William Rowe

A bungling but resourceful elephant magically flies to Mars. The Martians mistake him for "a god from the sky" and make him their ruler. Ultimately, the elephant reveals to them the secret of happiness. The story is told in a humorous Q & A style. For ages 8 and up.

Laurie is teased at school because of her big ears. Her mother buys her two puppies from a strange old lady. Soon the dogs do amazing things! And Laurie foils a bank robbery. Her ears are fixed. The dogs can talk! Laurie becomes Wonder Girl! Is this all a dream? Is it magic? The satisfying resolution, with its twists and turns, is weirdly unexpected. And Laurie learns that helping others brings good luck.

A harrowing meditation on tyranny, torture, and freedom by one of Chil 's most celebrated contemporary poets. In 2001, the president of Chile publicly acknowledged that many of the bodies of the people who had disappeared under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet would never be recovered. The victims had been flown up in planes and, after having their eyes gouged out, were ejected over the mountains and deserts of Chile or the Pacific Ocean. Ra l Zurita's INRI (these are of course the letters nailed to the cross on which Jesus was crucified, identifying him as Jesus Christ, King of the Jews) is a visionary, prescient response to this atrocity, an agonized and deeply moving elegy for the dead in which the whole of Chile, with its snow-covered cordilleras, fields of wild flowers, empty spaces, and the sparkling sea beyond, is simultaneously transformed into the grave of its lost children and their living and risen body. This incantatory, prophetic work--prophetic in the same way that Jeremiah and Isaiah are prophetic, which is to say unapologetically political-- is one of the great poems of our new century.

In the magical land of Jik (where people are either lemon yellow or witchy green), bullies are a big problem. And Yellies think Greenies are weird! Fortunately for the pipsqueak Sparrow, some of the Witches in Jik are playfully kind. One of these, using some very sly magic, helps Sparrow (and his "heart friend" Lucy) to thwart and reform the mean bully Marvin. But it takes all the cleverness and bravery that Sparrow can muster.

What do YOU want to be? Here are 10 lucky kids who KNOW. But sometimes their dreams come true in crazy, unexpected ways! Sometimes the amazing results are funny and weird. Read these 10 magically illustrated tales and see!

The collected poems of William Rowe, containing works written between 1992 and 2016. Afterword by Sean Bonney. This book is concerned with the shimmering of the real, where this carries the truth of the world we're inside of. The concern is political. It includes the need for the destruction of bourgeois reality, the suspension of their law, their forms, and the opening of a space for a new reality. There's pain and suffering in this but also joy.

Thirty-one full-page patterns offer a captivating array of stylish designs to color. Artfully arranged circles, squares, triangles, and other geometric shapes form a gallery of streamlined repeating images in the ever-popular Art Deco mode. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, "Art Deco Patterns "and other Creative Haven(r) adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

This book offers the general reader an introduction to some of the most exciting poetry of recent years. Lee Harwood, Chris Torrance and Barry MacSweeney all write against the grain, shaping the lyric into an instrument of criticism as well as ecstatic joy. Their writing expresses the power of poetry to expose the corruption of language to excite political passion, but also to touch the deepest bodily core of pain and joy. This is poetry written against the prevailing culture, uncompromising in its commitment to truth. These poets take lyrical emotion away from gutless pastoral nostalgia and dull conservative language and bring it into the contemporary: poetry that, instead of lulling to sleep, explodes with the possibilities of life.

What came after Neruda and Vallejo? This is the first book to answer that question, presenting the new movements in Latin American poetry since 1950. Eight poets are selected, with substantial excerpts from their work and parallel translations in English: the test for inclusion is whether their writing expands the possibilities of poetry. Some - for example Juan L. Ortiz, Nicanor Parra, Gonzalo Rojas, Ana Enriqueta Terán - reached maturity well before mid-century, but have continued to explore new poetic expression in the decades since; the younger generation of poets chosen includes Ernesto Cardenal as well as lesser-known figures: Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Carmen Ollé, and Raúl Zurita. Together they display the new forms and languages of poetry which have been emerging in contemporary Latin America. Revealing the freshness of the poems, as they invite new perceptions of the world and of language, is paramount in this study. Its method is to bring together poetics with cultural studies, presenting detailed readings of the work of each poet, as well as exposition and discussion of their poetics, especially where they grapple with the tensions between the inner self and history in the later twentieth century.

Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America's popular culture considers the broad spectrum of cultural forms in the various countries of the subcontinent. Exploring the ways in which daily life and ritual have resisted and been influenced by Western mass culture, Memory and Modernity traces the main anthropological, sociological and political debates about the nature of popular culture. Rowe and Schelling use their analysis of the development of a culture industry in Latin America to engage with wider debates about modernity, drawing out the contrast between Latin America's cultural wealth and its widespread material poverty. In challenging the assumptions of much Western cultural criticism, this book will be essential reading for students of Latin American society, while offering the general reader a concise and accessible overview of an exciting and varied popular culture.