A Japanese-American farmer recounts the challenges of taking over and renewing his family's farm in Del Rey, California, describing the pains and pleasures of farm work, and the perseverance of his grandmother.

National Book Award nominee Paul Mariani offers a passionate, highly readable biography of one of America's great poets.

A finalist for the national Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked is a remarkable, rich blend of art and scholarship.

Simpson’s recollections are so tender, her narrative so generous, it is almost possible to imagine the story has a different ending—even as Schwartz’s marriage crumbles, as Lowell succumbs to a manic episode, as her own relationship ...

Here is a selection of well-considered (and often shockingly honest) appraisals of the greatest names in American literature memorialised, eulogised, and sometimes criticised by their dearest friends and their closest peers.

... in author's voice entitled " The Grave of a Poetess . " The poem refers to Mary Tighe and has an epigraph taken from ... epitaph in a church in Florence . Thus " Records of Woman " opens and closes with 52 INTRODUCTION.

In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass.

. This portrait, stripped of its layers of varnish and restored to glowing colours, should last us for another generation."—Edmund White, The Observer Review "Keats's letters fairly leap off the page. . . . [Motion] listens for the ...

In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly critical of the regimes of Elizabeth I and James I. Who Killed William Shakespeare? examines the means, motive and the opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Will ...

... Epitaph selected by his mother , Annie Boyce , reads : " Jesus Knows All About Our Struggles . " Photograph by Allen Kimble in author's collection . GRAVESTONE OF ALBERT GALLATIN BOYCE , SR . ( 1842-1912 ) , AND WIFE , ANNIE E. BOYCE ...