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We bought a round flat crema cake /shaped like a moon /in Umbertide./ It looks like a phosphorescent frisbee./ We munch its wedges as the solstice turns.

-- from "Landscape with Bees"

David Young's poetic voice strikes its characteristic note here: wry modesty, mixed with love and longing for the world, and an invocation of the larger, mysterious cycles of natural change that surround and hold us. The poet writes of aging, acceptance, and, just to keep the reader on her toes, throws in the occasional surrealistic or metaphysical flight of fancy, as in "Landscape with Disappearing Poet," dedicated to the Czech scientist and poet Miroslav Holub, who died suddenly in 1998:

Angels seem to fall/ steadily/ in a rain around barns and pastures,/ distressed by the way the cows/ slump to their knees on the kill-floor,....

In his ninth book of poetry, At the White Window, Young's work continues, affectionately and patiently, to explore and chart the various landscapes in which the poet finds or places himself: the small midwestern college town where Young has lived for forty years, Oberlin, Ohio; travels to Europe; the internal landscapes of memory and grief; the quirky repainting of Oberlin as though it were a series of panels on a Chinese scroll, with human figures and their concerns placed in proper proportion to towering cliffs, lofty mountains, and vast mist rises. Because Oberlin sits on a flat, glacier-razed piece of Ohio countryside, Young tweaks the Asian tradition by seeing the cliffs and mountains in the clouds that fill the skyscape, along with its "denizens [who] are crows and hawks, herons and gulls." Irony and whimsy keep sentimentality at bay in Young's poetry, while the passionate lyricism that perhaps led him to translate Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus some years ago manifests, sometimes ecstatically, sometimes more somberly, in this new volume:

Or has she journeyed to a prairie/ where all our codes and grids have been abandoned,/ no houses, no towns, no roads; clear sky,/ a few birds riding aimlessly across it,/ and a bird or two, meadowlarks probably,/ tossing around in its depths? -- from "My Mother at Eighty-Eight"

David Young is a poet of wide interests, encompassing but extending far beyond the literary, and a generous heart. The finely crafted poems in At the White Window reflect in myriad ways the poet's lifelong appreciation of T'ang dynasty poetry, Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens, music, science, landscape painting, and nature. They are poems that resist the tyranny of despair and meaninglessness, instead advocating for a vision of the world that includes beauty and suffering in equal measures. This vision urges our responsibility as well: we create from what we see, but the seeing is also of our creation, a function of what, in the book's title poem, the poet terms "our unabashed humanity, both frame and view."

We bought a round flat crema cake / shaped like a moon /in Umbertide. /It looks like a phosphorescent frisbee. /We munch its wedges as the solstice turns.

-- from `Landscape with Bees'

David Young's poetic voice strikes its characteristic note here: wry modesty, mixed with love and longing for the world, and an invocation of the larger, mysterious cycles of natural change that surround and hold us. The poet writes of aging, acceptance, and, just to keep the reader on her toes, throws in the occasional surrealistic or metaphysical flight of fancy, as in `Landscape with Disappearing Poet,' dedicated to the Czech scientist and poet Miroslav Holub, who died suddenly in 1998:

Angels seem to fall / steadily /in a rain around barns and pastures,/ distressed by the way the cows / slump to their knees on the kill-floor,....

In his ninth book of poetry, At the White Window, Young's work continues, affectionately and patiently, to explore and chart the various landscapes in which the poet finds or places himself: the small midwestern college town where Young has lived for forty years, Oberlin, Ohio; travels to Europe; the internal landscapes of memory and grief; the quirky repainting of Oberlin as though it were a series of panels on a Chinese scroll, with human figures and their concerns placed in proper proportion to towering cliffs, lofty mountains, and vast mist rises. Because Oberlin sits on a flat, glacier-razed piece of Ohio countryside, Young tweaks the Asian tradition by seeing the cliffs and mountains in the clouds that fill the skyscape, along with its `denizens [who] are crows and hawks, herons and gulls.' Irony and whimsy keep sentimentality at bay in Young's poetry, while the passionate lyricism that perhaps led him to translate Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus some years ago manifests, sometimes ecstatically, sometimes more somberly, in this new volume:

