Presents a critical analysis and reflection on fifty heroes, heroines and villains of English and American literature, folklore, history, film and ...

The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harm...

A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...

A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...

These scenes take place in the confines of school and are easily staged. The incredibly believable teen characters are daring, outlandish, uninhibi...

Turrini's theatre works extend far beyond their Austrian origins in expressing the hopes, frustrations, and hypocrisies of life in the modern world...

"My emptiness will not be frenetic with the friction of my father's silences but still as the unmarked graves of his many forgotten selves" --From ...

Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. T...

Snow Bodies is a memoir of a young woman's life on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver in the early 1970s, in the vein of Evelyn Lau's Runaway. Di...

This is a stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt. Written over a period of ten years, these essays circle around quest...

Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts gathers together translations our four most important sources for the relationship between Socrates and the mos...

"Reeve's book is an excellent companion to Plato's Apology and a valuable discussion of many of the main issues that arise in the early dialogues. ...

Watch out for those who have, seek, and hold onto power.So drinkAs the fanged stoat from the rabbit's napeAs though from a flagon of river waterSha...

UNIVERSAL STORIES OF LONGING AND BELONGING Our quest for origin and, by extension, identity is universal to the human experience. For the twenty-f...

Produced in a numbered limited edition of 350, this is a full-sized facsimile of Wharton Esherick?s prototype of Walt Whitman?s ?Song of the Broad-...

There's something fresh and fantastic in Aurian Haller's view of the world. In Song of the Taxidermist, he demonstrates both a fascination and unea...

This is an English translation of Plato presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms. Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and met...

What is the soul of poetry? The most influential answer was probably given in Aristotle's Poetics, but even within that tradition which claimed the...