italo Calvino
Kim DormanKim Dorman

traccia madreperlacea di lumaca "mother-of-pearl snail's track" -Eugenio Montale (quoted by Italo Calvino, "Lightness" / Six Memos for the Next Millennium)

Paperback, 2016

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wind-Mountain-Oak: The Poems of Sappho, Dan Beachy-Quick

Wind-Mountain-Oak: The Poems of Sappho

Dan Beachy-Quick
Kim DormanKim Dorman

walk so we can see clear Dawn's golden arms harms . soon golden-sandaled Dawn . Queen Dawn -Sappho (tr. Dan Beachy-Quick, from Wind - Mountain - Oak: The Poems of Sappho)

Paperback, 2023

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Music's Mask and Measure, Jay Wright

Music's Mask and Measure

Jay Wright
Kim DormanKim Dorman

Who would go into the river to recover a seed, or sit with a blacksmith and bard in high lament? There is a universe of such molecular intent the water folds. -Jay Wright, from Music’s Mask and Measure

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Book Cover for: Notebooks, Leonardo Da Vinci

Notebooks

Leonardo Da Vinci
Kim DormanKim Dorman

‘The animals have little, but that little is useful and true.’ -Robert Linscott ed. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Paperback, 2008

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel, Evan S. Connell

Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel

Evan S. Connell
Kim DormanKim Dorman

Beneath the first pillar on the left, in the Great Mosque of Cordova, the Arab Ibn Röchd has buried a ray of sunlight. -Evan S. Connell, Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel

Paperback, 2013

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The First Man, Albert Camus

The First Man

Albert Camus
Kim DormanKim Dorman

b. the book should be heavy with things and flesh. -Albert Camus (a footnote in his posthumous novel, The First Man, tr. by David Hapgood)

Paperback, 1996

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ardor, Roberto Calasso

Ardor

Roberto Calasso
Kim DormanKim Dorman

. . . they built a Parthenon of words: the Sanskrit language, since <sam skrta> means 'perfect'. -Roberto Calasso, Ardor (tr. Richard Dixon)

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