Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribute to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Smith interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the beauty, and the soul of being a black American today.

With more than 150 poems and forty striking photographs, Poetry of the American West chronicles the imagery of the region's long and diverse cultural heritage. Featuring verse by more than seventy poets and spanning a period of more than five hundred years, this is the first anthology to include the wide range of voices from a land where cultural collisions are part of the territory. Covering the traditional and the exploratory, the ancient and the...

The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.

In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes - the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself - on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. -- from...

Presents twelve poems about Thanksgiving, including "When Daddy carves the Turkey," "I Ate Too Much," "Daddy's Football Game," and "If Turkeys Thought."

Gaby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gaby grows more confident about...

"A collection of humorous and heartfelt poetry for children and adults"--

Poetry. "Culture's cloud chamber and its millions of random vectors drive Aaron Anstett's INSOFAR AS HERETOFORE. 'Whatever scintillants' he calls them in 'One Theory,' an exclamation that's half- prayer and half come-and-get-me bravado. The poems catch our socio- linguistic lightning flashes, at times fusing the erotic and the spiritual. This book is original and beautiful."-Michael Heller

Rosa knows how to heal sickness with medicines made from wild plants, but with a price on her head for helping the rebels, she dare not go out in the open. Instead, she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her.

Written entirely in verse, Peculiar Zoo is filled with intriguing facts about an extraordinary array of uncommon animals from Dik-Diks to Zebus. Young readers will discover the Numbat, who has more teeth than any other animal, but swallows his food whole; the Proboscis Monkey with its long nose that it must move out of the way in order to eat; and the Naked Mole Rat, who is pictured stretched out on a divan, shielding herself with feathers. Featured...