In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the center of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, and briefly in danger of execution, Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence...

Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing...

A collection of haiku poems celebrates the planet Earth, including such topics as rocks, earthquakes, fossils, volcanoes, and the water cycle.

A collection of thirty-three how-to poems for children, ranging from the whimsical to the very practical.

A collection of poems and drawings by American poet and humorist, Shel Silverstein including "My Nose Garden," "Little Hoarse," "Strange Restaurant," "Sharing," "Noise Day," and many others.

The second original book to be published since Silverstein's passing in 1999, this poetry collection includes more than one hundred and thirty never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by the cherished American artist and selected by his family from his archives.

A narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.

More than thirty mostly humorous poems about a variety of animals.

I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark, or wrestle a lion alone in the dark, eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework my teacher assigns. Jellyfish stew, I'm loony for you, I dearly adore you, oh, truly I do, you're creepy to see, revolting to chew, you slide down inside with a hullabaloo.

Twenty-four poems about various aspects of going to school.