Collected Poems 1947-19973 reviews Allen Ginsberg Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007 Ginsy's Collected Poems + Poetry Five Stars, of Course but... I just finished reading Ginsberg's collected poems, 1947-1997 -- fifty years and over a thousand pages of poetry. My overall impression is that he was probably the kindest, most moral member of the beat generation. When the other beats were penniless & borrowing money, Ginsberg was the one they ...             Two Novels: Jealousy and In the Labyrinth (Robbe-Grillet, Alain)4 reviews Alain Robbe-Grillet Grove Press, 1994 Almost too original...but no! Just perfect. + Jealousy + Interesting Experimental Fiction This book contains two great books by a great author unafraid to do something completely different--a guy who could write a (good) characterless short story about an escalator, or a murder mystery that never uses the letter E, or...or..."Jealousy." Of the two novels contained in this book, ...             Collected Poems2 reviews Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 A huge, landmark collection from a major poet + A Collection to Collect This enormous (1300+ pages) collection of Ted Hughes's poetry should cement his reputation as one of the two truly major British poets of the second half of the twentieth century. (The other being the much less prolific Philip Larkin.) This single volume collects ALL of Hughes's published poetry, ...             Selected Tales (Penguin Classics)3 reviews Henry James Penguin Classics, 2001 The master at work + Brilliant but dense + If you're cruising for gay Henry, this is the place to go... Henry James is one of the world's greatest masters of the long short story. The stories share many qualities with the great novels. They are often tales of consciousness and perception in which the heart of the action is in the mind's dramatic interaction with its experience of other characters. ...             Invisible Man276 reviews Ralph Ellison Vintage, 1995 Quiet Rage Turned into High Art + Underappreciated work of genius + The Search for Human Identity This novel, a model of creative writing, describes what it is like to land in a big city and then be sucked up into the black hole of urban life in America. It is a story told by a black man coming of age in the mid-1940s, and thus is about black anonymity in a white world. But one of the primary ...             The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Centennial Edition)11 reviews Hart Crane Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2001 Whispers antiphonal in azure swing... + A Reading of "Stark Major" + In the Tradition + Kiss of our agony             Selected Poems: Expanded Edition: Including selections from Day by Day3 reviews Robert Lowell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Shared reading experience + this is all you need + Get the new 'Collected Poems' instead This is a good book. The revised edition (which this is) contains a wide and well-chosen selection of Lowell's poetry. He notes in the foreword that he tried to choose possible sequences rather than just greatest hits out of context. This effort is visible and the book flows together like almost ...             Our Lady of the Flowers11 reviews Jean Genet Grove Press, 1994 "Crime Begins With A Carelessly Worn Beret" + fantastic, but not for everyone + A Most Beautiful Song of the Imagination + like a narcotic!             Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder (Oxford World's Classics)4 reviews Henrik Ibsen Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 A translation to beat all others + Masterful Ibsen + old but still good + Four classic plays from Ibsen             The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)337 reviews Mikhail Bulgakov Penguin Classics, 2001 Best book ever written + Smooth purchase + Alice in Wonderland for children who didn't believe cold war proganda Pontius Pilate and Moscow's citizens are oddly coupled in this examination of the new class of soviet people. Even without the social commentary, this is a beautiful and engaging atypical love story. Best read with Goethe's Faust. Margarita is the Russian version of Margaret/Gretchen.             Cities of the Interior2 reviews Anais Nin Swallow Press, 1975 Look into your lovers' hearts... + What a Grand Description of People and their Motivations Though any of the five mini masterpieces that constitute this cyclical novel ("Ladders to Fire", "Children of the Albatross", "The Four-Chambered Heart", "A Spy in the House of Love", and "Seduction of the Minotaur") stand on their own as seperate and equally moving novels, I'm finding it difficult ...             Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)11 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 2000 The Irish Sacred Text in English:SERIOUS THEMES FROM WOMB TO TOMB IN AN INCAPABLE TONGUE + Looks great on the shelf! + happy bloomsday + A must-read for challenge seekers.             The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)14 reviews Robert Musil Penguin Classics, 2001 intellectual exploration of latent sadomasochism + A pleasant surprise: beauty and friendship in modern times. + An Austrian "Lord of the Flies" + A glimpse into adolescent angst, Viennese style             Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings8 reviews Antonin Artaud University of California Press, 1988 The theatre, life and writings of a brilliant lunatic + Tome essential to all theatre artists + Artaud: what and where and how were you thinking? + Full of Sympathy for Van Gogh + Essential!             Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire (New Directions Book)2 reviews Guillaume Apollinaire New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1971 You are weary of this ancient world at last... + Apollinaire, master of Surrealism It is unfortunate that we must at times label our giants with little tags and thus diminish their true presence. In the case of Apollinaire, the surrealist label is presumably warranted, as the man seemed content enough with the definition. But to emphasize the surreal too much in Apollinaire's ...             Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)94 reviews Louis-Ferdinand Celine New Directions, 2006 travel is useful + Bleak and yet hilarious + You Can't Ignore Genius + This book needs to be Printed and made available in Hardcover... + Razor Sharp             Invisible Cities86 reviews Italo Calvino Harvest Books, 1978 Reads like poetry + Wonderfully Borgesian, with a regrettable dash of Gibran + Unique and thought provoking + Great texture for a paperback.             The Sleepwalkers9 reviews Hermann Broch Vintage, 1996 The Absolute Novel? + A complex novel worth study and thought + A historical fact about this book.... + Trilogy of the Disintergration of Values + truly outstanding             The Rings of Saturn41 reviews W.G. Sebald New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999 The night of time far surpasseth the day and who knows when was the Aequinox? + A book of digressions and odd tangents + A Curious Journey + The Archaeology of Loss             The Portable Arthur Miller (Penguin Classics)3 reviews Arthur Miller Penguin Classics, 2003 Good Compendium of Miller's works + EVERYTHING + This is the One! I wanted to read Death of a Salesman. While searching I found this book which has 5 of Miller's plays (including his famous ones, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible) and a few other little works of his. This is a great bargain, considering that a single play by Miller is about $9.00 and this is ...