Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson's command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the ghazal, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson's...

The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. Follows uninterruptedly and in progressive sequence the musical foundation developed in Book 1.

The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America's unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship makes the private...

The Dakotas west of the Missouri comprise a vast, rugged, starkly inviting land dotted with ranches, ghost towns, Indian reservations, and nature preserves. This stunning new book captures the shifting moods and scenes of the western Dakotas - along the storied Missouri River, out on the grassy plains, within the otherworldy and forbidding badlands, and atop the pine-clad peaks of the Black Hills. Indian powwows, cattle roundups, and small-town saloon...