Presents twelve poems about Thanksgiving, including "When Daddy carves the Turkey, " " I Ate Too Much, " "Daddy's Football Games, " and "If Turkeys Thought."

A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby.

Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

"Popular fiction writer Julianne Donaldson shares poems that reflect her experiences as a woman of faith to inspire readers to hold onto hope"--

Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.

Inspired by a poem by E. E. Cummings, this is the story of a little tree that finds its own special place in the world as a much-loved Christmas tree.

"In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the imagination, the paces they put us through. While Sharif...

A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet revisits and celebrates his childhood memories of fall in the city and growing up in Los Angeles.

"A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse"--