Collects over sixty original and selected poems with Spanish translations on facing pages that frequently deal with such difficult subjects as rape, abortion, suicide, and domestic violence.

In this reflective poetic tribute, the author remembers growing up when many of the great figures in African-American history gathered in her family home to talk and share ideas and even sing.

Ntokaze Shange's most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three "colored girls," three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the oldest, a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college, living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams; Cypress, the dancer, who leaves home to find new ways of moving and easing the contractions...

A tribute to the many individuals who acted with courage for justice and change during the civil rights movement.

A "choreopoem" that portrays the visions and frustrations of six young women who are trying to come to terms with themselves and with being African-American.

This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...

Introduction and biographies of Neil Simon, Tennessee William, Lanford Wilson, and David Rabe by Clive Barnes.