"JoAo Cabral de Melo Neto is one of Brazil's most acclaimed poets . . . From his early days, Mr. Cabral has written poems that are marked by a captivating use of simple language."-"New York Times Book Review"
Disdaining personal revelation and sentimental vision, the poems of JoAo Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999) present squalor, desperation and injustice without comment or obvious compassion.
In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career-six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes." She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the profo