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Between 1919 and 1941, five relatives of Christopher Lee Manes were diagnosed with an illness then referred to as ?leprosy? and now known as Hansen?s disease. After their diagnosis, the five Landry...

Equal parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection, a son has died on the cusp of his first...

David Romtvedt?s No Way: An American ?Tao Te Ching? explores the art of living in the fast-paced, dangerous, unpredictable contemporary world. Lucid and wise in the spirit of its ancient Chinese...

Behold the mystique of the New Orleans night?that tinge of excitement, that veil of mystery, that sense of danger that emerges during ?the witching hour.? Darkness may unleash the Dionysian in the...

?I look about and find whatever I see / unfinished,? Margaret Gibson writes in these powerful and moving poems, which investigate a late-life genesis. Not Hearing the Wood Thrush grapples with the...

Now You Can Join the Others, the second collection of poetry by Taije Silverman, traces the absurdities of desire, the shifting nature of grief, and the concentric circles of history and myth that...

In Observing the Invisible, Kelly Cherry crafts poems that explore the ever-evolving realm of modern physics, confronting the invisibilities and mysteries of the material world. She leverages...

On the Overnight Train collects a lifetime of thought and writing by Alice Friman, presenting poems of passion and permission, gravity and humor, alongside a great deal of truth telling peppered with...

As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill for meaning, wherever and however he can get it...

Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine?s fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into...

Otherworldly Mothering argues that literary works by Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara reimagine subjectivity in processual and relational terms through...

Author: Alison PelegrinPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Mar 09, 2022Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807176796ISBN-13: 9780807176795

Grounded in technical mastery, the poems in Out of Speech address issues both universal and timely. In this series of ekphrastic works, Adam Vines explores themes as varied as exile, family, disease,...

Parallel Lives covers the century from the birth of Sigmund Freud in 1856 to the death of Sylvia Plath in 1963. Written by the esteemed biographer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers, the book...

Author: Brendan GalvinPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Nov 18, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807172219ISBN-13: 9780807172216

Deeply researched and deeply felt, Passing Worlds is a poetic reimagining of the first encounters of Europeans and Tahitians during the historic voyages of Captain James Cook. Although the...

Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the...

Questions about the meaning of womanhood and femininity loomed large in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture. In Playing Cleopatra, Holly Grout uses the theater?specifically,...

Author: Nancy ReddyPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Mar 02, 2022Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807175838ISBN-13: 9780807175835

Beautiful mutants, vagabond scuba divers, lovers with disordered gorilla hearts: These poetry comics place the lyric and the grotesque, the elegant and the despondent, side by side in one emotionally...

With Polishing the Glass Storm, Katherine Soniat constructs a riveting sequence of verse that explores how archetype can expand both personal vision and narrative perspective as we hone our...

In 2016, a devastating flood displaced tens of thousands of people and animals in and around Louisiana?s capital city. An estimated seven trillion gallons of water inundated the parishes surrounding...

In this down-to-earth memoir, longtime educator and community leader Press L. Robinson Sr. recounts his hardscrabble childhood in South Carolina, his education at Morehouse College and Howard...

Professing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent...

Sally Van Doren?s Promise features a series of short lyric poems, contemplative vignettes of daily life that examine friendship, marriage, and family with a veneer of playfulness. These poems take us...

In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of...

In his latest collection, Random Exorcisms, Adrian C. Louis writes poems with the rough-edged wit and heart-wrenching sincerity that make him one of the seminal voices in contemporary American poetry...

Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of...

Court Carney?s Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest?a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his...

In Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny?invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide?to...