Skookum, cultus, hyack, saltchuck, klahowya, tillicum: It is in words like these that the last vestiges of a lost British Columbian language remain. It was know

“What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and don

This anthology of poetry presents works from influential poets of the twentieth century.

An anthology of poems by such authors as Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Stanley Kunitz, Gwendolyn Brooks

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