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The sensational past : how the Enlightenment changed the way we use our senses / by Purnell, Carolyn,author.(CARDINAL)342122;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-278) and index.The self-made man : creating genius in the Enlightenment -- Drinking your way to a new you : self-medication, sensibility, and sociability at the café -- Living in a world of sound : the pitch-black markets of Paris -- Becoming useful citizens : the talents of blind (and blindfolded) children -- Blowing smoke up the ass : aromatic medicine and useful science -- What is a sense? : sex, self-preservation, pleasure, and pain -- Harmonious nature : the cat piano, the ocular harpsichord, and scales of scent and taste -- Calling it macaroni : the politics of popular pigments -- The gourmand's gaze : visual eating in the Postrevolutionary period -- Digesting nature : exotic animal dining clubs in nineteenth-century England -- Seeing is not believing.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense. As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. But perception is not dependent on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now. And perhaps more surprisingly, she shows how many of our own ways of life are a legacy of this earlier time. The Sensational Past focuses on the ways in which small, peculiar, and seemingly unimportant facts open up new ways of thinking about the past. You will explore the sensory worlds of the Enlightenment, learning how people in the past used their senses, understood their bodies, and experienced the rapidly shifting world around them. In this smart and witty work, Purnell reminds us of the value of daily life and the power of the smallest aspects of existence using culinary history, fashion, medicine, music, and many other aspects of Enlightenment life.
Subjects: Senses and sensation; Enlightenment;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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A scurry of squirrels : nurturing the wild / by Pullar, Polly,author.;
"Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild. In this book she shares her experiences and love for the squirrel and explores how our perceptions have changed. Heavily persecuted until the 1960s, it has since become one of the nation’s most adored mammals. But we are now racing against time to ensure its long-term survival in an ever-changing world. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Polly’s Perthshire farm, where she works continuously to encourage wildlife great and small, she highlights how nature can, and indeed will, recover if only we give it a chance. In just two decades, her efforts have brought spectacular results, and numerous squirrels and other animals visit her wild farm every day."--Amazon
Subjects: Pullar, Polly.; Eurasian red squirrel;
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Biohazards : humanity's battle with infectious disease / by Grady, Sean M.,1965-(CARDINAL)363200; Tabak, John.(CARDINAL)661022;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181) and index.Lethality of the very small: Invisible to the human eye -- Where the small things are -- Keeping things under wraps -- Biohazards in the modern world -- Biohazards throughout history: Great plagues -- Epidemics and pandemics of the 20th century -- Early attempts at containment -- From success to stalemate -- Modern-day risks: Biohazards as weaponry -- Biohazards abroad -- Biohazard accidents and biohazard incidents -- Rise of worldwide pathogens -- Drug resistance -- Perception of disease: Microbes on the molecular level -- Microbes as sets of symptoms -- Ecology of microbes -- Appendixes: Glossary -- Further reading -- World wide web sites -- Index.Some of the most significant and potentially devastating dangers to human and animal life come from sources we cannot see without the help of microscopes. Viruses, bacteria, and other microorganisms have been a troubling presence in the world probably from the time multicellular life first appeared. As part of the new Science and Technology in Focus series, Biohazards covers the history of how these extremely powerful microscopic invaders have plagued the human race and how humans have responded to these attacks. Comprehensive and up to date, this volume looks at the recent resurgence of diseases that were once thought vanished, such as tuberculosis and staphylococcus. It also explores the renewed threat of biological warfare in the form of bioterrorism following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Using the most recent information available, Biohazards covers other important topics such as the recent anthrax scare, the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS, and the recurring outbreaks of extremely deadly diseases such as Ebola.
