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LOA celebrates Herman Melville’s 200th birthday with his Complete Poems
Decades in the making, our fourth and final Melville volume allows readers to appreciate for themselves the full extent of his poetic achievement.

Walt Whitman's late-life thoughts reveal a "deeply brave man" facing illness and looming mortality with courage and optimism. Brenda Wineapple in our latest interview:
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From 2013: A birthday tribute to Toni Morrison
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Photos: Wendell Berry and friends celebrate What I Stand On
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Kimberly King Parsons salutes Eileen Myles, Denis Johnson, and other voices she “would follow anywhere”
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Remembering Toni Morrison’s friendship with James Baldwin

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Herman Melville: Complete Poems LOA N°320
What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 (boxed set)
Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories LOA N°319
Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far LOA N°318
Walt Whitman Speaks

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