University of California, San Diego , Co-Editor, "The Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance. Harvard , Editor, "The Vernacular Tradition.

Harvard , Editor, "The Harlem Renaissance. Brandeis , Co-Editor, "Realism, Naturalism, Modernism. Whiton Chair of English, Cornell University. Harvard , Editor, "Literature since Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.

and Nellie Y. McKay have compiled what may be the definitive collection of its kind. Organized chronologically, the massive work gathers writings from six periods of black history: slavery and freedom; Reconstruction; the Harlem Renaissance; Realism, Naturalism and Modernism; the Black Arts Movement and the period since the s.

The work begins with the vernacular tradition of spirituals, gospel and the blues; continues through work songs, jazz and rap; ranges through sermons and folktales; and embraces letters and journals, poetry, short fiction, novels, autobiography and drama. BOMC selection; companion audio CD.

In close proximity are poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography by major authors like Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Toni Morrison. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University-the first woman to hold a University Professorship, the highest academic distinction Harvard bestows.

Her blend of new and canonical poets includes the broadest selection of new and multi-racial poets offered by any introductory text. Comprehensive and astute, this text engages students in effective ways of reading — and taking delight in — poetry.

Who are you? My Captain! She lives in New York City and currently teaches American literature at Sarah Lawrence College. Poets range from Robert Pinsky, William Carlos Williams, and Elizabeth Bishop to Charles Simic, Billy Collins, and Rita Dove.

Before that, since its inception in , the post was called consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. So far we've had 43 of them, including some of America's most famous and best-loved poets, such as Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and, of course, Billy Collins, perhaps the most popular poet to hold the title , and also the author of the foreword to this enjoyable anthology, which offers a sampling of work from all 43 laureates, plus short introductions about each one.

There are a few occasional poems, but mostly, it's a gathering of great poets hanging together because they held an important job. This will be a wonderful holiday gift for poetry lovers. So far we've had 43 of them, including some of America's most famous and best-loved poets, such as Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and, of course, Billy Collins, perhaps the most popular poet to hold the title — , and also the author of the foreword to this enjoyable anthology, which offers a sampling of work from all 43 laureates, plus short introductions about each one.

Former New York Times Book Review poetry editor Schmidt calls the laureates "the gatekeepers of the American idiom," and above all, that's what a reader will find here: a good sampling of what the mainstream of American poetry has to offer--the careful descriptions of Bishop, the powerful critiques of Brooks, the surreal landscapes of Simic, Merwin's deep images, Bogan's careful stanzas, Lowell's blustery lines.

With this sweeping behemoth of an anthology, Norton and the Library of Congress have given readers and libraries an excellent excuse to own another book. Schmidt, former poetry editor for the New York Times Book Review, has included all of the Poet Laureate Consultants commonly known as U.

Poet Laureates from Joseph Auslander —41 to Kay Ryan — Even newly named Poet Laureate W. Merwin is included because he served as Special Bicentennial Consultant with Rita Dove and Louise Glück — Schmidt gives readers a fine selection of poems for each poet, some expected and some surprises.

In addition, she includes introductions that place poets in social and literary context and elaborates their contributions to the office of Consultant.

For example, William Carlos Williams's term was mired in Communist controversy and health problems, and while appointed, he never served. VERDICT A hefty and worthy read that everyone will want to savor. Essential for all contemporary poetry collections.

She teaches at the University of Connecticut. The novels of such leading figures as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs lend themselves well to excerpting, giving this volume creditable ballast.

Representative works of Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder are included along with those of lesser-known Beats e. Charters Kerouac offers a broad perspective on this seminal literary movement: she links East Coast Beats to the San Francisco Renaissance poets; pays attention to such latter-day Beats as Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg; and explains the position of non-Beat but related writers--Alan Watts, Anne Waldman, Diane DiPrima and the young Norman Mailer--in her helpful introductory essay and notes preceeding each entry.

Her energizing, liberating anthology makes it clear that such Beat preoccupations as the bomb, the meaninglessness of modern existence and ecological destruction remain current. Each of these plays reflects the enormous diversity of contemporary American theatre.

From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence McNally, and David Mamet.

