Contains forty-eight narratives, set mostly in the author's hometown, Fresno, and the San Francisco Bay area, in which he reflects on the wonders of the everyday world.
Poetess and freed slave Phillis Wheatley writes a poem celebrating General George Washington's leadership in the American Revolution, and is invited to his camp to meet the future president.
Poetess and freed slave Phillis Wheatley writes a poem celebrating General George Washington's leadership in the American Revolution, and is invited to his camp to meet the future president.
Draws on the recently opened archives of Ted Hughes to offer new insights into the iconic poet's psyche and literary achievements, in a portrait that includes previously unpublished papers and dozens of letters exchanged between Plath and Hughes.
A profile focusing on Phillis Wheatley's early years reveals her illiterate beginnings in the Wheatley family and the turbulent pre-Revolutionary War climate in which she became an avid student and young poet.
Relating his fatherless childhood in inner-city Los Angeles, a poet and journalist describes his yearning, and that of other African American men, to escape this destructive cycle to achieve personal security and happiness.
A biography of a famous American poet, detailing the events of his frequently unhappy life, his love for his wife and children, and the way all of this was woven into his poetry.
