Ron Ellison's journey began in harsh poverty, and continued along a harsh path for many years. It has taken him, unexpectedly and late in life, to a place of humble spiritual acceptance. His poetry ranges from his work as a fisherman and lumberjack, to the joy of ecstatic dance. Discover the heart and inspired writings of a man who has experienced life fully-from its agonies to its joys."

Kinnear charts the map from Herakleitos to Pound, Freud to Derrida, Celan, Rilke, Joyce. This is a text like no other, divining the naming and un-naming of things from zero through infinity in the way of the philosopher-poets. Alternating contemplations on immensities with crystalline poems that begin each chapter, spoked with Kinnear's translations of Heraclitus, and spun with the dreams of memory, it's a book to reach for again and again. We journey through memory/dream, chance/love, sleep/death, reason/no-reason, meaning/unmeaning, Khora at the gates of the unsayable, 'vast as the cosmos...

Discover the joys of desserts and luscious drinks made with culinary lavender. Sunny Savina, proprietor of Seattle's beloved herbalist shop The Hidden Alchemist, shares her favorite recipes. Her recipes are fresh, the results astonishing. The instructions are direct, with easy to follow directions.

Subject of a recent story on NPR's Here and Now, Our Table of Memories is an amazing book that pairs powerful, heartfelt poetry about their native foods by high school students who are refugees from conflict zones (part of a program Stories of Arrival: Youth Voices Poetry Project), with recipes by immigrant women working with Project Feast. This book is a must for schools, teachers, lovers of poetry and food. It will touch your heart.

Our Table of Memories invites readers to consider the spicy, delicious connections between food, poetry and...