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Masquerade is a jazz-inflected, lyric-narrative sequence of poems, a "memoir in poetry" set principally in pre-Katrina New Orleans and in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and writers. Moved by mutual fascination, shared ideals and aspirations, and the passion they discover in each other, the two are challenged to find a place together in the cultures of both races and families, amid personal and political dislocations as well as questions of trust--all against the backdrop of America's racism and painful social history. The twentieth century's global problem, the color line, as W. E. B. du Bois named it, is enacted here in microcosm between these lovers and fellow artists, who must face their own fears and unresolved conflicts in each other. Similar stories have been told from the male protagonist's point of view; Masquerade is unique in foregrounding the female perspective.

Everything that we see here on earth, in the sea, or in the sky was made somehow. There has been a debate about how it all happened for many years, and scientists on both sides of the issue have studied and explored the earth to find the answers to their questions. Even so, their explorations have only given them even more questions that need to be answered.

How did the Grand Canyon happen? Where do dinosaurs fit in this debate? Why can fossils be found anywhere around the world? What is the explanation for all the different animals we see?

"In the Beginning "explores these questions, presenting the biblical stories of the creation of the universe and of Noah and the ark. It introduces children to the debate that exists on the origins of the universe and seeks to give them a foundation of biblical knowledge on the topic.

Carolyn and Clarence Wright lovingly wrote Tiny Hinsdale of the Silvery San Juan after "intense work, research, and devotion to task." First published in 1964, but out of print for many years, this history of Hinsdale County is an exciting and delightful read that captures the ups and downs of a rich mining area and the subsequent booms and busts of the county and Lake City, its county seat. Based on personal and family experiences, this book provides an intimacy of culture and events that only those who have "lived or shared the life" can portray. It also boasts many photographs of a time-gone-by that can be found nowhere else. As the dust jacket of the first edition of this title states, "No other persons could have told the history of Hinsdale County from such personal sources, and lovers of Western history will be grateful that the Wrights have performed this labor of love. The ninety-four pictures alone are an irreplaceable treasure."

"In order to talk with the dead
you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold." --from "In Order to Talk with the Dead"

Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets, whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.

Carolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes Muertes y maravillas (1971), Para un pueblo fantasma (1978), and Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the "Land of Nevermore."

This Dream the World: New and Selected Poems brings together the most powerful and resonant poems of Carolyne Wright's books and chapbooks to date. About the range of Wright's work, poet David Axelrod has written, "The language of Carolyne Wright's poems is as rich, diverse, and bursting with life as the natural world of the coastal Northwest she calls home; but her home is the world, much of which she has traveled. Her poems engage that larger world and the lives of its citizens, their history, turmoil, and jeopardy. Hers is a poetry both of celebration and of sober courage."

This is a text book, not a textbook. It is not an instruction manual, but an opportunity for students to discover the English language and to explore the ways meaning is made. It offers a wealth of language experiences - talking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing - and a great variety of types of text for students to respond to or compose. The Text Book: Resources for English Book 1 contains eight integrated modules for junior secondary English students. The modules are particularly relevant to the new NSW 7-10 English syllabus. There is special emphasis on visual literacy, on media, electronic and multimodal texts and on composing tasks of many kinds. Most tasks are open-ended, catering for a wide range of students and will challenge and stimulate students. All the tasks are designed to help students become more critically literate.