After graduation, Bishop lived in New York and travelled in France, Spain, Ireland, Italy and North Africa. Her poetry is flled with descriptions of her. jumys and the igts she saw. In 1938 shemoved to Key West, where she wrote a lot of poems that were collected in her first volume...
For a while Emest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was a cat with six toes(脚趾), which a ship's captain had given him. Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there. Some of them are10(child) of Hemingway'...
It may seem, dear Listener of our Poetry Slow Down, that invoking Rumi for hard times, with his bring-it-on, welcome it in, philosophy, is not that practical, because unlike Rumi, who lived in the 1200s, our world today is challenging beyond his imagination. But consider: Rumi was bor...
and Maya changed her name to what it became. Maya’s mother was bisexual and she was a good, good Southern cook -- who later lived with a dyke who ran The HotDog on Fillmore. Maya’s brother was in jail for murder
Read about the Hall’s history, the music, and the people who keep it alivehereat KCET! In the 1950s, Eddie Cochran wrote the song “Summertime Blues” while he lived in Bell Gardens on Priory Street. Revelers from all backgrounds have danced at the Hall to legendary Wanda Jackson. They...
a 瘦西湖名称的来历,是乾隆年间寓居扬州的诗人汪沆的一首感慨富商挥金如土的诗作:“垂柳不断接残芜,雁齿红桥俨画图;也是销金一锅子,故应唤作瘦西湖。” The Shouxi lake name origin, is the Qianlong year makes one's home in the poetic composition which a Yangchow's poet Wang Hang's sigh with emo...
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea, Whatever self it had, became the self That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we, As we beheld her striding there alone, Knew that there never was a world for her Except the one she sang and, singing, made. ...
Events coalesce to bring Lenny and Rochelle who it turns out is Natasha together. She has parachuted behind the lines in France to assist The Resistance. Eventually Lenny and Natasha are captured my Nazis. They will have to use their wits, wiles and a bit of good fortune to survive as a...
who also published one of the most popular English translations of “Mi último adiós,” in 1944. “The Bell is one of the thirteen greatest events of the Philippine History,” it begins. “It was thus that Spain created a national identity, where before there was only a riot of identiti...
“Su Causeway” or 苏堤) built to prevent river floods. While Su was in the city, Hangzhou locals, knowing his love of pork, would greet him with gifts of meat. Su, after braising the pork, would sliced it into neat cubes and deliver them to the workers who dredged the West Lake, ...