Duende

DuendeDuende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico Garca Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives

a pleasure to read

Featuring more than 200 full-color images of original catalog cards

spiritual impulses

in all of its abundance and variety

the first dated baseball card (1865)

Adjustable back

The original letter is in the collections of our Manuscript Division

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery

” and appears as the guardian of civilization with her armor partly laid aside

Ages 9-12 years

and the Washington Monument

Published with the Library of Congress