Out of the sludge of a polluted swamp rises a huge, terrifying figure--the Iron Woman, about to vent her wrath on those who are destroying the land and sea and all wild creatures. Young Lucy, the first to see the giant, remembers that an Iron Man had...

Anthologized By Robert Bly.

Poems deal with wind, the past, animals, war, parents, circuses, movies, myth, mushrooms, death, and arguements

My heart is heavy. For I saw Fionnuala,"The Gem of the Roe," "The Flower of Sweet Strabane,"when a girl reached down into a freezer binto bring up my double scoop of vanilla.-"White Shoulders"Seamus Heaney has called his colleague Paul Muldoon "one of...

Text: English, French (translation)

Here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of important contemporaries - from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his seminal essays on liberty and his exposition of...

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting...

A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William--this time set on a remote outpost on Mars.The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in...

In her first full-length graphic memoir, Summer Pierre takes us on a journey through the soundtracks that shaped her. Through mix tapes, boyfriends, late nights in Boston folk clubs, and ill-fated cross-country road trips, Pierre weaves a moving...