A rich exploration of the sources used by Virgil in his epic poem, the Aeneid, by a leading Virgilian scholar Provides a fresh approach to understanding this key piece of classical literature Focuses on a selection of especially complex passages to reveal the importance of intricate detail within Virgil's style Incorporates elements derived from history, geography, mythology, and ethnography --

A selection from a wide-ranging body of work, this book gathers together poems which explode the biblical myth of womanhood, poems of domestic tragi-comedy admired by Gavin Ewart and poems about music.

WINDOWS ON THE CITY by Michael Ruby

"An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater).The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite," when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters."--Publisher.

"Collects diverse writings by Johanna Drucker previously published in literary or scholarly journals ... also includes an anecdotal checklist of Drucker's artist's books"--Back cover.

The poems in Bookside Down are written about and for 21st Century children, who are into their friends, the TV, Wiis, DS's, computers, collectibles and things that make them laugh. They deal with important matters such as difficult schoolmates, daft parents, impossible siblings, the last days of the dinosaurs and the death of planet earth. In this book you will find rhyming poems, non-rhyming poems, poems that are conversations and poems that tell stories. You could read them to yourself, read them aloud, or even use them as patterns to write your own poems.