Reading Road Trip

Silent Spring

2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00

Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.…

Silent Spring2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00

Best Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe

2026-10-01T08:59:00-04:00

This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe.

A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories.

Contained within this volume are the following: eleonora, the black cat, the masque of the Red death, the house of usher, the masque of the Red death, the murders in the Rue morg, the pit and the pendulum and the assignation.…

Best Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe2026-10-01T08:59:00-04:00

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos

2026-09-09T08:31:00-04:00

Song of the Simple Truth (Canción de la verdad sencilla) is the first bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos’ complete poems. Numbering more than 200, these poems form a literary landmark–the first time her poems have appeared in a complete edition in either English or Spanish.…

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos2026-09-09T08:31:00-04:00

Toyita

2026-09-09T08:31:00-04:00

Toyita, una hormiga soñadora, decide irse de aventuras en una yola.

Visitó la isla de las hormigas ponerinas y muchos sitios de las Américas como Miami, México, Argentina o Brasil.

La autora aprovecha esta jira para hablarnos de las hormigas que habitan cada región y sus rasgos característicos.…

Toyita2026-09-09T08:31:00-04:00

Deuda Natal

2026-09-09T08:31:00-04:00

Deuda Natal finds the beauty within vulnerability and the dignity amidst precariousness. As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life–and for language–can create a space of poetic decolonization.…

Deuda Natal2026-09-09T08:31:00-04:00

Smoking Lovely

2026-09-09T08:31:00-04:00

Smoking Lovely’s explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity. In this radically revised new edition, Perdomo shifts the poem into mostly second person, thereby further accentuating its self-reflexive and complex exploration of self-and/as-other, and of the simultaneous othering, commodification, and spectacularization of Afro-diasporic bodies and cultural forms.…

Smoking Lovely2026-09-09T08:31:00-04:00
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