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Kelly Pender's final provocative suggestion-that it is precisely through the apparent opposition between "closed" and "open" that writing itself has been marginalized within the writing classroom-is...

TELLING STORIES, TALKING CRAFT is a collection of fifteen conversations with some of the finest contemporary fiction writers. These distinguished authors discuss their lives and their craft in...

NEW MEDIA THEORY Series Editor, Byron Hawk From the beginning, rhetoric has been a productive and practical art aimed at preparing citizens to participate in communal life. Possibilities for this...

THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2010 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers...

THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2011 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers...

FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by Jon Thompson "The 'flickering body' in Christopher Sindt's THE BODIES is luminous and personal, and serves as a guide. We are taken passionately into a world of...

FREE VERSE EDITIONS SERIES EDITOR: JON THOMPSON THE BOOK OF ISAAC is a sequence of 56 "distressed," or damaged, sonnets in which Aidan Semmens endeavors to distil something of the Russian-Jewish...

Loosely based upon photographs of Occupied Japan, THE BOOK OF THE FLOATING WORLD ranges across a war-ravaged landscape, from a shattered Tokyo to scenes of a depleted countryside, with a close...

Bruce Bond's meditative sequence of poetry entitled The Calling explores the act of naming as critical to survival--biologically, psychologically, and ethically--and yet no less an obstacle to...

PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING: Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod Foreword by PAUL BUTLER In THE CENTRALITY OF STYLE, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of...

Description Jeffrey Thomson's second collection of poems, The Country of Lost Sons, investigates the narrative environment of childhood, especially the way violence is inscribed on children through...

Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love. These poems make up a...

Grounded in linguistic research and argumentation, THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: FROM SOUND TO SENSE offers readers who have little or no analytic understanding of English a thorough treatment of the various...

From the ancient to the contemporary, the personal to the literary, THE FLYING HOUSE is an investigation of the "relic" in the largest sense of the term. Written on-site in the Middle East and...

Free Verse Editions Series Editor: Jon Thompson The poems of THE FOREVER NOTES are canny and lyrical and never a word too long. Many are song-like, repeating the things that are most important to...

A doctor, her bats, some remote islands, their expectant people: THE INVENTION OF DYING is a novel about human curiosity and reinvention; an exploration of the arrival of medicine where medicine has...

With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, THE LAUGHING STALK: LIVE COMEDY AND ITS AUDIENCES focuses on the dynamics of audience behavior...

Fiction. In THE LOST GIRL, James Morrison finds a compelling lens through the eyes of a young person trying to understand the world and her place in it. In stylized prose both elegant and spare,...

FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by Jon Thompson English and Spanish "The Magnetic Brackets ... is one of the liveliest and truest poetical testaments that a reader can tackle in these times of disbelief,...

THE MAKING OF BARACK OBAMA: THE POLITICS OF PERSUASION provides the first comprehensive treatment of why Obama's rhetorical strategies were so effective during the 2008 presidential campaign, during...

THE MAKING OF BARACK OBAMA: THE POLITICS OF PERSUASION provides the first comprehensive treatment of why Obama's rhetorical strategies were so effective during the 2008 presidential campaign, during...

The POLITICS OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING: IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND is the first edited collection to present a sustained discussion of classroom practices in larger contexts of institutional...

THE PRISON POEMS is the first complete translation into English of Miguel Hern?ndez's Cancionero y romancero de ausencias, a classic of 20th century Spanish poetry, comparable in many respects to the...

Combining formal quantitative research with narrative-based scholarship, THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION represents multiple voices from faculty balancing between the demands...

FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by JON THOMPSON JENNIFER ATKINSON'S THE THINKING EYE, her fifth collection, looks at the syntax of our living, evolving world, paying close attention to the actual quartz...

In THE TWO VIRTUALS, Alex Reid shows that to understand the relationship between our traditional, humanistic realm of thought, subjectivity, and writing and the emerging virtual space of networked...

In this second edition of THE USES OF GRAMMAR, Judith Rodby and W. Ross Winterowd develop their successful first edition with new examples, more discussion questions and exercises, and clear...

THE WABASH TRILOGY includes three new novels by William J. Palmer: THE WABASH BASEBALL BLUES, THE REDNECK MAFIA, and CIVIC THEATER. Each novel shows Palmer at his most poignant and hilarious as he...

The WAC Journal is a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Published by Clemson University and Parlor Press, The WAC Journal is an annual collection of articles by...

The WAC Journal is a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Published by Clemson University, Parlor Press, and the WAC Clearinghouse, THE WAC JOURNAL is an annual collection...