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"The Past is the Present" is the third in a trilogy of books focusing on the family history of Nina Talbot. The book includes reproductions of articles from three scholarly publications, an interview with elders from Talbot's ancestral town and reproductions and descriptions of Talbot's recent painting series, 'Places in Galicia.'
Stories based on interviews of family members from the historic area of Galicia in Poland. The interviews reflect histories of pre-war immigration,Holocaust survival and post-war stories.
A comprehensive survey of New York City's vibrant neighborhood art
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Poetry. Art. This art and poetry book was created to accompany the art exhibit of Nina Talbot's at the Brooklyn Historical Society (open until February 27, 2011). Talbot has painted portraits of several Brooklyn individuals, and these portraits are accompanied by "bio-poems" written by Esther Cohen and based on the subjects' lives.
Did I pluck my images from your skin? Is it your moon I write about, your voice that pours through my tongue that seeps into my skin like soil following the seam in a stone? Part memoir, part ghost story, For My Father by Amira Thoron, examines the territory of grief and memory, its mysteries and silences. Through poems that are at times lyrical and at times spare, she explores what it means to be haunted by what you cannot remember or never knew.
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A riveting collection of poems ranging from the very personal and sexual to the broader lyric poem. Marcus demonstrates the versatility that has put some of these poems in such diverse publications as Poetry, Alimentum, Harvard Review, and Ploughshares.
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Explore the places that time forgot. These abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics – an art deco New York subway station, a Soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle, a flooded Thai mall teeming with aquatic life – Travis Elborough takes you on a journey into these strange, overlooked, and disappearing worlds and immortalizes them in this book of original maps, accompanied by moving historic and geographic accounts of each site. The featured locations are a stark reminder of what was, and the accounts in this investigative book help to bring their stories back to ...