The complex and diverse plays that make up this collection reflect both personal concerns and social issues. The edition includes A Second of Pleasure, by Neil LaBute; St. Francis Preaches to the Birds, by David Ives; The Stormy Waters, The Long Way Home, by Carey Lovelace; Early Morning, by Eric Lane; Sisters, by Adam Kraar, Maria Filimon, and Tasnim Mansur; Little Duck, by Billy Aronson; A Portrait of the Woman as a Young Artist, by Meg Miroshnik; Slapped Actress, by Emily Conbere; The Last Artist in NYC, by Polly Frost and Ray Sawhill; THE TRUE AUTHOR of the plays formerly attributed to Mister William Shakespeare REVEALED to the world for the first time by Miss Delia Bacon, by James Armstrong; The Lovers and Others of Eugene O'Neill, by Marla Del Collins; III, by Joe Salvatore; Pete and Joe at the Dew Drop Inn, by Lewis Gardner; This Is Your Lifetime, by Jill Elaine Hughes; Decades Apart, by Rick Pulos; Never Spoke Again, by Barbara Parisi-Pasternack; , by Amy Herzog; Ella, by Dano Madden; and Naked Old Man, by Murray Schisgal.

She lives in Ohio. But the love that connects families is universal. Whether it is the love of parents for their children, the love between a husband and wife, the love between siblings, a love that transcends generations, or even the love for a family member never met, the family ties that bind us are the strongest and deepest emotional connections we experience.

Families influence a person's development, how they treat others, and how they view life. Heidi Betts? Jules Bennett? Ann Christopher? Lisa Cooke? Paige Cuccaro? Gia Dawn? In addition, he edits The Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks, and has written seven opera libretti.

He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins, and is now a professor at Yale, where since he has edited The Yale Review.

He lives in Stonington, Connecticut. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings. Sixty-five poets, including such well-known writers as Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, James Dickey, Denise Levertov and Gary Snyder, are represented by anywhere from one to a dozen poems each, as well as a brief biography that touches on the writer's aesthetic ideas.

McClatchy, himself a poet and critic, has done an exceptional job of selecting works that typify the poets' styles and beliefs. Unfortunately, the poems are not dated, giving the reader no sense of the writers' chronological development.

More Light! But from the 65 poets he has selected to represent the course of American poetry over the last half century--beginning with Robert Lowell and ending with Jorie Graham--it is clear his preferences are formalistic and academic. The typical poem a reader will encounter in these pages is urbane, finely honed, and smoothly accomplished.

As in all anthologies, the omissions and inclusions are telling. Where are Rexroth, Kees, and Rukeyser? Why Cunningham, Bowers, Feldman, and Garrigue and not Ignatow, Brooks, Blackburn, and Bly? While it is a delight to have many of the poets McClatchy has chosen collected together in a reasonably priced edition, a greater variety of voice and aesthetic would have made this anthology a livelier survey of the state of contemporary American poetry.

Still, it is a useful addition to most collections. For the most anthologized poems in English, see review of The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry, p. Organized chronologically with a thematic appendix and streamlined apparatus, this anthology can be taylored to however the course is taught.

Individual Fiction, Poetry, and Drama introductions provide an overview for reading and analyzing each genre, defining key terms in context. More than a third of the selections overall represent voices of women, people of color, and writers from cultures outside the United States, and a strong effort has been made to include work that reflects contemporary social questions and will stimulate classroom discussion.

New poems, stories, and plays are among the changes to the Fourth Edition. Snodgrass b. Merwin b. Kennedy b. Ortiz b. Fairchild b. Stallings b. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to face their fears and failures and begin to imagine better lives.

I'm an apprentice shopper and my teacher is my Aunt Mandy. Later this morning, the market will be hot and crowded—alive with music, laughter, gossip, and bartering about the price of everything from necklaces to nectarines. But at the moment, it's cool and quiet.

Our focus is fish. I'm wearing shorts, a T-shirt, and rubber flip-flops. I am tall for my age, and starting to get the kind of shape men take a second look at. My glasses take up half my face. If it leaves a dent, then you don't want it.

If it doesn't, it's probably part of the morning's catch. And listen to me, Jeannie. Fresh fish never smells foul. The fish man approaches us. He's handsome—black hair, hazel eyes, tank top and cut-off jeans.

