“Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.” Quote by Julia Alvarez
“Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.” LanguageJourneyReaderReflectionPoeticInwardExileMesmerizing Author:Isabel Allende
“For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.” SeemsNaturalVisionEatingMediumsInevitableBreathingPoetry IsSensibilityCadence Author:Robert Pinsky
“All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.” WorldGivingArtTwoSoulMovingFormVoicePoetMastersFineAbsolutesDistanceIntimacyConfessionBack And ForthClosenessEmilyTwo WorldsEerie Author:Gerald Stern
“The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!” FeelsWritingPleasureFineShiningCelebrateFine Things Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.” GrowsViewsClearPoetReaderWalkingMountainLimitsEssentialsTeaCollectionsShelvesIndispensableMoonlightHerbsBedrockGraniteThermos Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.” MenSelfHateGayForgottenBrilliantNovelistsBiographiesRivalsDrankGorePoignant Author:Edmund White
“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.” AmericaAnimalMillionsLandIndustryCitizensRiversFishesBillionsMilesTreatedCrueltyMeatFarmsFarmersFactoriesUnnecessaryUnspeakableMeat Industry Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.” ValuesAnimalVegetarianStrictAnimal Love Author:Natalie Portman