Coryneform Bacteria (Special Publications of the Society for General Microbiology)

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Coryneform Bacteria (Special Publications of the Society for General Microbiology)

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Coryneform bacteria.
I.J. and A.G. Callely, eds. Bousfield
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This completely new and rewritten guide is packed with information about these historical islands in the middle of the Mediterranean--their temples older than the pyramids, the impressive palaces and forts built by the Knights of St. John, the superb Baroque architecture, and the reminders of the islands' long connection with Britain. Highlights include Valletta, the medieval city of Mdina, the Citadel, the fiesta and fireworks, and much more. 18 illustrations, 10 maps and plans.

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Art and Totems (The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of the North American Indians)
Ruth Oakley
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Conflict of cultures (The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of the North American Indians)
Ruth Oakley
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Homes, Food and Clothing (The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of the North American Indians)
Ruth Oakley
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In the Beginning (The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of the North American Indians)
Ruth Oakley
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The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of the North American Indians

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The North American Indians (Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History)

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The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of The North American Indians "A Way of Life"

Religion and Customs (The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of the North American Indians)

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Religion and Customs (The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of the North American Indians)
Ruth Oakley
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A Way of Life (The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of the North American Indians)

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A Way of Life (The Marshall Cavendish illustrated history of the North American Indians)
Ruth Oakley
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The National Gallery, London, possesses an outstanding collection of French seventeenth-century paintings, in part a reflection of the enthusiasm with which British collectors once acquired the works of Poussin and Claude. Many of the greatest works of these two French masters are in the Gallery; some, such as Claude's Enchanted Castle and Poussin's Triumph of Pan, were acquired since the publication of The French School by Martin Davies in 1957. In this new catalogue, Humphrey Wine takes a fresh look at these masterpieces, together with the work of such artists as Laurent de La Hyre, Philippe de Champaigne, Valentin de Boulogne, and the Le Nain brothers. Important paintings, including Champaigne's full-length Cardinal Richelieu, La Hyre's Allegorical Figure of Grammar, and Eustache Le Sueur's Alexander and his Doctor, are discussed in detail. New research and information based on a reexamination of each picture are combined with full-page color illustrations, details, technical photographs, and comparative illustrations. This catalogue provides both an invaluable reference for studying seventeenth-century French painting and a closer look at some of the most beautiful paintings in the Gallery's collection.

French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

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French Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Alain Merot
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The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)

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The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)

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The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France is the first study in over a century devoted to the creation of one of the most important European institutions of art, the French Académie Royale. Founded in the mid-1600s, the Academy institutionalized the discourse around painting and remained a decisive influence until the close of the nineteenth century. In the process of forging an identity for itself, the Academy redefined almost every aspect of art--the nature of art training, the sources of patronage, the social standing of the artist, and the place of the arts in national life.

France in the Golden Age - Seventeenth Century French Paintings in American Collections

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France in the Golden Age - Seventeenth Century French Paintings in American Collections
Pierre Rosenberg
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France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections
Pierre Rosenberg
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France in the golden age: Seventeenth-century French paintings in American collections
Pierre Rosenberg
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The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century

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The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century
Christopher Wright
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French painting: The seventeenth century (Color slide program of the world's art)

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French painting: The seventeenth century (Color slide program of the world's art)
Margaretta M Salinger
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French Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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French Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Saint Louis Art Museum
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Italian, French and Spanish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

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Italian, French and Spanish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Christopher Wright
Manufacturer: Frederick Warne
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Do you know what to do if your cat breaks his leg? How do you respond if your cat goes into shock, or is suddenly choking? What can you do to keep your cat safe? Learn how to distinguish a minor affliction from a true emergency and how to address the situation. Written by a veterinarian for the layman, First Aid for Cats will help you handle an emergency with the best advice for your cat's health and safety. This book contains detailed information on everything from how to assemble a first aid kit to how to give your cat CPR. First Aid for Cats includes a cross-referenced index in the back of the book for quick access to the problem at hand. Informative illustrations and photographs simplify the application of successful first aid.

