Determined to train his soldiers to be the best, the little general trains his troops everyday out on the field, but when a snowflake falls in their midst and everyone around him ignores it, the little general realizes that losing all imagination and the ability to dream is the biggest threat of all.

Product Description: In this compelling tale for children and adults alike, the poet Matthea Harvey collaborates with artist Elizabeth Zechel to create a powerful, resonant allegory for these times of violent military solutions to global problems. In this compelling tale, there is a little general who heads an army called the Realists...read more

The author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form debut collection explores the mechanics of the body, thought, and language in mournful, lyrical, comic, powerfully visual poems that treat the human condition as an engine. Original.

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