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Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them is a major new edition of Dickinson's verse intended for the scholar, student, and general reader. It foregrounds the copies of poems that Dickinson retained for herself during her lifetime, in the form she retained them. This is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish in easy visual form the approximately 1,100 poems she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand--arguably to preserve them for posterity--from the poems she kept in rougher form or apparently did not retain. It is the first edition to...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

Este volumen analiza la vida y obra de Thomas Merton a partir de la relación entre los conceptos de soledad y sociedad desde una memoria iluminada. Se establecen correspondencias entre aspectos cruciales que se abordan dentro de las categorías amplias de soledad y sociedad desde la perspectiva de los estudios norteamericanos. La estructura monástica sería transformada en un proceso religioso dinámico, al igual que un tiempo de silencio habría de acompañar una necesidad de anunciar las buenas noticias halladas en el corazón de la contemplación y de denunciar los males de su tiempo. El ...

Grandma Vladimira was always fun and full of energy until she became ill. Her grandchildren remember her fondly and appreciate the legacy she left them.