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An excellent new translation of these poems makes clear why they have mattered so much for so long. One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu by Peter McMillan reveals the vivid emotions that have kept the heart of the collection beating all this time...
Nearly half of the Hyakunin Isshu poems are about love. Teika drew from poets as far back as the 8th century, and one of the pleasures of reading the collection is to realize that nothing has changed. A millennium later, in our drastically different culture, we immediately relate to the...
"It's a collection of 50 items—that's what the entry was limited to—including mostly books (first-edition and some signed), prints and posters, other ephemera, as well as some figurines and toys to be honest," Silver said. "Gorey actually made some beanbag toys...
Silver started his collection in his youth.
A university library system should certainly instill a reverence for books in students, and Harvard College Libraries has done that job well. Undergraduates have been conditioned to the point that they would likely have an easier time robbing a bank than highlighting a library book. But libraries at certain colleges...