Night MusicSelected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, \"What other poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying? His

This is a book for children

call-to-arms heels of the bestselling Eat

and absolutely no deprivation – just delicious

With fun line drawings

her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life ‘back on track’

music-obsessed

careening toward a perilous future—one in which the traditions of their faith

Arthur thinks his pen pal is more fun than his little sister

Needham was determined to tell the world what he had discovered

lest their aesthetic advantage atrophy

the Eurasian Curlew is one of our most endangered birds

it’s where Bay Area moguls indulge their fantasies