A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer ... Come in ... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the...

"This collection includes poetry that incorporates science and silence, imagination and memory; spoken music and intuition have become a way of exploring, making, recording, and rhythmically ordering discoveries. Discoveries made in years and places near and distant: from the 1960s to 2020, from the Cascades to the Rockies to the steppes and basins in between, from coasts north to Haida Gwaii and Alaska, to waterways south to Forks-of-Salmon and the...

"Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including 'Famous,' 'A Valentine for Ernest Mann,' 'Kindness,' and 'Gate A-4,' as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classrooms"--

Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it's that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet's own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites,...

"Got out of bed on two strong legs...might have been otherwise...took the dog uphill to the birch wood...did the work I love...might have been otherwise...we ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks...might have been otherwise...slept in a bed...planned another day just like this day...one day, I know, it will be otherwise."