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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...

In these essays, Gary Fincke combines a journalist?s relentless investigations into the darkest corners of the human condition with an academic?s love for arcana. In one essay, almost forgotten...

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...

?A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it,? contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a...

Military uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history. In The Fabric of Civil War Society, Shae Smith Cox examines the...

The First Echo meditates on the comings and goings of midlife?irths and deaths, losses and gains, despairs and hopes. In poems that range from rigorous formalism to breathless free verse, Shane Seely...

In The French 75, John Maxwell Hamilton tracks down the many lives of this protean cocktail. The drink, named by French propagandists during World War I, was said to pack a punch as powerful as that...

The poems in The Gentle Art, a compelling new collection from William Wenthe, move between the life of the painter James McNeill Whistler and a poetic version of the author, who is at once inspired...

With The Glass Globe, celebrated poet Margaret Gibson completes a trilogy distinguished by its meditative focus on the author?s experience of her late husband?s Alzheimer?s disease. In this new...

In The Grace of Distance, his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn explores the ways in which we try to close the distances we experience in modern life?between doubt and...

The title of Ron Smith?s new collection comes from Yeats?s observation that creators ?must go from desire to weariness and so to desire again, and live but for the moment when vision comes to our...

Author: Anna JourneyPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Mar 02, 2022Number of Pages: 116 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807176613ISBN-13: 9780807176610

The Limits of the Lost Cause challenges prevailing ways of thinking about the impact of the Civil War on the American South. Above all, Gaines Foster?s work encourages Americans to confront the new...

An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense...

With graceful lines swooping like a bird in flight, Claudia Emerson's newest collection explores the harsh realities of aging and the limitations of the human body, as well as the loneliness, fear,...

The Presidents and the Planet recounts the story of the world?s greatest environmental dilemma through the eyes of early climate change pioneers. It begins in the 1950s, when American scientists...

The Professor of Forgetting, a new collection from the acclaimed Irish poet Greg Delanty, swings back and forth on the fulcrum of what we call ?now? and confronts our notion of how time passes. From...

Almost lost to history, the Roffignac has long been one of New Orleans?s most mysterious cocktails. While drinks such as the Sazerac and the Ramos gin fizz enjoyed a resurgence in popularity during...

Deceptively straightforward and subtly pyrotechnic, the poems in Hannah Sanghee Park's debut collection captivate with their wordplay at first glance, then give rise to opportunities for extended...

Author: Tim McNallyPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Sep 16, 2020Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0807171662ISBN-13: 9780807171660

In The Sentence, Morri Creech interrogates our daily lives and experiences to examine the anxieties and despair that often attend our awareness of mortality. Through a variety of subjects, and...

In this fascinating little book, John DeMers tells the story of the Vieux Carr? cocktail against the evolving backdrop of the ever-rich cocktail culture of New Orleans. Mixologist Walter Bergeron...