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
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Linda Barrett Osborne shows the day to day experiences of African Americans in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a time of a deeply divided racially segrated United States of America. The information gleaned from photographs and interviews shows an America who used the labor and military service of a previously enslaved people but refused equality or recognition of that which was evident. The author presents a painful and powerful...
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Series
Language
English
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"No one is more surprised than Judge Deborah Knott by her engagement to her childhood friend Dwight Bryant. Stressed out by the impending marriage, Deborah agrees to fill in for a vacationing judge in the hills of Cedar Gap. With its fresh mountain air and gorgeous fall foliage, it's the perfect place to clear her head ... until a local doctor is brutally murdered. Presiding over the probable cause case against the main suspect, Deborah decides the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Marking the year of his ninetieth birthday, one of the masters of contemporary poetry presents his ninth collection. Stanley Kunitz, recipient of both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes, here gathers a rich selection of his work, including new poems that remind us of his prefatory statement: "Art is that chalice into which we pour the wine of transcendence." Nearly all the poems of his later years, beginning with The Testing Tree (1971), are included,...
11) A village life
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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.
12) Selected poems
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.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York City to small New England towns; from crowds spilling onto the sidewalk on a hot summer night to an abandoned wooden church and a car graveyard overgrown with weeds. His subjects range from a bakery early in the morning to the fingerprints on a stranger's front door; from waiters in an empty restaurant to the decorations in a window of a funeral home;...
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...
18) 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...
20) Praise
Author
Series
The American poetry volume 17
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
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