Or has she journeyed to a prairie / where all our codes and grids have been abandoned, / no houses, no towns, no roads -- clear sky, / a few birds riding aimlessly across it, / and a bird or two, meadowlarks probably, / tossing around in its depths? -- from `My Mother at Eighty-Eight'

David Young is a poet of wide interests, encompassing but extending far beyond the literary, and a generous heart. The finely crafted poems in At the White Window reflect in myriad ways the poet's lifelong appreciation of T'ang dynasty poetry, Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens, music, science, landscape painting, and nature. They are poems that resist the tyranny of despair and meaninglessness, instead advocating for a vision of the world that includes beauty and suffering in equal measures. This vision urges our responsibility as well: we create from what we see, but the seeing is also of our creation, a function of what, in the book's title poem, the poet terms `our unabashed humanity, both frame and view.'

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What a spectacular trove of forgotten baseball and Cincinnati history William Cook has given us inside this wonderful and beautifully researched book!
One need not be a baseball fan to appreciate the wealth of forgotten American history contained in the pages of this book but any self-respecting baseball fan will be in awe of William Cook's ability to cull interesting and unknown bits of fascinating baseball & social color from our common lost past.
I highly recommend this biography of August "Garry" Herrmann, once Cincinnati's most famous citizen, and I look forward to Mr. Cook's next book on famed Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus.

August "Garry" Herrmann A Baseball biography.
"Just completed the book and found it great reading. The combination of sports, history and politics in a fast paced anecdotal style made for all the ingredients of a great story. I learned a lot and began to realize that as far as the Queen City is concerned, the more things change the more they remain the same. Just some of the characters. But we have all the same ingredients to keep us mired in the sludge of corporate welfare. Instead of the subway we have the banks. It if were not for petty politics we in Cincinnati might have a great public transportation system and maybe we would have had less of a decline in population and status as a major city. As far as August Garry Herrmann is concerned he probably did more for baseball and the city than Powell Crosley, Bob Howsam, Marge Schott and Carl Linder combined. I got the impression that although Herrmann tried to put the Blacksox scandal behind him it really did a lot to blemish and downplay his historical significance. Also the anti- German hysteria of the 1st World War did not help matters either Anyway I enjoyed the book."

Having been brought up on the notion that Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the slighter and less-talented adjunct poet of her husband Robert, I was pleased to find I was wrong.

She's terrific.

This is a brilliant work, full of dazzling poetry and insights.

It's loaded with allusions and references (I read the Penguin edition; and the notes there run for many, many pages--and these barely skim the surface), but it is remarkably accessible and fun.

This is a work full of wisdom and unusual perspectives. Luminous and grand and down-to-earth all at once. Imagine Jane Eyre written by Shakespeare.

It's an education in Victorian (upper-middle-class) England, and also the Victorian English infatuation with Italy. It's also a biting and incisive feminist portrait, full of rebellion and self-discovery.

I strongly recommend it to anyone who likes poetry, or Victorian novels.

E.B.B. set out to outstrip Milton and does so in an amazingly original way. Aurora Leigh is a novel in blank verse that is actually longer than Paradise Lost! She combines the genre expectations for a woman writer--the novel--with an audacious bid for poetic immortality. The book tells a good story but it also works as a formidable reminder to her contemporary poets that the novel is taking over and poets must make sure that they are writing in the spirit of the age.

Autumn Road is an eccentric and inspiring collection of the intuitive poet Brian Swann (Professor of Humanities at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, New York) and his most uncompromisingly vivid works. The Star: You're writing down next spring's/garden: beans, tomatoes, squash/and so on. Outside, snow sticks everywhere,/clogging everything up, hemming//You in. When don you pick up/the newspaper. In the obits/there's always someone you know./The come and go, and you never//Quite get used to it. Walking/slowly downstairs you call/to your wife: How about a game/of cards? OK. She shuffles, deals,//Lifts her head. Look, she says,/That huge star. I've never seen/anything like it before. It looks like,/who knows. You turn and see it,//Whiter than snow, insistent as stone./Imagine, she says, what a place/like that must be./And drops her hand.

