Product Description: Original poems and prose take a fun look at different types of family members. Illustrations are made of torn paper collages. The verse includes pre-primer and vocabulary words and aligns with English Language Arts standards for reading and literacy. Includes a word list.

Product Description: Out of print since 1994, In My Father's House is offered again in a beautiful new edition.

Product Description: Celebrate your cherished family and experience new appreciation for those dear to your heart with this delightful gift book, featuring the popular verse of Helen Steiner Rice. Dozens of devotional readings are paired with inspirational poetry for a unique package that is sure to bring delight and warmth to your spirit...read more

Product Description: Though Eve may be seen as a symbol of the demonization of women, she shares many characteristics with the ancient mother-goddesses worldwide from whom her story derives. Like her predecessors, Eve brought both death and life to humanity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: “This is my favorite book by Debra Nystrom so far. It’s beautiful.”––Ann Beattie“A fearless and elegiac book, deriving from those struggles which many of us know all too well—the final illness of the poet’s mother, the physical and mental decline of her father, and the emotional sufferings of her imprisoned brother...read more

Product Description: Robert Pack is one of America’s most eminent nature poets, and his virtuoso talents are on glorious display in Still Here, Still Now, his nineteenth volume of verse. With styles ranging from lyric to narrative, and themes stretching from biblical concerns to meditations on contemporary science, Pack’s poetry is composed in strongly rhythmic cadences and a diction that is direct and accessible...read more

Product Description: This follow-up to Patrick Phillips's award-winning debut navigates the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. Like Virgil's Aeneas, the book's central figure is in the middle time of life, a grown man with an aging father on his shoulders and a young son at his hand...read more

Product Description: Matt Simpson's poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. In the present collection Simpson continues his journey into his family history. He has also been on other travels: there are poems about Japan, Tasmania, Ireland and the Greek islands of Aegina and Leros...read more

The best-selling author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty presents a collection of poetic works on the peaks and valleys of being a septuagenarian, in a lighthearted volume that explores such themes as grandparenthood, the state of her teeth, and senior sex. 75,000 first printing.

Product Description: The “black river” of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C. K. Stead. Written within the last 18 months, these poignant poems vividly explore the poet’s feeling of frailty following a stroke, which temporarily impaired his ability to read or write, and the subsequent excitement of recovery...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Kimmelman has previously published three collections of poetry, including a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso. He teaches English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and is the author of two book-length literary-critical studies...read more

Product Description: Exhibiting the mastery of poetic line and sharpness of focus we have come to associate with Dabney Stuart’s work, this volume, Stuart's fifteenth, weaves a series of finely delineated portraits into a complicated fabric of relationship...read more

Product Description: POEMS OF: Elders--Birth--Children--Couples--Parenting--Family Portraits--Family Life--Aging--DeathPOEMS BY: Elders: Louise Bogan, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Edgar Lee Masters, Kenneth Patchen, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, William Carlos Williams, James WrightContemporaries: Nin Andrews, Maggie Anderson, Antler, Ellen Bass, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Laura Treacy Bentley, Abigail Beckel, CL Bledsoe, Don Bogen, Allen Braden, Jeanne Bryner, Gregory Byrd, Neil Carpathias, Richard Carr, Johnson Cheu, Daryl Ngee Chinn, David Citino, Paola Corso, Alice Cone, Barbara Crooker, Thomas Rain Crowe, Jim Daniels, Kate Daniels, Todd Davis, Susan Elbe, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Diane Gilliam Fisher, Kathleen Fraser, Allen Frost, Richard Garcia, David Lee Garrison, Suzannah Gilman, William Greenway, Tina Mozelle Harris, Joy Harjo, Steven Haven, Rasma Haidri, David Hassler, Michael Hettich, Marianna Hofer, Holly Hughes, Bonnie Jacobson, Hershman John, George Kalamaras, Arthur Winfield Knight, Ted Kooser, Lolette Kuby, Li-Young Lee, Jim Lenfestey, Cathy Lentes, Lyn Lifshin, Diane Lockward, Laura Loomis, Jack McGuane, Michael McGriff, Irene McKinney, Sandra Marshburn, Peter Meinke, Andrew Merton, Corey Mesler, Robert Miltner, Greg Moglia, Sean Nevin, Edwina Pendarvis, Lynn Powell, David Pichaske, Chad Prevost, David Ray, Susan Rich, William Pitt Root, Michael Salinger, Vivian Shipley, Penelope Scambly Schott, Derek Sheffield, Noelle Sickels, Larry Smith, Gary Soto, Margo Solod, P...read more

A hilarious holiday songbook for the entire dysfunctional family features a a wide array of Christmas song parodies that includes 'Grandpa Fell,' 'Slutty Night,' and other soon-to-be classics. By the authors of Where's Saddam? 75,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Flannery, Maureen Tolman

Product Description: Book by Jones, Arlene Swift

Product Description: The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett's award-winning first collection. This series of elegies records the transit of grief, observing with an unflinching eye how a singular traumatic event can permanently alter our understanding of time, danger, the material world and family...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Betty Buchsbaum wrote poems when she was young then stopped to raise a family, earn her Ph.D in Literature from Brandeis, write essays and scholarly articles, teach at Massachusetts College of Art and then become its Dean and Academic Vice-President...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Here are the private musings of a seasoned poet, most often over domestic realities uttered matter-of-factly," Barry Wallenstein writes. "However, these lyrics are elevated into a poetry of metaphoric potential." HOUSE AND HOME , Ratner's first full-length collection in twelve years, is definitely worth waiting for...read more

Product Description: Music as wild as a dance tune on a country fiddle, and as slow and sad as a shape note hymn informs Diane Gilliam Fisher's complex poems. . . . This narrative of three generations of women with roots in the coal camps and prayer meetings of the southern Appalachian mountains is "...read more