More Books for Sale
Again, please text or e-mail me at nayav@yahoo.com for orders. I'll implement a bidding system for books with more than one potential buyer.
SOLD! Lorrie Moore, Birds of America, P380 --- a stunning collection of 12 stories where characters "confront the erosion of their marriages and relationships, cancer, middle age and general disillusionment, but Moore's edge, often savage, is always softened by (or at least filtered through) her famous wit, which is not just clever or smirk-worthy." Clean, new copy.
SOLD! David Lehman, Valentine Place, P350 --- this 1996 collection of 43 poems by the Best American Poetry series editor explores the complexities of eros and the intrusion of the public on private affairs. Says John Ashbery: "Lehman's moving new poems chronicle urban anxiety and sadness; mysteries of love, family, and passing time; and the sheer nuttiness of it all. Valentine Place is a complex delight." Clean, new copy.
SOLD! Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, P300 --- Murakami's latest novel follows the parallel odysseys of a 15-year-old runaway and an aging tracker of lost cats. Here, cats converse with people, fish tumble from the sky, a forest harbors soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII, and there is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle.
- The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, Plays, and Essays from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Crisis Magazine, edited by Sondra Kathryn Wilson, P320 --- an excellent resource on the Harlem Renaissance and the history of African American writing. Good poems by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson. The best part is the essay section; there are 27, with titles like "The Negro in Literature," "Soviet Russia and the Negro," "A Musical Invasion of Europe," and "Our Negro Intellectuals."
- Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Reader for Writers, edited by Marjorie and Jon Ford, P300 --- great for college composition teachers and writers in need of jumpstarts. Chapter titles: Discovering Ourselves in Writing; Dreams, Myths, and Fairy Tales; Nightmares and Obsessions; Journeys in Sexuality and Gender; The Double/The Other; Society's Dreams. Can also be divided into strategy and mode: narration, description, process, comp-contrast, interpretation, argument, fiction, poetry. Has readings by: Patricia Hampl, Woolf, STafford, Joseph Campbell, Jung, Annie Dillard, Le Guin, etc. 500+ pages.
- Robert Wrigley, Reign of Snakes: Poems, P300 --- if you like Edward Hirsch, Mary Oliver, Jane Hirshfield, and Billy Collins, you'll love Wrigley's quiet, musical poems. Says Stephen Dunn: "[He] is my kind of nature poet, by degree more interested in the human inscape than he is in the rich, sensuous landscapes, yet vigilant about their interplay. Few poets today are able to fuse their narrative and lyrical impulses as well as he can."
- Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why, P250 --- "Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self." His prologue, "Why Read?" is a must-read, as are his essays on Hemingway, Dickinson, Calvino, and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
SOLD! Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy, P250 --- City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. "In all three books, he constructs his detective stories in such a way that the physical gives way to the metaphysical, and the pursuit of his quarry becomes a search for answers to the Big Questions--the implications of authorship, the enigmas of epistemology, the veils and masks of language."
SOLD! Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, P200 --- her first novel, also her funniest, is about the coming of age of an adopted (and lesbian) narrator in a fanatical religious congregation.
OTHER BOOKS, including those from the earlier list:
SOLD! Randall Jarrell, The Complete Poems, P300 --- the poet who wrote "Bats," "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" and my favorite "90 North" was once called the most heartbreaking poet of his generation. This thick book contains 471 pages of his poetry collections as well as his unpublished poems and translations of Rilke.
- Ayn Rand, The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, P300 --- In 1969, Ayn Rand gave a series of informal lectures to a select group of friends and associated on creating effective nonfiction, from "Applying Philosophy without Preaching It" to "Book Reviews and Introductions" to "Writing a Book."
SOLD! The American Poetry Anthology, edited by Daniel Halpern, P200 --- published in 1975, this contains good and early selections from Stephen Dunn, Robert Hass, Michael Harper, Thomas Lux, Lawrence Raab, Michael RYan, James Tate, AI, Charles Simic, and others.
- Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Carino, Cartography: A Collection of Poetry on Baguio, P200 --- has 4 sections, 2 of which are the Palanca award-winning Configuring the Gods and Other Poems, and Disclosures.
SOLD! Ricardo de Ungria, Nudes, P200 --- this excellent collection needs no introduction. An old copy, but well worth it.
SOLD! Oliver de la Paz, Names Above Houses, P200 --- one of the better Fil-Am poets. Published by Southern Illinois University Press, this sequence of prose poems "creates the legend of Fidelito--a boy whose yearning to fly becomes a metaphor for immigration, sexual awakening, religious passion, and the imagination of a poet-in-the-making....Through Fidelito, de la Paz weaves the odysseys of Jesus and Icarus into a lush and wonderful wanderlust." (blurb by Denise Duhamel)
- Luis H. Francia, Museum of Absences, P180
- Ophelia Dimalanta, Lady Polyester: Poems Past and Present, P180
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, P150
SOLD! Diane Ackerman, Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems, P150
- Julia Alvarez, The Other Side: Poems, P120
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, P120
- Neil Jordan, Sunrise with Sea Monster, P120
ORIGINAL AND SECONDHAND CD'S FOR SALE TOO (more to follow):
- Belle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, P150
- Joss Stone, Mind Body & Soul, P120
- Vanessa Carlton, Harmonium, P120
SOLD! Lorrie Moore, Birds of America, P380 --- a stunning collection of 12 stories where characters "confront the erosion of their marriages and relationships, cancer, middle age and general disillusionment, but Moore's edge, often savage, is always softened by (or at least filtered through) her famous wit, which is not just clever or smirk-worthy." Clean, new copy.
