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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...

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...

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...

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...

The Air's Accomplices vividly evokes poet Brendan Galvin's love for the rugged landscapes of Cape Cod and Ireland and their elusive inhabitants. Weaving themes of death, migration, and aging into an...

Cecily N. Zander?s The Army under Fire is a pathbreaking study focusing on the fierce political debates over the size and use of military forces in the United States during the Civil War era. It...

In her third collection of poems, The Atheist Wore Goat Silk, Anna Journey once again celebrates the profusion of sensuality erupting from the material world. As she weaves dark fables, luminous...

The Caf? Br?lot examines the cocktail that was born of a legend and has endured through the centuries, showcasing New Orleans?s love of flavored drama. A combination of coffee, liquor, and fire, Caf?...

While historians have acknowledged that the issues of race, slavery, and emancipation were not unique to the American Civil War, they have less frequently recognized the conflict?s similarities to...

Jenny Molberg?s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony against a legal system that often fails victims of physical trauma and domestic abuse...

New Orleans is a city of contradictions: comic and tragic, sacred and secular, profound and profane; steeped heavily in tradition and religion yet drenched in decadence and debauchery. The Danse...

The Diener investigates loss and healing, change and permanence, in a hospital trauma center and the eroding landscape of southern Louisiana. The diener himself, the morgue attendant who assists the...

The Disinformers uncovers the people and the organizations behind the disinformation campaigns that began on social media with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and reached a violent crescendo with...

Julie Funderburk? debut poetry collection, The Door That Always Opens, braids together poems of sharp lyrical imagery and experimental narrative focused frequently on houses: houses under...