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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The bread of time	Philip Levine	"Philip Levine's The Bread of Time is an amalgam of celebration and quest. It celebrates the poets who were his teachers - particularly John Berryman and Yvor Winters, whose lives and work, Levine be…	OL121471W
Dog Years	Mark Doty	Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnouri…	OL14857183W
One More Theory About Happiness	Paul Guest	Paul Guest was twelve years old, racing down a hill on a too big, ancient bicycle, when he discovered he had no brakes. Steering into anything that would slow down the bike, he hit a ditch, was throw…	OL15184065W
Lives like loaded guns	Lyndall Gordon	Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagina…	OL15568619W
One more theory about happiness	Paul Guest	In the tradition of Mark Doty's "Heaven's Coast" comes an original memoir from the acclaimed poet and author about the accident that left him a paraplegic, and his struggle to find independence, love…	OL16163821W
Now all roads lead to France	Matthew Hollis	Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with…	OL16302546W
From the earth, a cry	Ian Kenneally	John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) is one of Ireland's remarkable and least known historical figures who lived two very different lives. This is a study of O'Reilly's short but extraordinary life.	OL16497850W
Proust's overcoat	Lorenza Foschini	"Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man,…	OL16676086W
Secret Historian	Justin Spring,Sean Runnette	Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of o…	OL16799820W
Jacko Jacobus	Kwame Senu Neville Dawes	Poor sower of seeds with a gift for dreaming, Jacko Jacobus knows that his destiny is to found a people to shake the nations. But when he has to flee Jamaica to escape his brother's wrath, he finds h…	OL1720282W
The prince of Los Cocuyos	Richard Blanco	A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his p…	OL17900743W
David Jones	Thomas Robert Dilworth	Among the revolutions of the last century, none was more important or potentially more lasting than the one in the arts called “Modernism”. Among the giants of that movement were writers who changed …	OL17940086W
Lit	Mary Karr	The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suic…	OL18165256W
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs	Beth Ann Fennelly	111 pages ; 19 cm	OL19171197W
Poetry will save your life	Jill Bialosky	An unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around forty-three remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath, from a critically …	OL19721908W
Have dog, will travel	Stephen Kuusisto	A blind poet describes his relationship with his first guide dog and how it changed his life and gave him a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.	OL19734962W
The joker	Andrew Hudgins	"Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself--what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how …	OL19965087W
Wilfred Owen	Guy Cuthbertson	"One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite…	OL19980136W
Ted Hughes	Jonathan Bate	"Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and eco…	OL20018528W
Pure act	Michael N. McGregor	"An illuminating biography of the minimalist poet Robert Lax, a man who embraced simplicity, humility, and poverty and found the pure joy, peace and love he had long sought. Pure Act tells the story …	OL20026354W