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|  | Blue Notes by Radiclani Clytus, Yusef Komunyakaa
Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyakaa`s writing on contemporary poetry and music. The book is arranged in four sections. The first gathers essays on the work of poets and blues and jazz musicians influential to Komunyakaa`s work, from Langston Hughes and Etheridge Knight to Ma Rainey and Thelonious Monk; the second collects a gallery of Komunyakaa`s poems and the poet`s commentary about each of them. The third selects interviews that reveal the development of the poet`s aesthetic sensibility. The final section consists of tour artistic explorations that reflect the poet`s current interests. Two of these texts, Tenebrae and Buddy`s Monologue, have been recently performed. As editor Radiclani Clytus makes clear in the volume`s introductory essay, although Komunyakaa`s poetry has its roots in the stylistic innovations of early twentieth-century American modernists, his writing often reflects his understanding that a black experience should not particularize the presentation of one`s art. This volume, according to the editor, is an attempt to understand Komunyakaa`s critical eclecticism within the context of his own words. AUTHOR: Radiclani Clytus, Yusef Komunyakaa
PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Canning Season by Polly Horvath
Description not available.Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters. AUTHOR: Polly Horvath
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner
Stegner's well-crafted, often nostalgic stories are definitely traditional in style--most were written before 1950, when he gave up short fiction for novels and nonfiction. This volume includes such masterly works as The Sweetness of the Twisted Apples and The City of the Living, as well as the short novel GENESIS. AUTHOR: Wallace Stegner
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Crow by Edith Tarbescu
Description not available.Examines the history, culture, religious beliefs, poetry, and contemporary life of the Crow Indians. AUTHOR: Edith Tarbescu
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Forests by Sally Wilkins
Description not available.Provides information about conditions in temperate forests, the animals and plants that live there, a national forest in the United States, forest resources, and changes that affect forests in the temperate zone. AUTHOR: Sally Wilkins
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | True Believer by Russell Gordon, Virginia Euwer Wolff
This sequel to MAKE LEMONADE focuses on LaVaughn and her two best friends, Myrtle and Annie. Now starting 10th grade, the girls must deal with such issues as premarital sex, first love, and LaVaughn's desire to go to college. This book was named one of the Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly. AUTHOR: Russell Gordon, Virginia Euwer Wolff
PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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