Ordinary Psalms Ryan M. Seidemann flowers play an essential role

flowers play an essential role in improving a plant's chances of survival

Authorities built massive slave prisons and devised specialized slave penal systems to maintain control and maximize profit

Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror

full of concrete advice and expressive illustrations

which in their different ways address the opposition between the desire for openness and the desire for isolation

Ordinary Psalms Ryan M. Seidemann flowers play an essential roleStruggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. As she contemplates the loss of one friend to cancer and another to suicide, along with her own visual impairment, Levine holds the world "close as I needed to see." Imagistic, lyrical, and at times imploring divine intervention from a god