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This evocative new poetry collection speaks with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the strug

Musgrave writes of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through her real-life adventures with her outlaw husband, Stephen Reid, and her teenage girls, taking us from the Queen Cha

"These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems.

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings.

"A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood.

How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.

Freud swore by it. Heidegger swore at it. Kierkegaard swore off it. In our everyday lives we can't live without it. It's just talk. Before media, before the Internet there was talk.

A selection of non-fiction writings composed of essays and reviews written between 1968 and 1985.

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved;

These varied essays explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory.