Literature and Poetry

Off the Page, a review from the Scout Report, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin; Sponsored by University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries. Listening to poets is always enjoyable, and this collection of poetry readings is quite a pip.… more »

Herta Müller, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" joins the 11 women who have won the prize previously more »

Tales of girls and women who have broken barriers and have fought to change their situations and their environment ... real and fictional [characters who] follow their dreams and pursue their goals, challenging cultural and familial stereotypes.” more »

"By the sixteenth century, a Venetian artist, Cesare Vecellio, devised a way to enhance the beauty of a book by painting on its edges. The images, mostly portraits, were easily viewed when the covers of the book were closed. A century later in England, Samuel Mearne, a bookbinder to the royal family, developed the art of the 'disappearing painting' on the fore-edge of a book." more »