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"This is an absolutely wonderful book about work, our blessing and our curse. What makes it so exhilarating is that it was written, not by a cool and detached scholar, but by a working man. Eloquent and witty, it may become something of a classic."--Studs Terkel

As both poet and novelist, Charlie Smith has been hailed as "prodigiously talented" by the New York Times, and Madison Smartt Bell describes him as "a spectacular stylist" and "a visionary."

"Dionisio Martinez is one of the most exciting new voices in American poetry. His poems are mysterious and intellectually provocative. . . . They are the poems of a survivor."-Stephen Dunn

Seven years in the making, Altered Fates chronicles the saga of gene therapy, a medical revolution unparalleled in human history.

"The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book Review

Of Coal, the poet and critic Hayden Carruth said, "For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light."

A lucid analysis of Russia's titanic struggle to change from a centrally planned economy to a market economy.

Whether your primary interest is to improve your card game or put together a political coalition, here you will be enjoyably instructed in an approach to strategy that has caught the imagination of a generation of readers.

Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Mother Love examines the love between mother and daughter, two tumblers locked in an eternal somersault: each mother a daughter, each daughter a potential mother.

Modeled on the highly successful Norton Critical Editions, this series offers illuminating introductions to major monuments of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

"An entertaining little book. . . . It is a good thing that writers have to keep struggling for the right title, to judge from Bernard's amusing evidence."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"When does a life bend towards freed? grasp its direction" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment of both.

"She is always exhilarating for a reader and very educational for a writer. She just happens to be one of the creators among current poets, alive and surprising, and deft." -William Stratford

"A masterpiece....[W]ill rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation's past." -New York Newsday

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The story of the zipper is the triumph of an ingenious novelty over the practical world.

Here is a rich collection of work from five books by one of America's most controversial poets. Marilyn Hacker's poems have been praised for their technical virtuosity, forthright feminism, political acuity, and unabashed eroticism.

Smart, instructive, and beautifully designed, every book in the Trailside Guide series contains the essential information readers need to master outdoor activities and have fun in the process.

In the American political vocabulary, "family" and "family values" no longer simply evoke pictures of harmonious scenes; they also push our buttons (left and right) about what is wrong with society.

Selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene.

Longtime observer of the American economy Wallace C. Peterson here offers a wake-up call.

America's enduring poet of conscience reflects on the proven and potential role of poetry in contemporary politics and life.

"We have lived upon this land from days beyond history's records." These are the words of a Pueblo man, words that describe the experience of Native Americans. They underlie the long work and philosophy of Francis Jennings-the scholar who has done the most to change our view of the relationship of Native Americans and the European settlers.

"[Fogel's] exceedingly careful testing of all possible sources and his pioneering methodological approach have allowed [him] both to increase our knowledge of an institutions operation and disintegration and to renew our methods of research." -from the citation to Robert William Fogel for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

This poem takes the form of a month-long journal, composed on a roll of adding machine tape.

Jenny Lyn Bader * Stephen Beachy * Paul Beatty * David Bernstein * David Greenberg * Paula Kamen * Ted Kleine * Karen Lehrman * * Eric Liu * Lalo Lopez * Lisa Palac * Robin Pogrebin * Ian Williams * Naomi Wolf * Elizabeth Wurtzel * Cathy Young

"Beautifully rendered.... Santos's greatest accomplishment here is not that he provides answers for the unanswerable, but that he convinces readers that love creates 'words whose syllables we are laved in, / Whose meanings keep endlessly coming to pass.'" -Publishers Weekly

Elizabeth Macklin is a poet of the city.

"I had a hard time finishing this book; my married friends kept stealing it. Lively, personal, and jargon free, it is a delight to read. . . . The authors know and show what it means to make a marriage work." -Jill Elka Harkaway, Ed.D.

A major American poet faces her own native land, her own life, and the result is a volume of compelling, transforming poems.