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Picnic,
Lightning
by Billy Collins
'63
Picnic, Lightning (University
of Pittsburgh Press) by Billy Collins '63 is the author's sixth book of poetry.
The collection is divided into four sections of energetic and varied verse with
such intriguing titles as "Shoveling Snow With Buddha" and "The Death of the
Hat." Collins' work has been praised by X.J. Kennedy,
who wrote, "Nobody else writes quite like Collins, and few indeed write
any better."
Billy
Collins is the author of six books of poetry including
The Art of Drowning and Questions About Angels.
Collins is the recipient of numerous fellowships including one from the
National Endowment for the Arts. He has been honored as Poet of the Year
by Poetry magazine in 1994. His work has appeared in such publications
as The New Yorker, Harper's, and American Scholar. He is a professor of English
at Lehman College, CUNY.
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A
Cool Yule
by Steve Calderone
'81
A Cool Yule by Steve Calderone
'81 (Warner Brothers Publications) is a collection of piano arrangements for
intermediate and advanced jazz piano. The book features a collection of traditional
Christmas hymns and songs adapted with extensive use of jazz harmonies and richer
than usual textures. Included are unique interpretations
of The First Noel, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, and Away
in a Manger.
For over 20 years, Steve Calderone has been
teaching, arranging and playing music. While a student at Holy Cross, Calderone
performed "Rhapsody in Blue" with the College orchestra and led the cast and
orchestra as musical director of a theatrical production of Pippin. He has played
for or directed over a dozen church music groups and over two dozen theatrical
productions. His piano students have ranged in age from five to 75. He has toured
Europe with a vocal and instrumental group and currently serves as the diocesan
pianist in Springfield, Mass. More information about A Cool Yule can be found
at http://members.tripod.com/~steve_calderone/index.html.
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Labor's
Great War
by Joseph A. McCartin '81
Labor's Great War (The University of North
Carolina Press), by Joseph A. McCartin '81, "illuminates
how workers and their adversaries battled over the meaning
of 'industrial democracy' and how the outcome of that contrast
shaped our labor politics for decades
to come."
McCartin's book looks at the origins of the 20th-century U.S. labor relations,
stating that the efforts workers made to achieve democracy in their workplaces
occurred at the same time as World War I, when they were attempting to make the
world safe for democracy. This, he writes, changed the way the American labor
movement evolved and
how it was later responsible for the New Deal reforms. McCartin
is an associate professor of history
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