Portraits of David Jackson and James Merrill by Larry Rivers, an artist, musician and filmmaker who was an early beneficiary of the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
William H. Gass reading "At Death's Door," fromThe Tunnel, at Duff's Restaurant in St. Louis, as part of a collaborative River Styx and International Writers Center reading, with Lorin Cuoco and visiting poet Anton Shammas.
This is the bookstamp of Mosheh Mordekhai Yiśraʼel (also Moses Mordecai Yisroel or Israel) Rivkind (1861–1940), a rabbi and maggid (preacher) in the United States.
Rabbi Rivkind grew up in Dvinsk and other Russian towns, where he received his…