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Book review: 'Swans' by Mary Oliver
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSwan Poems and Prose Poems Mary Oliver Beacon Press: 96 pp., $23 "What can I say that I have not said before?" the poet Mary Oliver wonders on page 1 of this, her 20th collection. "So I'll say it again./The leaf has a song in it." She is a little...Tags: Music, Poetry
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Discoveries: 'Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries' by Helen Vendler
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDickinson Selected Poems and Commentaries Helen Vendler Harvard University Press: 530 pp., $35 I'm just a regular reader, you say. I read for pleasure. Why should I read the commentaries of critic Helen Vendler on the "epigrammatic, terse, abrupt,...Tags: Alice Munro, Poetry, Robert Motherwell, China, Leonardo da Vinci
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One in a million
Jacket CopyThe book "One Million" by New Yorker editor Hendrik Hertzberg is dotty. It's got thousands of dots -- tens of thousands, 5,000 dots per page for 200 pages. For the math-impaired, yes, that's exactly a million. The dots aren't doing...... -
Derek Bermel with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Culture MonsterNothing quite haunts some of today’s composers like the disturbing story of Béla Bartók’s last five years. In 1940 he fled Nazi-influenced Budapest and moved to New York, where he lived in illness, obscurity and poverty. Young children threw... -
Pico Iyer on the tyranny of the moment
It was already clear, in December of 1999, that books were a dying species. Already more people seemed interested in producing novels than consuming them, and when it came to serious works, there seemed more fascination with the writer than the writing....Tags: Tiger Woods, Global Expansion, Easter, Times Square, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989)
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'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' by Jerome Charyn
Whether they're true or not, myths and legends that surround poets help us to see their work in a comprehensible context. Say the names Keats, Poe or Plath, for instance, and images of consumption, drug addiction and mental illness may come to mind,...Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Poetry, Biography (genre), Juvenile Delinquency, Colleges and Universities
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Literary letters for auction at Sotheby's on Thursday
Jacket CopyDozens of Mark Twain's letters and writings, from his early days in San Francisco until the end of his life, form the centerpiece of an auction taking place Thursday at Sotheby's in New York. An autographed manuscript of his "A...... -
The lure of writers' houses
Jacket CopyThe website M + E -- run by author Emma Straub and her husband, Michael Fusco -- is selling a new series of four literary posters, each with an illustration of a writer's home (with address). The illustrations by Aislinn...... -
'The Wilderness Warrior' by Douglas Brinkley
The Wilderness Warrior
Theodore Roosevelt and the
Crusade for America
Douglas Brinkley
Harper: 960 pp., $34.99
Reviewing several Roosevelt biographies in 1920, H.L. Mencken reported that he had found more "gush" than "sense." Douglas Brinkley's...Tags: Mark Twain, Indiana University, Roosevelt, Manhattan (New York City), Puerto Rico
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'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...Tags: John Adams, Bob Dylan, Ken Burns, Wim Wenders, Manhattan (New York City)
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Original site for Emily Dickinson topic gallery.
