Few poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual's maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover's quarrel with the world. Educated at Munro College (West Indies) and at Columbia University,...

"A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most respected poets -- There's a trembling inside the both of us, there's a trembling, inside us both. The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through," "suffering [seems] in fact for nothing," and "all we do is maybe all we can do." In the face of this, Carl Phillips, reconsidering and unraveling what we think we know, maps out the...

The award-winning poet offers a collection of poems that explore the actions of daily life and reflect on parenthood, solitude, love, and memory.

A collection of poems explores the mysterious landscape of the human heart, describing the meaning and wonder of loving another person.

"A collection of original poems by Jane Hirshfield exploring the profundities and quirks of existence"--

Smoke From This Altar, a book that has become legendary among Louis L'Amour readers, is the very first book L'Amour ever published. It appeared, to great critical praise, for sale only in Oklahoma bookstores more than fifty years ago. Since then it has become the most sought-after L'Amour title of all, with the few circulating copies from the small print run commanding top dollar from rare book collectors. Now, at last, it is being published nationally...

The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recalls the celebration of Christmas with his family and the feelings it evoked in him as a child.

In an uproarious anthology of poems compiled by Laura Robb, the pig, an often-maligned but forever charming creature, is paid tribute by such beloved writers as Lewis Carroll, Jane Yolen, J. Patrick Lewis, and James Reeves, and seven new poems have also been written by various authors especially for this wonderful collection.