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What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky Stories Lesley Nneka Arimah In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In “Wild,” a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground.

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George...

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Stories Raymond Carver In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

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What Work Is Philip Levine Winner of the National Book Award in 1991

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What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire Charles Bukowski

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Whatsaid Serif Nathaniel Mackey Whatsaid Serif, Nathaniel Mackey's third book of poems, is comprised of installments sixteen through thirty-five of Song of the Andoumboulou, an ongoing serial work whose first fifteen installments appear in Eroding Witness and School of Udhra, his...

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Poetry As Insurgent Art Lawrence Ferlinghetti After a lifetime, this (r)evolutionary little book is still a work-in-progress, the poet's ars poetica, to which at 88 he is constantly adding. From the groundbreaking (and bestselling) A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the "personal epic" of...

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Who's to Say What's Obscene? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today Paul Krassner Satirical essays by a countercultural icon about the moral obscenity of contemporary politics, culture, and comedy

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The Caedmon Poetry Collection A Century of Poets Reading Their Work

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The Poetry Deal San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5 Diane di Prima San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5: The Poetry Deal is the first full-length collection of poems in decades from legendary feminist Beat poet, Diane di Prima. "A prolific writer generally associated with the Beat Generation, di Prima deserves wider recognition."—Library Journal

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Incidents of Travel in Poetry New and Selected Poems Frank Lima, Garrett Caples, Julien Poirier New and selected work by a major Latino poet, the best kept secret of the New York School.

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Of Poetry & Protest From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin This extraordinary volume collects the poems of forty-four of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize– winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander, Ishmael Reed, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez.

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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories Kathleen Collins Miraculously unearthed from the past, it is unimaginable now to think that we lived so long without this cinematic and daring collection of stories. —Recommended by Cassie, City Lights Books

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What is Not Yours is Not Yours Stories Helen Oyeyemi Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret—Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock elements of her characters’ lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. In "Books and Roses"...

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