Emma Lazarus
by Emma Lazarus
Buy on AmazonEmma Lazarus, for her humanitarian passions. She wrote the poem on the Statue of Liberty (“Give me your tired, your poor”), but we’ve largely forgotten the sedate beauty of her other work, including the prose poems “By the Waters of Babylon.”
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"Emma Lazarus, for her humanitarian passions. She wrote the poem on the Statue of Liberty (“Give me your tired, your poor”), but we’ve largely forgotten the sedate beauty of her other work, including the prose poems “By the Waters of Babylon.”"
By the Book: Andrew Solomon · nytimes.com