While Us Four Plus Four is an expansive collection of poetry from eight of Russia’s most well-known and influential poets, its arrangement as a conversation is what distinguishes it from those that precede it. The literary value of each poem is evident in its own right, but by reading these poems as a conversation, we are better able to appreciate the significance of these poets in both a social and historical context. Don Mager’s translations maintain the distinctive nature of each poet’s voice, injecting the poems with the appropriate energy, chaos, remorse or respect. His attention to detail and passion for accuracy are apparent in both his scholastic research and in the creativity of his translations; he weaves a chronological tale of the love, pain, and loss felt by the poets and effectively depicts the arduous era in which they lived. From the insight of Akhmatova to the boyishness of Mandel’shtam and the despair of Blok, Mager’s efforts have resulted in a comprehensive yet unintimidating anthology of early- to mid-twentiethcentury Russian poetry. Accessible to an audience unfamiliar with these poets, Us Four Plus Four is informative without being pretentious. It entertains without compromising its contribution to the academic and literary worlds. Mager’s collection takes one conversation and begins hundreds more. Poets included: Alexander Block Sergei Esenin Vladimir Maiakovskii Osip Mandel’shtam Marina Tsvetaeva Igor’ Severianin Boris Pasternak Ana Akhmatova

Us Four Plus Four: Eight Russian Poets Conversing

Literature & Fiction

T͡S︡vetaeva, Marina

Blok, Aleksandr

Esenin, Sergei

Mandelʹshtam, Osip

Maiakovskiï, Vladimir

Poetry

Uno Pr

This collection of intimate portraits of one hundred New Orleanians delivers compelling insights into the city and its inhabitants. Each portrait captures one of the artist's friends in a back yard or other intimate setting, with the collection as a whole painting a vivid portrait of the city itself and the way people live, work, and create in it.

Portraits: Photographs in New Orleans, 1998-2009

Arts & Photography

Traviesa, Jonathan

Photography & Video

<p>In this collage of essays, letters, movies, advertisements, and every other medium known to man, Steven Church, author of The Guinness Book of Me, journeys to the depths of the human mind through his often bizarre turns of thought. Church philosophizes without any philosophical rhetoric and questions everything without seeming to question a thing. This thought-provoking postmodern jumble of serial killers, obsessive correspondences, and jumbo toys will leave you both enlightened and thoroughly entertained.</p>

Theoretical Killings: Essays & Accidents

Church, Steven

United States

In September, 1958, The University of New Orleans opened its doors to its first freshman class. At the time, UNO (then called LSUNO) utilized the barracks, hangers and other buildings left over from the Naval Air Station which occupied the site from 1957.

On Higher Ground: The University of New Orleans at Fifty

History

Dupont, Robert

Americas

Learn how to successfully initiate, implement, and institutionalize change. The Change Cycle Handbook provides proven principles and techniques in easy to apply worksheets. The technques presented are scalable, that is, they can be applied to small departmental improvement projects or large scale corporate initiatives such as ERP.

The Change Cycle Handbook: How to initiate, implement, and institutionalize change

Lannes, William

Business & Money

The gravedigger Henry Bale lives with his ailing dog in the village of Chalk, England. Painfully shy, he is resigned to growing old alone. Then Caroline Ford, an impulsive schoolteacher from Brighton, arrives in Chalk. Caroline awakens Henry to life, and to a fear of death. Their relationship becomes a startling investigation of love, faith, and the search for meaning.

The Gravedigger

Rob Magnuson Smith

<p>Music envelops New Orleans, and this guidebook with listings of music clubs, restaurants and venues that are a bit of both, depicts this cultural milieu of sound and entertainment. New Orleans: An Underground Guide illustrates that the city offers the world traveler much more than its famous Bourbon Street. It's a collection of secret places and local histories, customs largely unknown to the remainder of the U.S. that functions as guidebook and ethnography both.</p>

New Orleans: The Underground Guide

Travel

Michael Patrick Welch

Alison Fensterstock

Inspired by a New Orleans lawn ornament, Black Santa is the charming story of an African-American Santa Claus spreading cheer during the holiday season.

Black Santa

Children's Books

Bernstein, Jamie

This collection of over 40 artists celebrates artists who made the conscious decision to live and work in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is the result of a partnership between artist/publisher Terrence Sanders and architect/developer Marcel Wisznia, and is the centerpiece for the renovation of a New Orleans apartment building by the same name. In assembling this collection, Terrence Sanders saw a way of documenting the burgeoning art scene in New Orleans.

The Saratoga Collection

Falik, Adam

History & Criticism

An Atlanta Poets Group Anthology: The Lattice Inside

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