Ninety-Fifth Street: Poems

Ninety-Fifth Street: PoemsA Harper Perennial paperback original, Ninety fifth Street is a beautiful new collection of poems by John Koethe, acclaimed by poet Edward Hirsch as an heir to Wallace Stevens. In this, his eighth book of poems, Koethe, the author of North Point North and Falling Water, offers readers the reflections of a poet in mid life, an aging child of 62, passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to meditate on memory, time, and the mysteries of human

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Through a series of eight exercises

William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia

privatisation and increased surveillance

He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary

Our aim is to understand the role and potential of books

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they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality

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we can improve our interactions with others

Kazaruni lays out his approach to tafsir and provides a useful explanation of the distinction between exegesis (tafsir) and interpretation (ta’wil)