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Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterfully translat
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Ama is an enslaved African. In Brazil, near the end of her life, she is determined that her story shall survive for future generations. Her story is one of viol
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For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a renowned drummer