I might as well be invisible. Now what's your name? He's sucking in his stomach, and his feet are moving up and down like he's trying to stretch his height. Now tell me, Ricardo, how much you want for these five yellowtails?

They're seventy-five cents apiece, so that's a total of. It's salt-and-pepper-colored, but Mandy's still got it. So unless we can work out a deal. Ricardo's face, but Auntie's smile returns. Her gold tooth is glimmering. She shifts her weight, puts her hand on her hip.

That's a dollar twenty-five cut I'm giving you. Now, tell me. How much you selling those red snappers for? If I can get them for the same price as the yellowtails, I'll buy some of them, too.

And conch. Auntie touches the small gold cross at her throat. She fingers her earring. I can tell Mr. Ricardo is only pretending to do the math in his head. A few stalls down from Mr. Ricardo's, she turns to me.

I turn it, look at its other eye, study its coloration. When I press my finger against its head, near the fin, there's no indentation.

It's one of the tricks of the trade when you shop at the flea market. But bear in mind, Ricardo would rather make a sale than not sell.

If he has fish left at the end of the day, that's a loss and a waste for him. So we were doing him a favor. Now, come on. Let's cross the street and I'll teach you how to pick out vegetables and fruit. If the skin is firm, that means it's fresh. If it's loose, then it isn't. And always check for bruises.

They're big and beautiful, golden yellow with blushes of pink, and their aroma makes my mouth juice up. I'm thinking about how I might get myself one of those peaches. It's test number two. I check each banana, one by one, then walk over to Auntie, who is examining pears. Smiling all over myself, I decide to seize the moment.

Copyright © by Wally Lamb. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Available now wherever books are sold. continues to offer readers an intimate look at women struggling to maintain their humanity. York was something different. After adjusting to his new constituency, Lamb realized that his students had disarming, often frightening stories to tell.

This follow-up collection is just as bracing and profound. The 20 women whose work is featured here inmates and two of Lamb's cofacilitators-show that writing is not just a way of capturing their most private thoughts and gripping emotions e.

They write from the heart in works ranging from poems to essays to short stories; each vignette is more compelling than the one before it. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries. One would have thought the first volume, with its probing examinations of lives run amok, would have convinced prison authorities of the value of a writing program in which prisoners focus and take account.

But the prison bureaucracy tried to shut it down, writes an incredulous and furious Lamb, and they confiscated the prisoners' material. That particular draconian administration was replaced with a more enlightened group, Lamb reports, one that allowed for the rehabilitative value of writing.

These works radiate what Lamb saw as the program's critical mission: to give the women wings "to hover above the confounding maze of their lives, and from that perspective. to see the patterns and dead ends of their past, and a way out.

None are self-pitying, but none shy away from speaking directly to the gross cruelties so often inflicted on their early years or young marriages. Each story, no matter how grim or gritty, shows polish, and the women display a wide array of emotions: unbridled anger, innocence, hope, resigned acceptance.

While a few of the stories speak of angels who touched the women's lives, most display open wounds that are continuing to be healed by the cathartic power of words. Writing as an act of self-realization and liberation and, not incidentally, an indictment of the penal system.

Here are some of America's greatest and most impassioned writers, taking a turn toward nature and recognizing the fragility of our situation on earth and the urgency of the search for a sustainable way of life. Thought-provoking essays on overpopulation, consumerism, energy policy, and the nature of 'nature' join ecologists' memoirs and intimate sketches of the habitats of endangered species.

The anthology includes a detailed chronology of the environmental movement and American environmental history, as well as an page color portfolio of illustrations. He studied at Harvard from to , then signed on as a teacher at Concord Academy but was dismissed for refusing to whip students.

He and his brother John opened an elementary school in , where, according to some authorities, they invented the idea of the field trip.

John became sick in and the brothers closed the school; Henry went to live with Ralph Waldo Emerson, beginning a long friendship with him and with the other members of the Transcendental Club, among them Bronson Alcott and Margaret Fuller.

