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It all started one night when five energetic boy cousins got together for a sleepover. As I was trying to get them to wind down and relax in their sleeping spots, one of them said, "Hey uncle Gary how about telling us a scary story!" "Alright" I said, "I'll tell you My Scary Camp Story." Now I had to come up with something...This book is meant to be read out-loud. SO get animated as you read and the kids will love you for it!

What dreams of grandeur, Joanna Sit asks, make us fly? Here's what I know now: the pilgrimmage to love & knowing begins In Thailand With the Apostles. Wallace Stevens famously remarked that the great poems of heaven & hell have already been written, but not the great poem of the earth. Yet read these gnarly chronicles: every romping chthonic tercet opens up new terrain. Imagine if On the Road detoured through Canterbury, doubled back toward Big Sur, then crashed somewhere between the Purgatorio & Inferno-that's In Thailand's visionary itinerary. Missing nothing, never flinching, the poet survives the rainbow of her will-damned transfigured past betrayers, ex-abusers, two-faced lovers & friends-as the exotic bleeds into the macabre, the erotic into the ascetic, the scrofulous into the pristine. The road of excess may lead to the palace of wisdom, or maybe to Dante's third rung, but Sit & apostles slouch toward satori hewing their merry way through ennui & ecstasy. These are profoundly holy poems for our fractured postmodern days. What an exuberant, harrowing trek, & what an heroic descent! Mike Sweeney, Fairfield University, author of In Memory of the Fast Break & Octagon Commonweal

"To begin each of these works I waited at a precipice: I slowed myself intentionally, tarried as a way of honoring what I was about to enter. There is materiality in the form which exists before the form that will be made; there are ways to dramatize upcoming linkage. Pause catalyzes future force."

I've always loved Bill Evans' poems and the work in Modern Adventures is both timeless and hilarious. The loving regard for all of our weakness and the muscular rhythms of these poems knock me out every time. Ever hip, ever hopeful, Bill Evans is the poet we've been waiting for. -David St. John Here's a nice thing. Bill Evans walked into the dark night of the soul for you, caught a wave there and emerged with a poetic voice that is a present for anyone who would like to know what it is like to be alive. Or maybe he was locked in a Mexican standoff with desire and neither one budged, so they just started singing. Part teen idol, part pirate, part philosopher, as if Rumi were a carnival barker whose promises turned out to be true. Adjectives? Seductive, moving, funny, transgressive, wonder-full and achingly human come to mind. Bill's poetry is not just craft; it is a human voice that knows things, and I want to hear them. -Peter Catapano, editor of the New York Times series The Stone and Anxiety. These are the poems of an urban man and a little sad a touch bitter but it's raining out tonight and from where I am I notice Bill often likes to break into a little dance. I want to say that these are moral poems because in the hands of Bill Evans morality means feeling and whether he's listing the parts of a "little pilgrim" ("we're so/ proud of you") or snapping a joke what chiefly is holding his poetic together is heart which makes his work dangerous and rare in this disparate and deeply informed moment in time. We need his poems because he feels and so I kept reading and wanting more. These are the heartbeats of an ancient man looking at history from left to right and now staring us right in the eye. We are not alone. -Eileen Myles, author of Inferno (a poet's novel).

When the Soviets invade the U.S. in the 1960s, two eight-year-olds spring into action to save themselves and their classmates. The Tommy Plans is a comic and affectionate look at life in Cold War America and a subtle reflection on contemporary life. Renner's pencil illustrations reinforce the childlike innocence of his heroes, free of duplicity and malice.

