Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> American - General

Howard Zahniser (1906-1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System, was the culmination of Zahniser's years of tenacious lobbying and his work with conservationists across the nation. In 1964, fifty-four wilderness areas in thirteen states were part of the system; today the number has grown to 757 areas, protecting more than a hundred million acres in forty-four...

At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist Edouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that -Faulkner's oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African Americans, - a goal that -will be achieved by a radically 'other' reading.- In the spirit of Glissant's prediction, this collection places William Faulkner's literary oeuvre in dialogue with a hemispheric canon of black writing from the United States and the Caribbean. The volume's seventeen essays and poetry selections chart lines of engagement, dialogue, and reciprocal resonance between Faulkner...

A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush.

You never forget your first crush . . .

CRUSH brings together stories of heartbreak, humiliation, and hilarity from a roster of popular luminaries, including James Franco, Carrie Fisher, Stephen King, Roxane Gay, Jodi Picoult, Emily Gould, and Hanna Rosin, who share intimate memories of that first intense taste of...

POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN

by

Walt Whitman

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti

A New Edition

CONTENTS

DRUM TAPS:

• MANHATTAN ARMING
• 1861
• THE UPRISING
• BEAT BEAT DRUMS
• SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK
• THE BIVOUAC'S FLAME
• BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE
• CITY OF SHIPS
• VIGIL ON THE FIELD
• THE FLAG
• THE WOUNDED
• A SIGHT IN CAMP
• A GRAVE
• THE DRESSER
• A LETTER FROM CAMP
• WAR DREAMS
• THE...

Anais Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in their unexpurgated form, that the world began to learn the full details of Nin s fascinating life and the emotional and literary high-wire acts she committed both in documenting it and in defying the mores of 1950s America. Trapeze begins where the previous volume, Mirages, left off: when Nin met Rupert Pole, the young man who became not only her lover but later her husband in a...