The other transcendentalists experimented with communes like Brook Farm, but Thoreau was more solitary, and the most important years in his life began in when he took up residence in a small cabin he'd built on the shore of Walden Pond a short walk from town. He spent two years, two months, and two days there, experimenting with simplifying his life.

Thorean's isolation at Walden wasn't absolute or deliberately ascetic-he often returned to town to see friends and eat meals, had a steady stream of visitors often too steady for his taste , and at one point engaged in a political protest, spending a night in Concord jail for his refusal to pay his poll tax.

But it has lived as long and as fully as any other writing of its vintage and inspired all the best kinds of people: both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. claimed him as a major influence.

Thoreau suffered from tuberculosis contracted during his college years: his condition worsened beginning in , and he spent his last years revising his accounts of the Maine woods and other works. As he neared death his aunt Louisa asked him if he had made his peace with God. He died at the age of The oak dies down to the ground, leaving within its rind a rich virgin mould, which will impart a vigorous life to an infant forest - - The pine leaves a sandy and sterile soil-the harder woods a strong and fruitful mould.

As I live now so shall I reap. If I grow pines and birches, my virgin mould will not sustain the oak, but pines and birches, or, perchance, weeds and brambles, will constitute my second growth. but mainly in a circle some two millions of miles actual progress.

And then such a hurly-burly on the surface-wind always blowing-now a zephyr, now a hurricane-tides never idle, ever fluctuating, no rest for Niagara, but perpetual ran-tan on those limestone rocks-and then that summer simmering which our ears are used to-which would otherwise be christened confusion worse confounded, but is now ironically called "silence audible"-and above all the incessant tinkering named hum of industry-the hurrying to and fro and confused jabbering of men-Can man do less than get up and shake himself?

Everywhere in the fields-in the corn and grain land-the earth is strewn with the relics of a race which has vanished as completely as if trodden in with the earth. Where ever I go I tread in the tracks of the Indian-I pick up the bolt which he has but just dropped at my feet. And if I consider destiny I am on his trail.

I scatter his hearth stones with my feet, and pick out of the embers of his fire the simple but enduring implements of the wigwam and the chace-In planting my corn in the same furrow which yielded its increase to his support so long-I displace some memorial of him.

Where this strange people once had their dwelling place. Another species of mortal men but little less wild to me than the musquash they hunted-Strange spirits-daemons-whose eyes could never meet mine. With another nature-and another fate than mine- The crows flew over the edge of the woods, and wheeling over my head seemed to rebuke-as dark winged spirits more akin to the Indian than I.

Perhaps only the present disguise of the Indian- If the new has a meaning so has the old. I need not think of the pine almond or the acorn and sapling when I meet the fallen pine or oak-more than of the generations of pines and oaks which have fed the young tree.

I have thought it the best especially in the winter which I can get in this neighborhood. I wish to see the earth through the medium of much air or heaven-for there is no paint like the air.

As I was entering the Deep Cut the wind which was conveying a message to me from heaven dropt it on the wire of the telegraph which it vibrated as it past. It is no small gain to have this wire stretched through Concord though there may be no Office here. Thus I make my own use of the telegraph-without consulting the Directors-like the sparrows which I perceive use it extensively for a perch.

Go to the Deep Cut. I resolved to watch it till it fell-the last of a dozen or more which were left when the forest was cut and for 15 years have waved in solitary majesty over the sproutland.

I saw them like beavers or insects gnawing at the trunk of this noble tree, the diminutive mannikins with their crosscut saw which could scarcely span it.

I watch closely to see when it begins to move. Now the sawers stop-and with an axe open it a little on the side toward which it leans that it may break the faster. And now their saw goes again-Now surely it is going-it is inclined one quarter of the quadrant, and breathless I expect its crashing fall-But no I was mistaken it has not moved an inch, it stands at the same angle as at first.

It is 15 minutes yet to its fall. Still its branches wave in the wind as if it were destined to stand for a century, and the wind soughs through its needles as of yore; it is still a forest tree-the most majestic tree that waves over Musketaquid.

there you only saw-but did not hear-There now comes up a deafening crash to these rocks-advertising you that even trees do not die without a groan. It was about 4 feet in diameter where it was sawed-about feet long.