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Not bad for a quick resource........2001-05-14

I'm glad to have this book in my library, especially for emergencies. It, unfortunately, doesn't cover serious illnesses like FIV and Feline Leukemia.

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This collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales transcribed by George Bird Grinnell provide an intimate look into Blackfoot culture and philosophy and remind us of tribal values to be upheld and taught. Classic tales of adventure speak of deeds accomplished, and cultural heroes roam across an arresting Native landscape of legend and history. Ancient stories, captured in oral tradition, cast the shadow of the Blackfoot people far into the past and provide foundation and meaning for their lives in the present. The final section of this book is an insightful overview of the history and culture of the Blackfoot Nation. First published in 1892, Blackfoot Lodge Tales is based on George Bird Grinnell’s personal interactions with the Blackfoot people.

A member of the Blackfeet Tribe and a historian, Thedis Berthelson Crowe provides an indigenous perspective of the Blackfoot Lodge Tales in her new introduction to this edition. Her great-great grandfather, William Russell, served as the Blackfoot interpreter for Grinnell.

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As they were following up the river, they saw at a distance three old bulls lying down close to a cut bank. Heavy Collar left his party, and went out to kill one of these bulls, and when he had come close to them, he shot one and killed it right there. He cut it up, and, as he was hungry, he went down into a ravine below him, to roast a piece of meat; for he had left his party a long way behind, and night was now coming on. As he was roasting the meat, he thought,--for he was very tired,--"It is a pity I did not bring one of my young men with me. He could go up on that hill and get some hair from that bull's head, and I could wipe out my gun."

The Plain Prairie Princess (Retta Barre's Oregon Trail, Book Three)

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The Plain Prairie Princess (Retta Barre's Oregon Trail, Book Three)
Stephen A. Bly
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Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide

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Excellent book;entirely usable in the field.

Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
Kelly Kindscher
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Long before sunflower seeds became a popular snack food, they were a foodstuff valued by Native Americans. for some 10,000 years, from the end of the Pleistocene to the 1800s, the indigenous peoples of the plains regarded edible native plants, like the sunflower, as an important source of food. Not only did plants provide sustenance during times of scarcity, but they also added variety to what otherwise would have been a monotonous diet of game. Nevertheless, the use of native plants as food sharply declined when white men settled the Great Plains and imposed their own culture with its differing notions of what was fit to eat. Those notions tended to exclude from the accepted diet such plants as soapweed, lambsquarter, ground cherry, prairie turnip, and prickly pear. Today it is strange to think of eating chokecherries, which were a key ingredient in that staple of the Indian diet, pemmican.

Based on plant lore documented by historical and archaeological evidence, Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie relates how 122 plant species were once used as food by the native and immigrant residents on the prairie. Written for a broad audience of amateur naturalists, botanists, ethnologists, anthropologists, and agronomists, this guide is intended to educate the reader about wild plants as food sources, to synthesize information on the potential use of native flora as new food crops, and to encourage the conservation and cultivation of prairie plants.

By writing about the edible flora of the American prairie Kelly Kindscher has provided us with the first edible plant book devoted to the region that Walt Whitman called "North America's characteristic landscape" and that Will Cather called "the floor of the sky." In describing how plants were used for food, he has drawn upon information concerning tribes that inhabited the prairie bioregion. As a consequence, his book serves as a handy compendium for readers seeking to learn more about historical uses of plants by Native Americans.

The book is organized into fifty-one chapters arranged alphabetically by scientific name. For those who are interested in finding and identifying the plants, the book provides line drawings, distribution maps, and botanical and habitat descriptions. The ethnobotanical accounts of food use form the major portion of the text, but the reader will also find information on the parts of the plants used, harvesting, propagation (for home gardeners), and the preparation and taste of wild food plants.

