I found Carnivocal: A Celebration of Sound Poetry to be very poetic and refreshing. I couldn't believe how good it was. You two have done an amazing job.

Fascinating sayings that make you wonder where they came from. My Mother-in law keeps coming up with ones like "She had more nerve than a canal horse"

Chess and poetry have a long history together. A game based upon a battle metaphor and individual confrontation has a great deal of symbolic material and ideas as a source of poetry. Solway's poems, using the chess imagery as a springboard for a number of observations and images, work quite well. Nothing in this work is the daring gambit that a 19th Century poet might bring to the chess motif, but in poetry, as in chess, the thrill of the unrestrained tactician has largely given way to the quiet, restrained accumulation of minor advantages and arcane theoretical novelties. If Mr. Solway's poems strike one more as the work of a positional Petrosian than a madness-tinged Morphy, the reader does not suffer. The work does not make any bold sacrifices in search of a quick checkmate, but the use of the metaphor to describe family interactions is quietly winning, and ultimately succeeds. This is accessible material, capably written, and I recommend it.

Better than the Haynes manual, however, lacks in easy to follow instructions for repair and removal for most components. Gives great detail of specifications. Not a book for major repairs done by a shadetree mechanic.

This book is an excellent source of imformation for the repair and maintence of older Celicas and Supras. The only drawback is that it covers such a wide range of years and models that it can be difficult to locate information pertaining to a specific year/model. This book is useful for amateur mechanics or anyone who just wants to save some money on car repairs.

I've used a lot of manuals over the past 35 years. to be totally ownest all i wanted to do is look up a few spec's before i got to the shop to save a little time, and now i'm commentting on a book that i have yet to read. Typing from experiance. Motors, Mitchel, and chilton are all about dead even with there information. But i think that as far as the labor guide goes chilton is the prefrence for me personaly. But there is room for improvement. This is my guesstament. they get there times from cars that are clean and not driven by a varitey of people. So there is not other related problems that come with the abuse and neglect that the average moreone puts them through. Howed i do ? thank you and have a nice and safe drive. Kerry Stafford ASE. CERT. Master Engine Machinist

i loved this book, it was so hard to find a mechanic who could work on my car. This book was a life saver! it was direct and straight to the piont.

This book, as Dr. Gladney indicates in the preface, generates a new watershed in the study of overseas Chinese and other diasporic informal immigrants communities in that it has been produced by a member of one of these new global tribes. It helps us understand why these people would rather lose their achivements in their home countries and come to a new environment to construct their lives with uncertainty. The methods that the author employed are very impresive and contributed to the ethnographic studies by a tribe member studing that tribe.

Gianna Patriarca deserves a well-earned "Bravo," or more correctly put in Italian "Brava," for her collection of poems in Ciao, Baby. This poet proffers the intimate details of the lives of those who manifest a greater awareness of the background of their grandparents, parents and themselves and how they can be made to feel excluded and slighted. Patriarca praises with wit and conviction on what appears to be the 'ordinary' yet she brings the reader closer to understanding the struggles of the heart for self-affirmation. She captures her familiar and familial world in lower case letters. The "i"s' are not capitalized in her poems to emphasize further the feelings of those who do not fit in the norm or are part of the standard-yet they have been given a voice. This poet conveys a clear and vivid account of the complex issues of acceptance and redefinition that applies to those who are still sifting through and shaking off the negative aspect of the heritage of their ancestors and affirming the positive implications in a different environment. EF Evangelista Luxembourg

Canadians probably know much more about children's theatre in the United States than people in the United States know about Canadian children's theatre. This volume of six children's plays may go a long ways in reversing this one-sidedness.

The plays in this collection were originally produced in such places as Toronto, Ontario, Vancouver, and Regina. The plays represent a wide variety of styles and approaches, from the innovative adaptation of THE SECRET GARDEN to the absurdist piece BEWARE THE QUICKLY WHO. The collection features several plays aimed at younger children, including MANDY AND THE MAGUS, THE COPETOWN CITY KITE CRISIS, and MY BEST FRIEND IS TWELVE FEET HIGH. It also includes an ensemble-created piece, LOVE AND WORK ENOUGH, which is better suited to more mature audiences.

Each play is prefaced with a brief biography of the author and a brief history of the play's development, which provide the reader with glimpses of children's theatre in Canada. This reviewer would like to see those brief passages supplemented by a preface which would put the plays and playwrights in context and would provide an introduction to the Canadian children's theater profession to readers beyond the country's borders. Since the plays in this collection were originally produced between 1972 and 1991, this reviewer would encourage Playwrights Canada Press to produce a similar collection of Canadian children's plays that were created during the 1990's.

John D. Newman, BYU Children's Book and Play Review