Good Poems for Hard Times

Author	Joy Kogawa
ISBN	0385468865

The Government makes paper airplanes out of our lives and flies us out the windows. Some people return home. Some do not. War they all say, is war, and some people survive. Out of all the countries in the world, Canada is the one I have most seriously considered for emigration purposes. The stereotypes...

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743273303

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication...

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	1594204780

Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationship to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers,...

Author	Andrew Garcia
ISBN	0893012505

The book was recommended to me by someone I met at the Big Hole National Battlefield in Montana. The site commemorates a battle (actually ambush of the Nez Perce)between soldiers & volunteers and a Native American group led by, among others, Chief Joseph. The book is taken from the journal of a rather...

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	1338233157

Too cool for school . . . or the least groovy girl in the grade?

Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't...

Author	Billy Collins
ISBN	0375755209

In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America's Poet Laureate for 2001-2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by train, lying on...