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Excellent book;entirely usable in the field........1998-12-12

I think this is an excellent book; well-written, with excellent translations of Indigenous People's names for these plants. (I am both D-/Lakota, speak, read, and write my languages; and forage for plants.) IF I have a criticism, it is (1) that the book should have a sequel with another 130 or so plants including both food and medicinal uses, and (2) I would wish for GOOD, SHARP color photographs of the plants as harvested AND as you would see them if you were looking closely for them where they usually grow. The sketches are extremely well done but there is nothing like color to show the differences between plants that appear similar (at least until your eye is honed). Tinpsila, for example, has a near look-alike that grows in the same area where I hunt, and it is hard to teach novices the difference in person, harder from a book with B/W sketches. I like the facts that (1) she includes the medicinal uses of at least some of the plants in the book; (2) she notes the spiritual/cultural perspectives of us Indigenous People, and (3) she doesn't make any majority-culture or "Christianity Way" comments on our Traditional perspectives when she does this, nor does she refer to our Traditional beliefs in the past tense. Our Traditional Ways and beliefs are still very much alive and being lived; even if the number of us practicing them is not all of our People at the present time. If I could have only one book to take with me if I were to be "lost" somewhere, I think it would be this one.

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide

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Best book of ethnobotany for this region

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
Kelly Kindscher
Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
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The Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.

White settlers did learn a few plant-based remedies from the Indians, and a few prairie plants were prescribed by frontier doctors. A couple dozen prairie species were listed as drugs in the U.S. Pharmacopeia at one time or another, and one or two, like the Purple Coneflower, found their way into the bottles of patent medicine.

But in both the number of species used and the varieties of treatments administered, Indians were far more proficient than white settlers. Their familiarity with the plants of the prairie was comprehensive--there probably were Indian names for all prairie plants, and they recognized more varieties of some species than scientists do today. Their knowledge was refined and exact enough that they could successfully administer medicinal doses of plants that are poisonous. All of the species used by frontier doctors were used first by Indians.

In Medicinal Plants of the Prairie, ethnobotanist Kelly Kindscher documents the medicinal use of 203 native prairie plants by the Plains Indians. Using information gleaned from archival materials, interviews, and fieldwork, Kindscher describes plant-based treatments for ailments ranging from hyperactivity to syphilis, from arthritis to worms. He also explains the use of internal and external medications, smoke treatments, moxa (the burning of a medicinal substance on the skin), and the doctrine of signatures (the belief that the form or characteristics of a plant are signatures or signs that reveal its medicinal uses). He adds information on recent pharmacological findings to further illuminate the medicinal nature of these plants.

Not since 1919 has the ethnobotany of native Great Plains plants been examined so thoroughly. Kindscher's study is the first to encompass the entire Prairie Bioregion, a one-million-square-mile area bounded by Texas on the south, Canada on the north, the Rocky Mountains on the west, and the deciduous forests of Missouri, Indiana, and Wisconsin in the east. Along with information on the medicinal uses of prairie plants by the Indians, Kindscher also lists Indian, common, and scientific names and describes Anglo folk uses, medical uses, scientific research, and cultivation. Descriptions of the plants are supplemented by 44 exquisite line drawings and over 100 range maps.

This book will help increase appreciation for prairie plants at a time when prairies and their biodiversity urgently need protection throughout the region.

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Ethnobotany in Schools.......2001-05-26

As a high school science teacher on the Omaha Indian Reservation, both my students and myself found this book to be an invaluable resource this past fall. As my students did their ethnobotanical survey of the reservation, I often found them waiting to use my one copy of the book. (I will be getting additional copies for the upcoming school year.) We found the information to be both accurate and thorough. The students especially enjoyed the well drawn pictures and easy to follow format. I would suggest this book to anyone interested in plains ethnobotany.

Best book of ethnobotany for this region.......2000-04-01

Medicinal Wild Plants contains information on nomenclature, habitat, Indian use, Anglo folk use, use in medical history, some entries for recent scientific research, and cultivation. Kindscher frequently cites Eclectic medical use for the plants. These books are authoritative. Kindscher has thoroughly studied the ethnobotany of each and presented the most useful information. What is most striking to me about these books are Kindscher's frequent comments revealing that he has personally seen and tasted these plants, and sometimes tested the methods he writes about, something rare in the ethnobotanical literatue of North America.

