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"... a most welcome addition to the body of scholarship on the Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate." -- Religious Studies Review

The fascinating life and times of Nana Asma'u (1793 - 1864), a West African woman who was a Muslim scholar and poet. As the daughter of the spiritual and political leader of the Sokoto community, Asma'u was a role model and teacher for other Muslim women as well as a scholar of Islam and a key advisor to her father as he waged a jihad to bring Islam to the population of what is now northwestern Nigeria.

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An important book in Islamic scholarship
This is a realy important book and it is a shame that it is so overlooked. Nana Asma'u was the daughter of Sheikh Usuman dan Fodio, scholar and warrior and sister of the Caliph Muhammad Bello. This book not only describes the Islamic community that thrived in West Africa under Muhammad Bello but also the importance given to education especially the education of women.

In this Nana Asma'u played an especially important role she not only being sister to the Caliph but an important Islamic scholar in her own right. This book details the methodolay used by the Muslim community of West Africa in education and how Islam was spread by educated Muslim women such as Nana Asmau.

This book is a valuable read and one I would recomend to anyone who had an interest in either Islam/Sufism or African history.

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Walter has drawn on new material to construc t his eminently readable study of Gurney''s life and work. It covers his Gloucester childhood and precocious adolescence, his student days, his early career, the war and his slide i nto insanity. ' ... Read more

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The moving tribute to the young man Oprah Winfrey called "an inspiration"-told by the woman who raised him.

Mattie Stepanek's Heartsongs books were a phenomenon. Not only did they hit the bestseller lists, but the books-and Mattie himself- were a source of inspiration to many, and brought him major recognition. Jimmy Carter described young Mattie Stepanek as "the most remarkable person I have ever known."

In Messenger, Jeni Stepanek shares the inspiring story of her son's life. Mattie was born with a rare disorder called Dysautonomic Mitochondrial Myopathy, and Jeni was advised to institutionalize him. Instead, she nurtured a child who transformed his hardships into a worldwide message of peace and hope. Though Mattie suffered through his disease, his mother's disabilities, and the loss of his three older siblings, he never abandoned his positive spirit. His Heartsong- the word he used to describe a person's inner self-spread a philosophy that peace begins with an attitude and can spread to the entire world. ... Read more

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Another Angel at the side of Jesus
I read this book in two sittings. Having a hard time reading it through the tears. These tears are mostly from the overwhelming joy I felt from Jeni (Mattie's Mom). How proud I know that she is of not only Mattie but also of her other three children afflicted with this fatal disease. I felt her pain, her Joy, and her love as a mother. I sat with our nine year old son and read some of Mattie's poetry and explained what message Mattie was spreading. Again, crying and knowing how fortunate I am to share this story with all our children. I will teach our children Mattie's message of peace, love, and of course playing after a storm. Mattie will live in our hearts forever and we are so blessed that God let us borrow Mattie long enough to hear his message. My children will be taught to always be kind to their school mates; especially the children that might need a friend. Mattie is a true inspiration to anyway willing to open their hearts and share their "heart songs". I also pray that Jeni realizes how blessed her children are that they had her to call "Mom". I hope that everyone is lucky enough to read this book; as it is a true honor to know Mattie and his mom. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing Mattie and this beautiful story.

Small Person Global Impact
I recently had the pleasure of discussing this book, and Jeni's son Mattie's first book, Journey Through Heartsongs on a TV segment I do on books that matter.I felt both needed to be featured to get the full impact of the story Jeni tells of her remarkable son's life.At first I found it difficult to read Messenger because I kept getting caught up in the 'seeing' the hospital scenes.Then I realized that was because the book was so well written.I relaxed into it, and was able to take away so much.Most of all this book sets the stage for why Jeni -- a mother who did not lose one child but all four of her children -- is devoting her life to carrying on the work Mattie started.Jeni is trying to teach teens to be global peacemakers just like Mattie.She is taking up where his work left off.Focusing the legacy of his work on the eternal age group of his peers seems to be pure inspiration.In 14 years, Mattie succeed in living with a termainal disease and found a way to touch the world with a message of meaning and hope.He succeed in setting and achieving goals even as his body fought to take him out of the game.He succeed in creating so much love that this message is being kept alive not just in a book but as a program of compassion in action.Messenger allows you to understand just how impossible all Mattie did really was -- and yet allows you to understand just how heJourney Through Heartsongs did it.Thank you, Jeni for a great book.Peace, Andrea T. Goeglein, [...]

