Asian American women writers of all ages explore a complex range of identities through poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, most never before published. Contributors expand the limits of ethnic-based identity, resisting stereotypes and breaking silences. Candid and memorable, the revelations of these women will change popular assumptions and engage readers. ...

Poems by Catullus, Horace, Ovid, and Virgil in Latin and in English translation, illustrated with details from Roman frescoes and mosaics. ...

Over 200 accessible and understandable poems selected from the entire collection of English language poetry.
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Works selected from twenty-five poets from the Balkan regions, based on volumes published during the past twenty years. ...

A collection of the very best writing by African-American women, The Bluelight Corner explores and reveals all the rich and varied dimensions of Black women's romantic lives. A dramatic, touching, lively, erotic, tender, tragic, fierce, bawdy, heartfelt, and utterly surprising collection of voices, this is a one-of-a-kind gem of fiction and memoir. ...

A modern anthology for the general reader asw well as students, covering "only" the key British and Irish writers of the last century. Excluding minor and fashionable authors, the works of less than 40 major writers are presented in depth and with a linking commentaries. ...

"Dovetailed Corners" presents some fifty prose poems and photographs that faithfully depict the struggle for survival on the northern American frontier.
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Playwrights from the South have always figured largely in the Actors Theatre of Lousiville's contribution of new work to the repertoire of American dramatic literature. What better way to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Humana New Festival of American Plays. ...

Here are the cowboy characters, modern and historic -- team ropers, rowdies, old timers, gamblers, bronc riders, two-bit ranchers, and the men and women who love them. ...

A rich collection of the work of post-WWII African-American poets, this book brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and covers an astonishing range of styles and techniques. Also features works by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. **Lightning Print On Demand Title ...