February 9, 2022
|9780822958079|Portrait of a Muckraker| In this first definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, Kathleen Brady has written a readable and widely acclaimed book about one of America’s great journalists. Ida Tarbell’s…
February 6, 2022
…Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces…
February 6, 2022
…the dotters and those who would bring them out into the world—specifically into the idea of America (I’m Erica and I can prefer a hummer to the rose parade”). In…
February 8, 2022
…of the glowing dream and fearful gamble of a new life in a new land. They offer unique understanding not only of the makeup but of the meaning of America.|…
October 14, 2020
|9780822953135|New and Selected Poems|Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America‘s masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more…