New additions to the C.B. West poetry collection include:

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT   
A new verse translation by Simon Armitage     2/08
    The Green Knight, a mysterious and powerful creature, offers a fateful and deadly challenge that tests the honor and courage of Gawain, King Arthur's youngest knight.

THE WORLD DOESN'T END: POEMS           by Charles Simic     (award winner)
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of prose poems by Charles Simic. 11/07

JACKSTRAWS: POEMS        by Charles Simic
    A collection of sixty-two poems, including "Medieval Miniature," "Streets Paved with Gold," "Barber College Shave," "Mother Tongue," "Private Eye," and "Non-stop War with Bugs" 11/07

CINNAMON GIRL:  Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box   
by Juan Felipe Herrera
    Yolanda, a Puerto Rican girl, tries to come to terms with her painful past as she waits to see if her uncle recovers from injuries he suffered when the towers collapsed on September 11, 2001.  4/07

I DON'T WANT TO BE CRAZY: A Memoir of Anxiety Disorder        
by Samantha Schutz
    After going away to college and finding the independence she desired difficult to handle, the author begins to suffer from incapacitating anxiety attacks that change everything she had planned. 4/07

DEAD ON TOWN LINE        by Leslie Connor
    A murdered teen's experience of her afterlife includes her efforts to have her body found and to provide comfort to her loved ones.  Told in free-verse poems. 4/07