Product Description: In the late 1960s, the New Jersey projects stood like tattered, tired sentinels across the Newark skyline. Some saw them as eyesores; others called them home. Despite the comfort of familiarity, it certainly wasn't easy being poor and black in the projects in 1962...read more

Product Description: The early life of Michael Bryan (1757-1821) was unusual preparation for his later career: born in north-east England, he spent some time as a teacher and actor before moving to London and then to the Low Countries, where his interest in painting and engraving developed...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Don't gaze into the abyss, gaze out.This is what the reader receives from Stanley's eighth book, After Desire: the observations of a poet and a consciousness as they arrive together at old age. Not just what the poet is thinking, but what he sees and notices; what he is thinking about...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: In the winter of 1006, Hawk a young Apache boy, volunteers to join the Apache Young Warriors training on his seventh birthday. Hawk faces obstacles such as drought, famine, and life-and-death situations. He learns harmony and respect for all living things...read more

Product Description: Poetry. George Stanley's first book in five years contains thirty new pieces that reflect his idea that a poem is after all about something. Here are poems about movies, ballparks, hockey, dogs, sex, aging, and traveling. Each poem demonstrates an engagement with the world and its particulars...read more

Product Description: Gentle Northern Summer is a compendium of poems that takes the reader on trips to California, Ireland, Moscow and Stonehenge, as well as Terrace and Prince George, BC. Included are the serial poems Mountains & Air and San Francisco's Gone, poems on public events such as the shooting down of the Korean airliner and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and poems on sex, love, work, consumer capitalism, plane and train travel, journalism, resource extraction, teenage boredom, the politics of Oz, hockey, city traffic, hangovers, and the deaths of family and friends...read more

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