In 1923, Monroe Wheeler enjoyed publishing a magazine about poetry. Each issue featured a different poet. Manikin Number One was about Janet Lewis. Manakin Number Two, subtitled "Go Go", featured William Carlos Williams. Only 150 copies were made. This little magazine / pamphlet included nine previously-published poems by Williams along with the new one (to print) "The Hermaphroditic Telephones". It was 16 pages long in total, and bound with a string wrap. Enjoy this fresh paperback version of a literary classic!

From the Publisher: New Directions has long published poet William Carlos Williams' entire body of short fiction as The Farmers' Daughters (1961). This new edition of The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams contains all fifty-two stories combining the early collections The Knife of the Times (1932), Life Along the Possaic (1938) with the later collection Make Light of It (1950) and the great long story, "The Farmers' Daughters" (1956). When these stories first appeared, their vitality and immediacy shocked many readers, as did the blunt, idiosyncratic speech of Williams' immigrant and working-class characters. But the passage of time has silenced the detractors, and what shines in the best of these stories is the unflinching honesty and deep humanity of Williams' portraits, burnished by the seeming artlessness which only the greatest masters command.

Deals also with British antisemitism from Cromwell's time to the present. There were objections against the admission of Jews to England in 1655, as well as attempts to restrict their rights in the 17th-18th centuries. Discusses pre-World War I antisemitic writers (e.g. G.K. Chesterton, H. Belloc) and the eugenics movement. Racial antisemitism was almost non-existent before 1914. Antisemitism reached a peak in Britain in 1917-22, but it was milder than in other Western countries. Relates, also, to left-wing antisemitism between the two World Wars. Ch. 3 (pp. 280-363), "Anglo-Jewry and the Holocaust, 1933-1945", deals with the reactions of Jews and non-Jews to the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. Nazi antisemitism aroused revulsion in British society, even among conservatives and pro-Germans. States that Britain did more for refugees from Germany than any other country. British Jewry did all it could to rescue Jews to the extent that it understood their situation. During the war and the hostilities in the Middle East, there was an upsurge of antisemitism in the country but it receded in the 1950s. Contends that antisemitism in Britain was always a marginal phenomenon.

Presents the latest aspects of diagnosis, aetiology and pathology, and treatment of adult and paediatric leukaemias. Thorough discussions of virtually all aspects of clinical leukaemia are provided as well as extensive, up-to-date bibliographies.

Holly has been brutally raped. Barely conscious, she mouths two The Mex. Alone in a bar, a youngish woman waits for her boyfriend. A big Mexican moves towards her, drunk, but doing a decent job of hiding it. She is not usually frightened...Who is the Mex? What manner of man? Nick Escalante has the answer. Escalante is the master of edged a tough guy a good guy, about to wake up to his five thousandth morning in Las Vegas (and that's long enough for anyone to have luck on the their side). He roams the sleazy underside of the city picking up bucks as a chaperone. His mission is to earn the freedom money he needs to retire, to avenge an appalling rape, and to satisfy the honor of a misjudged an. Along the way he meets an array of bizarre characters.

Separated from her blanket, Wigger, an orphan nearly dies of loneliness until an extraordinary wind from Zurich brings them together again.

Combining arithmetical oddities with historical facts, numbers in literature, art and music, statistical information and a range of other numerical oddities, this book aims to provide a reference source for collectors of information. It unearths some bizarre and amusing arithmetical coincidences as well as providing the material for deciding whether Douglas Adams was right about 42 being the answer to life, the Universe and Everything. Information contained in the book includes: the fact that the number three is the highest number in the language of the Yancos tribe of the Amazon; that the number of cups of tea drunk each day by the average Briton is identical to the number of frogs eaten each year per capita in France - four; and that the number four is also the number of months an oyster can survive out of water, the fingers on each of Mickey Mouse's hands and Edgar Wallace's Just Men.

From its founding in the late seventeenth century, Newark, New Jersey, was a vibrant and representative center of Jewish life in America. Geographically and culturally situated between New York City and its outlying suburbs, Newark afforded Jewish residents the advantages of a close-knit community along with the cultural abundance and social dynamism of urban life. In Newark, all of the representative stages of modern Jewish experience were enacted, from immigration and acculturation to upward mobility and community building. The Enduring Community is a lively and evocative social history of the Jewish presence in Newark as well as an examination of what Newark tells us about social assimilation, conflict and change. Grounded in documentary research, the volume makes extensive use of interviews and oral histories. The author traces the growth of the Jewish population in the pre-Revolutionary period to its settlement of German Jews in the 1840s and Eastern European Jews in the 1880s. Helmreich delineates areas of contention and cooperation between these groups and relates how an American identity was eventually forged within the larger ethnic mix of the city. Jewish population in politics, the establishment of Jewish schools, synagogues, labor unions, charities, and community groups are described together with cultural and recreational life. Despite the formal and emotional bonds that formed over a century, Jewish neighborhoods in Newark did not survive the postwar era. The trek to the suburbs, the erosion of Newark's tax base, and deteriorating services accelerated a movement outward that mirrored the demographic patterns of cities across America. By the time of the Newark riots in 1967, the Jewish presence was largely absent. This volume reclaims a lost history and gives personalized voice to the dreams, aspirations, and memories of a dispersed community. It demonstrates how former Newarkers built new Jewish communities in the surrounding suburbs, an area dubbed "MetroWest" by Jewish leaders. The Enduring Community is must reading for students of Jewish social history, sociologists, urban studies specialists, and readers interested in the history of New Jersey. The book includes archival photographs form the periods discussed.

An eye-opening account of time served in the great battles of our century - for workers' rights, against Fascism, Communism, and racism - Jumping the Line is the life story of an American original. William Herrick relates his adventures and misadventures on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, in (and very much out of) the Communist Party, driving a tractor on a communal farm in Michigan, jumping the line as a hobo, organizing African American sharecroppers in Georgia, at work with Orson Welles, and immersed in his own writing. When Paul Berman interviewed Herrick in the Village Voice in 1986, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, Herrick's remarks so incensed other veterans of the Abraham Lincoln battalion that they picketed the paper. What William Herrick has to say doesn't always go down easily. But for those who like the truth, with a dash of wit and a healthy dose of history, it can be exhilarating.

Between 1881 and 1914, London's East End became the refuge for thousands of Jews driven from Russia by the pogroms. The shabby tenements of Whitechapel and Stepney were turned into sweatshops, in which men and women labored under appalling conditions. Some of the immigrants had belonged to the radical intelligentsia before their flight from the Czarist police, and this book describes their struggle to politicize and unite the Jewish workers. Drawing on many written sources hitherto untapped, William Fishman vividly records the horrors of persecution in Russia and the poverty and alienation in the London ghetto. He traces the spread of anarchist and socialist ideas in England, from Aron Lieberman's pioneering Hebrew Socialist Union to the ascendancy of Rudolf Rocker, the charismatic German gentile who devoted himself to the Jewish immigrant cause. He also re-creates movingly the lifestyle of the activists themselves and their incredible dedication, drawing on eye-witness accounts of many of the events that took place in the East End.

Realizing his life's ambition, Ben opens his own crap game set up in his home town. All runs smoothly till Ben finds himself in the clutches of the big-time operators who don't take kindly to infringement. Suspenseful and well-written.--Los Angeles Times.

Personal uses of marijuana based on interviews in 1978 primarily in Boston, and also in New York and California.