An anthology of poetic reflections. In Envoi, he writes: "No angst in the anthill / What happens is what happens / And what happened to happen never existed to start with / Still, who wants a life like that / No next and no before, no yesterday, no today."

A new collection by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality while reaffirming humanity's attempt to capture the natural world and its residents.

Contains poems from The Southern Cross, The other side of the river, Zone journals, and Xionia.

Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed-- with the assistance of Carla Blank-- has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader, more inclusive spectrum. The result is a collection that stretches the boundaries of the American literary landscape, including work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the...