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|  | Call Me Ishmael Tonight by Shahid Agha Ali
This posthumously published collection from the Kashmiri poet presents his own ghazals, an ancient Persian form of poetry, as a kind of companion to his earlier anthology RAVISHING DISUNITIES. Addressed to friends and other poets, including Mark Strand, James Tate, and Daniel Hall, these poems showcase Shahid`s formal acumen and renowned wit. AUTHOR: Shahid Agha Ali
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | A Map to the Next World by Joy Harjo
This fifth book by Native-American poet Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Tribe, incorporates myth, dream-vision, and her own personal memories in meditations about America and her place in it. A finalist for the 2001 Lamda Literary Award. AUTHOR: Joy Harjo
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Paradise Lost & Other Poems by Edward Comte, John Milton
Milton takes the traditional epic and transforms it with the clarity of his moral vision and with the power of his language, turning it into triumphant blank verse--seldom used in his day except in drama--that is moving, exciting, and full of the grandeur of Milton`s poetic vision. In the early parts of Paradise Lost , he manages to convey sympathy with Satan`s heroic energy. As the epic narrative progresses, however, our allegiance shifts subtly to Christ`s message of love and a vision of Paradise free of Satan`s destructive strivings. AUTHOR: Edward Comte, John Milton
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Dark Sky Question by Brenda Hillman, Larissa Szporluk
This debut collection, much of which is a meditation on the other world, received the 1997 Barnard New Women Poets Prize. AUTHOR: Brenda Hillman, Larissa Szporluk
PUBLISHER: Beacon Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
In this vivid tour of Alaska`s Inside Passage, a Seattle-based British writer describes the natural and cultural history of the area, his personal relationship to the sea, and the colorful acquaintances he met along his solo exploration by sailboat of the region. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999. AUTHOR: Jonathan Raban
PUBLISHER: HighBridge Company
FORMAT: Book & Other
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Early Novels & Stories by Sharon O'Brien, Willa Cather
THE TROLL GARDEN contains classic early stories, many set against the harsh but spectacular American prairie, and rich with autobiographical elements from the Nebraska of Cather's childhood. O PIONEERS is the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death, and of her forbidden love for a neighbor, Carl Lindstrom. THE SONG OF THE LARK is based on the career of Metropolitan Opera star Olive Femstad and traces the life of a singer from a rural town who goes to Chicago to study music and rises to the top of her profession. MY ANTONIA, which chronicles the relationship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, as they grow to maturity, is considered Cather's masterpiece. ONE OF OURS, a novel about a farm boy who comes into his own on the battlefields of France in World War I, where he dies heroically, won the Pulitzer Price in 1922. AUTHOR: Sharon O'Brien, Willa Cather
PUBLISHER: Library of America, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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