Before I had reached it-the axe-men had already half divested it of its branches. Already he has measured it with his axe-and marked out the mill logs it will make. And the space it occupied in upper air is vacant for the next 2 centuries.

It is lumber He has laid waste the air. When the fish hawk in the spring revisits the banks of the Musketaquid, he will circle in vain to find his accustomed perch. A plant which it has taken two centuries to perfect rising by slow stages into the heavens-has this afternoon ceased to exist.

Its sapling top had expanded to this January thaw as the forerunner of summers to come. Why does not the village bell sound a knell. now overcast and beginning to drizzle. Still it is inspiriting as the brightest weather though the sun surely is not agoing to shine.

There is a latent light in the mist-as if there were more electricity than usual in the air. These are warm foggy days in winter which excite us. Excerpted by permission. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site. I'd be willing to bet that this is the first work of nature writing to feature the drawings of R.

Barnum from The Humbugs of the World Murray from Adventures in the Wilderness Sterling Morton About Trees Hornaday The Bird Tragedy on Laysan Island Olson Northern Lights White Sootfall and Fallout Johnson Remarks at the Signing of the Highway Beautification Act of Boulding from The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth On the Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis Ehrlich from The Population Bomb Dick from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Buckminster Fuller Spaceship Earth Scott Momaday A First American Views His Land Crumb A Short History of America Wilson Bernhardsdorp Merwin Place Bullard from Dumping in Dixie Schaller from The Last Panda Arranged chronologically, McKibben's selection of more than writers includes some of the great early conservationists, such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and John Burroughs, and many other eloquent nature writers, including Donald Cultross Peattie, Edwin Way Teale and Henry Beston.

The early exponents of national parks and wilderness areas have their say, as do writers who have borne witness to environmental degradation-John Steinbeck and Caroline Henderson on the dust bowl, for example, and Berton Roueché and others who have reported on the effects of toxic pollution.

McKibben's trenchant introductions to the pieces sum up each writer's thoughts and form a running commentary on the progress of the conservation movement. The book, being published on Earth Day, can be read as a survey of the literature of American environmentalism, but above all, it should be enjoyed for the sheer beauty of the writing.

In this superbly edited volume, McKibben draws a clear distinction between the two. The best of the latter often celebrates nature, but also asks searching questions about the impact of human life on the planet. After a poignant foreword by Al Gore, as well as his own illuminating introduction, McKibben begins with the work of a writer, thinker, and activist ahead of his time, Henry David Thoreau, and ends the volume with Rebecca Solnit's essay, "The Thoreau Problem.

This vast and varied collection, arranged chronologically, includes many seminal names, such as John Muir, Rachel Carson, and Wendell Berry, and some that are less well known or unexpected, like Benton MacKaye, Caroline Henderson, P.

Barnum, and Philip K. Most of the selections derive from longer prose works, but there is also a smattering of poems, song lyrics, and cartoons. Although the heft of the volume might scare away some teens, others may realize that they could easily read bits and pieces, and that they would benefit greatly by any amount of time spent in these pages.

Numerous photographs, many in full color, are included. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most.

In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems.

Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.

Figuration is a departure from the literal, and the form of a great poem itself can be a trope "turning" or figure. A common dictionary equivalent for "figurative language" is "metaphorical," but a metaphor actually is a highly specific figure, or turning from the literal. Kenneth Burke, a profound student of rhetoric, or the language of figures, distinguished four fundamental tropes: irony, synecdoche, metonymy, and metaphor.

As Burke tells us, irony commits those who employ it to issues of presence and absence, since they are saying one thing while meaning something so different that it can be the precise opposite. We learn to wince when Hamlet says: "I humbly thank you" or its equivalent, since the prince generally is neither humble nor grateful.

Poets frequently identify more with one trope than with the others. Among major American poets, Robert Frost despite his mass reputation favors irony, while Walt Whitman is the great master of synecdoche. Childe Roland, in Browning's remarkable monologue, is represented at the very end by the "slug-horn" ortrumpet upon which he dauntlessly blows: "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.

Barfield emphasizes Shakespeare's magnificence in the employment of "ruin," citing "Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang" from Sonnet 73, and the description of Cleopatra's effect upon her lover: "The noble ruin of her magic, Antony.

