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Dear Almost is a book-length poem addressed to an unborn child lost in miscarriage. Beginning with the hope and promise of springtime, poet Matthew Thorburn traces the course of a year with sections...

In Dear Vulcan, Laura Davenport confronts the vexing possibilities of human intimacy, confessing, ?The question is what keeps me coming back.? The crisp narrative style and confiding voice of these...

Death Benefits deepens and extends David R. Slavitt?s sublime, lyric confrontation with mortality?and does so in a plainspoken and marvelously entertaining, conversational way. His poetry encourages...

Kudzu abounds across the American South. Introduced in the United States in the 1800s as a solution for soil erosion, this invasive vine with Eastern Asian origins came to be known as a pernicious...

In the series of poems that underpins this collection, David Romtvedt imagines the daily lives of angels as well as other, more earthly, concerns. Whether he is considering the work of raising a...

The reach of Divine Ratios is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contemporary Baltimore, post?World War II Berlin, and the landscapes of the Mountain West. The...

With lush imagery and surprising syntactical turns, the poems in Doll Apollo merge mythology with close attention to the patterns, colors, and contours of the material world. Through the figure of...

Double Effect: Poems (Barataria Poetry)Author: Martha SerpasPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Aug 19, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807172758ISBN-13:...

Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic...

An account of spiritual survival through the practice of literary art, the poems in David Huddle's eighth collection, Dream Sender, move among a variety of poetic forms and voices. Here, a bear...

Empty Pedestals uses a design perspective to explore how monuments to the Confederacy speak to regionalism, racist political agendas, and residual collective pain. Many designers and artists working...

In lyric poetry with the dramatic sweep of a historical novel, Jay Rogoff?s Enamel Eyes, a Fantasia on Paris, 1870 reimagines ?the terrible year? when the Franco-Prussian War shook the City of Lights...

A poetic study of the eternal, T. R. Hummer?s new collection Eon, as with the other volumes in this trilogy?Ephemeron and Skandalon?offers meditations on the brief arc of our existence, death, and...

In his final book, the celebrated poet Fred Chappell reflects on life and the beyond. Details drawn from daily actions, religion, classical myth, and the Appalachian landscape adorn this autumnal...

During the American Civil War, the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental conditions, irregular warfare, and intense racial tensions that created extraordinarily difficult...

Floyd Skloot?s Far West intertwines the past and present, as time alternates between racing and standing still. Crafting poems that confront memory lapses and painful recollections, Skloot traces his...

For the Lost Cathedral delves deeply into the human relationship with the divine and its capacity for empathy, transformation, and the tolerance of difference and doubt. Bruce Bond seeks neither to...

A revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree?s For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father?s death and struggles to raise...

Founded in 1841 in Marion, Alabama, Howard College provided a Christian liberal arts education for young men living along the old southwestern frontier. The founders named the school after...

In her third collection, From Nothing, Anya Krugovoy Silver follows a mother, wife, and artist as illness and loss of loved ones disrupt the peaceful flow of life. Grounded in the traditions of...

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Clark shows in his new work of practical analysis, a...

Keith M. Finley?s From Slavery to Segregation explores the key features shaping southern politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as explained in the South?s defense of its racial...

In Galaxie Wagon, Darnell Arnoult navigates the territory of middle age to find humor, heartbreak, and wisdom in a phase of life where the body begins to betray itself, yet romance is still possible...

J. Matthew Ward?s Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War?era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces starting in the spring of 1862, the Confederate...

In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly observant poems range from the streets of India,...

Glance, the second collection of poetry by Chanda Feldman, explores the experiences of a Black and white and Jewish American family that moves abroad to find respite from contemporary racial violence...

St. Paul writes "the foolishness of God is wiser than men." The poems in William Wenthe's God's Foolishness mine the feelings of human uncertainty in matters of love and desire, time and death, and...

The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond coverage in local media. By the mid-1970s, however, the fire had become the center of a contentious...

Gumbo adorns menus from New Orleans to New York to New Delhi, appearing in variations such as chicken and sausage gumbo, gombo z?herbes, and seafood gumbo. Some cooks use roux, others okra, and...

In Hemingway?s Art of Revision, John Beall analyzes more than a dozen pieces of the author?s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and typescripts, as part of a broader examination of...