The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry

Author	Edith Wharton
ISBN	1844082938

First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.

Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated,...

Author	Starhawk
ISBN	0553373803

11/2015 I live in the sweetness of this book, whether I am reading it or not. There are times when I need this book the way I need air. This has been one of those times. I slipped into it the way Madrone slipped into Sara's pool, unable to resist, entirely yielding myself to the narrative. It's prose that speaks...

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Ray Bradbury

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction,...

Author	Michele Serros
ISBN	1573226858

I should have read this book a long time ago. I knew of Michele Serros early in her career but didn't read her until after she passed away, about a year and a half ago. This is a writer I connect with on so many levels. Her upbringing, her writings about family, her feelings of inadequacy as a Spanish speaker,...

Author	J.D. McClatchy
ISBN	1400030935

Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas...