Adele Kenny's new book, Where Eternity Is Learned, is a skillfully crafted and intensely centered collection. Written in a range of styles (narrative, lyrical, lineated, prose, and experimental), these poems are defined by Kenny's signature imagery, distinctive metaphor, masterful control of phrasing and line, and perfectly paced sonic impression. Forged from the crucible of elegy and celebration, this collection achieves a virtuoso interaction between language and life. These are poems that continue to resonate long after their reading is done. They reach courageously and affirmatively into reflections on grief and gladness toward the inherent grace that defines our humanity.

A vote is a kind of prayer about the world we desire for ourselves and our children. --Senator Raphael Warnock

Your voices are being heard and you're proving to our ancestors that their struggles were not in vain. Now we have one more thing we need to do to walk in our true power, and that is to vote. --Beyoncé

For 250 years Americans have marched and fought, been beaten and jailed, and even died, to win and protect your right to vote. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, but the right to vote was limited to white male property-owners.

Although that right was extended to men regardless of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude by law in 1870, it wasn't until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that barriers to African Americans voting were struck down. The fight for women's suffrage wasn't won until 1920. Native Americans finally gained citizenship and the right to vote in 1924. And young men of eighteen who could be called on to fight and die for America could not vote until 1971.

This inspiring history of the voting rights movement in America chronicles those battles from Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul through Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, John Lewis, James Clyburn, and Michelle and Barack Obama and urges us to remember, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said, Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves--and the only way they could do that is by not voting at all.

The definition of the Baroque age is still subject to debate among critics and historians. In one of its most commonly accepted meanings, Baroque describes some aspects of 17th-century art, with sumptuous Roma at the center, that upset the proportions and static harmony of the Renaissance--already undermined by Mannerism during the previous century--through the use of curves, strange movements of forms, the daring optics of illusionism, and theatricality. Bernini, Borromini, da Cortona, and Rubens were, among others, decisive examples. In addition to these theatrical expressions, the art of the 17th century also included quite different trends such as the naturalism in the works of Caravaggio, classicism in the works of the Carraccis and of Poussin, the intimacy of Vermeer and the pictorial atmospheres in the works of Rembrandt and Velazquez. The Rococo was born in France at the beginning of the 18th -century, characterized by airy forms, arabesques, elegance, and luminous colors in painting as well as sculpture and architecture; instead of heroic or sacred themes, it embodied a more lighthearted glance at aristocratic life, or scenes of daily life that might be gay or frivolous. Watteau, Fragonard, Boucher, Canaletto, and Bellotto were representatives of this style in painting while, in architecture, Neumann and the magnificent Residenz in Wurzburg are particularly worthy of note.

The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh, his autobiographical masterpiece, which Alfred Kazin called A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence, and power. According to Sir Herbert Read: A great achievement. The magnificent portrait of the author's mother is as relentless, as detailed, as loving as a late Rembrandt.

Consigned to the Jewish Orphan Home in Cleveland, Ohio, by his mother, a lady barber, Dahlberg's vagabond life took him to Berkeley, California, expatriate Paris, in the late twenties, and Greenwich Village; but always back to Kansas City, home of the Star Lady Barbershop, and his mother.

Dahlberg's stormy literary career spanned five decades and brought him into contact (and conflict) with many of the luminaries of his time, including D.H. Lawrence (who wrote the Introduction to his first novel, Bottom Dogs), Granville Hicks, Sidney Hook, James T. Farrell, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Graves, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Alice Neel, and Allen Ginsberg.

Charles DeFanti was a close friend of Edward Dahlberg for the last four years of Dahlberg's life, conducted hundreds of interviews for this book and has written an Afterword for this edition.

A poetic exploration of infidelity over the ages, with 45 poems analysed by a man whose business is assessing human foibles.

A spectacular presentation of photographs of Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings captured just before their destruction - most seen here for the first time.
This endlessly absorbing book that is at once a record of destruction, a haunting collection of relics, and a door into the past. - John Carey, The Sunday Times.

Each picture contains a novel in this deeply moving, unforgettable book. - Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express. A magical book about the capital's past. - Sunday Times.

Remo Jacuzzi has spent fifteen years interviewing family members, friends and employees of the Jacuzzi Brothers in order to compile this definitive history. Although this immigrant family name has become a brand name, the Jacuzzis were prolific innovators in several industries; and their descendents operate wineries, olive groves, restaurants and even a successor company in the field of hydrotherapy - Jason International.

The term Romanesque, however imprecise, is a useful key to our understanding of a period of profound innovation. Just as the romance languages shared a common root and became differentiated as they spread across Europe, the artistic language of the Romanesque diversified as it was interpreted in the various regions of Europe from the 11th century. This makes it possible to speak of a European art, even at a time of extreme geopolitical fragmentation. Common cultural references and the shared requirements and purposes of art resulted in a substantial unity in the production of the period, within a social context in which horizons, particularly human ones, were expanding. From the mid-11th century an economic and commercial revival led to the increased movements, in addition to military expeditions and bands of pilgrims, of people and merchandise across Europe. In parallel with the expansionist impulse that triggered the military conquest of the west, the Reconquista and the Crusades, there was a widespread program of construction of sacred buildings. These, with the rediscovery of Roman techniques such as vaulted ceilings, could be built on a monumental scale. The Church was the leading patron of the arts and the custodian of artistic treasures. It also led the way to salvation, which was announced by the severe sculpted figures animating the doorways of the great cathedrals.

