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This secret could swamp her.Miranda Crandell, the Head of Strutthorn Academy, has a brilliant idea to one-up the other elite New England prep schools with their piddling plots of organic veggies for experiential learning: She'll buy a swamp. Yes, a bog, a quagmire, an oozy acre, where she intends to build a special science center. What she doesn't account for is Paul Dickersen-her newly hiredfreshwater biologist, who is strikingly handsome (even in cargo p...

A poetry collection of "peculiar grace" from the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist author of Dailies & Rushes (Brian Phillips, Poetry Magazine).Susan Kinsolving's first poetry collection, Dailies & Rushes, was hailed as a "brilliant debut" by the New York Times, and "grand and almost terrifying" by the New Yorker. In her new work, The White Eyelash, she turns the extremes of her recent experiences—es...

Peripheral Vision, Susan Kinsolving’s fourth book of poems, explores the world from many points of view. She takes her readers to England, Hollywood, Wyoming, France, and Chile. She goes behind the scenes in a military hospital, an elementary school, and a disturbed family. Her poems were described in the New Yorker as “grand and almost terrifying.” In this new collection, she proves herself again. As a guest poet and lecturer, Kinsolving has performed at numerous venues,...

A National Book Critic's Circle Award-finalist: the "late but brilliant debut" volume that rocketed the acclaimed poet to prominence ( The New York Times).In her first full-length volume of poems, Susan Kinsolving demonstrates an elegant mastery of craft that can only be achieved through decades of refinement. Dailies and Rushes is both a debut collection and a major work by an accomplished poet. Indeed, as Carol Muske points out in her review of ...

A collection of word scrambles to keep your mind sharp and provide hours of entertainment. English words from 5 to 10 letters in length and appropriate for any age reader.

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, grea...

Watch out, parents!Hilarious jokes are coming your way! This Kid's Joke Book will turn your 11-year-old into a young comedian."Almost all creativity involves purposeful play." – Abraham MaslowThe You Laugh You Lose Challenge is a book designed for both single-player and to be shared and read by everyone in your household.But why not let everyone play? Gather your family around the fire, cal...

The former US Poet Laureate shares "fine poems that inspire us with poetry's greatest gifts: the music of language and the force of wisdom" (Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan's poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading period...

“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections of this great artist’s work, published far too infrequently, The Apple Trees ...

This is a first collection of poems by a poet based in Saltdean on the South Coast of the United Kingdom.

“Fire to Fire should solidify Doty’s position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almost unavoidable chance of transcendence.” — Publishers WeeklyA landmark collection of new and published works by one of our finest poets that is a testament to the clarity and thoughtful lyricism of his poemsFire to Fire collects the best works from seven books of poetry by Mark ...

In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted—only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the security state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute. The poems in Just Saying may be imagined as c...