Product Description: From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet’s past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality...read more

Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize Florida Book Awards Gold Medal Winner Stephen Kampa’s poems are witty and restless in their pursuit of an intelligent modern faith. They range from a four-line satire of office inspirational posters to a lengthy meditation on the silence of God. The poems also revel in the prosodic possibilities of English’s high and low registers: a twenty–one line homage to Lord Byron that turns on three rhymes (one of which is “eisegesis”); a sestina whose end words include “sentimental,” “Marseilles,” and “Martian;” sapphics on the death of Ray Charles; and intricately modulated stanzas on the 1931 Spanish–language movie version of Dracula. Despite the metaphysical seriousness, there is always an undercurrent of stylistic levity — a panoply of puns, comic rhymes, and loving misquotations of canonical literature — that suggests comedy and tragedy are inextricably bound in human experience.

Product Description: An unforgettable collection of poems recommended by famous people.

Product Description: These funny, formally inventive and clear-eyed poems deal with intertwining lives, human and animal, near and far.

Product Description: In several versions of ancient mythology, the spider is the creator of the universe, a weaver of reality, a goddess that has built an intricate web to support the story of life. Our lives and the lives of the dead are threaded together, they form an intricate pattern of love, loss, ancestry, and home...read more

Product Description: Friends come together to sing, dance, and play in this tribute to community. Pat Mora weaves the repeating lines of a pantoum, a Malaysian poetic form, into a joyful celebration while George Ancona's energetic photos capture the ways of enjoying good times with others.

Product Description: An amazing book to revolutionize philosophyThis second book by Ronnie Lee continues from his last, to rationalize the reasons why we are alive, how we are alive and what we can do to make life better. What Does it Mean to Be Alive?Life needs knowledge to growAnd wisdom to adaptTo remain peaceful and successful...read more

Collects poems written by eleven-year-old muscular dystrophy patient Mattie Stephanek sharing his feelings and thoughts about his life, the deaths of his siblings, nature, faith, and hope.

Collects poems written by the eleven-year-old muscular dystrophy patient, sharing his feelings and thoughts about his life, the deaths of his siblings, nature, faith, and hope.

Product Description: The students at a New York City school discovered how important poetry can be even in the busiest lives when they asked journalists, politicians, musicians, novelists, filmmakers, actors and poets, to send in their favorite verse with an explanation of why they chose it...read more

Free verse and full-page black and white photographs relate the lasting impression of a child's first experience with a gun and its destruction of life.

A collection of poems by people ranging from Soren Kierkegaard to Cheryl Ladd that urges individuals to realize their potentials and give meaning to their lives