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"The Louvre palace and museum belong to the history of poetry. Malherbe, in his most famous poem, "Consolation to Monsieur Du Pe´rier", spoke of the "barriers of the Louvre". Baudelaire, in "The Swan", declares: "Also in front of this Louvre an image oppresses me. " This entire masterpiece could be read as an invocation of a palace-museum in metamorphosis in the heart of a Paris in transformation, of a 19th century that is being invented with the museum. Apollinaire was also involved in the Louv
"In Berlin's artistic underground, where drugs and techno fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan refugees, raised in public housing graffitied withswastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin's legendary night life, Nila meets Marlowe, an Am
"titled 'lavender haze' after the phrase from gay poet James Schuyler's love poem, 'Sunda' (1974) which later appeared in an academic thesis at SFSU 'Behind the lavender haze: a sociological study of lesbianism' by Nancy Elizabeth Cunningham (1976), and with regard to lavender being a historically queer color (see: Lavender Panthers, The Lavender Scare, Lavender Marriages, Lavender Menace, etc.)"--Page 118.
"Poet Rene´e Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection"--
"From relationships and makeup to divorce and disordered eating, Laurie Boyle Crompton recounts the humor and heartbreak of her coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and New York City during the 1970s and '80s"--
A collection of poems about family and the love we share with one another throughout life's peaks and valleys.
"Poet Rene´e Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection"--
A collection of poems about family and the love we share with one another throughout life's peaks and valleys.