Crimsoned Prairie: The Indian Wars (A Da Capo Paperback)

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An objective look at the Indian Wars

Crimsoned Prairie: The Indian Wars (A Da Capo Paperback)
S. L. A. Marshall
Manufacturer: Da Capo
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ASIN: 0306802260

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An objective look at the Indian Wars.......2000-12-09

The majority of Marshall's books are written after interviewing soldiers who just got out of combat. He served as an official historian for the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations in World War II, Korea, and went to Vietnam as both an observer and an advisor. For obvious reasons, he could not question veterans of the Great Plaines Indian Wars. This book, therefore, is somewhat of a departure for Marshall.

The main purpose of "Crimson Prairie" is to show what tactic worked and which did not. Discussing several battles, Marshall demonstrates that the United States Army was not prepared to engage in the gorilla-like fighting that the specialty of Native-Americans. Indeed, he shows that the white soldiers failed time and again in the face of superior tactics because they constantly underestimated their opponents and their training had not prepared them for fighting Native-Americans.

Another aspect of "Crimson Prairie" concerns the idea that the white people were the sole aggressor in the Indian Wars. Marshall demonstrates that on a number of occasions Native-Americans acted as savagely and aggressively against non-threatening outposts. The author shows that the bloodshed was not as one-sided as many people believe. Marshall does not support or side with either side. Instead he uses an analytic and objective style that shows that both sides committed atrocities, although the Americans proved more aggressive and their abhorrent actions proved far more brutal than the Native-American's.

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Cutty, One Rock

Keep Those Essays Coming Poet Barkeep!

Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained
August Kleinzahler
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Release Date: 2005-12-13

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Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place.

These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns "poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect" (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.

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mixed bag of tricks........2007-03-17

first, the good: the vignettes about the author's relationships with the two poets thom gunn and allen ginsberg are highly readable, very enjoyable. also, the pieces about his family are finely done. "cutty, one rock," which is the last piece in the book, is about his troubled brother who committed suicide, and is the real standout in the whole book. now, the bad: mr kleinzahler's personality, in particular. this author really seems to look down on people for not sharing his views or tastes. he comes off in the end as someone i would not at all like to know. a windbag of big literary theories and heady words. someone who would like the beauty of pink floyds "dark side of the moon" removed from our earth and replaced by the screeching atonal noises of albert ayler. now, nothing wrong with mr kleinzahler not liking pink floyd, the trouble is, just because he doesn't like someone or something, he truly believes that makes it bad. his judgement, and his alone, should be writ large throughout the firmament and declared final on any and all matters he should choose to spew his brilliance upon. so mr kleinzahler seems to think. here's robert pinsky (3 time poet laureate of the united states) on garrison keillor: "it's revealing to me to hear garrison keillor read a poem aloud on writer's almanac. you hear garrison read a poem and you say, this man UNDERSTANDS poetry. you don't have to hear him yak about it. you can hear the understanding in his voice." now, here's august kleinzahler on mr keillor: "everything that comes out of his mouth in that treacly baritone...is a sermon. the homily runs something like this: we are good, if foolish and weak, and may gain redemption through compassion, laughing at ourselves, and bad poetry badly read." so who is right here? pinsky or kleinzahler? who cares? not me, really. the trouble is that throughout this book, kleinzahler has such an intellectually snotty attitude towards the tastes and ways of others, that upon closing his book, one thinks: glad i am done with that guy. won't be going back there.

