Describes the life and times of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet.

A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.

Reproduction of the original: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Stone Child is about the nameless gemstone child that became a great in the recent history of Sierra Leone, the poet's country. With compassion and moral deliberation, the poems in the first section of this new collection resound with the pain and love that the poet felt as he reflected on the tumultuous politics and tragic destiny of his beautiful land. Other poems are in homage to people and places around the world that have deeply touched the poet. Syl Cheney-Coker is a poet and novelist. His novel The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar won best book in the Africa region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He has also won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize; and his poetry has been translated into, Chinese, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

A collection of poetry by the former president shares Carter's private meditations and memories about his youth, family, friends, and politics. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

"In 'The President Looks Like Me and Other Poems', Tony Medina celebrates the diversity that President Barack Obama symbolizes through poems that are multicultural in scope and wide-ranging in style. With distinctly urban settings and flavor, this collection covers a myriad of themes including childhood, family, friendship, identity, spirituality, social justice, and Hip Hop..."--Preface.

On the 1977 general elections in India; articles and press reports.