SOLD! David Lehman, Valentine Place, P350 --- this 1996 collection of 43 poems by the Best American Poetry series editor explores the complexities of eros and the intrusion of the public on private affairs. Says John Ashbery: "Lehman's moving new poems chronicle urban anxiety and sadness; mysteries of love, family, and passing time; and the sheer nuttiness of it all. Valentine Place is a complex delight." Clean, new copy.
SOLD! Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, P300 --- Murakami's latest novel follows the parallel odysseys of a 15-year-old runaway and an aging tracker of lost cats. Here, cats converse with people, fish tumble from the sky, a forest harbors soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII, and there is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle.
- The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, Plays, and Essays from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Crisis Magazine, edited by Sondra Kathryn Wilson, P320 --- an excellent resource on the Harlem Renaissance and the history of African American writing. Good poems by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson. The best part is the essay section; there are 27, with titles like "The Negro in Literature," "Soviet Russia and the Negro," "A Musical Invasion of Europe," and "Our Negro Intellectuals."
- Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Reader for Writers, edited by Marjorie and Jon Ford, P300 --- great for college composition teachers and writers in need of jumpstarts. Chapter titles: Discovering Ourselves in Writing; Dreams, Myths, and Fairy Tales; Nightmares and Obsessions; Journeys in Sexuality and Gender; The Double/The Other; Society's Dreams. Can also be divided into strategy and mode: narration, description, process, comp-contrast, interpretation, argument, fiction, poetry. Has readings by: Patricia Hampl, Woolf, STafford, Joseph Campbell, Jung, Annie Dillard, Le Guin, etc. 500+ pages.
- Robert Wrigley, Reign of Snakes: Poems, P300 --- if you like Edward Hirsch, Mary Oliver, Jane Hirshfield, and Billy Collins, you'll love Wrigley's quiet, musical poems. Says Stephen Dunn: "[He] is my kind of nature poet, by degree more interested in the human inscape than he is in the rich, sensuous landscapes, yet vigilant about their interplay. Few poets today are able to fuse their narrative and lyrical impulses as well as he can."
- Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why, P250 --- "Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self." His prologue, "Why Read?" is a must-read, as are his essays on Hemingway, Dickinson, Calvino, and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
SOLD! Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy, P250 --- City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. "In all three books, he constructs his detective stories in such a way that the physical gives way to the metaphysical, and the pursuit of his quarry becomes a search for answers to the Big Questions--the implications of authorship, the enigmas of epistemology, the veils and masks of language."
SOLD! Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, P200 --- her first novel, also her funniest, is about the coming of age of an adopted (and lesbian) narrator in a fanatical religious congregation.
OTHER BOOKS, including those from the earlier list:
SOLD! Randall Jarrell, The Complete Poems, P300 --- the poet who wrote "Bats," "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" and my favorite "90 North" was once called the most heartbreaking poet of his generation. This thick book contains 471 pages of his poetry collections as well as his unpublished poems and translations of Rilke.
- Ayn Rand, The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, P300 --- In 1969, Ayn Rand gave a series of informal lectures to a select group of friends and associated on creating effective nonfiction, from "Applying Philosophy without Preaching It" to "Book Reviews and Introductions" to "Writing a Book."
SOLD! The American Poetry Anthology, edited by Daniel Halpern, P200 --- published in 1975, this contains good and early selections from Stephen Dunn, Robert Hass, Michael Harper, Thomas Lux, Lawrence Raab, Michael RYan, James Tate, AI, Charles Simic, and others.
- Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Carino, Cartography: A Collection of Poetry on Baguio, P200 --- has 4 sections, 2 of which are the Palanca award-winning Configuring the Gods and Other Poems, and Disclosures.
SOLD! Ricardo de Ungria, Nudes, P200 --- this excellent collection needs no introduction. An old copy, but well worth it.
SOLD! Oliver de la Paz, Names Above Houses, P200 --- one of the better Fil-Am poets. Published by Southern Illinois University Press, this sequence of prose poems "creates the legend of Fidelito--a boy whose yearning to fly becomes a metaphor for immigration, sexual awakening, religious passion, and the imagination of a poet-in-the-making....Through Fidelito, de la Paz weaves the odysseys of Jesus and Icarus into a lush and wonderful wanderlust." (blurb by Denise Duhamel)
- Luis H. Francia, Museum of Absences, P180
- Ophelia Dimalanta, Lady Polyester: Poems Past and Present, P180
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, P150
SOLD! Diane Ackerman, Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems, P150
- Julia Alvarez, The Other Side: Poems, P120
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, P120
- Neil Jordan, Sunrise with Sea Monster, P120
ORIGINAL AND SECONDHAND CD'S FOR SALE TOO (more to follow):
- Belle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, P150
- Joss Stone, Mind Body & Soul, P120
- Vanessa Carlton, Harmonium, P120
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