Product Description: In this superb and eagerly anticipated debut collection by the young African American poet A. Van Jordan, the energy and music of Jordan's language, his honesty of feeling and of truth telling, are matched by his freshness and power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: IN 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a poignant nonlinear narrative, illustrates the power of a pivotal moment in a life...read more

A poetic evaluation of the intersection between physics and the human condition considers such subjects as Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and a variety of fictional characters, in a collection of lyrical works that profiles contemporary physicists as metaphysical poets.