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This entertaining and accessible guide shows readers how to turn danger into opportunity, even when dragons threaten.

An essential resource for dedicated cyclists planning a trip through the state or casual riders seeking new stretches of trail to enjoy with family and friends. Great for those traveling by foot, boat, or car as well.

Presents sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs from throughout the artist's illustrious career.

An exploration of states of consciousness as well as journeys in the imaginal realm.

Explores the meanings of G. I. Gurdjieff's enneagram.

Poems that contemplate the fraught interdependence of the human and more-than-human in an era of extreme environmental degradation.

Lyric and blank verse poetry sifting darkness in the author's life and in the lives of others, both real and imagined.

A collection of contemporary prose and poetry by women writers from New York's Hudson Valley.

In these idiosyncratic, subtly rhymed and occasionally violent lyrics, Frost runs her tongue along the edge of the knife dividing wit from rage.

A scout's iconoclastic views of basketball, love, and American culture.

The fragmentary poems are of flight, written in the full fury of movement from a known habitat to one full of strangeness. The uncanny is their constant envoy. They enter into things at an obtuse angle and forget their origin, beyond good sense, beyond good taste and use of time.... Perhaps a nomadic ear is able to make very subtle discrimination in text. Such an ear is at work here.--from the Afterword

...At the crossroads of assault and proceed, with the sweat dirty gum grease of law machines, amid thrill and lull, faithless young godsinured to guts swill black smoke, uniformed, flag-fetishistic do-good recruits whoembrace for sanity's (checkpoint!) sake (checkpoint!)the creed of pluck for country and pluck for selfand die in the smithy of old gods' desires...The planned it. This, the goods your works produce."--Design at MahmoudiyaDennis D...

Full Moon TideI want to stop listening.I'm tiredof making sense, of having to listen, of takingthe ocean in day after day, of holding onto its labor, you have to let go--and it blanks out lostto the magnification of mind, when I fall asleepthe muscle won't let loose, my back slides, my hiphurries for doorways, my fingers talk as thoughthey were held by a talking hand for an instant that turnsoff night, and it's still noon, and the talking ocea...

The poems in this volume are experimental in nature. They came out of a study of the enneagram--a symbol best described in P. D. Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous. While looking for a way to experience the laws expressed in enneagram, Frederick Bauman devised a poetic form of nine verses of three lines each. The poems are presented in the order written and then the stanzas are rearranged in the order 9, 3, 6, 1, 4, 2, 8, 5, 7. Readers in...

David McCann is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the Order of Culture Merit Award (2006), the Manhae Prize in Arts and Sciences (2004), the Daesan Foundation Translation Grant (1997), and the Korea P.E.N. Center Translation Prize (1994). His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Runes, Prairie Schooner, and in the Pus...

Scholar in Comparative Religion and co-author of Shlomo's Stories (Jason Arson), Mesinai was chosen one of Columbia University's 250 'greatest graduates' for her search for Raoul Wallenberg and other foreign prisoners who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag after World War II. Although she has published occasionally in New York, San Francisco, and Japan--this is her first book of poetry."Susan Mesinai's poems are spiritual, inquisitive, and gene...

You have in your hands a selection of poems I wrote just before & just after I turned fifty. Each in its way expresses the search for the unknown that has been the center of gravity of my entire adult life. This search has brought me into intimate relationship with others, some of whom I have never met and some of whom are good friends... I hope that you can hear these voices and perhaps the sounds of forest birds & late night winds in the pag...

sucked two small drops of blood& I suddenly sawthe lust of his attack& felt itsmost seriousmisunderstandingof my life.

Wisdom, this book argues, is found in the poetry of things.

The etymology of the word "missive" according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary comes from Middle French: lettre missive, literally translated as "a letter intended to be sent." Missives is a book composed of small, concise poetic writing and images each "intended to be sent." They are notes from the author to herself and to others who wish to listen, see, and discover meaning in between.