Poetry for Students - Vol. 9

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

"Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" by John Keats
"Eating Poetry" by Mark Strand
"Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School" by Jane Kenyon
"War Is Kind" by Stephen Crane
And more

Poetry for Students - Vol. 8

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

"Music Lessons" by Mary Oliver
"My Life Closed Twice before Its Close" by Emily Dickinson
"Names of Horses" by Donald Hall
"A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns
"The River Merchant's Wife" by Ezra Pound
And more

Poetry for Students - Vol. 7

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
"Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood
"Small Town with One Road" by Gary Soto
"The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
"To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman
And more

Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

The two typical ways that people try to solve their toughest group, community, and societal problems are fundamentally flawed. They either push for what they want at all costs--in its most extreme form, this means war--or try to avoid conflict, sweeping problems under the rug in the name of a superficial "peace." But there is a better way: synthesizing these two seemingly contradictory approaches.

Poetry for Students - Vol. 6

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

"More Light! More Light!" by Anthony Hecht
"Onomatopoeia" by Eve Merriam
"Piano" by D.H. Lawrence
"The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" by Robert Lowell
"Queen-Ann's-Lace" by William Carlos Williams
"Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
And more