Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (poetry)
 It's about cats, cats, and more Cats.: I had read this book before and loved it, but when I met Boris, a real, live version of Rum Tum Tugger, I had to buy a copy to show his owner. It is amazing how little had to be done to turn these poems into a great [... more]
$12.44
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Seasons at Eagle Pond
Seasons at Eagle Pond: If you tend to wake up in the middle of the night to worry, this book will soothe your mind. Donald Hall writes beautifully about his life in New Hampshire in a house and a town he clearly loves. He will remind you of beauties in [... more]
$24.00
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A Light in the Attic
An inscrutable genius, writing in a language children instinctively comprehend: Your child just might be more capable of appreciating this marvelous book of poetry than you anticipate. Here's our story. We had brought our child of 20 months to Disney [... more]
$18.99
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Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Undecided: The pictures are abstract looking and dark in tone. The book makes reference to; ghosts, bad men fighting in the dark, and cougars in the park. I'm not sure my 3 or 5 year old children had thought up these bad things on their own yet. While [... more]
$17.95
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Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig
Beautiful Meditations: With wonderful simplicity, Joyce Rupp once again touches the sacred in ordinary life. Each short poem, while unique in its own way, can also open the way for personal reflection. Barbara Loomis' illustrations are intricate and [... more]
$14.95
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What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
Not his best stuff, but still worth reading.: Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (Black Sparrow, 1999) With the exception of The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, the posthumously [... more]
$17.00
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You Get So Alone at Times
I hate poetry, so naturally Bukowski's poetry works for me: I love Bukowski's fiction, its straightforward, unadorned, yet precise diction, and its degraded, yet implacable hero(es?). Poetry, to me, has always seemed a florid waste of time, and a lazy [... more]
$16.00
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Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition)
Truly, one of the giants: When you think of the best poets ever, T.S. Eliot is one of those that comes to mind. His work is well crafted, intelligent, beautifully written, and has a flow to it that few poets can match. And this is a fine collection for [... more]
$25.00
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Autobiography of Red
Amazon.com Review: Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a novel in verse, the author's first. A classicist by profession as well as a poet, Carson has drawn on antiquity for her cast, updating the myth of Geryon and Herakles. In the original version, of [... more]
$13.95
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Ham On Rye
"Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?": So asks (p. 245) Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as this gripping romansbildung draws to a conclusion. The rather mysteriously-titled Ham on Rye is undoubtedly [... more]
$16.00
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What the Ice Gets : Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition ...
Shackleton Brought to Life: This epic poem brings Shackleton's attempt to reach the South Pole to life! Some of the chapters tell the story from the point of view of individual members of the expedition; some describe particular events. Each fact is [... more]
$14.00
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The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of ...
Interesting, if pretentious, look at Lorca's 'Duende': This book allegedly sets out to discover where inspiration for art comes from. In order to do this, the author focuses heavily on the work of Federico Garcia Lorca and his theories of Duende - a dark [... more]
$14.00
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