Autumn Road is an eccentric and inspiring collection of the intuitive poet Brian Swann (Professor of Humanities at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, New York) and his most uncompromisingly vivid works. The Star: You're writing down next spring's/garden: beans, tomatoes, squash/and so on. Outside, snow sticks everywhere,/clogging everything up, hemming//You in. When don you pick up/the newspaper. In the obits/there's always someone you know./The come and go, and you never//Quite get used to it. Walking/slowly downstairs you call/to your wife: How about a game/of cards? OK. She shuffles, deals,//Lifts her head. Look, she says,/That huge star. I've never seen/anything like it before. It looks like,/who knows. You turn and see it,//Whiter than snow, insistent as stone./Imagine, she says, what a place/like that must be./And drops her hand.

Mark Bassett completes his book "Introducing Roseville Pottery" with a new paperback price guide destined to become a required reference for Roseville lovers. It is well organized and that makes it easy to use. The slim paperback lists each pattern shape and value as well as shape numbers and patterns for those of you who cannot name each patter from memory. There are no pictures; for those, check Bassett's other book.

I have found this to be a very comprehensive price guide. It was refered to me by a long time collector and I am not disappointed. I have been using it for a year now and it has been a great companion to "Roseville in All it's Splendor" The prices are not always 100% on the mark but I feel that it is closer then others on the market. And it fits in my purse ;)

my daughter jamie stump is dwight stumps great grand daughter
I am very pleased at the way this book was written and the pictures are beautiful.
Thank you all so very much for sending me this and makeing it something that my daughter can cherish for a life time

This book outlines the steps involved in making round oak baskets (not the basket shape but the material), and a profile of a rare and gentle man. Worth reading, good instructions.

This extrodinary look at contemproary quilts is perfectly represented by the cover of the exhibition catalog, a piece by the up and coming Seattle artist Sandra Altenberg. It shows the diverse direction in which fabric arts is progressing... a treat for the eye and soul.

This extrodinary look at contemproary quilts is perfectly represented by the cover of the exhibition catalog, a piece by the up and coming Seattle artist Sandra Altenberg. It shows the diverse direction in which fabric arts is progressing... a treat for the eye and soul.

A wonderful book! It makes you laugh, cry, smile, and you'll want to read it over and over! The small town stories included in the book make you feel like you are from the same town and like you've known the authors your entire life. (A Mention of Patty Loveless is also never a bad thing in any book!) Wonderful book that I enjoy reading often.

This heartfelt collection of essays and articles tells some familiar life stories. Poignant at times and funny as can be at others, I was very pleased that the quality of writing matched the quality of life the book describes.

Peterjohn's "The Birds of Ohio" is the definitive scholarly work on Ohio Birds. Unlike other books of the same name this book is entirely original and based upon the authors own research. Other books have a more a cookie cutter approach. The publishers have created similar works for other states using much of the same information. While none of these works is intended as a field guide. Peterjohn provides the most complete and useful information for anyone interested in Ohio birds.

Peterjohn's, work is exhaustively researched and very well written, making it an invaluable reference. The species accounts tell the story of each species in Ohio and provide references. For common birds, habitat, migration, and nesting information is provided in a useful way. For rarities, a good history of sightings is provided.

Also included are the maps developed during the first Ohio breeding bird atlas. These provide a good reference on the distribution of these species.

This is the 2nd edition of the book and includes up to date information through 1999. Only a few species have been added to the Ohio list in the following years.

This book is highly recommended.

This small field guide has excellent photos, more than one per species is several cases; a migration map; notes on size; male, female and juvenile plumage; nest, eggs and incubation period;fledgling; migration; food; species comparison; and a great section entitled "Stan's Notes", full of interesting tidbits. Excellent picture guide for beginning birders.