Soul-stirring collection of timeless poetry that appeals to the heart features five legendary poets from ancient to modern eras: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Includes illustrations by Claire Whitmore.
In lyrical prose, he leads readers from bedrooms and laboratories to factories and battlefields to Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond, telling the stories of troubled sleepers, hibernating peasants, sleepwalking preachers, ...
In lyrical prose, he leads readers from bedrooms and laboratories to factories and battlefields to Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond, telling the stories of troubled sleepers, hibernating peasants, sleepwalking preachers, ...
"The book gives adults ideas for activities to get kids outside after the sun goes down, from night hikes to trapping moths.
America's Kim Addonizio has been called 'one of the nation's most provocative and edgy poets'. Her poetry is renowned for its gritty, street-wise narrators and wicked sense of wit.
Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens (“Mark Twain”), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway—Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in this work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the ...
When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything could--and does--happen.
Wild Nights is a startling tour of this other New York, revealing how stubbornly nature reasserts itself, adapting its survival strategies to even the most violently resculpted terrain.
The male roe deer, however, has a very different vocalisation. Many a time I've been jolted awake in my hammock at night by its startling dog-like bark close by, often followed by the percussion of departing hoof beats.
Then her beloved grandmother died and bequeathed the poet Emily Dickinson to Hannah as well as, well, a dead bird. Dead or alive, Grandma made sure Hannah knew about "Wild Nights.
With humor and rhyme, a Jewish family celebrates and survives the eight days of Hanukkah. Every Jewish family will relate to this roller coaster of joys and adventures as an assortment of relatives and friends descends on the household.