Product Description: The current "Nodin Poetry Anthology" continues a tradition established in 1974 of featuring celebrated writers alongside talented wordsmiths who are only beginning to make themselves known to the reading public. There are poems about farming, love, widowhood, the soul, graciousness, joy, parents and children, cavemen and astronauts, politics and knitting, graveyards and string theory...read more

Product Description: This moving collection of pieces explores the family connections that bind often-distant relatives across generations and continents. It is rich in traveler√s tales, humor, romance and loss, as we learn what the word √]family√AE means to the author.

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Product Description: The finely woven tales in Seventeen Grams of Sould introduce characters whose lives are sad, heroic, funny, tragic and, finally, ordinary. Confronting the twin nemeses of disease and death they struggle - as we all must - toward small victories, and sometimes, even, understanding...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Matthew Holmay, an English professor, tries to help Billy Brand, a schizophrenic student, but soon their friendship threatens his relationship with his nine-year-old daughter

Product Description: "I find the mode of Enemy Country particularly appropriate to the difficult subject it explores. It is less a novel than a set of queerly connected stories -a good deal like the Vietnam most of us remember. And like much of the most significant Vietnam writing, it confronts the experience not so much by talking about the war itself as by addressing through the minds of its characters their various perceptions - at times muddled and barely understood, and at others uncannily clear and wise - of the circumstances of history and culture that have brought them there...read more