Worthy of Shakespeare himself is John Donne, in his "A Nocturnal upon St. One of the secrets of poetic rhetoric in English is to romance the etonym as it were , to renew what Walter Pater called the "finer edges" of words.

Copyright © by Harold Bloom. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Selected by the renowned humor-ist Ian Frazier and featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time, the book includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount, Jr.

But the book also includes a handful of older comic masterpieces that nobody in need of a laugh should ever be without, among them classics by Bret Harte, Elizabeth Bishop, Donald Barthelme, and Mark Twain. As a teacher at The Spence School she designed a world literature curriculum and helped implement the multicultural literature program.

She divides her time between New York City and Santa Monica, California. Winner of numerous prizes, including the National Book Award and a prize from the Academy of American Poets, Soto lives in Northern California.

A wonderfully readable collection, this is a marvelous resource for those looking for stories that illustrate the convergence of cultural experience and literature.

Evocative of triumphs and tribulations we all experience during adolescence, this anthology shares needed perspectives that are wonderfully diverse from the standard fare that young adults are most often encouraged to digest.

Chadwell, Univ. of South Carolina Lib. Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Du Bois' landmark essays counsel a more aggressive approach to the civil rights movement. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a larger, less round number.

These magnetic poems are an exciting mix of most-loved classics and daring new writing. From Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur, Natasha Trethewey, and many others, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.

They, like all Earth citizens, were born in some country, grew up on some culture, then in their blooming became citizens of the Universe. The poems are true. They are translated and they are celebrated. They are neglected. They are forgotten. They are put away. Even in their fallow periods they sprout images.

And fight to be revived. And spring back to life with a bit of sunshine and caring. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, where she teaches writing and literature.

something everyone can enjoy. Or maybe poems are your cold feet in December on your lover's back he is in agony but he lets your feet stay something like that requires a bit of love. Or could it be that poems are exactly like Santa Claus the promise, the hope, the excitement of a reward, no matter how small, for a good deed done or a mean deed from which we refrained.

The promise of tomorrow. I don't know. It seems that poems are essential. Like football to Fall, baseball to Spring, tennis to Summer, love Anytime.

Something you don't think too much about until it is in Season. Then you deliciously anticipate the perfection. African American poems are like all other poems: beautiful, loving, provocative, thoughtful, and all those other adjectives I can think of.

Poems fly from heart to heart, head to head, to whisper a dream, to share a condolence, to congratulate, and to vow forever. They are sung, they are recited, they are delightful. My mother's favorite poem by Robert Hayden, plus James Weldon Johnson beginning a world that included the longing of the unfree for a loving God.

My own fun "Ego Tripping" reaching to embrace Margaret Walker's "For My People. But also the newness: Novella Nelson lending that sultry voice to the youngsters; Ruby Dee bringing her brilliance to the Gwendolyn Brooks cycle.

My Virginia Tech Family wanted to participate: our president Dr. Charles Steger reading "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," recognizing all our souls "have grown deep like the rivers. Our friends from James Madison University and West Virginia University came to celebrate poetry with us, too.

I love these poems so much. The only other thing I would have loved is Caroline Kennedy reading "A Clean Slate. We are. This book says Poetry Is For Everyone.

Who Can Be Born Black? Personal Letter No. And Yeah This book and CD package can be beginning of a lifetime's conversation with inspiring poetry. He has previously served as chairman of the English department and dean of arts and sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and as executive director fo the Modern Language Association.

He has earned degrees from Davidson College, Cornell University, and New York University, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by several institutions. From the overflowing pantheism of Walt Whitman to the exquisite precision of Emily Dickinson; from the democratic clarity of William Carlos Williams to the cerebral luxuriance of Wallace Stevens; and from Robert Frost's deceptively homespun dramatic monologues to Langston Hughes's exuberant jazz-age lyrics, this anthology presents the best work of six makers of the modern American poetic tradition.

With perceptive introductory essays by the distinguished scholar Joel Conarroe and selections that capture the distinctive voices and visions of its authors, this volume is an invaluable addition to any poetry library.

The fine introduction and prefaces provide added assistance to those who, starting here, will doubtlessly want to continue ex ploring poetry.

