Selected Poems: The Weight of the Body

A brilliant Polish poet, essayist and translator who has lived in the United States since 1981, Stanislaw Baranczak is a distinctive voice of great range - from satire to elegy, from farce to lyric. This is his first full-length poetry collection to be published in the United States, and includes a new essay written especially for this volume. These trenchant poems evoke the difficulty of life in Poland and the sadness of exile. These extraordinary poems, made even more timely by the vibrant stirrings of the Polish electorate, will provoke, delight and compel.

Literature & Fiction

Baranczak, Stanislaw

Poetry

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Stephen Deutch, Photographer: From Paris to Chicago, 1932-1989

Arts & Photography

Burkhart, Kenneth C.

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Here Lies the Water

Steinbach, Meredith

United States

NOTED POET AND FICTION WRITER MAXINE CHERNOFF'S LEAP YEAR DAY CULLS THE BEST FROM FIVE PREVIOUS COLLECTIONS OF POETRY, AND INCLUDES SOME TWO DOZEN NEW POEMS. SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF THE FICTION COLLECTION BOP. HER PREVIOUS BOOK OF POETRY, NEW FACES OF 1952, WAS WINNER OF THE 1985 CARL SANDBURG AWARD AND RECIPIENT OF A PUSHCART PRIZE WRITER'S CHOICE AWARD. HER LATEST NOVEL IS PLAIN GRIEF 1991. IF THE WORLD COULD LOOK THROUGH MAXINE'S EYE FOR EVEN FIVE MINUTES EVERY DAY, THERE WOULD BE NO NEED WHATSOEVER FOR THE POMPOUS SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT CURRENTLY SPOILS THE POLIS. HER VIEWS OF HUMAN LIFE ARE WISE AND INSTRUCTIVE TALES THAT CURE BY CORRECTING PERSPECTIVE. SHE IS ONE OF OUR BEST ZADDIKS. IT'S THE TRUTH.

Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems

Chernoff, Maxine

Earthly Justice

Politics & Social Sciences

E. S. Goldman

Politics & Government

Men Who Would Be Good: A Novella and Six Stories

WEAVER, GORDON

Cora and Alan's amicable divorce hits a snag when their house and property becomes worth a fortune when developers come into the town

The Empty Lot

Hughes, Mary Gray

<p>Cora and Alan were the perfect couple, undergoing the perfect divorce. Two smart, sensible university professors, determined to end their marriage amicably with full consideration for each other and their three children. "But that's what everyone always says, isn't it?" demands Haskell, Cora's formidable attorney father. "No one sets out to have a disaster."<br>Alan and Cora are principled people who would never let money stand in the way of decency. But no one had reckoned on the sudden fortune their huge old house and adjacent empty lot might bring in a Texas college town now ripe for development. No one had imagined the lengths to which Haskell would go to keep the house out of the hands of developers. Or the determination of Millie, Cora's stubborn, enigmatic mother, to keep her family together at any cost.<br>Mary Gray Hughes throws her brilliant light on a family poised between destruction and redemption. In compelling detail she illuminates the pull of love, ambition, sex, loyalty and greed on people who are trying desperately to maintain their ties to one another and their belief in their own good intentions.</p>

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