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Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet to serve as US Poet
Laureate, has championed the voices of Native American peoples past
and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of
contemporary poets into a national, fully digital map of story,
sound and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal
contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features
each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to
hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie
Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli
Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases,
as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that]
emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the
people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500
living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a
representative offering."
The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and
Reawakening is the latest in the powerful line of The Black
Librarian in America volumes. While previous editions we organized
around library types, this edition is organized in four thematic
sections" -A Rich Heritage: Black Librarian History -Celebrating
Collective and Individual Identity -Black Librarians across
Settings -Moving Forward: Activism, Anti-Racism, and Allyship"
Issues pertaining to Black librarians' intersectional identities,
capacities, and contributions take center stage. The Black
Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is
not only the first edition to be edited entirely by Black women,
but it is officially produced by BCALA members in commemoration of
the organization's 50th anniversary. Dr. Carla Hayden (14th
Librarian of Congress) and Julius Jefferson, Jr. (president of the
American Library Association for the 2020-2021 term) contribute
moving foreword and afterword segments.
The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and
Reawakening is the latest in the powerful line of The Black
Librarian in America volumes. While previous editions we organized
around library types, this edition is organized in four thematic
sections" -A Rich Heritage: Black Librarian History -Celebrating
Collective and Individual Identity -Black Librarians across
Settings -Moving Forward: Activism, Anti-Racism, and Allyship"
Issues pertaining to Black librarians' intersectional identities,
capacities, and contributions take center stage. The Black
Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is
not only the first edition to be edited entirely by Black women,
but it is officially produced by BCALA members in commemoration of
the organization's 50th anniversary. Dr. Carla Hayden (14th
Librarian of Congress) and Julius Jefferson, Jr. (president of the
American Library Association for the 2020-2021 term) contribute
moving foreword and afterword segments.
Until recently, Rosa Parks's personal papers were unavailable to
the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of
Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights
icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private
manuscripts and handwritten notes. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words
illumines her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she
came to be the person who stood up by sitting down. At the height
of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as Parks was both pilloried and
celebrated, she found a catharsis in her writing. Her precise
descriptions of her arrest, the segregated South, and her
recollections of childhood resistance to white supremacy document a
lifetime of battling inequality. Parks expressed her thoughts on
paper using whatever was available meeting agendas, event programs,
drugstore bags. The book features one hundred color and
black-and-white photographs from the Parks collection, many
appearing in print for the first time, along with ephemera from the
long life of a private person in the public eye.
A beautiful gift book commemorating the nation's most cherished
springtime tradition, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, through
original works of art from the Library of Congress collections
Experience the splendor of the annual spring viewing of the
nation's sakura (cherry blossoms) with this stunning keepsake book.
Original artwork, photographs, and objects from the Library of
Congress collections illuminate the story of these landmark trees
and how they came to the nation's capital as a symbol of friendship
with Japan. More than one million visitors from the US and abroad
gather each year to enjoy Washington's glorious profusion of
cloud-like blossoms and join in the festivities. Cherry Blossoms:
Sakura Collections from the Library of Congress showcases exquisite
watercolor drawings of blossom varieties among the original cherry
trees, Japanese woodblock prints by such master artists as Kiyonaga
and Hiroshige, early 3-D stenographs and contemporary photos of the
Tidal Basin cherry blossoms, mementos from a former cherry blossom
princess, posters of the festival, and more. These works offer the
opportunity to explore Japanese culture while celebrating
Washington's beloved cherry blossoms.
For generations, children’s books provided American readers with
their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full
of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these
publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and
complete fabrications.  This volume takes readers on
a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books
depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal
of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic
voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role
that representations of Japan played in the evolution of
children’s literature, including the early works of Edward
Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy
Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan
have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American
authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such
serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.  Drawing from the Library of Congress’s
massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from
many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and
periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books,
folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give
readers a fascinating look at these striking texts. Published by
Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of
Congress.
Published in partnership with the Library of Congress, Drawn to
Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists presents an
overarching survey of women in American illustration, from the late
nineteenth into the twenty-first century. Martha H. Kennedy brings
special attention to forms that have heretofore received scant
notice--cover designs, editorial illustrations, and political
cartoons--and reveals the contributions of acclaimed cartoonists
and illustrators, along with many whose work has been overlooked.
Featuring over 250 color illustrations, including eye-catching
original art from the collections of the Library of Congress, Drawn
to Purpose provides insight into the personal and professional
experiences of eighty women who created these works. Included are
artists Roz Chast, Lynda Barry, Lynn Johnston, and Jillian Tamaki.
The artists' stories, shaped by their access to artistic training,
the impact of marriage and children on careers, and experiences of
gender bias in the marketplace, serve as vivid reminders of social
change during a period in which the roles and interests of women
broadened from the private to the public sphere. The vast, often
neglected, body of artistic achievement by women remains an
important part of our visual culture. The lives and work of the
women responsible for it merit much further attention than they
have received thus far. For readers who care about cartooning and
illustration, Drawn to Purpose provides valuable insight into this
rich heritage.
For generations, children’s books provided American readers with
their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full
of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these
publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and
complete fabrications.  This volume takes readers on
a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books
depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal
of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic
voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role
that representations of Japan played in the evolution of
children’s literature, including the early works of Edward
Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy
Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan
have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American
authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such
serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.  Drawing from the Library of Congress’s
massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from
many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and
periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books,
folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give
readers a fascinating look at these striking texts. Published by
Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of
Congress.
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