Thirty years of poems chronicle the sometimes turbulent marriage of two famed writers

"Humanity reached for the stars, and as its hand neared the edge of the solar system shrugged and said, "Eh, good enough." Its hundreds of years in the future, Mars and many moons have been colonized, and Graelyn Scythes is stuck on Earth with her cat. After she accepts an internship with Project Atlantis, an underwater city led by a mysterious visionary , Graelyn's easy job bringing coffee gets harder when she makes the choice to bring in a sinking Cyborg named Archimedes from the depths, and an experiment is taking place in Atlantis goes massively awry! Flung into another world, Graelyn finds another life she could have lived... A life where she is the most hated woman on Earth. Graelyn quickly becomes part of an adventure larger than herself... And herself, and herself... Now she has to survive a revolution, and figure out if she'll turn out to be that person herself: Revolutions, cyborgs, adventure, and cats await you in the 10,000 Dawns.

Walking west of Bryson City, North Carolina, on July 1, 1976, George and Elizabeth Ellison happened upon a magical cove tucked into Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It held a small house of many windows, a shining creek, a tree-lined meadow and a pathway into a dark forest. They moved in for the summer and never left, defying Kephart's notion that all camps are temporary. For nearly forty years, this secluded spot has been the touchstone of their work as author and artist. These interrelated poems, narratives, renderings, notes and paintings form an artistic whole in praise of the outer and inner landscapes within which we all reside.

"The Unswept Path" offers a diverse gathering of American poets who have chosen the haiku as one of the forms in which they write. Each of these poets has worked the territory of the haiku into a personal landscape, and they offer a panorama of images and sounds, joy and sadness, recollection and thought. A wonderful introduction to the art of the haiku for the writer and reader alike. Poets included are: John Brandi; Willliam J Higginson; Margaret Chula; Elizabeth Searle Lamb; Cid Corman; Michael McClure; Diane DiPrima; Sonia Sanchez; Patricia Donegan; Steve Sanfield; Penny Harter; Edith Shiffert; Christopher Herold.

A classic translation of Basho's most famous travel journal

Poetry. IN WINESELLER'S STREET is about hope. About a world seen through eyes that don't idolize individualism and separation. It reflects the human potential of living in a world of harmony and grace. No poet and no tradition does this better than Hafez. During a time of international political and religious chaos and violence, perhaps no other work is more essential to our survival and recovery. Here, Hafez is accessible, and in his accessibility, concise. Always the humble teacher, Hafez sits with us on the barstool in the town pub like a mirror, reflecting back our dreams.

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science—as well as religious and cultural institutions—has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing. Fewer and fewer couples are getting married, and divorce rates keep climbing as adultery and flagging libido drag down even seemingly solid marriages. How can reality be reconciled with the accepted narrative? It can't be, according to renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethå. While debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, they offer a bold alternative explanation in this provocative and brilliant book. Ryan and Jethå's central contention is that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is. Human beings everywhere and in every era have confronted the same familiar, intimate situations in surprisingly different ways. The authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity. With intelligence, humor, and wonder, Ryan and Jethå show how our promiscuous past haunts our struggles over monogamy, sexual orientation, and family dynamics. They explore why long-term fidelity can be so difficult for so many; why sexual passion tends to fade even as love deepens; why many middle-aged men risk everything for transient affairs with younger women; why homosexuality persists in the face of standard evolutionary logic; and what the human body reveals about the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality. In the tradition of the best historical and scientific writing, Sex at Dawn unapologetically upends unwarranted assumptions and unfounded conclusions while offering a revolutionary understanding of why we live and love as we do.