Lou Andreas-Salomé

#2

2003

"When German poet Rainer Maria Rilke died in December, 1926, he was regarded as one of the major poets of the 20th century in any language, as well as one of the most enigmatic of his own time - the one-time associate of Rodin, military school drop-out, painfully detached father and husband, and author of the Duino Elegies, which stands among the most sublime works of all time." "Now, BOA Editions is proud to present, for the first time in English, You Alone Are Real to Me: Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke, by the poet's lifelong friend, traveling companion, and muse, Lou Andreas-Salome. Writing in 1927, the year after his death, Salome takes us through accounts of their meetings and travels, the dam-bursts of creativity in which Rilke wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus, and the Duino Elegies, and their long correspondence in which Salome was the essential confluent soul who kept Rilke from utter despair."--Jacket.

#3

1933

"From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearst's Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture. Now, in these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, he looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past.". "Here are presidents - Lyndon Johnson feuding with Robert F. Kennedy over the legacy of John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon in his grasping, spectral exile. Here are would-be presidents - Eugene V. Debs and Barry Goldwater, "gentlemen fallen among brutes," and Hearst himself, feuding with Theodore and then Franklin Roosevelt. Here too are those who set their sights on something besides the presidency: Martin Luther King, in Baker's view "probably the one indisputably great American of the century's second half," Joe DiMaggio, living a life in tragic contrast to his own myth, and the disputatious memoirists of The New Yorker's glory days. And tucked in are glimpses of Marilyn Monroe and Mary Todd Lincoln, a bearded lady and a nudist queen."--BOOK JACKET.