Books in Poetry series series

These beautifully illustrated books, now reissued with all new 4-color covers, present the best of what's new in poetry, carefully chosen for children between the ages of 8 and 13. Many of the poems were written especially for these volumes, and among the poets included are Roald Dahl, Grace Nichols, Judith Viorst, Jack Prelutsky, David McCord. Foster provides a variety of themes with strong associations for children: from the fun and light-hearted (Vampires, Pets, and Holidays) to the provocative (One-Parent Families, Technology, and War). Drawings, cartoons and photographs--most in color--draw attention to every page.

Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–;2009) is one of the most important writers and thinkers to emerge from North Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. Though not widely known beyond the Francophone world, Khatibi's critical and creative works speak to the central concerns of postcolonial and postmodern life. Offered here in English for the first time, his long poem from 1976, Le lutteur de classe à la manière taoïste is a wildly inventive, transgressive, and important text. Class Warrior delivers a kind of free-verse Marxist handbook, written with the energy, movement, and style of a highly idiosyncratic Taoism. Matt Reeck's compelling translation captures the stylistic and thematic beats of Khatibi's verse, rendering the deceptively simple language of the original without losing its extraordinary layers and complexities. The introduction provides biographical context and an overview of Khatibi's poetics of the orphan, a subject position that seeks to avoid authenticating notions of origins and that is also constantly restless and forever questing. This is a rich text for contemporary readers of poetry, as well as scholars of postcolonial theory.Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Mystery shrouds the publication of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS in 1609. There is no real question that they are authentic, but did William Shakespeare himself authorize their publication? And who is this “W.H” to whom the volume is dedicated? For that matter, is this the author’s or the publisher’s dedication? What is clear is that the sonnets of Shakespeare have come to define the English sonnet for modern readers. They contain lines (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) that are among the most memorable in English literature. They are romantic, brooding, jealous, and at times bawdy. They are also wondrously written and will doubtless continue their exalted place in Elizabethan literature.