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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most popular American poet of his time, and one of the most famous American poets of all time. It has been said that certain of his poems ー the long n……続きを見る

The Abenaki Indian Tribe is awarded 15,000 acres in a U.S. Supreme Court decision for land taken illegally by the U.S. government in 1850. Their goal: to construct the world's largest casino in Ogun……続きを見る

A riotous story about an Indiana author who packs up his family and moves 900 miles (by car in a heat wave with four children) to take up residence in Connecticut where he commutes to New York City ……続きを見る

Imagine a computer game so addictive, so accessible and so real that the whole world is playing it. Now imagine that game is the work of the Devil himself. In the 2nd book in the Age of Angels se……続きを見る

An examination of Melville’s “borrowing” “Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound historical ……続きを見る

James Elliott Foster gives us over 100 poems and 40 illustrations to describe what he sees and how he feels about the world around him. "Reflections" is a very personal and very unique view of the w……続きを見る

Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of exper……続きを見る

Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the first American dramatist to receive a Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill filled his plays with rich characterization and innovative language, taking the outcasts and ……続きを見る

Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known a……続きを見る

Closet issues? Closet issues? What are they? Are they the subject matter we would just as soon go away. You know, the things we don’t talk about in mixed company. We do talk about them behind closed……続きを見る

We've all heard of haunted houses, but a haunted motorcycle? They say revenge is sweet sometimes revenge is 1200 cc of terror. Can a bike have a mind of it's own? Take care of your ride..Because it ……続きを見る

A drought has devastated the Kansas prairie, forcing Emmaline's husband to seek work in Salina. Left behind to care for their infant son, Emmaline struggles with loneliness and a sudden fever that c……続きを見る

You will find herein a collection of poems from my adolescence. In here I catalog the questions I asked the world and the cynical analyses that helped rationalize my human experience. I wasn't alway……続きを見る

Different people - soldiers, thieves, princes, and children - pass through a monument during 30 centuries. The monument remains and provides shelter, learning, and rest. 続きを見る

After the remains of the young female, Thea Robinson, were found inside the wrecked vehicle, her journal was discovered. Inside, her story is told, leading up to her death. 続きを見る

This playful collection of 14 original monologues gives voice to characters and observers from the 18th century French fairs. Before the Revolution, these were a prime source of entertainment for pe……続きを見る

Everyone has a secret. Some of those secrets cross over the threshold to being outright lies. Winter Bernard and Carley DeVries are two college co-eds who, while harboring their own deep dark secret……続きを見る

'Fear makes me a writer, fear and a lack of confidence' Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life, Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers a……続きを見る

My first impression was when I peered out the narrow window across from my cell and saw the leaves changing color. Then it hit me. Next year, at this same time, I would be watching the leaves change……続きを見る

An Octave Above Thunder presents a collection of poems spanning more than twenty years in the career of Carol Muske, who has won acclaim for work which marries sophisticated intelligence, emotional ……続きを見る

Dream Walkers are able to enter the thoughts and dreams of the sleeping and control them until the dawn. Such power inevitably leads to mischief. Philippe François and Lee Jiang, master dream walker……続きを見る

"Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of ……続きを見る

The troubled father and powerful wife of an autistic man struggle with both internal demons and external nemeses to bring about change in a world where the incidence of autism rapidly increases, occ……続きを見る

Penumbra Theatre Company was founded in 1976 by Lou Bellamy as a venue for African American voices within the Twin Cities theatre scene and has stood for more than thirty-five years at the intersect……続きを見る

Dialect poems by one of the nineteenth century's most talented African American lyricists Paul Laurence Dunbar was “the most promising young colored man” in nineteenth-century America, according to ……続きを見る

Great Aunt Gert and the Outlaw A morning horseback ride puts Gert in the center of the notorious Times Brothers fleeing from a bank robbery and ditching a stolen car. Glass Coffins Things couldn’t g……続きを見る

A triangle with a twist. Diane and Cindy pay Sam to father a child for Diane. But after baby Charlie is born, Diane finds herself in a tug-of-war between her partner and her lover. Her attempts to k……続きを見る

A personal collection of poetry from love, heart break and inspiration. It is a journey for the reader through the personal journey of the writer. 続きを見る

This book is about contemporary poetry or short thoughts, verse or short prose. Even though there is very little rhyme, this book has a very unique and a very simple writing style. "After the Inters……続きを見る

In Landscape with Human Figure, his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America’s most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos Wi……続きを見る