Remarkable & Triumphant!
What I find most amazing is that Mattie Stepanek really showed us how to see a part of ourselves that already exists. Like a patient Winged Angel, he reminded us of the simplicity of just "being"..hopeful, playful, insightful, peaceful. His vision was extraordinary. His faith, contagious. Yet his greatest gift to us that still remains today is the "knowing" that all things are possible!

Tender, reflective, and heartwarming, Jeni Stepanek takes you on an uplifting journey of Mattie's life while holding your hand, sharing intimate thoughts and observations. An incredible story that will captivate and inspire you.... and leave you forever changed.

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You will never read another book this inspiring!
All the world remembers Mattie Stepanek. But to really know Mattie is to see him through his mom, Jeni's, eyes. How she captured and gave us each and every moment of his and her story is beyond imagination. Through her book Messenger, she truly imbues us with Mattie's legacy. Keep a box of tissues handy. Tears will flow. But it's Jeni's behind-the-scenes personal accounts that leave us even more aware that Mattie was indeed a messenger sent from God.

Absoultly Amazing!!!!
THIS BOOK SHOULD BE A MOVIE! The positive outlook from this child surely came from his mother.So many lives have been touched from this true story. ... Read more

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Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944), Hungary´s classicist-avantgarde poet, was also a prolific translator and editor who wrote some of his greatest poems in the labor camps and copper mines of Yugoslavia before being killed by the Nazis at an early age. Leaving behind a body of work that ranks with the classics of Hungarian verse, his influence is now being felt among a younger generation. This collection of the proceedings of the Radnóti Memorial Conference explores such topics as neo-classicism and avant-garde in Radnóti´s work, Radnóti and the Bible, and his relationship to modern writers and the ancients. ... Read more

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Magnus Felix Ennodius (474-521), deacon of Milan and bishop of Pavia in the turbulent years after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, was a prolific writer of letters, poetry, speeches, and pamphlets on the controversies that beset the church in his day. In the Middle Ages, he was read as a model of style and source of canon law. More recently, however, Ennodius' writings have been denigrated as the vapid product of a frivolous mind more concerned with form than content. Magnus Felix Ennodius: A Gentleman of the Church sets the record straight by restoring Ennodius to his social and literary context. Ennodius stands revealed as a man on the cusp of the ancient and medieval worlds, his thought still shaped according to classical norms, but his writings informed with a sensibility that prefigures that of the Christian Middle Ages. As the only book-length study of Ennodius, here the author explores all aspects of Ennodius' life and literary production to augment the collective understanding of him on two major fronts, rhetoric and meaning, so that he can take his place as an important author and historical figure. Deeply insightful, and refreshingly original, the author breaks new ground in studying this period of history, so often overshadowed by the classical and middle ages that immediately precede and succeed it.
S. A. H. Kennell is Adjunct Professor of Classics, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Floating somewhere between fiction and memoir, acclaimed poet, performer, and writer Justin Chin has created a literary dreamscape in which the landscapes of childhood, homelands, bodies, lovers, and desires succumb to whimsy, revision, and denial. Don't even bother trying to figure out what is real and what is imagined-you would only frustrate yourself and miss the best parts. Allow yourself the luxury of floating here, wrapped in language and memory, in a place where killing snakes, stern discipline, family pets, and childhood vacations share equal time with unrequited love, the mournful specters of ex-lovers, imagined passions, and the enigmatic power of a good kiss. With wild grace, Chin bounds through actual events and imagined outcomes, reconciling what is lost, taken away, denied, outgrown, left behind, survived, remembered, and reclaimed. ... Read more

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Amazing Read
What can I say? I found this book from a review in the British Gay Times. A glowing review which called the authour 'a real writer'. They were right.

Beautiful, Non-Traditional Book left me wanting
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I feel about this book. It does contain some of the most beautiful images I've ever read; yet the over-all sensation I am left with is disappointment. That, however, may have been the point, as the author uses some wonderful imagery when talking about loss, emptiness, love, family. The book is really not so much a novel as an observation of various incidents in the author's life (fictional or real, I'm not quite sure).It is in these "snippets" that the author is at his best: drawing incredible detail into small events and eliciting a sigh, a memory, or an "I know that feeling" reaction from the reader. But when viewed as a whole, the book appears to have no direction. When I closed the cover, I wondered what I was supposed to take away from this mish-mash of writings other than melancholy. Now, the author is a performance artist and at times passages of this book can take on the pretentiousness I despise in most performance arts pieces. (The section "26 Acts" falls into this category for me.) Luckily, those moments are rare. All-in-all, I would love to read a more traditional novel -- not necessarily A to Z plot, but closer to that -- because I think this man has a wonderful way with words. ... Read more

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A biography written with a lot of heart & soul!
Harry Lang has done an extremely beautiful job writing such an inspiring biography of Bob Panara!I doubt there could have been a better book written - for this is not only about a legend who teaches from the Heart and Soul, but is written by a man who, too, does things from the Heart and Soul.

Fascinating to read of Bob's life and especially touching to read about the incredible bond he has with his late wife, Shirley.It becomes so apparent that Shirley and Bob were truly best friends, partners, and the love of each other's lives.

I loved how Harry skillfully decided which information to include without diminishing the amazing impact of Bob Panara on countless people's lives.This easily could have been four times its original length!

This book should be a required reading for all who are studying to become Teachers of the Deaf.It also should be on the bookshelves of those who love baseball, theater, and literature.Kudos, Harry!
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The letter and the spirit
I agree with everything L. Rosenstiel has said (and well I should; she wrote an excellent Boulanger biography - Nadia Boulanger:A Life in Music), and yet her criticisms don't seem to bother me much.There is so much wisdom in Boulanger that she can't help but say something valuable.Her opinions of various composers, artists, writers, and musicians she had known (many of them her students) - some of the greatest in 20th-century art - are perceptive and surprising.She valued attentiveness to the moment and the savoring of it afterward, sometimes continually for years. She never seemed to forget anything that really mattered to her.But more important are her "spiritual" lessons.If you brought this up, I'm sure she would have put you down for a fool or a worshipper of a false idol.

What we get is a little book of wisdom.I happen to be fairly old, and I learned something about how I should have tried to live my life.For Boulanger, art, philosophy, and religion existed together, although she never mistook one for another.She had what I think of as French clarity in her thought. She was both a practicing Catholic and a French intellectual with a distaste, rare among the breed, for bull pockey.

Boulanger's portrait of her mother differs somewhat from Rosenstiel's view.Rosenstiel finds the mother overbearing.Boulanger appreciates her mother's attention and never doubts that her mother loved her.She considers that her mother's insistance on one's best efforts made her as a human being.

Boulanger's - not modesty exactly - but tough-minded evaluation of herself I think erred on the side of toughness.She abandoned composition after the death of her sister, whom she considered the more artistically genuine.She had no interest in reviving her compositions and viewed them as both well-made and a waste of a listener's time.She claimed she did nothing other than what she had learned at the Conservatoire.In this, at any rate, she sold herself short.She had a sweeping vision of music that connected pieces from the medieval to the modern, regardless of their surface style.To her, the similarities between Machaut and Stravinsky mattered more than the definition of a specific period.Also, her insistence that a composer's knowing the basics of craft freed his talent, if he had any to begin with, rather than stifled it.The example of her devotion not only to music, but to discovering the spirit of each student as well, inspired those students.She wangled a commission from conductor Walter Damrosch for her pupil Aaron Copland: a symphony for organ and orchestra.At the time, Copland had never heard a note of his own orchestration.It put the wind up him.He asked her whether she thought he could do it.She replied, "But of course."It was that piece that established him in the U.S. as a composer.Her clarity and her devotion and belief in talent I think attracted the best of their time to her.She continually denigrated her intellect, but she managed to keep the friendship of the great figures of her time.Paul Valery, Faure, Stravinsky, and Andre Malraux very likely didn't waste much energy on the merely okay.

