Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places—never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems spe

At the end of the day a little boy falls asleep as his mama reads about a bear hibernating. Full color.

When he visits a little girl's home, a black bear with no manners makes a terrible mess until another visitor helps him see the error of his ways.

Three species of bear inhabit North America: the grizzly, the polar bear, and the black bear. But the American black bear is truly North America's bear, found o

Adam Craig, a forty year-old stock trader in Chicago, who, finding his personal life at a standstill, takes the advice of a therapist and travels to his childho