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From the first known African American poet, Lucy Terry, to recent poet laureate Rita Dove, I, TOO, SING AMERICA captures the enormous talent and passion of black writers.

The best field recordings of songs and calls of fifty birds of England and North America are here paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe as well as poems by Dickinson, She

From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their simple, honest, happy lives.

This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on the author's life as he prepares for the 2005 New Yo

Telling the dramatic story of the quest to find "dark matter" and "dark energy," Panek offers a portrait of the  rivalries and collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alley

The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified.

This book takes listeners alongside ultramarathoner Ed Ayres as he prepares for, runs, and finishes the JFK fifty-mile race at a then record-breaking time for his age division--sixty and older.

This funny and poignant memoir is written by a woman who, at the age of nineteen, is told she'll be blind by thirty and how she chooses to hide her blindness--until she no longer can.

Months after plunging into a healthy, plant-based diet and a lifestyle that prioritized daily training, Rich Roll morphed from out-of-shape midlifer to endurance machine.

Alexis Lefrançois ne se rattache à aucune chapelle littéraire. Sa poésie nous entraîne aux portes de l’indicible, de ce qui pourrait être l’éblouissement du silence, quand tout a été dit.

Le « toujours merveilleux poète Alexis Lefrançois », comme le présentait récemment Hugues Corriveau dans Le Devoir, nous lance une invitation avec son recueil : Je vous rejoindrai au teminus vide.

Voici réunis Dispositions, La Locomotive et Joker, parus au milieu des années 1980, sous le pseudonyme de Claude Raymond, et depuis longtemps introuvables. S’y ajoute un inédit : Sensations.

La fi nutilité m’habite…Pourquoi ceci me diras-tu?Pour la poésie du futile, la beauté de l’éphémère…Pour la beauté infi nie de la tristesse.Pour moi pour toi qui sommes à la fois rien,à la fois tou

Les pensées de ce recueil nous réservent de découvrir une recherche personnelle, lucide et sans compromission.

Adepte du camping depuis 2001, vivant sous les palmiers durant l’hiver et dans les pommes en été, elle vous invite à goûter chaque jour qui passe en savourant toute la beauté de la Nature.