The book also contains a Boulanger discography, an introduction by Elliott Carter (a pupil), and reminiscences from friends and students.One reminiscence I could have done without was that of Pierre Schaeffer - self-indulgent twaddle that many Europeans mistake for profound.In fact, it's the opposite of the clarity of both Valery and Boulanger.Aside from that, I consider this a wonderful book, if not exactly a biography.

Fanciful, sometimes invented dialogues
The author, although his focus is not on presenting absolute truth, is renowned for his ability to evoke the atmosphere surrounding the musical greats. This is one in a series of impressionistic images he has written or produced. (He creates film documentaries that are not strictly accurate either). He can project to the reader a real feeling that he was there--and, in fact, he did visit with Nadia Boulanger on several occasions prior to writing this book, although he knew her neither extremely well nor extremely long before she died. It is well to bear that in mind while reading this nicely-translated volume. The author took everything Boulanger had to say at face value and did not do any evident reasearch to evaluate when she was being truthful and when she was simply inventing things--as she often did when she did not respect her interviewer and realized that whatever she said would be accepted without question. So, with the caveat that many things Boulanger said were repreated from prior interviews and that some are not objectively true, this book is a good read, particularly for those interested in the Boulanger mystique, which the author has "bought," as they say. ... Read more

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    Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York’s literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. In this vivid account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris’s Left Bank and Tangier—where you could write poetry, be radical, and be openly gay—Field opens the closet door to reveal, as never been seen before, some of the most important writers of his time.

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Alfred (not Arthur) Chester Is the Man -- But Do You Care?
The man who would marry Susan Sontag was Alfred Chester, a dislikeable gay writer with a great literary brain. If the now known identity of the mysterious titled man isn't good enough to make you want to read the book, please read on. If it is, you should stop reading and buy the book immediately.

Edward Field is a plain-spoken, secularist poet, yet the best (and most interesting) aspect of his memoir is his chapter on G.I. Gurdjieff and the equally mysterious novelist, Fritz Peters -- despite the fact that most of the memoir is devoted to Alfred Chester and author Paul Bowles. Also Fields' remarks about Peter Ouspensky, a student of Gurdjieff at one point in time, are sufficiently weighty as to have caused this reader to toss out his own copies of "Tertrium Organum" and "In Search of the Miraculous" and onto the pile of books going to the used book store or Goodwill.

Fields wants to make the case that Susan Sontag was somehow responsible for Alfred Chester's death, a contention that has no real evidence but which reads more as bitchiness and jealousy toward a strong intellectual woman, thus making an unattractive self-portrait.

The memoir at times is tedious and over-detailed in its study of minor artists even while it peaks a certain curiosity in, for example, Richard Howard's non-fiction writing and, say, the poetry of Gerald Locklin.

This memoir is well-written but it is, I think, eccentrically focused.

A Closet in Bohemia?
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The bohemian scene in New York was one that consisted of many members from the world of literature. Edward Field was a member of that group. He like others was searching for achievement and fulfillment as both a gay man and as a poet. With four collections of poetry to his credit--two of which were prize winners--who better can describe the vibrant scene at that time? He writes about the avant garde in Greenwich Village as well as of what was going on in the salons of the Left Bank in Paris and in the outpost of Tangiers. It was possible to be openly gay in those places outside of America and he provides us with exciting portraits of some of the people of letters of the time--Susan Sontag, Alfred Chester, May Swenson, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles and Frank O'Hara. In doing so he gives a lively look at the romantic age when Bohemia was an alternative lifestyle.
Edward Field, the author of this book, is plain-spoken as well as out spoken. He tells it like it was in this wonderful book at an age that contributed so much to the world of literature. At 70 years old, he manages to bring the bohemia of the 1950's to life once again. What he has written is a reminiscence which is made up of many little stories of people he knew, This is neither a social nor a literary history but a look at that group of people who chose to live as they saw fit. I suppose the book can be classified as a memoir which is centered on the sexual escapades of the people Field writes about. He describes for us the fertility of American artistry and does so with cheek and with openness. The focus is not exactly centered as the information is but it is beautifully written and so much fun to read.
The salons of Greenwich Village brought us so much and the stories continue to keep coming. Field was there--in the midst of it all--and has something to say about what was transpiring. It is half gossip and the other half fascinating stories and some of the details are amazing. The literary world of the time was primarily carried by gays and lesbians and we know they have stores to tell. The writers that Field tells about are colorful people and their stories are all part of a larger whole crafted by this wonderful writer---he is candid and he is very perceptive (we should all be thankful for his memory). As a picture of Americana and literature, this is the book to read. As for the title, you will have to read the book to find out what it means.