Soars above the world of mundane reality and lures its readers into a world of sinister fantasy and haunting unreality.--Orville Prescott, The New York TimesR

The world is falling apart at every turn as New York PI Giacomo Berg and missing-persons expert Bonita B.C. Boyd search desperately for old friend Peter Proust before he disappears from the face of the earth. Set in the months prior to the arrival of the last Millennium, Peter Proust is working intently to disappear into the landscape in Texas. Berg is joined by Texas-born friend Boyd, whose job is to document disappeared persons in Latin America and assist those political refugees who appear at her door.

Their search leads deep into the vulnerable underbelly of America where they encounter a cult hidden in the East Texas woods run by a messianic rock star, a survivalist waiting for the bomb, and people dodging falling space debris. All are trying to protect themselves in a world gone haywire. Berg and Boyd are pulled into this quicksand when they are recruited to assist a suburban Houston community being poisoned by local chemical plants.

The tortuous course of their quest is mirrored by the meandering course of the relationship between Berg and Boyd as they navigate the swamps, deserts, and mountains of the Southwest, working desperately to rescue Peter Proust before he vanishes completely.

In January 2021, as Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States, she lay her hand on a Bible that had belonged to her hero Thurgood Marshall. A courageous and brilliant lawyer and jurist, Marshall won the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, ending legal racial segregation in America--a significant step in the continuing struggle of Black Americans for equal treatment in their own country. In 1967, Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court justice, and he continues to inspire decades after his death.

This accessible collection of Marshall's own words spans his entire career, from his fearless advocacy with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and 1950s, to his arguments as the first Black solicitor general under LBJ and his Supreme Court opinions and dissents. Introductions to the writings provide historical and legal context.

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A rollicking good read that, as the Irish say, would make a dead man laugh. --Philadelphia Inquirer

Malachy McCourt was already famous as an actor, saloon-keeper, and late-night television personality when Angela's Ashes was published. Brother Frank's book introduced the incorrigible, indomitable young Malachy to a worldwide audience that was charmed, and clamored for more.

Frank's book was a hard act to follow, but Malachy's delightful memoir, which picked up where Angela's Ashes left off, won critical acclaim and commercial success.

Born in Brooklyn, and raised in the lanes of Limerick, Malachy returned to New York in 1952, at age 20. After stints in the Air Force and as a longshoreman, he parlayed his gifts of gab and conviviality into an ownership position at Malachy's--the first singles' bar--located around the corner from the Barbizon Hotel for young women, whose glamorous residents frequently repaired to Malachy's for a tipple and flirt.

Malachy's madcap, manic life ricocheted from higher highs to lower lows as he tried selling Bibles at the beach on Fire Island and smuggling gold in Zurich. He entertained a voracious public on the stage as a member of the Irish Players and was a semi-regular on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar. In these years, he was almost always drunk, almost always chasing (or being chased) by women. His gifts for language and storytelling are so well honed that when you read A Monk Swimming, You'll laugh uncontrollably . . . You're in the grip of a master raconteur (Houston Chronicle).

Now the last of the McCourts of Limerick, Malachy reflects on the tumultuous events of the twenty-five years since he wrote A MONK SWIMMING in his Afterword.

Read it and weep: they don't make lives like this anymore. -The Irish Voice

China, with its multifaceted production, today holds a place of exceptional importance in museum collections and art galleries worldwide; Japan, with a clear influence in the figurative arts, graphic arts and aesthetics of the West, which began in the 19th century; and Korea, with its ancient ceramic and calligraphy tradition.

Buddhist religious and cultural traditions were introduced originally in China at the beginning of the the Christian age spread to surrounding areas and their influence extended to the arts and craftwork as it merged with established indigenous religious practices: Taoism and the cult of ancestors in China; Shintoism in Japan, and shamanism in Korea.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime defying notions about the way women are. This collection of her legal writings illuminates the intellect, humor, and toughness that made the Notorious R.B.G. a cultural icon as well as a profoundly influential jurist.

Newly updated to include dissents from Justice Ginsburg's final days on the Court, the book begins with her passionate briefs as an advocate for women's rights in the 1970s, leading to a series of Court decisions that demolished barriers to gender equality. Transformative majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia (1996), follow, along with famous dissents such as Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire (2007), Shelby County v. Holder (2013), and recently Little Sisters of the Poor (2020)--a case that had Justice Ginsburg, true to her indomitable character, participating in oral argument from her hospital bed.

Many of these writings are accompanied by Ginsburg's statements during oral argument and bench announcements of decisions, which framed the issues in a way more understandable to the public. Also included is an introduction summarizing Ginsburg's life story and legacy, as well as explanatory notes for each case that provide context, demystify the arguments, and make these writings accessible to a nonlegal audience.