This is my favorite book. It's listed as fiction, but I would go so far as to say that it's "epic narrative poetry". The story centers around the dreams of Einstein while he writes his theory of relativity. His dreams deal with the different possibilities of what time is. With such a complicated subject, you might figure it would be above your head. Absolutely not. The book is so accessible and simple, even Steve from Skylight Books could read it.
The only way you will truly understand is if you read it. Pick it up, read a page or two. Flip to the middle, it's OK, I won't tell anyone. This book is too beautiful to keep a secret. Everyone must read this. It will change your life.

This book has no age limit. The story and the language may seem simple, but it speaks of the inevitability of change in all of our lives. The plot centers around two caterpillars meeting, falling in love, and then searching for purpose in their existence. The themes that this book deals with make this a perfect gift for a child entering adulthood, a teenager graduating from high school or college, even a wedding present. Plus, there's a caterpillar pillar...it's something to see.

This book is astonishing. It moves effortlessly through ordinary and extraordinary moments and imaginations revealing refreshingly accessible poetry. This book takes you through the death of the poet's mother, her marriage, her children, and her daydreams about four-letter words. It's written with such wit and brilliants, that often you may forget you're reading a book of poetry. Still, there is no doubt that this work IS poetry - the levels of meaning, metaphor, and condensed language is as dense as any work of Blake.

In a string of essays that make up an unforgettable memoir, Jonathan Ames tells his most intimate and humiliating secrets. In the first chapter, "Pubertas Agonistes" Ames talks about hitting puberty at the age of 16 and showing his mother how he masturbates. In the chapter, "I Shit My Pants In The South Of France" Ames talks about, well, just that. But there's more to these stories than just embarrassment and scatological humor-as you read on, you realize that there is something so beautiful and relatable to this "character" Jonathan Ames. He is a perfect collision of R. Crumb, Larry David, and David Sedaris. I laughed, I cried.

In this collection by L.A. poet, Brendan Constantine, we hear the letters inanimate objects write to guns. Some are hilarious and profound, like the letter from the sword, some are touching and beautiful, like the letter from the soldier's boot. In between these poems, Constantine brings personal poems into the mix - all the while maintaining a sense of jubilant wonder. These poems apply and read well in their contemporary setting, but they remind us of the poems that were read hundreds of years ago, when people danced over fires and the air smelled of spirits and poets shouted and flapped their arms like holy lunatics.