Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886-when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered...

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When It Rains in the Desert is a collection of poems about life and nature that examine our deep emotional connection to the world around us. It takes readers from the jungle of Central Africa to the desert country of the American West, with stops in New York and elsewhere. It includes six haiku illustrated with black and white line drawings.

"Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that made her the Duchess...

"Don't you just hate losing something you really need? And isn't it always just at the worst possible time? Maybe you placed your trust in the wrong person? Perhaps you lost the trail you were just on? A pulse? Your grip on reality? Hope? Down by the Riverwalk is the third collection by Matt Scott and features fourteen tales to entertain and delight. The stories collected within are of loss, hopelessness, fear, shame, violence, greed, malice... We...

"In The Turquoise Ledge, Leslie Marmon Silko combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world, taking readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran Desert, where she has lived for the past thirty years. The beauty and symbolism of the desert landscape around her, and of the birds, snakes, insects, and dogs that share her life,...

Dangerous Toys is an incredibly hilarious non-fiction, humor novel from the seriously warped mind of stand-up comedian and humorist, Randall S Chadwick. While many chapters of this book can be read independently (e.g. An Open Letter To The Guy Who Stole My Friends' Lunch), the single theme running throughout is that my generation -- those of us whose childhoods were around the 70's -- remains the last generation that was allowed to go outdoors and...

"Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" --