“Adkins’ straightforward language serves to disarm before the gut punch; his clear-headed storytelling and attention to detail adds another important voice to what we know of war and war’s leavings, and how all who survive it are changed. These are people and poems I will carry with me for a long time, and gladly.”
Read More“This book offers us a chance to acknowledge and understand the reality that our students are grappling with. It should be required reading by educators and students alike, as it helps us understand the world we live in, so we can work together to change it.”
Read MoreEncyclopedic in its compilation, more than 400 dictionary entries in this volume, Kobylarz moves beyond a contained lexicon to a flung-open cabinet of curiosities.
Read MoreWith clear-headed storytelling and attention to detail, Adkins adds an important voice capturing the mundanity, brutality, fear, boredom, and banality of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When the importance of poetry is questioned, the poems in Dispatches from the FOB by Paul David Adkins provide an unequivocal answer.
Read MoreSincere, gritty, and powerful. Fury Young’s work correlates with everything going on in the world right now. Amazing collection of poems.
Read MoreNominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards in the Historical Fiction category, Devil Knows is a mystery-in-the-archives thriller written with great charm and cinematic flair.
Read MorePaul Thomas reveals the intersections among oppression, education, and literature. Boldly imagined, brilliantly powerful.
Read MoreTeaching the alphabet, learning and spelling the word for each illustration, exposing a child’s mind to two languages with translated words from English to Italian.
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