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The Sleep Library
Do you toss and turn until you finally sit up and flip on the light? Here are 11 books to get you through the endless, restless hours of the night, if not soothe you back to sleep.
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The Sleep Library

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

By Kay Ryan

Publisher: Grove Press
Pages: 288
Tags: Poetry Must-Reads
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At once direct and mysterious, Ryan's brief poems are gnomic delights: "Intention doesn't sweeten. / It should be picked young / and eaten."

— Carmela Ciuraru

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