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Presents readings by such twentieth century poets as Wm. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Pablo Neruda and T.S. Eliot.
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the ten...
Modern poems deal with genocide, wars, revolutions, the Holocaust, political repression, apartheid, and the democracy movement in China
Draws on a wide range of verse forms such as epigrams, street ballads, classical poetry, Augustan satire, and advertising jingles.
The pace of change in recent decades has been dizzying. An index of books was a static item; discovery might require searching several places to find both the index and the item. Now the variety of materials managed and collected by individual libraries is expansive, and the conc...
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories, becoming real neighbors.
Metis Families is a Genealogical Compendium of the Fur Trade and Red River Settlement (Manitoba) families who also settled in Saskatchewan, Alberta, North Dakota, Montana and the Pacific Northwest.Included in Volume 3 in a series of 11 books: Linear Ancestors and Descendants of E...
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilli...