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The Republic of Plato

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9780465094080 | 3 edition (Basic Books, November 1, 2016), cover price $22.99

The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature

By Adam Kirsch

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9780393241761 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 4, 2016, cover price $28.95

Emblems of the Passing World: Poems After Photographs by August Sander

Product Description: August Sander’s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America’s most celebrated writers and criticsThrough his portraits of ordinary people—soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers—August Sander, the German photographer whose work chronicled the extreme tensions and transitions of the twentieth century, captured a moment in history whose consequences he himself couldn’t have predicted...read more

By Adam Kirsch

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9781590517345 | Other Pr Llc, October 15, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: August Sander’s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America’s most celebrated writers and criticsThrough his portraits of ordinary people—soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers—August Sander, the German photographer whose work chronicled the extreme tensions and transitions of the twentieth century, captured a moment in history whose consequences he himself couldn’t have predicted.

Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas

By Adam Kirsch

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9780393243468 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 17, 2014), cover price $26.95

Why Trilling Matters

Product Description: Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as Americaâs preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual life of the country...read more

By Adam Kirsch

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9780300152692 | Yale Univ Pr, October 25, 2011, cover price $26.00

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9780300187823 | Yale Univ Pr, February 5, 2013, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as Americaâs preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era.

Benjamin Disraeli

Product Description: Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesA dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today...read more

By Adam Kirsch

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9780805242492 | 1 edition (Schocken Books, September 2, 2008), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesA dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century.

Invasions: New Poems

Product Description: In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst the omens of the post-September 11 world...read more

By Adam Kirsch

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9781566637749 | Ivan R Dee, April 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life.

Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry

A collection of critical essays, previously published in such magazines as The New Republic and The New Yorker, is a provocative survey of contemporary poetry that scrutinizes the achievements of such writers as Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, and Derek Walcott.

By Adam Kirsch

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9780393062717 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 30, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays, previously published in such magazines as The New Republic and The New Yorker, is a provocative survey of contemporary poetry that scrutinizes the achievements of such writers as Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, and Derek Walcott.

The Wounded Surgeon: Confession And Transformation In Six American Poets : Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Farrell, Delmore Schwartz, Sylvia Plath

Documents how the poets Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Berryman, Jarrell, and Schwartz changed the face of American poetry in the decades after World War II by creating the style of poetry now known as 'confessional,' in an account that traces each writer's major themes, techniques, and transformations of life into art. 10,000 first printing.

By Adam Kirsch

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9780393051971 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Documents how the poets Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Berryman, Jarrell, and Schwartz changed the face of American poetry in the decades after World War II by creating the style of poetry now known as 'confessional,' in an account that traces each writer's major themes, techniques, and transformations of life into art.

The Thousand Wells: Poems

Product Description: In 2001, Ivan R. Dee began publication of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prizeâwinner with the appearance of Donald Petersen's Early and Late. The New Criterion, which has published poetry since 1984, is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary venues for poetry with a regard for traditional meter and poetic form...read more

By Adam Kirsch

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9781566634519 | Ivan R Dee, September 1, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In 2001, Ivan R.

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