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Rose : poems by Lee, Li-Young, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Epistle -- The gift -- Persimmons -- The weight of sweetness -- From blossoms -- Dreaming of hair -- Early in the morning -- Water -- Falling : the code -- Nocturne -- My indigo -- Irises -- Eating alone -- Always a rose -- Eating together -- I ask my mother to sing -- Ash, snow, or moonlight -- The life -- The weepers -- Braiding -- Rain diary -- My sleeping loved ones -- Mnemonic -- Between seasons -- Visions and interpretations.…”


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Never Broke Again : the compilation. Volume one. by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, 1999-

Table of Contents: “…Meechy Baby) -- Up in my sleep (feat. Herm, Nocap) -- Parking lot (feat. …”


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The Harvard Medical School guide to a good night's sleep by Epstein, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Jay)

Table of Contents: “…Signs of a sleep problem -- I can't fall asleep -- I can't stay awake -- I can't get up in the morning -- I do strange things in my sleep -- I can't sleep because of my partner -- 8. …”


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Bicycles : love poems by Giovanni, Nikki

Table of Contents: “…Blacksburg under siege: 21 August 2006 -- In simpler times -- If only -- Field notes -- Migrations -- I am jazz -- Shoe jazz blue jazz -- 3rd rail -- I am confused -- My new car -- Dinner at nine -- My muse -- I am glass -- No heaven -- Alehemical -- Your shower -- Good night -- My sleep -- Bicycles -- I like the dance -- I would not be different -- Give it a go? …”


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Anything can happen : notes on my inadequate life and yours by Rosenblatt, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Take two -- My bear -- No one is forcing you to like Mahler's music -- From the Tao-Te Ching -- Lecture to one suffering yet another identity crisis -- On aristocracy -- What bothers me -- Advice to those about to acquire a Rembrandt -- Tyranny for beginners -- Don't take your soul to New England -- Stopping by words on a snowy evening -- On your conduct at the dinner party -- My stump speech -- On class distinctions -- Shorter than Bacon's -- New Year's at Luchow's -- Yo, weather man -- The men's room wall: a fantasy -- Beautiful houses -- Lines written nowhere near Tintern Abbey -- Things one would like to see in movies -- Odes for a rainy afternoon -- The albatross that brought everyone good luck -- Bring a wildebeest home to mother -- The sheep academy of prizes -- Dogstoevsky -- On reputation -- Love song -- Hail the latest conqueror -- Go where you are loved -- Madness: a primer -- Essays, I too dislike them -- A prayer for the privileged -- If in my sleep -- Canticle for scumbags -- Instructions to the housekeeper -- "Neglect" -- With narcissus in the aquarium -- Kilroy was here -- The puppet theatre of your irrational fears -- Teach the free man how to praise -- The day I turned into the Westin -- Cliff's other notes -- About god -- Environmentalists -- Hearing test -- Everywhere a hit person -- A great big laugh ends in a sigh -- Lessons for grades 1 to 6 -- If you had given it a moment's thought -- How to remove the horse from the vase -- The bathroom for you -- A question for Hannibal Lecter -- The zealot who stood on his head -- Ways of looking at a blackboard -- Something's wrong -- (More) shorter than Bacon's -- The giant rat of Sumatra -- In the madhouse in Beirut -- Should your name appear -- Things I can take, things I can't -- Relax -- Why you took it out on her -- (more) Cliff's other notes -- The inventor of time -- Explanation to an unprincipled employer -- To comfort a foe who lies in wait -- Signs of accomplishment as depicted in the rear window of a Volvo -- Gods should be careful -- A valediction for all occasions -- When you have trouble sleeping -- Everyman's grocery shopping list -- A brief history of idiocy -- Should a vampire require a transfusion -- How you talk -- The intervention of facts -- You think I'm kidding -- Ashley Montana goes ashore in the Caicos -- Aubade -- Instructions to the pallbearers -- My last case -- On the other hand -- The grateful living.…”


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It becomes you : poems by Gibson, Dobby, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…From parts unknown -- First billion years -- Silly string theory -- After the slap, before the apology -- What follows us now must soon enough be carried -- The barber -- Beware of false friends -- Beauty supply -- Eeny meeny enemy -- Self-reliance -- Infinite familiar -- The pilot -- Self-storage -- Hum -- Maybe minorly -- The first American -- Invidia -- At the ready -- What we have in common is nothing we possess -- Warble -- Pastor pastoral -- Poem for all my old best friends -- 40 fortunes -- Ago -- The briars -- The Minneapolis poem -- The window washer -- In case of -- Poem for my sleeping pills -- No-motion replay -- The explorer -- Waking in someone else's clothes -- The new craziness -- The archeologists -- Together we're strangers -- Charity water -- In lieu of flowers -- The painter -- That was now, this is then -- Scared sacred -- Full body scan -- The gentle reader asks the poet, "Where do you get the ideas for your poems?" …”


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Tell me the truth, doctor : easy-to-understand answers to your most confusing and critical health questions by Besser, Richard, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…; Does using too much salt cause high blood pressure? ; Are my sleep habits making me fat? ; Can drinking diet soda make me gain weight? …”


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