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Rob Spillman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Mastodon: @RobSpillman@writing.exchange Tin House editor 1999-2019, coach w/ @TheOpEdProject, manuscript consults via @theshipmanagency, https://t.co/zKuS8NQpmL

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Book Cover for: The Family Chao, Lan Samantha Chang

The Family Chao

Lan Samantha Chang
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Lan Samantha Chang on the visual inspirations behind The Family Chao https://t.co/vVvZKZmhhT

Hardcover, Large Print, 2022

$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Stop-Time: A Memoir, Frank Conroy

Stop-Time: A Memoir

Frank Conroy
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@Andrew_Ervin Frank Conroy's Stop Time, Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal, Nabokov's Speak, Memory

Paperback, 1977

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Denial, Jon Raymond

Denial

Jon Raymond
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Always psyched to read anything Jon Raymond writes. 13 Ways of Looking at Denial: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel https://t.co/yy18D8QckI via @lithub

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Book Cover for: Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between, Joseph Osmundson

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Joseph Osmundson
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A fabulous 13 Ways of Looking from @reluctantlyjoe. 13 Ways of Looking at a Virus: Joseph Osmundson on the Visual Side of Virology https://t.co/cOC4C7oaVu via @lithub

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Frank: Sonnets, Diane Seuss

Frank: Sonnets

Diane Seuss
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@likaluca If you haven't already read Diane Seuss's Frank: Sonnets, run, don't walk. Recentish favs include Jane Hirshfield's Ledger and Haleh Liza Gafori's new translations of Rumi, Gold, from NYRB.

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song

Ellen Bryant Voigt
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Favorite poetry craft books? Two of mine are Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook and Ellen Bryant Voigt's The Art of Syntax.

Paperback, 2009

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ledger: Poems, Jane Hirshfield

Ledger: Poems

Jane Hirshfield
Rob SpillmanRob Spillman

@likaluca If you haven't already read Diane Seuss's Frank: Sonnets, run, don't walk. Recentish favs include Jane Hirshfield's Ledger and Haleh Liza Gafori's new translations of Rumi, Gold, from NYRB.

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry, Mary Oliver

A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

Mary Oliver
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Favorite poetry craft books? Two of mine are Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook and Ellen Bryant Voigt's The Art of Syntax.

Paperback, 1994

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pilgrim Bell: Poems, Kaveh Akbar

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar
Rob SpillmanRob Spillman

Give Kaveh Akbar a prompt & he’ll turns it inside out, make it utterly new and brilliant. The award-winning poet presents 13 visual representations of poems included in his second collection, Pilgrim Bell, just out from Graywolf Press. https://t.co/6vsRXt5G3R via @PioneerWorks_

Paperback, 2021

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems, Agha Shahid Ali

Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

Agha Shahid Ali
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What a beautiful essay. "One could even argue that ghazals aren’t poems at all, but a capricious assembly of couplets that could easily part ways." Made me really miss the irrepressible Agha Shahid Ali. https://t.co/9Oxq9SGjZZ

Paperback, 2003

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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