BOMC selection. Lepkowski, Oakland Univ. A Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of California, Davis, she lives in Berkeley, California.

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I am trying to create a database in Access for my personal collection of approximately books. I cannot find either a book detailing how to write a template specifically for this purpose, or a template that I can adjust for this purpose.

Can anyone 'nudge' me in the right direction and suggest an answer to this problem? I do not want to have a library catalogue that includes loans etc, or an expensive solution, as I am a pensioner on a fixed income and cannot afford to purchase anything above about £ Can anyone help me and suggest either 1 a book that will help to write easily a personal book database in Access , or 2 a template that is designed for a personal book collection that can be altered slightly to accommodate my needs?

This thread is locked. December 01, Great app, EXCELLENT customer support, been using 3 Collectorz apps for years! November 27, It is, after all, this that I tried to provide when I was managing my company. You probably know the adage that getting to number one is difficult but staying number one is even more difficult.

The paradox of excellence i. This is at least what most experts believe. I made it a goal to prove them wrong. The reason I write this is because I think that this is the philosophy that you are applying with your company.

I find this commendable and worthy of praise. As you know, I purchased your product some years ago. I even attempted to create my own but found that yours met all my criteria including being readily affordable.

I have not been disappointed. In the coming months, I hope to enter the rest of my book collection. This has become a priority since my wife has criticized me for not being able to locate a book that she asked for and that I know I have.

It is in one of my many bookcases, but it has not been entered in my database yet! The good news is that after hours of searching, I found it.

This made me realize that had I entered it, I would have found it immediately and really impressed my wife instead of being chastised. Good customer service will forever remain valuable!

Since I have books that were purchased before barcodes were introduced, entering these books has been a little more challenging. Should I encounter a particularly difficult situation that I cannot resolve, I will be sure to contact you.

I know that help is only an email away. I wish you continued success which I am sure that you will enjoy as long as you keep doing what you are currently doing. November 24, After inadvertently deleting my database from my phone, I contacted CLZ and within minutes, they answered me with the solution.

It worked and my database is complete again. Thank you so much!! November 22, Ottima applicazione e soprattutto un eccellente servizio di assistenza, rapido, cortese e competente! L'ultima release contiene un'utilissima funzione di azzeramento dei campi vuoti nelle Pick lists: era un'osservazione che avevo fatto meno di una settimana fa!

Servizio clienti assolutamente fantastico. October 30, The best program for this matter. October 26, Good app, finds almost all books via the bar code otherwise it can be added manually. Great asset to not buy books twice when your library grows and your cannot memorize each item.

October 23, Really easy to use and categorize. October 02, I wanted to thank all of you for doing such a wonderful job of creating a program that I use for my entire collection of almost 8K books.

Every single book I own is in there and I have had multiple sources ask me how I have such an organized collection and I tell them you guys have the best program and incredible customer service. You guys are just a really great company and for someone like me with a disability this helps me organize.

September 29, Great software. Fantastic customer service. Almost perfect. September 25, I have been using the program to catalogue my book collection for quite a while and only recently decided to print my catalogue.

The program worked very well, allowing me to choose the fields I wanted to include. I am very satisfied so far. Canada on CLZ Books.

September 23, I have been wishing for a tool like this ever since made my first book collection database in Excel 20 years ago, and now I have finally found it!

It is beautifully designed, it's very intuitive and simple to use, it is easy and quick to add new books, and it has all the functionality you could wish for. It is also easy to personalize so that you only use the functions that you need, you can sort and organize your collection exactly as you please.

And I LOVE that it has all the cover photos instead of just long lists of titles. I strongly recommend CLZ Books to all book lovers out there!

September 11, It's a working quite well, thank you! I've managed to catalog over books in just under 2 hours of time. With a collection exceeding books, this app is a serious time-saver!

Out of these books so far, I've only found 3 needed a little extra love or manual attention. The barcode scanning is awesome! on CLZ Books. September 02, Facilidade em adicionar livros manualmente e por ISBN Facilidade em filtrar livros por qualquer característica.

September 01, I have used this program for over 4 years now! Works immediately after downloading and networks with the current ISBN database. Responsive customer service is another plus. August 21, I've started the trial for the cloud version and the desktop version to see which I prefer.

