three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Cortes's gold-drenched Mexico
Like yeast leavening a loaf of bread
swimming laps in the backyard pool
From the initial distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters
"At once expressive and chaste
Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs SS_Gift_Guide three Spaniards and a blackHildegard of Bingen, a Rhineland mystic of the twelfth century, has been called an ideal model of the liberated woman. She was a poet and scientist, painter and musician, healer and abbess, playwright, prophet, preacher and social critic. The Book of Divine Works was written between 1170 and 1173, and this is its first appearance in English. The third volume of a trilogy which includes Scivias, published by Bear & Company in 1985, this visionary work