Mark Strand

He didn't just shake up ice fishing. He transformed the sport so completely that fundamental change of this magnitude will never happen again. His name is Dave Genz, and he drove the modern ice fishing revolution. For the first time, hear the whole story, through his eyes, in a new book that traces the timeline 60 years into the past... all the way forward to today. The story itself is compelling. But there's something else in here. As you read, you'll...

A new collection of poetry celebrates the transience, oddities, and lasting beauty of life and its mysteries.

Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form": a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, among others) would enhance their appreciation of poetry. Tracing "the exuberant history of forms," they devote one chapter to each form, offering explanation, close reading, and a rich selection...

When his mother dies, a seventeen-year-old boy moves in with his relatives, a criminal family clan.