Lamar University Press

Poet and prose writer Geosi Gyasi presents interviews with 50 writers, eliciting from them much information about themselves and their writing.Author: Geosi GyasiPublisher: Lamar University...

Hamlet in ExileAuthor: Ulf KirchdorferPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Sep 22, 2020Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956835ISBN-13:...

This collection brings together poems that reflect Glen Sorestad's fascination with and affection for the American Southwest's distinctive landscape and the people who inhabit it. From his first...

In this remarkable collection, Wally Swist deftly fuses the sensual-in food, in nature, in art-with the intellectual and spiritual. Swist's poetry pulls us magnetically from one image to the next,...

In this, her second full collection of poems, Michelle Hartman continues the breathtakingly honest, articulate, insightful, bawdy, hilarious, revelatory, and incomparably zany diatribe which she so...

A poetry collection that explores travel, migration, and fatherhood in contemporary America. The poet, Nathanael O'Reilly, offers a unique perspective on the world today as an Australian immigrant...

Last Red Dirt Embrace' is the final book in a series. the 'Dreaming Sam Peckinpah Quintet.' This book is a single long poem that can be read as a series of related lyrical poems dealing with elements...

A literary mystery set on the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation in the Big Thicket of East Texas.Author: Gerald DuffPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2019Number of Pages: 240...

The voices of these characters are raw and real, and they cry out to be heard. The interwoven stories in Lesser Mountains delve into the lives of the fictional people living in and around the small...

Life in the borderlands turns the poet's eye to similar spaces beyond that immediate cultural intersection, be they physical, temporal, or interior. Gifted with the ability to "see double," as Gloria...

In 'Local Bird, ' Laurence Musgrove offers us both new poems and previously published selections from descant, New Texas, Concho River Review, Elephant Journal, Sleet Magazine, Inside Higher Ed, and...

Locked: A Full-Length Play In Two ActsAuthor: Philip Zwerling, Lorenzo PacePublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: March 31, 2021Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This is a collection of short stories set in the American South in an imaginary town, Lost River. The stories feature characters and events in a compelling melody of human drama and dignity cadenced...

The stories in Wegner's 'Love is Not a Dirty Word' drive home just how human humans are. The characters often exhibit weakness, misperception, lack of self-knowledge, and even, at times, meanness,...

Far from being chivalric romances, these stories vividly illustrate real people in love, real people like all of us. The characters in this assemblage get by as best they can in often humorous and...

Julie Chappell's second collection of poetry explores the examined life of a university literature professor, a cancer survivor, a nature enthusiast, and a woman wholly in love with life and the...

Maintaining Texas PrideAuthor: Dave KuhnePublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Jun 26, 2020Number of Pages: 156 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942956770ISBN-13:...

In his first collection of prose and poetry, Moumin Quazi presents us with a unique blend of humor and poignancy in sharing his experiences as the son of an immigrant.Author: Moumin QuaziPublisher:...

My Cap of Darkness' traces a narrative arc through the wide ranging experiences and perceptions of a mature narrator. The book opens and closes with two bookend poems that are contemplative...

Wendy Dunmeyer's My Grandmother's Last Letter is as fine-tuned as a debut collection of poetry can be. Expressive and descriptive, all of these poems offer the kind of intimate viewpoints-of their...

Poetry that explores the nature of mortality, grief, and loss through an unsentimental lens.Author: Walter BargenPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Sep 30, 2018Number of Pages: 120...

In Nod of Knowing, a collection of poetry, J. Pittman McGehee shows us the sacred beauty in the everyday moments of our lives.Author: J. Pittman McGeheePublisher: Lamar University PressPublication...

Lyrical poetry about the life and loss of a beloved motherAuthor: Loretta Diane WalkerPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Aug 30, 2019Number of Pages: 194 pagesLanguage:...

Odes and Elegies : Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf CoastAuthor: Katherine HoerthPublisher: Lamar University PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: 212 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

'Oklahomeland' welcomes you to the real Oklahoma, the Oklahoma not of a musical but of sweat-stained people, of a raw land and emotions. Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is foremost a story-teller whose...

This is a novel in verse, a tale in first person told by a 17-year-old Texas woman, Diana, who goes to Mexico. She arrives during the revolutionary chaos prior to the 1968 Olympics. This is a tale of...

This pocket-sized volume contains more than 200 aphorisms that Laurence Musgrove has composed and lingered over for the last 8 years or so.Author: Laurence MusgrovePublisher: Lamar University...

When Death is on the loose, when the Beloveds are leaving, when Time shows no signs of stopping for anyone, and when the sun and the moon don't make the sense they used to make, you're going to wish...

Betsy Joseph's initial collection of poetry is both vast and intimate. She combines the rural wisdom of Frost with the deep personal insights of Bly, then folds in the economy of language made...

Jan Seale lends us her eyes and understanding so we can perceive and often appreciate, perhaps for the first time, much in everyday life that we might otherwise dismiss as unimportant.Author: Jan...