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51. Cover image for 'Suzan-Lori Parks'
Deborah Geis
An accessible guide to the inventive language and experimental stagings of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
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51. Cover image for 'Suzan-Lori Parks'
Deborah R. Geis
An accessible guide to the inventive language and experimental stagings of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
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52. Cover image for 'Melville Unfolding'
Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee
John Bryant
Sheds new light on Melville's classic novel Typee through a close and revealing look at his revision process
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53. Cover image for 'Charles Simic'
Essays on the Poetry
Bruce Weigl, Editor
New perspectives on the work of this original and hard-to-categorize American poet,  recently named Poet Laureate of the United States
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54. Cover image for 'Edward Albee'
Toby Zinman
A theater-lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most  important playwrights

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54. Cover image for 'Edward Albee'
Toby Zinman
A theater-lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most  important playwrights

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55. Cover image for 'Poet's Work, Poet's Play'
Essays on the Practice and the Art
Edited by Daniel Tobin and Pimone Triplett
An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry
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56. Cover image for 'You Work Tomorrow'
An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41
John Marsh, Editor
The first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression
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57. Cover image for 'The Unraveling Archive'
Essays on Sylvia Plath
Edited by Anita Helle
Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets
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Essays on Sylvia Plath
Edited by Anita Helle
Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets
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58. Cover image for 'These Days of Large Things'
The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
Michael Tavel Clarke
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The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
Michael Tavel Clarke
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59. Cover image for 'Reading Adoption'
Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama
Marianne Novy

A literary scholar who is an adult adoptee delves into one of the enduring themes of literature—the child raised by other parents

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60. Cover image for 'Commerce in Color'
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
James C. Davis
Examines the critical role that race played in the birth of U.S. consumer culture 
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Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
James C. Davis
Examines the critical role that race played in the birth of U.S. consumer culture 
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61. Cover image for 'Let Me Live'
Angelo Herndon
The passionate prison autobiography of Angelo Herndon, Communist union organizer of the 1930s
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62. Cover image for 'On Frank Bidart'
Fastening the Voice to the Page
Edited by Liam Rector and Tree Swenson
Essays that explore the art and craft of Frank Bidart's poetry, with an interview with the poet
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63. Cover image for 'Arthur Miller's Global Theater'
Enoch Brater, Editor
How an American playwright is performed on stages around the world
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63. Cover image for 'Arthur Miller's Global Theater'
Enoch Brater, Editor
How an American playwright is performed on stages around the world
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64. Cover image for 'Workin' on the Chain Gang'
Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Walter Mosley
A passionate examination of the social and economic injustices that continue to shackle the American people
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65. Cover image for 'Vanishing Moments'
Class and American Literature
Eric Schocket
Explores how the effects of class permeated American culture in nearly a century of literary writing
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65. Cover image for 'Vanishing Moments'
Class and American Literature
Eric Schocket
Explores how the effects of class permeated American culture in nearly a century of literary writing
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66. Cover image for 'Ed Bullins'
Twelve Plays and Selected Writings
Ed Bullins
Collecting works by one of the most influential playwrights of the Black Arts Movement of the 60s and 70s
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67. Cover image for 'The Syntax of Class'
Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
Amy Schrager Lang
Explores the literary expression of the crisis of social class in the U.S. throughout the second half of the nineteenth century
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68. Cover image for 'The Stuff of Fiction'
Advice on Craft
Enlarged and Revised Edition
Douglas Bauer
A master storyteller and teacher talks about the tools of the fiction writer's craft
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68. Cover image for 'The Stuff of Fiction'
Advice on Craft
Enlarged and Revised Edition
Douglas Bauer
A master storyteller and teacher talks about the tools of the fiction writer's craft
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69. Cover image for 'Memory Piano'
Charles Simic
An eclectic array of essays, reviews, and memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic
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69. Cover image for 'Memory Piano'
Charles Simic
An eclectic array of essays, reviews, and memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic
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70. Cover image for 'The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson'
Harry J. Elam, Jr.
An indispensable guide to the dramatic work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights
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70. Cover image for 'The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson'
Harry J. Elam, Jr.
An indispensable guide to the dramatic work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights
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70. Cover image for 'The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson'
Harry J. Elam, Jr.
An indispensable guide to the dramatic work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights
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Paper 2006 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson" to Cart
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71. Cover image for 'The Hopwood Awards'
75 Years of Prized Writing
Edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett
Collects poetry and prose by renowned writers who won Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan
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71. Cover image for 'The Hopwood Awards'
75 Years of Prized Writing
Edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett
Collects poetry and prose by renowned writers who won Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan
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Paper 2006 $27.95 Available Add Paper for "The Hopwood Awards" to Cart
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72. Cover image for 'An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College'
Olive San Louie Anderson
A historical novel about a young woman's challenges as a member of the first coeducational class at a major university
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72. Cover image for 'An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College'
Olive San Louie Anderson
A historical novel about a young woman's challenges as a member of the first coeducational class at a major university
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73. Cover image for 'Gathering Ground'
A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade
Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Editors
A collection from the first ten years of Cave Canem, including work by many leading faculty and the winners of the annual Cave Canem first-book prize
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73. Cover image for 'Gathering Ground'
A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade
Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Editors
A collection from the first ten years of Cave Canem, including work by many leading faculty and the winners of the annual Cave Canem first-book prize
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74. Cover image for 'Harlem Calling'
The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson
George Wylie Henderson
The collected stories of George Wylie Henderson, an Alabama writer of the Harlem Renaissance
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75. Cover image for 'Selected Prose'
John Ashbery
Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
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75. Cover image for 'Selected Prose'
John Ashbery
Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
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