βThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,β wrote Joseph Conrad. And there is certainly nothing more integral to the ...
Continue Reading βHope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris (1920), a journey through a day in post First ...
Continue Reading βNei Gong has been a well-kept secret within the Daoist sects of China for centuries. Based upon the original teachings of the great sage Laozi, ...
Continue Reading βSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit ...
Continue Reading βBarbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and ...
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