Lamar University Press

A Balancing Act is the fifth book of poetry by award-winning poet Jim McGarrah. With new and selected work, this book explores the cultural landscape of America, both past and present. These poems...

This is a novel about a once a powerful Caddo warrior, Two Hawks, now old, who wanders among tribes hostile to the Caddo and dangerous American soldiers, striving to survive long enough to complete a...

A Lifetime of WordsAuthor: Jan SealePublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Jul 31, 2020Number of Pages: 226 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956800ISBN-13:...

A Room For UsAuthor: Devan BurtonPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: May 27, 2021Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956886ISBN-13: 9781942956884

A Stranger's Heart is a collection of poetry by West Texas's Laurence Musgrove, a professor of creative writing at Angelo State University. Inspired by Buddhist tradition, these poems explore finding...

Never has there been anything so intimate yet so unknown as death. It is the dedicated spouse to life itself, unavoidable and inseparable. Often spoken of together as though they were one; Todd and...

This vital collection of poetry and prose provides us with Another Way of seeing Southeast Texas-through the eyes of its youth. These voices are ones of survival, resilience, and hope in the face of...

While Bonazzi's poetry has been characterized by critic Paul Christensen as taking "poetry to its limits of subtlety, where sense nearly but does not quite give out into silence and awe," these...

Betrayal CreekAuthor: W K StrattonPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Aug 20, 2020Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956819ISBN-13: 9781942956815

Beyond The Fields: A Cherokee Strip Farm, A Baseball Life, And The Love Of WisdomAuthor: Randolph FeezellPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Feb 28, 2022Number of Pages: 168...

A collection of formal poems in sonnets and blank verse that explore the Oklahoma Dust Bowl from different perspectives and voicesAuthor: Benjamin MyersPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication...

Author: Gerald DuffPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Jul 05, 2021Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956916ISBN-13: 9781942956914

Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old...

David Meischen conjures the hackberries and mesquite, the cotton harvests and "rainless earth" of his rural Texas homeplace with meticulous reserve, clarity, and crisp music. A work of abiding love...

A stuffed bear coming alive at a barbecue diner, a younger Seamus Heaney receiving advice to revise, James Dickey assuming military-style command over the telephone, squirrels running around with...

Collapsing Into PossibilityAuthor: Jerry BradleyPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2020Number of Pages: 116 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956789ISBN-13:...

The poems and prose deal with pain, sorrow, regret, disillusion, history, family breakdown, and Western landscapes. The title piece of 'Colo-State-Pen: 18456' is an epic-length poem dealing with...

Whether he locates himself in the stark Iranian deserts, or the filigreed, ornate streets of his boyhood New Orleans, or in the wildest landscapes of our primal imagination, Michael Jennings in...

A collection of poetry that explores the historical Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, desegregation in Tulsa public schools, and the present moment.Author: Markham JohnsonPublisher: Lamar University...

Through compelling terrain both earthy and spiritual, sundry lives emerge overlaid with mystery. Vivid, searching poems like these elicit our shared sorrows, hopes, sensibilities. And horizon-wide,...

With his own intrepid sense of color, John Milkereit summons magic from the ubiquitous and the mundane. He introduces us to prophets and angels who drive taxicabs. This is poetry that compels us to...

Early Men' is a collection of short stories that keep readers turning pages and leave them with much to ponder.Author: Britt HarawayPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Sep 10,...

A volume of poetry and prose affirming the certitude of aging. In these pages are both the carefree stance of the long-lived and the serious business of broken bones. Seale's poems spell out the...

In this collection of personal lyrical poems, master poet Chris Ellery draws upon ancient Celtic mythology about the elder tree for many of his metaphors.Author: Chris ElleryPublisher: Lamar...

Poet Pittman McGehee, also a Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest, writes short, lyrical poems that celebrate mindfulness in examining the ordinary in unusual ways.Author: J. Pittman...

Timothy Dimmick is a geeky young kid trying to survive his senior year of high school and make good on a promise to his late father: become a world-class ninja and secure his legacy as the "Bruce Lee...

Author: Lynn HoggardPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Jan 31, 2022Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956932ISBN-13: 9781942956938

Author: David BowlesPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Aug 10, 2013Number of Pages: 146 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0985255285ISBN-13: 9780985255282

For EveryatterAuthor: Christine H BoldtPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: March 19, 2021Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956843ISBN-13:...

Jason Spearman, a lonesome cowboy from Isom, Texas, wants only to dodge entanglements and get on down the road. Frequently in trouble with the bottle, out of touch with the people around him, and...