Category: books
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Savannah Community Marks 100th Anniversary of Group’s Legacy of Knowledge
Cultural arts advocate Dessie Baker and librarian Mark Darby discuss new historical marker for the 100-year-old Carnegie Branch Library in Savannah, Georgia. (photograph by Aberjhani) Among those assembled on the lawn beside the majestic front steps of the library, located at 537 East Henry Street, were: Senator Lester G.…
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Song of the Black Skylark: Poem in the American Literary Halloween Tradition
(Black Skylark title art graphic by Postered Poetics for Aberjhani) Does the enigmatic figure of the Black Skylark referenced in this blog title have anything to do with Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” (1845), with Walt Whitman’s “The Mystic Trumpeter”…
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Patrick Modiano Edges out Thiong’o and Murakami to Win 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
(photograph of Patrick Modiano by Reuters and El Pais) Though presented by the UK-bookmaker Ladbrokes with an odds of only 10 to 1 to win the 2014 Nobel Prize in…
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Dancing with Genius, Dancing with Madness (in Honor of Jalaluddin Rumi)
(Rumi Visions II CD cover art by Marvin Mattelson) I think of Genius and Madness as being very much like a twin brother and sister. And it doesn’t really matter which one we call the brother, or which we describe as the sister, for one simple reason. Within the…