Product Description: A poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath every day experience. As the title suggests, the poems in R. S. Mason’s Nearer to Never paradoxically comprise a book of the unmanifest, a poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath everyday experience...read more

Product Description: “The poems in Angie Macri’s gorgeous debut collection Underwater Panther have at their center landscape and place, exploring and excavating the neglected geographies of the Mississippi River and the communities that settled along its sandy banks...read more

Robert Johnson, master teacher and successful author, and co-author Patricia Kuby, keep students in mind in many ways. This edition has a strong computer flavor, with many exercises set up for solution in MINITAB. Johnson and Kuby present statistics as a practical discipline that evolves with the changing needs of our society, giving students a sense of the usefulness and timeliness of the topics and concepts discussed. While studying descriptive and inferential concepts, students become aware of their real-world applications in fields such as the physical and social sciences, business, economics, and engineering. Because this book focuses only on the essentials, it is ideal for use in a variety of course structures. Featuring modern ideas and an easy-to-comprehend exposition, the book places consistent emphasis on real data and graphical analysis. Descriptive coverage of linear correlation and regression appears early.

Product Description: Heresies is an invocation of Latin American and Caribbean culture, history, and spirituality. Through free verse and poetic forms, the collection is visually charged and sonically rich. The poems incorporate history, legend, and magical realism to create a cross-cultural baroque feeling...read more

Product Description: Part fun-house hall of mirrors in its distorted and dizzying central narrative, part spaghetti western, and part prayer, Self-Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur is an exploration into the possibilities of storytelling. Through persona poems and odes, the collection argues that the muddier the narrative, the closer the story gets to truth...read more

Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger’s philosophy.

Product Description: This book is about the Strasbourg Cathedral, one of the architectural wonders in European history and for centuries the tallest building on Earth. The long title poem The Stones of Strasbourg is a complex, symphonic evocation of the great cathedral and a tribute to its builders, Erwin and Sabina von Steinbach, held by the poet s family tradition to be his ancestors...read more

Product Description: Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory...read more

Product Description: Crevasse, Hong Kong-based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, therefore, the necessity of a "second," "unobservable" body from which to view one's own...read more

Product Description: Complete narratives, in 200 words or less, that sparkle with life, love, laughs, politics, and poetry—perfect examples of the imagination flourishing when given constraints These microfictions offer tales of service station hold-ups, random violence in elevators, shark attacks,  and road fatalities...read more

Product Description: Winner of: 2015 Parents' Choice Award, Picture Book This picture book takes children of all ages on a trolley-ride dream adventureFeaturing the extraordinary illustrations of Caldecott Honoree, Marvin Bileck, this book is a dream caught on paper with the sense of magic and wonder and unfettered imagination of a child...read more

Product Description: These poems delve deep within the earth, exploring the prehistoric caves of France and Spain, communing with the lives and art of those who once inhabited them. Macari connects us with a distant past, with "memory / stumbling into mineral stillness...read more

Product Description: Some Habits proceeds by way of a series of letters charting the dreams, observations, apologies, and epiphanies of an unnamed addressor. The poem is infected by the vernacular language of the Ozark mountain region, and by the cultural effluvia of the flat lands hemming the Mississippi River...read more

A young kangaroo discovers both advantages and disadvantages in the fact that her use of time differs from that of family members, teacher, and friends

Product Description: In her vital, elegiac poems, Deborah Gorlin inventories her dead in urgent acts of recognition and commemoration. Family members—both nuclear and extended—appear in their native stories to reanimate local histories, intimate geographies, and lost times...read more

Product Description: Poems can be silly, serious, or fun, just like kids! Whether it’s the sing-song rhythm of a limerick, the serendipitous magic of a found poem, the deceptive simplicity of a haiku, or the easy familiarity of an acrostic poem, children are charmed by poetry...read more

Product Description: Laodicea speaks English sympathetically at the edge of sense, where this world reveals another latent; and this world remains ordinary, just like we like it. In a time when we are told, amazingly, the universe is math, what does this mean for our friendships, for our language? Laodicea reminds, laughingly, that “The mind and the world / together are a Co-Cathedral”—the impulse for love and play...read more