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Jane Munro's poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know?

Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover.

Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize

A wise and embodied collection of dreamscapes,
sutras and prayer poems from a writer at her peak

Most of Hawthorne's early writings were magazine stories subsequently collected in books. His second story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, includes many of his best-known short stories.

The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement.

Presents four short stories by the 19th century New England writer.

The House of Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family--whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery.