Fanny Says

Fanny Says
Author: Nickole Brown
Publisher: BOA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781938160578

A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown's fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.

The Book of (More) Delights

The Book of (More) Delights
Author: Ross Gay
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1643755471

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

The Morning of the Poem

The Morning of the Poem
Author: James Schuyler
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1981-04-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780374516222

"The flowers, trees, birds, clouds, and effects of light that Schuyler describes with such élan, even if only glimpsed from the window of his apartment, could easily be transposed to the poetry written in Japan or Persia many centuries ago. Even more, his culture and learning, worn so lightly as almost to pass unnoticed, link his verse to other and larger traditions, as in this reflection on Baudelaire – clearly intended as an artistic credo of sorts ..." - Open Letters Monthly

Dirty Laundry Pile

Dirty Laundry Pile
Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061136131

Modern revisions of familiar fairy tales.

The Pleasures of the Damned

The Pleasures of the Damned
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1847678874

The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death. Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's long-time editor and the publisher of the legendary Black Sparrow Press, this stands as what Martin calls 'the best of the best of Bukowski'.

Naughty Boy

Naughty Boy
Author: John Keats
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781589881624

Wild Geese

Wild Geese
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Gardners Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2004
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781852246280

Mary Oliver is one of America's best-loved poets, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.