October 25, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: "The Harp Weaver" by Edna St. Vincent Millay In 1923, Edna St. Vincent Millay was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1921). That prize-winning book was an expanded commercial edition of the poems in this volume. The longer book was published by Harper and Brothers and contained these poems, another poem published… read more
October 24, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFleur’s Fleurs: "Flower Game" reveals friends and their favorite flowers The personal archive of publisher, author, and artist Fleur Cowles (1908–2009) has been donated to the Ransom Center. The materials will be accessible once processed and cataloged, but an initial assessment confirms that the archive is as dynamic as Cowles was herself. In 1983, Cowles celebrated the publication of The… read more
October 20, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Henry Miller’s "Tropic of Cancer" Upon its publication in 1934, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer was deemed obscene by the United States Customs Department and was not legally available in the United States. Editions like this one, published in Japan, were smuggled into the U.S. to satisfy demand. Miller had been seeking an American publisher… read more