mixed bag of tricks........2007-03-17

first, the good: the vignettes about the author's relationships with the two poets thom gunn and allen ginsberg are highly readable, very enjoyable. also, the pieces about his family are finely done. "cutty, one rock," which is the last piece in the book, is about his troubled brother who committed suicide, and is the real standout in the whole book. now, the bad: mr kleinzahler's personality, in particular. this author really seems to look down on people for not sharing his views or tastes. he comes off in the end as someone i would not at all like to know. a windbag of big literary theory and heady words. someone who would like the beauty of pink floyds "dark side of the moon" removed from our earth and replaced by the screeching atonal noises of albert ayler. now, nothing wrong with mr kleinzahler not liking pink floyd, the trouble is, just because he doesn't like someone or something, he truly believes that makes it bad. his judgement, and his alone, should be writ large throughout the firmament and declared final on any and all matters he should choose to spew his brilliance upon. so mr kleinzahler seems to think. here's robert pinsky (3 time poet laureate of the united states) on garrison keillor: "it's revealing to me to hear garrison keillor read a poem aloud on writer's almanac. you hear garrison read a poem and you say, this man UNDERSTANDS poetry. you don't have to hear him yak about it. you can hear the understanding in his voice." now, here's august kleinzahler on mr keillor: "everything that comes out of his mouth in that treacly baritone...is a sermon. the homily runs something like this: we are good, if foolish and weak, and may gain redemption through compassion, laughing at ourselves, and bad poetry badly read." so who is right here? pinsky or kleinzahler? who cares? not me, really. the trouble is that throughout this book, kleinzahler has such an intellectually snotty attitude towards the tastes and ways of others, that upon closing his book, one thinks: glad i am done with that guy. won't be going back there.

Blow Daddy Blow.......2006-04-29

August Kleinzahler's written endorsements of his own street credibility have always cracked me up--dropping Derek Raymond's name in a 2004 diary piece for the London Review of Books actually had me wiping tears from my eyes--so I'm glad to report it's more of the same in this latest addition to his oeuvre. That's right, Augie has an oeuvre--sure why wouldn't he and him a poet? A jazz critic too apparently. Oh my yes, a real gone hep cat and no mistake.

Cutty, One Rock.......2006-04-01

I read the essay "Cutty, One Rock" in, I think, the _London Review of Books_ a year after my brother killed himself. I lent it to someone and lost it, and I only now, years later, got the book and read the essay again, and it is even more powerful. It is tough and bright and relentless. I wish I would have written it, and I wish I could send it to my brother. I miss him like a limb.

Keep Those Essays Coming Poet Barkeep!.......2005-04-27

"Cutty, One Rock" by poet August Kleinzahler is a memoir that begins with his childhood in Fort Lee, New Jersey. "It was the dog who raised me. Oh, the others came and went with their nurturing gestures and concerns, but it was the dog on whose ear I teethed and who watched me through countless hours with sagacity and bearing of a Ugandan tribal chief." Yes these recollections are often quirky, but also contain many laugh-out loud passages. Kleinzahler describes his Mafia-dominated suburb as, "a theme park for Tourette's syndrome." And with deadpan humor he complains about one Mafia neighbor, "It wasn't very considerate of him to kill our plumber, Mr. Ferri. Reliable plumbers are hard to come by."

However, the essay about the myth of Eros seems out of place among this collection. The scholarly take is often pedantic; the author cites classic love poems and knowledge as if to fulfill a page requirement for a class paper. The reader is handed a bouquet of flowery facts that look nice, but add no real depth to understand the notion of Eros.

Kleinzahler's title piece, "Cutty, One Rock," is easily his best work. The author recalls the double life of his older brother, a banker by day and gay hustler by night. "He was born wild, born troubled." Humor and sadness commingle in a stellar, brutally honest essay.

Overall, the memoir, "Cutty, One Rock," will move the coldest of hearts as unconventional lives are examined with dignity.

Bohdan Kot

"It's all in the art".(The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon)(Another Bullshit Night in Suck City)(Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange ... Review): An article from: Poetry

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"It's all in the art".(The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon)(Another Bullshit Night in Suck City)(Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange ... Review): An article from: Poetry
Vivian Gornick
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Title: "It's all in the art".(The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon)(Another Bullshit Night in Suck City)(Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained)(Book Review)
Author: Vivian Gornick
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: 186 Issue: 2 Page: 161(4)

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August Kleinzahler
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