I might end up using the cloud version but still keeping the app on my phone as well as it's just more user friendly when in a book shop to open and check my library list. Honestly out of all the apps I've used this one has been the easiest to get used to, add books to and navigate.

As I've now gotten too many books that fit in my apartment I've found that it will be very useful to keep catalogues of what's in storage, what's in the apartment and what I keep at my office and lend out. August 14, I'm delighted with both Book Connect and now CLZ Books. Initial setup worked well.

I've entered almost 3, books in the database, with about more remaining.

Book sample database collection - This dataset has been compiled by Cai-Nicolas Ziegler in , and it comprises of three tables for users, books and ratings. Explicit ratings are expressed on Sample record entries of ISBN Database of Million Library Books (Title, Author, ISBN, Cover Images) database There are library datasets available on balla.info Find open data about library contributed by thousands of users and organizations across the world A collection of over 38, O'Reilly programming and technology books - each completely searchable, including code fragments. Advice to new/1st time users: If

Each author has one or many books while each book is written by one or multiple authors. The relationship between books and authors is many to many as described in the following picture:. The genres table has three columns that store genre identification, genre, and the relationship between genres.

The relationship between books and genres are many-to-many:. In this tutorial, you have learned about the books DB2 sample database for practicing with DB2. In the next tutorial, you will learn how to create the Books sample database and load data into it. Last active December 9, Star You must be signed in to star a gist.

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archual commented Apr 25, Big thank you for this data! kannanhassouna commented May 5, thank you. sanket commented Feb 10, yashgoyal commented Mar 10, still its showing not a valid JSON file.

yashgoyal commented Mar 10, via email. It's resolved In line 88 the clients-including should be change to clients including i. Having it synced to my phone is great for checking what I have when searching second hand stores.

December 17, December 16, So helpful. Negates duplicate purchases. December 14, The app is easy to use and to navigate. Great app for any book collector. December 01, Great app, EXCELLENT customer support, been using 3 Collectorz apps for years! November 27, It is, after all, this that I tried to provide when I was managing my company.

You probably know the adage that getting to number one is difficult but staying number one is even more difficult. The paradox of excellence i. This is at least what most experts believe. I made it a goal to prove them wrong. The reason I write this is because I think that this is the philosophy that you are applying with your company.

I find this commendable and worthy of praise. As you know, I purchased your product some years ago. I even attempted to create my own but found that yours met all my criteria including being readily affordable. I have not been disappointed. In the coming months, I hope to enter the rest of my book collection.

This has become a priority since my wife has criticized me for not being able to locate a book that she asked for and that I know I have. It is in one of my many bookcases, but it has not been entered in my database yet! The good news is that after hours of searching, I found it. This made me realize that had I entered it, I would have found it immediately and really impressed my wife instead of being chastised.

Good customer service will forever remain valuable! Since I have books that were purchased before barcodes were introduced, entering these books has been a little more challenging. Should I encounter a particularly difficult situation that I cannot resolve, I will be sure to contact you.

I know that help is only an email away. I wish you continued success which I am sure that you will enjoy as long as you keep doing what you are currently doing. November 24, After inadvertently deleting my database from my phone, I contacted CLZ and within minutes, they answered me with the solution.

It worked and my database is complete again. Thank you so much!! November 22, Ottima applicazione e soprattutto un eccellente servizio di assistenza, rapido, cortese e competente! L'ultima release contiene un'utilissima funzione di azzeramento dei campi vuoti nelle Pick lists: era un'osservazione che avevo fatto meno di una settimana fa!

Servizio clienti assolutamente fantastico. October 30, The best program for this matter. October 26, Good app, finds almost all books via the bar code otherwise it can be added manually. Great asset to not buy books twice when your library grows and your cannot memorize each item.

October 23, Really easy to use and categorize. October 02, I wanted to thank all of you for doing such a wonderful job of creating a program that I use for my entire collection of almost 8K books. Every single book I own is in there and I have had multiple sources ask me how I have such an organized collection and I tell them you guys have the best program and incredible customer service.

You guys are just a really great company and for someone like me with a disability this helps me organize. September 29, Great software.

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