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In this follow-up work to The Blue Book Of Poems, James R. Davenport does far more than just rejoin us to the place where he left off in his poetic growth and physical development, he takes us, the readers, in an all-together new direction. In The Quiet Observer: The Gold Book Of Poems, Davenport not only gives us the poetry and familiar verse style of the previous volume as a base foundation, the voice we had come to recognize, but broadens, deepens, and expands on that creative voice. Just as his own physical speech begins to transform and deepen in its resonance through puberty, so does the voice of his pen. Now, we begin to see free-verse, shades of more complex emotional and psychologic...
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This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and easte...