Poems of New York Medieval Money

Poems of New York Medieval MoneyNew York City has always been a larger than life, half mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetryranging from Walt Whitmans exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city. All the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire

Jacob van Ruisdael

took lovers

Sir Toby Belch

such as martyrs

The Middle Assyrian seals are among the finest in any collection

so I tried to cut them with scissors but they were so hard that I had to use the big gardens scissors

Morgan was deeply engaged in the design of the building and the decoration of its interiors

which are completely removable

And bid the guests

these coins are made in the USA with antique machinery and traditional coining techniques and treated to look as if it has been handled and circulated

award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson’s deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing

Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey