Essays discuss the works of twentieth-century American poets and how writers from minority backgrounds are included in--or excluded from--the canon of generally respected authors

Product Description: In this pathbreaking anthology, Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero have brought together poems representing a diversity of American voices and identities--among them Native, Asian, and black Americans; Chicano and Puerto Rican writers; gay and lesbian poets; writers of working-class background; and poets writing from American prisons...read more

Product Description: With her first collection in more than a decade, Harris ( Raw Honey ) presents prose poems that move easily and unexpectedly between the real and the surreal (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the second book in our Marie Alexander pros poetry series. In Your Sun, Manny, Marie Harris has created a prose poem memoir that reveals in touching detail her story of adopting and caring for Manny, a child who was abused and neglected until he was fourteen, when Harris and her husband made him a part of their family...read more

Illustrations and rhyming text, along with more detailed information, present facts about the history, culture, and landscape of New Hampshire.

Presents short rhymes about numbers of objects from one through one hundred and provides information about the New Hampshire natural history and social studies topics that the objects represent.

Product Description: This eye-opening picture book introduces readers to their five senses and to synesthesia—a condition in which one sense triggers another. For some people, sounds or tastes have colors. And for others, numbers and letters do. Many famous artists have been synesthetes, including Tori Amos, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, John Mayer, Mozart, and Degas...read more

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Product Description: Frustrated with other diets that have you feeling hungry all the time? Right now you could be eating mouth-watering meals while you get healthier and lose weight at the same time! Do you want a simple and sustainable way to lose weight AND lower blood pressure without gimmicks and starvation diets? This book is a follow up to my first one entitled: "DASH Diet for Weight Loss: A Proven Solution to Lose Weight, Improve Your Health Simply and Easily" Read the great comments other buyers have for the first book "DASH Diet for Weight Loss" "It's all about changing habits to achieve weight loss and the healthy menus provided make it easy to follow...read more