Subjects: Communicable diseases.; Medical microbiology.; Bioterrorism.; Epidemiology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Plundering Appalachia : the tragedy of mountaintop-removal coal mining / by Butler, Tom,1963-(CARDINAL)661469; Wuerthner, George.(CARDINAL)332084;
Foreword. Building a coffin / Douglas R. Tompkins. Introduction. The mine as a metaphor / Tom Butler. Part I: Appalachia: Beauty, biodiversity, and culture imperiled. Appalachia: land of diversity / George Wuerthner. Part II: Cradle to grave: coal's deadly legacy. Cradle to grave: coal is the enemy of the biosphere / Tom Butler. Part III. Appalachia under attack: Big coal's war on nature and people. Appalachia imperiled: fighting back to save the land and people / Mary Anne Hitt -- The power to move perceptions: Orwellian language in the land of coal / Erik Reece -- Habitat lost: exploding mountains, missing wildlife / Matthew Wasson -- Mountaintop removal: the destruction of Appalachia / Jack Spadaro -- Restoration economy: reclaiming the land and our communities / Samir Doshi -- The seasonal round: mountain life and the commons of biocultural diversity / Mary Hufford -- Agents of destruction: broad-form deeds and the birth of Big Coal / Harry M. Caudill -- Buffalo Creek, West Virginia: disaster on February 26, 1972 / Kai Erikson. Part IV. Testimonies: Coalfield residents speak out. My life is on the line / Maria Gunnoe -- We can't live without water / Teri Blanton -- Flooding us out / Lucious Thompson -- They do what they want / Pam Maggard -- We won't shut up / Judy Bonds. Part V. The big mess: the enduring stain of coal-related pollution. Fighting for America: mountaintop removal and the subversion of democracy / Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. -- Lakes of waste: coal slurry impoundments / Vivian Stockman -- Coal's catch-22: toxic combustion waste a growing menace / Lisa Gollin Evans. Part VI. Disfiguring a region: missing mountains, buried streams. A photographic gallery of destruction from the coalfields. Part VII. Energy, nature, and society: coal's global impact. Unnecessary and stupid: an economy based on ruin / David W. Orr -- Coal's climate connection: toward the point of no return / Ross Gelbspan -- Power down: peak coal coming / Richard Heinberg -- Sin fuel: the coal-to-liquids boondoggle / Carl Pope -- King coal's shiny new lie: clean coal coming (don't believe it) / John Blair -- No such thing as clean coal: cutting emissions doesn't cut it / Cindy Rank. Part VIII. Resistance: the long march to abolition. Compromise, hell! / Wendell Barry -- It ought to be outlawed: the movement to ban strip mining in Appalachia, 1954-1977 / Chad Montrie -- Abolition: the only solution / Ken Hechler -- A cal to action: building the movement to end mountaintop removal / Jerry Hardt -- Resources for action. Afterword. Desecration / Denise Giardina -- About the contributors -- The photographers: a tribute -- Acknowledgements.Plundering Appalachia is a collection of photographs and essays detailing the grim realities of mountaintop removal mining: the effects of the blasting on the environment and the people and animals in its wake; the irreversible devastation of the natural landscape of Appalachia; how mountaintop removal is or is not regulated; and the true costs of the practice over time. Most people in the United States are connected to mountaintop removal in some way, whether they live in the affected areas, consume products derived from the mining haul, or are dealing with the effects that mining has on their ecosystem. Plundering Appalachia is a clarion call to action, asking Americans to get past the rhetoric of the coal industry and see the real Appalachia. Supported by science and common sense, the book is a plea for a region whose natural beauty deserves to be enjoyed by future generations.
Subjects: Coal mines and mining; Coal mines and mining; Mountaintop removal mining; Mountaintop removal mining;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Seeing it all : women photographers expose our planet / by Rubinstein, Rhonda,author.(CARDINAL)883462;
Foreward / Sylvia Earle -- Seeing through her eyes / Rhonda Rubenstein -- Seeing is the beginning of caring / Rebecca Solnit -- Seeing takes so much more than vision / Indre Viskontas -- [Photographers] -- For us to thrive, the animals, too, must thrive / Ami Vitale -- Our insatiable demand for wildlife products in pushing animals to extinction / Britta Jaschinski -- Meet your ancestors in every aspect of nature, large and small / Camille Seaman -- The ocean is the solution to climate change / Cristina Mittermeier -- Cute and cuddly makes the case for conservation at Earth's extremes / Daisy Gilardini -- Witness the indisputable science of climate change in the Arctic / Esther Horvath -- Change starts at the convergence of culture and environment / Jen Guyton -- Every animal is an individual; a complex, sentient being / Jo-Anne McArthur -- Photography elevates the controversial, misunderstood, and underappreciated / Morgan Heim -- Revealing glimpses of newborns in the wild inspire our humanity / Suzi Eszterhas -- On the world's most biodiverse archipelago, there's so much to save, yet much to lose / Tui De Roy -- Taking action -- Afterword. And pictures."Eleven visionary photographers--who happen to be women--focus upon moments of profound beauty and peril on our planet. As award recipients and jurors of the prestigious BigPicture international competition, these women are featured with more than 125 dramatic images that illustrate the extraordinary complexity of the natural world and challenge our very relations and perceptions of it. 