A coming-of-age story of an American Jew and aspiring writer in the '60s and '70s. In this memoir in six movements, Alan Shapiro recalls how poetry helped him m

Series of six essays that move back and forth between poetry and the author's personal experience, examining how certain poems taught him to read his own and ot

The Tsar's Happy Occasion shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were choreographed to broadcast powerful images of

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his ch

"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--