The Franconia, New Hampshire, farm of the American poet Robert Frost was turned into a museum and center for poetry and the arts in 1976. From that time, "The Frost Place" has been annual event wherein an emerging poet has been invited to spend the summer living in the house where Frost once lived and wrote some of his greatest poetry. The Breath Of Parted Lips: Voices From The Robert Frost Place, Volume One is a remarkable anthology of twenty-four poets, each of whom won that honor of a summer's residency and document the success of the original concept as a means of generating outstanding poetry while nurturing the poet's muse in the rooms and views that were once the inspiration of the great Robert Frost. Poem At 40: Windwashed--as if standing next to the highway,/a truck long as the century sweeping by,/all things at last bent in the same direction./An opening, as if all/the clothes my ancestors ever wore/dry on lines in my body:/wind-whipped, parallel with the ground,/some sleeves sharing a single clothespin/so that they seem to clasp hands,/seem to hold on.//And now that I can see/up the old women's dresses,/there's nothing but a filtered light./And now that their men's smoky breath/has traversed the earth,/it has nothing to do with them./And now that awkward, fat tears of rain/slap the window screen,/now that I'm naked too,/cupping my genitals, tracing with a pencil/the blue vein between my collar bone and breast,/I'll go to sleep when I'm told.

This book was lent to me by a friend who is a physician herself from Harvard Medical School. Anyone interested in neurosurgery as well as general surgery, infectious diseases and preventive medicine would find this book engaging. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to become a physician or who is a physician--it is inspiring and causes one to think about medicine in a whole new light. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to put it down.

A well written book. The author paints an informative picture of an American woman who learns to cope with living in Mexico under difficult and sometimes frightening conditions. She had the courage to withstand adversity and move on to a better life for herself and her children back in the USA. She worked hard for everything and found a soulmate in her new husband.

The Romans how can you not love them! This book gives you the reason why. It covers all aspects of the Roman livelihood, their homes, jobs, lands and customs. I think it is one of the better general informative books about the Romans out there, and would give a real good education for the general reader. For the skilled professional or student of the classics, this book will help touch up what you don't know and secure what you do. It is worth the read, and you will be able to tell why it is a standard classic used to teach in so many universities.

for those of you who want a picture of life on an oar boat on the Great Lakes in the 1950's, this book is for you. Very enjoyable and accurate portrayal of that life.

I sailed on a number of Great Lakes oar boats in the 1950's. Reading this book, I had a vivid re-experience of my life as a Great Lakes sailor, both positive and negative. For anyone interested in an accurate and compelling account of life on oar boats back then, this book will give you a good read as well as a historical account of that time.

I was a Great Lakes sailor in the 1950's and worked on a number of ore boats. I view Meditations of a Great Lakes Sailor as a highly accurate, albeit fictional, account of what it was like to work on the Great Lakes at that time. Reading this account, I was enabled to vividly relive some of my own experiences, both positive and negative. This book, I believe, has historical significance in recreating an important time in our history.

This book is interesting and almost reads like a mystery. It is a good start for Mr. Graham. Although some of the things that happen to the novice teacher seem impossible, teachers will tell you that anything goes and does happen.

I found Country Zoo so interesting that I finished the 400+ pages in a few days. While the volume and persistence of the students' disruption, harassment and abuse seem almost unbelievable, I know that it exists, especially for teachers who choose to live in the same district in which they teach. Country Zoo is graphic, not for the faint of heart, but very interesting.

I wish I'd read this book before I began my teaching. It would have alerted me to much of the trouble I experienced. Many of the incidents struck nerves as I recalled my own painful memories. Bill Grant's confrontations with his disruptive students and his principal were similar to mine. As I read this enthralling story which I could hardly put down, I wondered what I would have done if I had been in Bill Grant's shoes. Probably the same. His reactions seem natural and very human. His belief in the innate goodness of people and his consequential vulnerability make him appear to be very naive, something of a wimp, and putty in the hands of his tormentors. But his determination to succeed, in spite of the "pranks" of his vindictive students, is admirable. It took sheer guts for him to remain at his job the entire year. Also, the author's other point-of-view characters are interesting and reveal the family life and background of the "bad" students and the atmosphere of the school and community; originally it was a small village, surrounded by farms, which is now being transformed into suburbia. Still largely untainted by modern technology and computers, the village and school--an oasis of cultural deprivation--seem out of touch with the modern world. Inevitable conflicts in values which occur are well handled by the author. I admire the way Bill Grant was able--after tremendous difficulties--to solve his disciplinary problems.

This book is probably only of interest to hardcore architecture junkies. Graham's work was big, prosaic stuff, and this is a fine overview of his career at Skidmore, Owings & Merril. Lots of (small) floorplans. Lots of photos. Some text on each project from both the author & Graham himself. More than just the Sears Tower.