misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 21 2007 | review, fiction, literature, books, list, non-fiction, poetry
Quoted: The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 3, 2006.
A useful list- with direct links to reviews. Includes works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2007 | literature, poetry, military, war, West Point, education
Quoted:What does it mean for an undergraduate to pass the morning reading Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and the afternoon parachuting from a helicopter? To spend the summer learning to control vehicle checkpoints or call in air strikes, the winter writing a senior thesis on the poetry of William Butler Yeats or the novels of Virginia Woolf?
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 02 2007 | news, books, poetry, poet, literature
Quoted: Charles Simic, a writer who juxtaposes dark imagery with ironic humor, is to be named the country’s 15th poet laureate by the Librarian of Congress today.
