Sports have origins in all kinds of activities, such as playing with sticks and stones, running from threats, and taking part in religious ceremonies. Using conjecture and historical facts, this book of poetry and prose relates how nineteen sports got their start and grew into the games we know today

"¿Alguna vez has imaginado qué serás cuando crezcas? Cuando Juan Felipe Herrera era niño, recogió flores, ayudó a su mamá a alimentar a los pollitos, durmió bajo el cielo centelleante y aprendió a decirles adiós a sus amiguitos cada vez que su familia seguía el camino campesino. Al crecer Juan Felipe Herrera se convirtió en poeta."--

"Bold, graphic portraits and beautiful poems present famous and lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have faced life's challenges in creative ways"--Provided by publisher. "Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot--the Hispanics featured in this collection come from many different backgrounds and from many different countries. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues...

A large spotted animal discovers that he really belongs in a circus, not a zoo

An anthology of Kazakh poetry from the 20th and 21st centuries.

"There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism, examining and confronting modern media, consumption, feminism, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race...

"Si sólo sobreviviera uno de mis libros, querría que fuera Oscuro bosque oscuro" A medio camino entre la prosa y el verso, las novelas aquí reunidas revelan la exploración del género lírico, tan híbrido como inusual. El jardín devastado, de prosa aforística, nos recibe con la historia de una mujer iraquí, quien busca a sus amados entre los muertos. En Oscuro bosque oscuro, escrita en verso y a modo experimental,Volpi reflexiona sobre los...

The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas—and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job.

Digo que no puede decirse el amor. El amor se come como un pan, se muerde como un labio, se bebe como un manantial. Mario Benedetti seleccionó los mejores poemas de amor para que las nuevas generaciones se inicien en la obra de Jaime Sabines, a quien consideraba «el más notable precursor de la poesía coloquial en América Latina» y «uno de los poetas fundamentales, no sólo de México sino de Hispanoamérica y la lengua castellana».