Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis, 1897. In the stifling jungles of a small South American country, Robert Clay works as a civil engineer at a mine. With two American assistants, he attempts to reap all the rewards found in this challenging environment. But he also has a secret history as a mercenary, fighting for whichever side will pay him the most. Clay finds himself in love with Alice Langham, the daughter of the wealthy American owner of the mine. His competition for Alice is Reg...
Lydia was not only the wife and collaborator of Don Freeman (author of "Corduroy"), she was also an artist in her own right. Indeed, Don once wrote "Of the two of us, Lydia is the better artist!" But she tended to set her own artistic talent aside until after her husband passed away. In 1988 she moved to Zürich, Switzerland to be closer to her family and continued to develop her own artwork. Her fine watercolors and oils slowly transformed into abstract designs, often retaining an organic kernel...
One of the most path-breaking and creatively radical poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Philip Whalen was part of the 1955 Six Gallery reading where the West Coast Beat movement famously began. Working alongside Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Jack Kerouac, Whalen developed a conversational and visually unorthodox style that is unique in contemporary poetry. His lifelong engagement with the impermanent and sensuous, concerns deepened by his commitment to Zen Buddhism, are on rich display h...
The Fever of Being is a series of poems, some written entirely or partly in Spanish, ranging in mood from comic to tragic and dealing with Urrea's life within the Hispanic-Anglo border culture.
Understanding William Stafford (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
by Judith Kitchen