'Seeing It All' goes beyond the glamorizing images of nature and wildlife that are typically shown. Here, images connect the seen to the hidden, abundance with disappearance, icebergs to indigenous portraits, animal sanctuaries and climate scientists, and heart to head. These intrepid individuals use photography to expose how we--humans, animals, nature--are living together in these precipitous times. Each photographer provides a concise manifesto arising from their commitment to life on the planet, which is accompanied by a short profile and behind-the scenes insights into their activities. Join Ami Vitale, Cristina Mittermeier, Suzi Eszterhas and others as they venture from Africa to the Arctic, through deep oceans to distant islands. Be witness to the last animal of its species. Delight in the birth of the next generation. The significance and urgency of Seeing It All is expressed in the introduction by Rhonda Rubinstein, plus essays by renowned writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit, and neuroscientist, writer and stage director Indre Viskontas."--Publisher.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Nature photography.; Women photographers.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Love to learn! [video-enabled device] by Findaway World, LLC.,issuing body.(CARDINAL)345268;
Clever keyboard: ABC learning game -- Second grade learning games -- Happi spells crossword puzzles -- I can tell time -- Constellations -- Animal math supreme -- My body -- Little tikes: let's play -- Memory attention -- Snow White.Travel the world over from Bessie's Farm to the plains of Africa to a lush, green forest as you join math-explorer Emma through more than 100 fun math games on a quest to help her animal friends find a way home!Help your little kids to master typing and alphabet with Clever Keyboard: ABC Learning Game! This is a teaching and training tool packed with lots of typing games.Your child will learn brand new vocabulary words including Cetus, Pisces, and Delphinus, plus the stories behind these famous star pictures!Happi Spells will help children with early learning of their ABCs and alphabet recognition, as well as help them practice their beginning reading and expand their vocabulary. With 60 mini crossword puzzles in 5 different levels, these puzzles are made up of 4-8 intersecting words with the relevant letter tiles spaced around the puzzle. Fun and educational!Early Explorers learn to tell time in this Brainy Book! Read and learn with this fun book.Little Tikes: Let's Play, which allows kids to have fun while learning their numbers, colors, geometric shapes, and nature. With more than 45 activities developed by education professionals and experts, Little Tikes: Let's Play is organized into four learning areas: numbers, shapes, colors, and nature. Children will explore and strengthen their cognitive skills like memory, perception, concentration, reasoning, calculation, navigation, creativity, and imagination while having hours of fun. Included among the activities are counting, tracing, memory games, ordering, geometry, coloring, puzzles, taking care of animals, and more.Develop critical thinking and memory skills with this fun activity! This educational app includes 4 mini-games for the development of visual memory and 3 mini-games for the training of attention and concentration.A fun story centered around the human body! Introducing nouns relating to the body with highlighted text and independent reading modes. eKidz is an award-winning language learning application that helps kids develop reading skills. Each title features interactive listening and reading practice, simultaneous narration adapted by level, reading comprehension, and much more, while providing the opportunity for children to celebrate culture and heritage through exclusive content.10 fun and educational games to help your child learn 2nd grade lessons! Teach them multiplication, money, time, punctuation, spelling, and more. A math, language, and critical thinking skills are all tested and practiced in these games.A fun filled adventure featuring magic mirrors, disguises, poison apples and hidden treasure! Experience this magical story in an all new way in this interactive popup book from StoryToys. This wonderfully illustrated book comes alive through interactive popup games that let you play along and take part in the story yourself."Students will stay engaged with learning all summer long through interactive activities, storybooks, and games that focus on improving spelling and vocabulary, establishing core math skills, developing a love of literacy, and more!"Grades K - 2.
