Library of Congress.
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than 200 full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and photographs from the library's magnificent archives, this collection is a visual celebration of the rarely seen treasures in one of the world's most famous libraries and the brilliant catalog system that has kept...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful gift book commemorating the nation's most cherished springtime tradition, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, through original works of art from the Library of Congress collections Experience the splendor of the annual spring viewing of the nation's sakura (cherry blossoms) with this stunning keepsake book. Original artwork, photographs, and objects from the Library of Congress collections illuminate the story of these landmark trees...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Here for the first time in one volume is a selection of the astonishing poems of Rita Dove, the nation's new Poet Laureate, the youngest poet so named, as well as the first African-American chosen for the position. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum, intimate ruminations on home and the...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems by twentieth-century American poet William Stafford, featuring unpublished works from his last year of life, including the poem he wrote the day he died, and providing selections drawn from throughout his career, from the 1960s through the 1990s.
10) A village life
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The eleventh collection by the author of "Averno" and "Ararat" includes the piece "Tributaries," an exploration of a timeless Mediterranean village and the contrast between its natural and architectural elements.
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This volume presents a collection of poems reflecting the author's life. Mysteries of light, darkness, temporality, and eternity weave throughout his poetry. His memories are focused and profound, of Pennsylvania miners and neighborhood streetcars, a conversation with a boyhood teacher or parent, the distinct qualities of autumnal light and gentle rain, well-cultivated loves, and "our long evenings and astonishment." From the universe's contradictions,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"In his nineteenth collection, Charles Simic, the poet of the vaguely ominous sound and the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves closer to the dark heart of history and human behavior." "Simic understands the strange interplay between ordinary life and extremes, between reality and imagination, and he writes with absolute purity about those contradictory but simultaneous states of being or feeling: "Everything about you / My life, is both...
14) So forth: poems
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1996]55.
Language
English
Description
A collection of sixty-four poems by the former United States Poet Laureate and the winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature.
15) Gulf music
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky's first book of poetry since Jersey Rain (2000). On the large scale of war or the personal scale of family history, in the movements of people and cultures across oceans or between eras, these poems discover connections between things seemingly disparate. Gulf Music is perhaps the most ambitious, politically impassioned, and inventive book by this major...
17) Praise
Author
Series
The American poetry volume 17
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An overview of our storehouses of knowledge, from the earliest library building (Philadelphia, 1745) to midcentury modern and beyond. Although new technologies appear poised to alter it, the library remains a powerful site for discovery, and its form is still determined by the geometry of the book and the architectural spaces devised to store and display it. American Libraries provides a history and panorama of these structures, inside and out, encompassing...
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