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|  | Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hopkins's poetry, most of it published posthumously, is remarkable for the lively inventiveness of its language. Hopkins made use of ancient poetic devices (from, for example, Anglo-Saxon and Welsh poetry). He employed common words in uncommon ways and coined new words as they suited his purposes. He used dialect, musical devices, elaborate alliteration, and convoluted word order. These techniques resulted in a powerful poetry like no one else's. Of his own work, Hopkins wrote to his friend, the poet Robert Bridges, No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness....[I]t is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped. His singularity also extended to rhythm: Hopkins was interested in developing his own peculiar rhythmic patterns, which he said was the native and natural rhythm of speech and termed sprung rhythm --a rhythm that was freed from the constricting techniques of standard poetic rhythms, achieving instead a looser, more musical effect that was ahead of its time in the Victorian era, looking forward to more modern 20th-century verse like that of W. H. Auden, who was strongly influenced by Hopkins. AUTHOR: Gerard Manley Hopkins
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Jumping the Nail by Eve Bunting, Julie Dretzin
Seventeen-year-old Dru and her friends take part in the local stunt of leaping from a cliff known as the Nail into the ocean 90 feet below. In the past many have died during this act, but those who survived became legends among their peers. When Dru's emotionally fragile friend Elisa is pressured into jumping by her boastful boyfriend, she survives the leap but not the aftermath. Will Dru be pressured into risking her life by jumping the Nail? AUTHOR: Eve Bunting, Julie Dretzin
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Waiting by Frank M. Robinson, Roger Dressler
They are among us, and they've been here for a long time--waiting. One ordinary man in San Francisco, Arthur Banks, begins to find them out, and immediately his life and his family are in danger. It's a paranoid's worst nightmare--but that's just where it starts. AUTHOR: Frank M. Robinson, Roger Dressler
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Oklahoma Gardener's Guide
A noted horticulturist details the many aspects of gardening in Oklahoma. 180color illustrations.
PUBLISHER: Cool Springs Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening
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 | Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall by Kate Bernheimer
A collection of essays by women writers on the influence of fairy tales on their lives. AUTHOR: Kate Bernheimer
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The story of Robert Jordon, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and betrayal, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. AUTHOR: Ernest Hemingway
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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