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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...

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...

In this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love. Instead of bachelor knights...

Betty Adcock brings fierce insight to her seventh poetry collection, Rough Fugue. Her elegant stanzas evoke bygone moments of beauty, reflection, and rage. ?et things be spare,?she writes, ?nd words...

Saint Agnostica is the final work of Anya Krugovoy Silver, a poet celebrated for her incisive writing about illness, motherhood, and Christian faith. The poems in this collection dance between...

In Search and Rescue, Michael Chitwood seeks what the pagan Celts called the thin places, the spots where otherworldliness bleeds into the everyday. Beginning with childhood, the poet meditates on...

Louisiana can be a complicated place, but the state?s good food and friendly people are simple facts. Pairing these two indisputable truths, author Alex V. Cook takes readers to the many unsung...

In Segregated Soldiers, Marcus S. Cox investigates military training programs at historically black colleges and universities and demonstrates their importance to the struggle for civil rights...

In the 1920s Prohibition was the law, but ignoring it was the norm, especially in New Orleans. While popular writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald invented partygoers who danced from one cocktail to...

Author: Bobby C. RogersPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Mar 02, 2022Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807176206ISBN-13: 9780807176207

The word ?sibilance? refers to pronunciations of the letter ?s,? including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren?s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts...

In Small Mothers of Fright, Tara Bray draws on her experiences as a mother struggling to strike a balance between protecting her daughter from the world's perils and dazzling her with its many...

Bobby C. Rogers's second collection, Social History, listens hard to the voices of American characters and celebrates the gestures of ordinary life. The long lines of his narrative poems trace the...

Frances Kolb Turnbell?s study of Spanish colonial Louisiana is the first comprehensive history of the colony. It emphasizes the Lower Mississippi valley?s status as a borderland contested by empires...

Author: Clarence MajorPublisher: Lsu PressPublication Date: Apr 06, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807176109ISBN-13: 9780807176108

Gregg L. Michel?s Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white...

When a kayaker thought he spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker in 2004, the birding community took notice. Two birders traveled to the bayou where the sighting occurred, well aware that the last...

In this powerful collection, Chelsea Rathburn seeks to voice matters once deemed unspeakable, from collisions between children and predators to the realities of postpartum depression. Still Life with...

A book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn?s String tells the story of a teenage boy?s experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. He loses his family and friends, his home and the life he...

The percussive poems of Stripper in Wonderland move from birth to death, funk to hip-hop, and racism to religion as Derrick Harriell explores the life of a modern black man transplanted from the...

Talking to Shadows: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)Author: Ron HouchinPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Nov 25, 2020Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith?s new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive...

In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his childhood to the present, weaving through the...

Author: Linda Colquitt TaylorPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Aug 12, 2020Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0807173878ISBN-13: 9780807173879

The Absinthe Frapp? examines the history of absinthe, its origins, and its influences, culminating in the story of the iconic New Orleans cocktail. Marielle Songy reveals how bartender Cayetano...