Eccentric Gay Focus of a Living Secularist Writer
The man who would marry Susan Sontag was Arthur Chester, a dislikeable gay writer with a great literary brain.If the answer to the mysterious title isn't good enough to make you want to read the book, please read on.If it is, you should stop reading and buy the book now.

Edward Field is a plain-spoken, secularist poet, yet the best (and most interesting) aspect of his memoir is his chapter on G.I. Gurdjieff and the equally mysterious novelist, Fritz Peters -- despite the fact that most of the memoir is devoted to Arthur Chester and author Paul Bowles. Also Fields' remarks about Peter Ouspensky, a student of Gurdjieff at one point in time, are sufficiently weighty such that it caused this reader to toss out "Tertrium Organum" and "In Search of the Miraculous" from his private library and onto the pile of books going to the used book store or Goodwill.

Fields wants to make the case that Susan Sontag was somehow responsible for Arthur Chester's death, a contention that has no real evidence but which reads more as bitchitness and jealousy toward a strong intellectual woman, thus making an unattractive self-portrait.

The memoior at times is tedious and over-detailed in its study of minor artists even while it peaks a certain curiosity in, for example, Richard Howard's non-fiction writing and, say, the poetry of Gerald Locklin.

This memoir is well-written but eccentrically focused.

memoir of the 1950s and Beat era mostly in Greenwich Village
Field, an award-winning gay poet now in his seventies, brings the bohemianism of the 1950s alive. The content is a reminiscence made up mostly of vignettes of individuals Field knew rather than literary or social history; though the impress of the bohemianism centered in Greenwich Village on American literature and culture comes out. Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, May Swenson, Paul Bowles, and Frank O'Hara all make appearances, along with numerous other famed artists and little-known, yet still colorful individuals including the author's partner Neil Derrick. The six-page index consists entirely of the names of individuals Field portrays to varying degrees. Much of the memoir focuses on the sexual escapades and relationships of many characters and how the author and others got by as homosexuals in this era when this was not as open as it is today, yet nonetheless accepted in the limited, adventurous world of Greenwich Village. For Field's position in the local art scene, his wide circle of friends and acquaintances, and his extended treatment of the libertine sexual activity, the work is a basic source on this notable, particularly fertile vein of American artistic creativity. ... Read more

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Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While Horses pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent New York punk scene, the book's core lies in a detailed analysis of Patti Smith's lyrics and includes discussions of lyrical preoccupations: love, sex, gender, death, dreams, god, metamorphosis, intoxication, apocalypse and transcendence. Philip shaw demonstrates how Horses transformed the possibilities of both poetry and rock music; and how it achieved nothing less than a complete and systematic derangement of the senses. ... Read more

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Probably not the best way to approach a rock and roll record
Patti Smith's masterpiece *Horses* is probably more deserving than most rock and roll records of serious academic study, especially given that Smith steeped herself in both high culture and rock history before making it.The best parts of the book are its artistic biography of Smith prior to its release.

On the other hand, the book relies heavily on the "theory" of Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and other late twentieth century noncemongers, whose melange of Marx and Freud persuaded the academic Left to waste its days in unintelligible, irrelevant indolence for a time.This hurts.

Shaw, for example, makes note of the androgyny of Mapplethorpe's dramatic cover photograph.He's not the first to notice.He relates it quite properly to the dandyism cultivated by French symbolist poets such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, artists that rank high in Smith's constellation of high culture influences.He goes on to describe the photograph as a statement that the "phallus is no more privileged than any other signifier", which does not appear to be meaningful, much less insightful.I'm not sure it contributes to understanding, even if kicking the privileged phallus is always fun.And he misses entirely the opportunity to compare Mapplethorpe's stark androgyny with the somewhat more baroque androgyny of male artists like David Bowie or Marc Bolan, which would appear to be immediately relevant in the context of Smith's Max's Kansas City days.

