poets

Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories--From publisher description.

Poet Jesse Nichol is tricked into helping a Lunarian plot to overthrow the rulership of the Teramind, an artificial intelligence that is controlling the Earth.

Presents alphabetized profiles of approximately one hundred significant poets from around the world, providing biographies, primary and secondary bibliographies, and analysis of their works. This volume covers A-Car.

Describes some of the boyhood experiences that influenced the development of the African-American poet Langston Hughes.

The Wu family cuts their ties with China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and start a new life in America, where each struggles to adapt to their new surroundings and find financial security and success.

A biography of the Washington lawyer and amateur verse writer who composed the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the War of 1812.

While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.

Following a tragic accident, Lucky Z, who has always lived on the edge of extreme sports, learns that only his voice in verse can describe his pain and set him free.

When a storm traps a group of people in a cheap Mexican resort hotel, they realize that their human needs cannot go unanswered.

John Shade, a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A., writes a 999-line poem in the last twenty days of his life which is then acquired and annotated by his crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.