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In The Room Within Moore Moran communicates his affection for the art of poetry by writing in many of its intriguing forms and their beckoning promises. His work has a stylistic range that moves from the traditional to free verse to syllabic ventures-sometimes employing rhyme. Whatever the form, the voice is unmistakably his own.

A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection. The title story explores the conflicted emotions an adolescent boy feels toward a father who obsessively returns to his childhood home.

New Criticism was the dominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since that time, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition to the approach advocated by the New Critics. This anthology provides an introduction, for students, to the best American poetry criticism of the twentieth century.

The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative.

Looks at the complexity of California's Indian civilization and the social effects of missionary control. An illustrated tour of the missions as well as a record of their impact on California history and culture, this book tells the story of the Spanish missions of California.

The period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future son, that reclaims a rite of passage that modern society would strip of its magic.

Although best known as a master of the formal lyric poem, Louise Bogan (1897-1970) also published fiction and what would now be called lyrical essays. A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan showcases her devotion to compression, eloquence, and sharp truths.

Amidst Mad Cow scares and consumer concerns about how farm animals are bred, fed, and raised, many farmers and homesteaders are rediscovering the traditional practice of pastoral farming. Grasses, clovers, and forbs are the natural diet of cattle, horses, and sheep, and are vital supplements for hogs, chickens, and turkeys.

Offers a collection of poems filled with feeling and with author's signature anguished humor.

In high school, the author weighed as little as 114 pounds. She was too weak to raise her arms above her head. She renders the starkness of anorexia along with the process of recovery, relapse, and, ultimately, redemption. This book also tells the story of the physical landscape.

Wyeth People is the story of one writer's search for the meaning of artistic creativity, approached from personal contact with the work of one of the world's great artists, Andrew Wyeth.In

Howard Nemerov-Poet Laureate of the United States, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets-was one of the most prolific and significant American poets of the twentieth century. By the time of his death in 1991, he had published fourteen collections of poetry.

This title addresses the issue of disability as it relates to all of the areas critical to effective business management, providing disability-related information and resources that business managers need in order to include disabled people both as customers and employees.

Peter Rose has spent a lifetime exploring patterns of culture, examining issues of race, ethnicity, working with refugees, teaching sociology ad roaming the world. Here, he reflects on his adventures and the formative experiences that led him into a fascination with lives seemingly unlike our own.

In "No Second Eden", Cassity is more Swiftian than ever. Among the targets reduced to ruin are countertenors, parole boards, the French symbolists, calendar reformers, the Yale Divinity School and the cult of Elvis. There is also a poem about the Mississippi where Cassity grew up.

Lenore McComas Coberly has woven together a bittersweet community of strong Appalachian women and men in this remarkable collection. Moving and joyful, these stories are made from the stuff of life.

Provence through the eyes of its writers, the local ones and the visitors who were also moved, that is the inspiration behind this text. In this compact travel guide, Daniel Vitaglione presents a literary panorama of the region from the Avignon of Mistral to Colette's St. Tropez.

This text provides clear answers, backed up with graphics, to ambiguous and bewildering questions about the role of a board of directors in non-profit organizations. It covers subjects such as definitions of policy, function of boards, role of board members and many other issues.

A collection of poems by James Schevill, whose poetic career spans more than half a century. The poems have been selected by the poet himself. They include a sampling of new poems written since the publication of "Complete American Fantasies".

Over the course of his life, Frank Waters amassed a body of work that has few equals in the literature of the American West. Because his was a writing that touched every facet of the Western experience, his voice still echoes throughout that region's literary world.

In 1906 a young, semiliterate Greek arrived in America with a fewdollars in his pocket and his people's legacy of proverbs, superstitions, and cultural traits to guide him through the dangers and opportunities of a new world.

In this frank and thorough look at the relationship between humans and the cats, Danz integrates the past history of the cougar, its behaviour, habits and interaction with other species, with current conditions and discusses the continued existential probabilities for it as a wild animal.

The poetry of John Matthias has long been admired by other poets for the way it refuses to be categorized. Lyrical and experimental, cosmopolitan and rooted in place, it challenges our received notions of what poetry can be at the end of the twentieth century.