The high themes of sexuality and mortality run through the record.A Freudian take on the record is certainly a valid approach given these themes. Shaw's text is quite helpful when it doesn't go adrift in the lotus land of deconstruction.When it does, you can skip ahead a bit without missing anything.

Seminal Album
I recently read Philip Shaw's 33 1/3 book length essay on Patti Smith's seminal album Horses.Shaw is a Reader in the English Department at the University of Leicester; therefore his analysis is rife with theorists like Lacan, Benjamin, Freud, Jung, and others. But I think the real strength of his book lies in the biographical sketches he provides about her early life and development as an artist. Shaw does an admirable job with explaining how Smith got tot eh point where she could record an album like Horses and provided insight into the background and lyrics of the songs. For example I was unaware that "Redondo Beach" was code for a gay beach in the LA area. It was interesting to hear her past with people like Sam Shepard and the whole downtown scene. I find many of Smith's songs timeless-and the ones from this album include "Land," "Gloria," and "Redondo Beach." ... Read more

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British poet W.H. Auden achieved international renown for his vibrant depiction of everyday experience. The inspired eclecticism, passion, and anguish of his life have been recorded in this candid account, along with a personal portrait of his relationship of 30 years with poet and librettist Chester Kallman. The biography was written by Thelka Clark, their close friend over two decades. 15 photos.Amazon.com Review
Though Thekla Clark turned down a marriage proposal fromW.H. Auden in the early 1950s, she remained close to the poet and hiscompanion Chester Kallman until Auden's death in 1973. In memoir,Clark follows the lives of this unconventional couple, recalling theirhome on the Italian island of Ischia, their romps through Europe, andthe more troubling times Auden spent in New York. While Kallmanembraced his homosexuality and was campily outrageous, Auden wasuncomfortable in his and became conservative and conventional. Despitetheir differences, or maybe because of them, their relationshipendured--they met in 1939 and Kallman died less than two years afterAuden, seemingly of a broken heart. ... Read more

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Thekla really loved them!
In her recent memoir of the time of her life that she spent with Wystan and Chester, Thekla Clark gives us an unassuming and very personal view of these two great characters of the 20th. century. Although I probably should'nt compare the two, it is a far more personal and approachable account than that of Richard Davenport-Hines' very bookish biography, which I have also just read.(Perhaps they should be read in series to balance things out a bit!) In any case, Thekla Clark's love for these two is apparent and charming, as her perception of the moralistic age in which they were forced to live. A must-read for any Audenophile or Kallmanist! ... Read more

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In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways hardly imaginable in previous decades.Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colorful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett and Helene Johnson are hardly remembered at all.Yet each made a serious literary contribution to the meaning of modern femininity, relationship, and selfhood. Making Love Modern uncovers the deep historical sensitivity and interest of these women's love poetry. Placing their work in the context of subcultures nested within national culture, Nina Miller explores the tensions that make this literature so rewarding for contemporary readers. A poetry of intimate expression, it also functioned powerfully as public assertion.The writers themselves were high-profile embodiments of femininity, the local representatives of New Womanhood within their male-centered subcultural worlds. Making Love Modern captures the literary lives of these women as well as the complex subcultures they inhabited---Harlem, the Village, and glamorous Midtown. In the end, the book is a much a study of modernist New York as of women's love poetry during modernism. ... Read more

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Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-1958) was one of the great poets of twentieth-century Russia. As the last link in the Russian Futurist tradition and the first poet to come of age in the Soviet period, Zabolotsky wrote both experimental and classical poetry. This is the first critical biography of Zabolotsky to appear in English. Goldstein examines not only his poetic career but also his life, highlighting the deep ambiguity of Zabolotsky's era by exploring the ways in which the poet was influenced both by the artistic avant-garde and by the Soviet scientific establishment. ... Read more