This novel is considered the greatest work of fiction by the Brazilian writer the "New York Times Book Review" called "the premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century." An intense and lyrical work, it chronicles its female protagonist's journey of self-discovery and self-affirmation.

Roger Nash gained international acclaim for his title story "The Camera and the Cobra," which won the PEN/O.Henry Prize Story Award, and was anthologized by Anchor Books (PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2009) as one of the twenty best short stories published in North America. Nash's short stories explore a theme less familiar in literature but common in life: how the course of our own day-to-day lives can be deeply ambiguous, a sheer mystery to us. He explores the tragedy and humour of this, over a rich variety of lives and situations, sometimes realistically leaving the mystery and loose-ends of life teasingly unresolved for both his characters and readers. He shows how the phrase "mystery writing" can be richly and revealingly extended beyond its more usual application to crimes and their solution, to the weave of everyday life.

"The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible."―Booklist Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She focuses our attention on the pleasures of horse-keeping with poems such as "The Zen of Mucking Out," then exhorts us to "Please Pay Attention," decrying Dick Cheney's "canned hunting / where you don't stay to pluck / the feathers." With equanimity, Kumin faces the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage―ending with the unspoken question of "Which of us will go down first...."

Review "There is a lovely and unexpected alchemy in these verses that veer from the stars to suburbia, from the sublime to sweaty reality, and leave traces of each in the other. Roberts has a powerful range: equally adept at ferocity and fragility, and a host of other apparent opposites, she is a borderless writer and an absolute joy to read." - June Sylvester Saraceno"Suzanne Roberts' poems in Plotting Temporality are songs of the body, the erotic imperative of flesh, the brutal finality of bone. Roberts' poems forcefully invoke "our night, our moon, but never, / never our dawn," their language striving to shape and illuminate our haunted movements--a caress, a spouse's hand pushed away, a figure approaching from the shadows, embraced with fateful longing." --Gaylord Brewer Product Description Suzanne Roberts is the author of three previous books of poetry, Shameless (2007), Nothing to You (2008), and Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel (2011). She is also the author of a memoir, Almost Somewhere: 28 Days on the John Muir Trail (University of Nebraska Press, 2012). She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno and currently teaches at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe, California. For more information, please visit her website at www.suzanneroberts.org From the Back Cover The poems in Plotting Temporality are songs of the body, the erotic imperative of flesh, the brutal finality of bone. These poems flicker with shadow and light, sometimes igniting into bold vision, sometimes mapping what is missing, drawing new shapes from the natural world, giving the familiar a new dimension, a mystery that compels us to follow. About the Author Suzanne Roberts is the author of the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, as well as three previous collections of poetry: Shameless, Nothing to You, and Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel. She teaches at Lake Tahoe Community College and for the low residency MFA in creative writing at Sierra Nevada College.