Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to a line-by-line translation in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help student...

Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to a line-by-line translation in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help student...

Based on the No Fear Shakespeare translations, this dynamic graphic novel – now with color added – is impossible to put down. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing to teens. Includes: - An illustrated cast of ch...

In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, fr...

Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish l...

John Birtwhistle has said that "one writes each poem just to learn how to write it", and insists that he "doesn't care a dried pea for Artistic Development or Finding One's Own Voice". The result, of course, is that a strongly recognisable voice come...

Slip-ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's "Two Tongues", a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double takes of modern life and weaves from them poems of wit, grit and delicio...

Bill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the lyric is long: it has the penetration of comedy, sati...

Through the course of numerous books, Samuel Green has established his primary poetic preoccupations, and in Disturbing the Light, he continues to mine them, addressing rituals and work in a small, isolated, rural community; the influence of the past...

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene vaults an ancient myth into the age of climate change. In this poetry collection, the goddess of spring now comes and goes erratically, drinks too much, and takes a human lover in our warming, unraveling world. Mea...