This book is important and beautiful. Peg Boyers has a way of getting you invovled in the moment in a new world where everything is changed but you still feel comfortable. Meeting new people through her poems she soon makes them familiar to you but it is a show of her mastery of the craft that makes the poems so alive. This is a fine, elegant wonderful book. Buy one for you and another for a friend. You will enjoy each page and every poem!

I have personally purchased more of these books than any other human being. I like to keep a stash of them because they are simultaneously poinant, poetic and full of wisdom. I find that the cadence of her speech remains as beautiful in translation. "The Little Virtues" is a timeless book that speaks to the wonders and concerns of today, although the stories it contains were written earlier in the mid-twentieth century.

The book is an important tool to understand the cuban santeria.

Collaborative compiled and edited by Glenn Burger, Lesley B. Cormack, Jonathan Hart, and Natalia Pylypiuk, Making Contact: Maps, Identity, And Travel offers the reader an informed and erudite selection of multi-disciplinary essays about the repercussions of cultural interaction, ranging from the exploits of Cabeza de Vaca, to the Jesuit Missionaries' influence upon European and Japanese ways of life. Highly recommended for personal and academic World History collections, Making Contact is a superbly presented scholarly study of extensive detail.

In Naive Art, Art scholar Natalia Brodskaia draws upon her experience and expertise as a curator at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to showcase a genre of art that is marked by innocence, naturalness, and spontaneity of the untaught and self-taught artist. These so called "primitive" artists first came into prominence for an American public with Grandma Moses, whose work first established the legitimacy and broad based popularity of "naive art". But this category of art stretches back into the mid-19th century as Brodskaia amply documents with her sweeping and informative survey. Profusely illustrated in color with small, medium, full page, and occasional double-page paintings, Naive Art is an enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library art history and art reference book collections.

It is a great book. Believe me. How will I know? Let's just say, I read this book 24 times. if you are reading this, Melissa Lowell, this is a FANTASTIC book.

In the introduction to this touching collection of several influential writers, William Weaver illustrates with photographic precision the personalities and circumstances that defined the Rome of the postwar epoch. For anyone interested in contemporary Italian writing, Mr. Weaver's profound insight and vast personal knowledge of both Rome and its writers will be an enlightening experience. No other book offers the reader such a fascinating invitation into the lives and stories that were the lost, open city of postwar Rome.

If you're interest in decorating and design leans toward funky, stylish, modern interiors, this is a book for you. I had some ideas circulating in back of my mind about the environment I'd like to create, but needed some help in putting it into motion. This book did help. I find the colors used in a funky interior cheerful and invigorating. You can find new ideas for old, uninteresting pieces of furniture just by painting them enlivening colors, adding casters, and saving yourself money in the long run. I look forward to more from this author!

A short novel describing the decadence of an agrarian italian dynasty from the point of view of a girl engaged in a lame love affair with one of the last decendants thereof. Like her other short novels ("The way to the city" and "This is how it happened" - I don't really know under what titles they were published in the US), the hero is a young woman who struggles for independece but pays a high price. I won't delude you, her writing is bleak and melancholic. Don't expect happy endings or too much optimism, you'll have to settle for a pure voice telling you in a unique style sad but wise and sensitive stories.

My son recieved When Spring Comes from my mother after she found the artist signing copies of this book at the mall. The illustrations are rich with detail and have a warm cozy feeling. The story is simple, an 19th century farmgirl dreams of what will happen "when spring comes" while enjoying the benefits of winter. This was one of my son's favorites and is quickly becoming a favorite of my 4 year old daughter.