Subjects: Educational games.; Mathematics; Mobile apps.; Problem solving in children; Readiness for school; Reading readiness; Video games.; Vocabulary;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Flashes of brilliance : the genius of early photography and how it transformed art, science, and history / by Burgess, Anika,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-302) and index.Part I: Fields of vision. Under darkness -- To the moon -- Up in the air -- Into the water -- Part II: Perception and deception. Intrigue and impact -- Trick or truth -- In color -- Caught! -- Cartomania -- Part III: Into focus. Running, jumping, galloping -- Cells and snowflakes -- Bones, skin, eyes, and brains -- Conclusion: A new century."Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous--and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, writer and photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and social history to reveal the most dramatic developments in photography from its birth in the 1830s to the early twentieth century. Writing with verve and an eye for compelling detail, Burgess explores how photographers uncovered new vistas, including catacombs, cities at night, the depths of the ocean, and the surface of the moon. She describes how photographers captured the world as never seen before, showing for the first time the bones of humans, the motion of animals, the cells of plants, and the structure of snowflakes. She takes us on a tour of astonishing innovations, including botanist Anna Atkins and her extraordinary blue-hued cyanotypes and the world's first photobook; Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey's famed experiments in capturing motion and their long legacy; large format photography and photographs so small as to be invisible to the naked eye; and aerial photography using balloons, kites, pigeons, and rockets. Burgess also delves into the early connections between photography and society that are still with us today: how photo manipulation--the art of 'fake images'--was an issue right from the start; how the police used the telephoto lens to surveil suffragists; and how leading Black figures like Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass adapted self-portraits to assert their identity and autonomy."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Photography; Photography;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Ocean bestiary : meeting marine life from abalone to orca to zooplankton / by King, Richard J.,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)832940;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Ocean Bestiary tells the history of our relationship with the sea, one animal at a time, from A to Z. From the earliest Polynesian navigators to the pilots of deep-sea submersibles today, humans have been exploring the globe's most dominant and inaccessible ecosystem and bringing home to those ashore breathtaking accounts of what they observed. Jumping off from the stories of whalemen, pirates, explorers, immigrants, naturalists, writers, painters, and cruiser-sailors-some famous, some entirely unknown and unpublished-this little book examines and shares what it was they saw. Ocean Bestiary crosses a range of geographies and oceanic environments, from shallows to depths and including coral reefs, upwelling zones, and more. It covers an equally wide range of organisms as well, from tiny zooplankton to immense whales. In playful prose, Richard J. King unfurls his stories and their relevance today for our understanding of environmental history, the history of marine biology, and our shifting perceptions of the ocean"--
Subjects: Marine animals.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Participating in Nature : wilderness survival and primitive living skills / by Elpel, Thomas J.(CARDINAL)270160;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Plants (Identification basics -- Common and Latin names -- The digging stick -- Wild food economics -- Wild gardening -- Natural farming -- The ethics of killing -- Worthwhile plant food resources -- Edible lichens -- Savory syrup -- Starchy roots -- Fabulous fruits -- Harvesting seeds -- Nutritious nuts -- Mushrooms) -- Animals (Sneak stalking and trust stalking -- Animals and ecosystem processes -- Global warming -- Holistic management -- The quickie-bow -- Flintknapping thoughts -- Bone arrowheads -- Making arrows -- All about hide glue -- Sinew preparation -- Wildlife laws -- Butchering a roadkill deer -- Gutting a deer -- Skinning a deer -- Butchering basics -- Primitive hunting -- Deadfall traps) -- Clothing (Braintan overview -- Braintanned buckskin -- Freeze-tanned buckskin -- Sewing buckskin -- Shoes, moccasins, and sandals -- Tire sandals -- Wool clothing and blanket ponchos -- Felting) -- Sunset (Backpack overview -- The bedroll pack -- Packframes -- Mining and wilderness -- Trade-offs in packing gear -- The equipment checklist) -- Afterword : the art of nothing.Sunrise (Earthskin -- The Pony Mill site -- Our place in the world -- Positive impact -- Participating in Nature -- The cost of gold -- Finding a home and making a stand) -- Mind (Nature as wallpaper -- Discoidal stone knives -- Saving the world -- Technology philosophy -- Twined baskets -- Evolving neural networks -- Primitive living as metaphor -- Personas and acting -- The information age -- Split-willow deer -- Perceptions of reality) -- Shelter (Goals -- The elements of shelter : shingling -- Efficiency -- The elements of shelter : insulation -- Adapting shelters to the environment -- The elements of shelter : fire -- Recouping your investments -- The elements of shelters : air-proofing -- Impacts and reclamation -- The earth lodge -- Choosing a location) -- Fire (Bowdrill fire-starting -- Bowdrill technique -- Starting bowdrill fires with damp materials -- Survival bowdrills : fire from nothing -- Handdrill fire-starting -- Handdrill technique -- Other friction fire-making methods -- Flint and steel fire-starting -- Principles of fire-starting -- Campfire logistics and safety -- Splitting matches -- Energy conservation) -- Water (Birch bark canisters -- Giardia and water purification -- Water conservation -- Crapping in the woods -- Fishing by hand -- Making cordage from natural fibers -- Twisting fibers into cordage -- Primitive fishing tackle -- Skinny-dipping) -- Cooking (Tin cans/stainless steel cans -- Cooking without a pan -- Coal-burned containers -- Making hollow-log drums -- Cooking in a gold pan -- Stir-fry without a pan -- Ashcakes : bread of the modern Abo -- Bamboo spoon/fork and chopsticks -- Stone ovens and steam pits -- Complete proteins -- Primitive pottery : harvesting wild clay -- Adding temper -- Wedging the clay -- Making pinch pots -- Making coil pots -- Drying pottery -- Firing time -- Cooking in clay pots -- Beliefs about food -- Mice and hantavirus) --
Subjects: Wilderness survival.; Outdoor life.;
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Poetry will save your life : a memoir / by Bialosky, Jill,author.(CARDINAL)347698;
"An unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around forty-three remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath, from a critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and poet. For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a father, adolescence, first love, leaving home, the suicide of a sister, marriage, the birth of a child, the day in New York City the Twin Towers fell. As Bialosky narrates these moments, she illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, compassion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky recalls when she encountered each formative poem, and how its importance and meaning evolved over time, allowing new insights and perceptions to emerge. While Bialosky's personal stories animate each poem, they touch on many universal experiences, from the awkwardness of girlhood, to crises of faith and identity, from braving a new life in a foreign city to enduring the loss of a loved one, from becoming a parent to growing creatively as a poet and artist. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky has crafted an engaging and entirely original examination of a life while celebrating the enduring value of poetry, not as a purely cerebral activity, but as a means of conveying personal experience and as a source of comfort and intimacy. In doing so she brilliantly illustrates the ways in which poetry can be an integral part of life itself and can, in fact, save your life"--Preface -- Discovery: "The road not taken" by Robert Frost -- Danger: "We real cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Wonder: "The star" by Jane Taylor and Ann Taylor -- Selfhood: "My shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson -- Memory: "I wandered lonely as a cloud" by William Wordsworth -- Shame: "You and your whole race" by Langston Hughes, "I, too" by Langston Hughes -- Ancestors: Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd" -- War: "My child blossoms sadly" by Yehuda Amichai -- Prayer: "Have you prayed?" by Li-Young Lee -- Imagination: "The snow man" by Wallace Stevens -- Death: "Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost -- Poetry: "Ars poetica?" by Czeslaw Milosz -- Family: "January 1, 1965" by Joseph Brodsky, "Childhood" by Rainer Maria Rilke -- Fathers: "Those winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden -- Faith: "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" by Emily Dickinson, "I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson -- Foreboding: "My papa's waltz" by Theodore Roethke -- Depression: "Poppies in October" by Sylvia Plath -- Envy: Sonnet 29: "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" by William Shakespeare, "Confession" by Louise Gluck -- Sexuality: "The sisters of sexual treasure" by Sharon Olds -- Escape: "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- First love: "Bright star" by John Keats, "A blessing" by James Wright -- Mothers: "My mother's feet" by Stanley Plumly -- Friendship: "Taking the hands" by Robert Bly, "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" by E.E. Cummings -- Passion: "The red coal" by Gerald Stern, "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, "The tropics in New York" by Claude McKay, "Heat" by Denis Johnson -- Legacy: "fury" by Lucille Clifton, "Diving into the wreck" by Adrienne Rich -- Marriage: "Song for the last act" by Louise Bogan -- Grief: "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden, "One art" by Elizabeth Bishop -- Suicide: "Tulips" by Sylvia Plath, "Waking in the blue" by Robert Lowell -- Motherhood: "The pomegranate" by Eavan Boland, "On my first son" by Ben Jonson, "Funeral blues" by W.H. Auden, "Nick and the candlestick" by Sylvia Plath -- Terror: "Try to praise the mutilated world" by Adam Zagajewski -- Mortality: "The child is father to the man" by Gerard Manley Hopkins, "My heart leaps up" by William Wordsworth -- Mystery: "Teachers" by W.S. Merwin, "Youth" by W.S. Merwin.Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Bialosky, Jill.; Poets, American; American poetry;
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