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A collection of essays about contemporary art, artists and culture. Please Wait by the Coat Room includes essays on sculptors of color Luis Jimenez and John Outterbridge, a section on Korean abstract painters who were considered part of the Dansaekhwa movement (which has been translated as "monochromatic painting”), a section on "second generation Abstract Expressionists” such as the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter ...

A selection of the very best from one of America's most thought-provoking writers: poems on life, faith, doubt, and death that read like memoir, essay, and story. As The New York Times said, "likely to resonate with many who have come face to face with life's most important questions."Thomas Lynch-like Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams-is a poet who writes about real things with language rooted in the everyday yet masterfully infused...

These essays, all concerned with countryish things, range from intensely practical to mildly literary. Transplanted from New York fifteen years ago and now a real-life Vermont farmer, Noel Perrin candidly admits to hilarious early mistakes ("In Search of the Perfect Fence Post") while presenting down-to-earth advice on such rural necessities as "Sugaring on $15 a Year, " "Raising Sheep, " and "Making Butter in the Kitchen." But, as everyone w...

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A collection of the poetry of Herman Melville.

Poems by Ira Sadoff.

A collection of thirteen tales by Joan Aiken. She can be scary (everyone knows her fascination with wolves and witches) and poetic (as in "Moonshine in the Mustard Pot" or "The Lilac in the Lake"). But whatever she sets her hand to, it is the work of a master. And set against the lovely and luminous pencil drawings of Pamela Johnson, we have a a baker's dozen of magical tales that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned and t...

Exhaustively researched in archives in both the U. S. and Canada,  A Race for Real Sailors is a vibrant history of the Fishermen's Cup series, which dominated sporting headlines between the two world wars. Here are the incidents and drama of each race and the almost living personalities of the schooners that contested them: the Delawana and the Esperanto, the Columbia and the Gertrude L. Thebaud, and dominating them all the Bluenose, the big b...

Twenty-two essays spanning five centuries, along with author notes and full bibliographies, provide an insight into one of humanity's greatest solitary diversions - reading.

Poems from a master who thinks of the poet as a scientist aiming for holistic understanding.

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The title story alone will make it worth your while to go out and get the book."-The New York Times Book Review This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus (now included in his three-volume Collected Short Stories & Novellas) established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature o...

Robert Kelly's long project in verse, filling nearly 40 collections, has shown him to be a master of intellectual energy, kinetic power and primal apprehension, with a range of interest and symbolic resonance as extensive and diverse as any contemporary poet's. Kelly's new poems in The Time of Voice are perhaps his most accessible to date, underscoring the familiar brilliance of mind and movement with a new depth of emotional understanding. Th...

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Covers the issues in the choice and handling of words - will energise anyone with a writing job to do. Offers a checklist of words and phrases to be used with care - will save many a writer from committing embarrassing blunders by writing something unintended, misleading or downright foolish.

Wakoski's autobiographical Argonautica employs the myth of quest to discover meaning in personal history.Here, following the successes of Medea the Sorceress (1991), Jason the Sailor (1993) and The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), this crowning volume in The Archaeology of Movies and Books returns to the epic journey of search and discovery. Retracing "all the footsteps I've left behind me", the narrator remembers all the "Jasons" in her life...

This landmark volume of correspondence by the great Objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) sheds light not only on the difficulties of a dedicated artist trying to keep afloat in a materialistic society, but on the relation of poetry to a wider culture during an eventful and turbulent period of modern history.Most of the letters here date from the 1920s and 1930s, when the young Reznikoff, an NYU. law school graduate employed sporadica...

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