Contains the Poeticsand the first twelve chapters of the Rhetoric, Book III.

In an age of interpretation, style eludes criticism. Yet it does so much tacit work: telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What does style have

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medi

The most ingenious and ephemeral of textiles, lace is presented as the poetry of fashion. Here over 225 pictures, including dramatic photographs and historical

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and s