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AskART.com presents a biographical sketch of American artist Bertha Rogers. Additional information for Rogers includes a bibliography of publications about the artist, museum holdings, current exhibits, etc. Auction records, including highest prices, are available only to AskART members.
The 95 Riddle-Poems from the 10th-Century Exeter Book, translated from Anglo-Saxon into modern English and illuminated.
From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America's banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters, Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what actually happened and why it had to happen in boom-time Oklahoma. Nowhere else did money flow in quite the same spontaneous fashion. "[A] tale of wonderful verve" (New York Times), Funny Money comes to life through Singer's vivid prose and continues to resonate in today's culture of corporate corruption.
A book of poetry about looking and listening; about trying to understand not just humans, but animals and plants and rocks.
Poetry. "THE AERIALIST is a wise, observant, and deeply reflective body of work. With mature authority and true poetic intelligence, Hallerman presents us with our lives as aerialists: 'Her life is the wife she can never come down... / if she were to cut the wire (she dreams of this) / the sky would break like a mirror into the sea / and nothing would be whole again..."--Jean Valentine. "As soon as I began reading these poems, I knew I was in the company of a writer I wanted to be with, someone whose personality becomes recognizable on a basic yet open level that is appealing and not in any way exclusive. I was eager to learn what she had to say about the wide variety of things that concern her. This is the unforced voice of a poet who has nothing to prove (and therefore does not need to lecture or presume) and does not restrict herself to one small area in short, a poet who reveals herself without needing to confess. The Aerialist is a superb collection; it's hard to believe that it is the