A collection of poems and drawings by American poet and humorist, Shel Silverstein including "Backward Bill, " "Day After Halloween, " "Gumeye Ball, " "Nailbiter, " "Sour Face Ann, " and many others.

The dead arise from their sleep in the cemetery of a small Midwestern town to tell their individual stories about an entire community caught in a web of scandal, sin, and vice in the early twentieth century.

A collection of 294 poems, chosen and introduced by Garrison Keillor, host of National Public Radio's "The Writer's Almanac, " including selections from classic and contemporary poets, grouped by topic.

Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of poets from around the world, written by subject experts.

A selection of poems by twentieth-century American poet Carl Sandburg, drawn from collections published between 1916 and 1950.

In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This...

In this wise and intimate telling--which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending--Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love's sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband's smile to the set of his hip. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous...