Book Collection
The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
Carl Phillips
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The Art of Intimacy
Stacey D'Erasmo
The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky...
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The Art of Description
Mark Doty
"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for...
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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
Dean Young
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The Art of Syntax
Ellen Bryant Voigt
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art...
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The Art of Time in Fiction
Joan Silber
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The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
Sven Birkerts
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The Art of the Poetic Line
James Longenbach
"Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens The Art of the Poetic Line with that...
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The Art of Revision
Peter Ho Davies
The fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision—on the page and in life In...
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The Art of Attention: A Poet’s Eye
Donald Revell
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