Product Description: One of Canada's greatest poets, Margaret Avison is a complex, introspective writer with roots in seventeenth-century metaphysical and meditational poetry. The first collection to span her entire career, Avison's Collected Poems stretches from her early work in the 1950s to the most recent poems, recording her conversion to Christianity...read more

A moving presentation in her own words of the life of an African-American woman who rose from poverty to become an author whose work is read the world over is accompaned by an inspiring foreword by acclaimed poet Maya Angelou. Reissue. 20,000 first printing.

Critically acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston recalls her impoverished childhood, her successful career as an anthropologist, and her early attempts at writing

Product Description: From critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth century—Zora Neale Hurston.A woman of enormous talent and remarkable drive, Zora Neale Hurston published seven books, many short stories, and several articles and plays over a career that spanned more than thirty years...read more

Presents the story of an African American woman who rose from poverty to become an author who held a prominent place among the artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.

Complemented by an audio CD of the noted author speaking and singing, an interactive biography of Zora Neale Hurston combines personal memorabilia, never-before-published writings, period photographs, and facsimiles of historic papers in a study that describes her journey to fame as a literary icon, role during the Harlem Renaissance, and beyond. 40,000 first printing.

Critically acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston recalls her impoverished childhood, her successful career as an anthropologist, and her early attempts at writing

Critically acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston recalls her childhood and successful career

Product Description: One of Canada's greatest poets, Margaret Avison is a complex, introspective writer with roots in seventeenth-century metaphysical and meditational poetry. The first collection to span her entire career, Avison's Collected Poems stretches from her early work in the 1950s to the most recent poems, recording her conversion to Christianity...read more