Product Review

The most popular Literature anthology continues to bring students the finest literature from fables to poetweets.  The Twelfth Edition of Literature: An Introductiuon to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing,edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, includes eleven new stories from students€ favorite authors:  ZZ Packer€s €œBrownies,€ Ray Bradbury€s, €œThe Sound of Thunder,€  Anne Tyler€s, €œTeenage Wasteland,€ David Leavitt€s, €œA Place I€ve Never Been€ and Isabel Allende€s €œThe Judge€s Wife.€  More than 60 new accessible and engaging poems have been added including former Iraqi soldier Brian Turner€s €œThe Hurt Locker,€ Katha Pollit€s €œThe Mind-Body Problem€ as well as poetweets from Lawrence Bridges and Robert Pinsky.  In addition, there are new poems from Kay Ryan, Benjamin Alire Saenz, H. D, Gary Snyder, Joy Harjo, Tami Haaland, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, and William Carlos Williams. Three new one-act plays help €œease€ students into the study of this genre. The new plays include two comedies-- David Ives€s, Sure Thing and Jane Martin€s Beauty€“as well as Edward Bok Lee€s experimental drama El Santo Americano. In addition, Milcha Sanchez-Scott€s The Cuban Swimmer has been added.