If there's such a thing as fierce Buddhism, Katherine Hastings' Nighthawks finds it. Here is nature in minutely observed, embroidered detail, juxtaposed with terse and stark observations keyed from Rexroth's "holiness of the real." Hastings is unafraid: she writes fearlessly of subjects such as the slaughter of children at an elementary school in Connecticut, the death of a young black man in a subway station, and opens a brave and unblinking lens on a lover's cancer. In backdrop, though, always: the steadiness of nature flourishing: brilliant colors amid the unanswered questions. Gerald Fleming Rooted in what Hastings calls the "momentary forever," these marvelous poems, so rich with detail and so full of duende, explore the paradoxes of transience. Yes, the poet reminds us: "The alarm is set and ticking" for each least thing in the living world: "A boy made in the image of Lorca; turkey vultures...with wings like shredded violins." Still, the "eyes of the world" (eyes of the poet!) "are always hungry..."; so the poet must read every "...tune placed in [her] beak// where the lust of one tear holds/ every note of joy, of sorrow/ trembling under the stars". And these new poems do insist on inhabiting hard realities-a beloved's cancer diagnosis; the public murder of an innocent young man by a police officer-but also, in "Perseid From a Park Bench," two lovers wish on a meteor falling through the night sky, and Hastings reminds us: "We humans do this, place hope on a ball of dust passing through a comet's tail." Susan Kelly-DeWitt These poems capture a double exposure where earth and sky meld to map what is close and what is seemingly out of reach. Hastings' horizon shifts from the reality of earth bound oceans to the celestial ocean where we swim in a sea of stars. Like ancient astronomers, she sees connections often missed by the casual eye. She becomes in effect a soothsayer of stars and taps into the music of their stillness as they witness the coincidental paths we take in our lives, the stars above us "an angel apiece/burning so far out of reach". Colleen McElroy

Praise for Paul Oppenheimer's In Times of Danger Paul Oppenheimer's fourth collection of poems presents a love story told almost entirely in brisk, often racy modern sonnets and set against a background of the rural Hudson Valley and New York City-before, during and after the catastrophe of 9/11. "I need a form that I did not invent," he writes, "tuned by ancient anguish to impart/the strain of modern doubt: an instrument/just right, just now, on which to test my heart." His test turns into a struggle that sweeps up history, elusive love itself, preparations for war and the war in Iraq in more than ninety eerily redemptive, shocking and accomplished renderings of poetry's oldest and still most powerful form. "Lyrical, witty, extravagant and precise, the poems in Paul Oppenheimer's new collection limn the paradoxes of post-millennial urban life in a voice which, while profoundly informed by an indelible plethora of past poetries, is entirely contemporary. Oppenheimer is (incidentally) a master of the sonnet form in all its variations, and these poems, in addition to their other pleasures, allow the reader to eavesdrop on his ongoing colloquy with Donne, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Ronsard, Keats and Yeats. Love, politics and ethics are some of his themes, but he is above all a poet of New York City, caparisoned in the raiment of all its seasons, in its present state of risk, paradox and plenitude." Marilyn Hacker, National Book Award Winner for Poetry "Streaming through the counterpoint of Paul Oppenheimer's powerful collection In Times of Danger, in his daringly moving sonnets, is beauty-physical and metaphysical. It is woven into an unexpected music of paradox and wit; sophistication and vulnerability; urgency of heart and formidable wisdom; the urban, specifically New York City, and the pastoral. Most stunningly, there is the courage that binds all of these, examining-with rare depth-self and society, the meeting of personal and political. Here is poetry enacting a prelapsarian faith that is never naïve, but hopeful while aware of how deeply we have fallen as the events and actions leading to the Iraqi war unfold. 'I never doubt the seven seas in us, ' writes Oppenheimer, replenishng the difficult genre of the love poem against a tragic backdrop, demonstrating with freshness the relevance of the sonnet, and its capacity to express great passion." Yerra Sugarman, winner PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry

Set in a rural village in 1850s Denmark, this inspiring story cycle follows the precocious and impulsive boy Tacit from early childhood, raised by his grandmother, through adolescence and his infatuation with Camilla, to his teen years when he apprentices to the blacksmith and befriends a convict who is squatting on an abandoned farm. By one of Denmark's master storytellers, this book reminds us how secrets can bind people together or come between them. First book of The Water Farm trilogy. Cecil Bødker's characters are raw and sensitive, unpredictable and universal. Once-in-a-lifetime storytelling with the power of Faulkner. Danish title: "Fortællinger omkring Tavs". Translated by Michael Goldman.

In "Farming Dreams," Sørensen, who's in his late 80s, has constructed a cycle of free verse and prose poems that examine the decline of small family farms in Denmark, and with it a loss of cultural heritage and independent spirit. Farming villages become bedroom communities for people who work elsewhere, and agribusiness firms become the main tenants of the land. Knud Sørensen's poems investigate and lament the end of the Danish farmer's way of life, brilliantly capturing its intertwined beauty and sadness. These poems have a universality that speaks to the disappearance of the family farm, not just in Denmark but in America and across the globe. Translated by Michael Goldman.