Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.

American national trade bibliography.

A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring -thorny genius- (Robert Pinsky).

Over the course of eighty years a spruce tree grows, along with the little boy who first selected it at a tree farm. Now at the end of its life, the glorious tree is chosen to be the centerpiece of a city's holiday celebration.

Everybody needs a rock -- at least that's the way this particular rock hound feels about it in presenting her own highly individualistic rules for finding just the right rock for you.