Upon discovering that his wife is dying from cancer, seventy-four-year old Howard Amberson decides that they should take a trip and keep a journal of their past

Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass 1979's Praise, the writers second volume of poetry.

Praise is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when he

Where would we be without flattery? Hobbes deemed it an honorable duty and Meredith called it the ?finest of the arts.? Alexander the Great applied it as imperi

“A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews As a child, Nezhuku