One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading "in order to get started" when writing, poets h

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Offers instructions or "recipes" for creating new family rituals or traditions, in categories such as "holidays," "family festivities and ceremonies," and "rite

The Other Classical Musics will help both students and general readers to appreciate musical traditions mostly unfamiliar to them.

Grounded in Charles Joyner's unique blend of rigorous scholarship and genuine curiosity, these thoughtful and incisive essays by the eminent southern historian