Stephen F. Austin University Press

2:12 a.m. is an insomniac's tour of counterproductive bedtime stories, Vegas weddings, Southern funerals, Nevada's nuclear testing grounds, Patty Hearst, Marina Oswald, sleepwalking murderers, Louise...

"So many poems articulate either certainty or its opposite, nihilism. What I love...is that the speaker takes the time to change his or her mind; this is a poem that thinks...And what thoughts:...

In Fred Chappell's introduction to The Kelly Cherry Reader, he writes, "Cherry is a flambeau example of the extremely conscious artist, a writer who mediates ceaselessly upon the problems and...

Diane Hueter breathes life into her poetry by relaying the tales of past generations. Beauty and passion radiate from each selection.Author: Diane HueterPublisher: Stephen F. Austin University...

Always the Detail represents the nuances of relationships. Barbara Schmitz writes about daily life, bringing to life such intricate encounters as animals and plants, mineral and liquids. Schmitz...

In the introduction to John P. Hart's study on Nacogdoches's historic Washington Square Mound, Timothy K. Perttula notes that publication of Hart's finding is long overdue. The Washington Square...

Arise and Go Forth: A Shakespearean Guide to Physical FitnessAuthor: Michael MoodePublisher: Stephen F. Austin University PressPublication Date: Oct 11, 2012Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding:...

As Good as Mango is a journey told in the sensual language of blues and jazz. It moves from the landscape of colonial Africa into the colonial American South, and into the present. The hauntings of...

Naomi Shihab Nye writes, "In Back Room at the Philosophers' Club, Christopher Buckley's gift for wide-ranging thinking meshes so gracefully with lovingly tender details, he feels like a companion...

"White River is a raw cut portion of story telling that resurrects a past thought forever gone. The cleanest effect of McEwen's skill is how he disappears as his specific breed of ancestors...

Texas is now hidden in a dense pine forest. Anthropologists have long divided American Indian cultures into southeastern and southwestern cultural areas. the Choctaw-Apache represent a distinct mix...

Civilizing the Texas Frontier traces the lives of Mr. and Mrs. James Lowry Smith, Amarillo pioneers when the population of that city was just two hundred. The story begins in Salado, Texas, and Horn...

Cool Cats Carry Canes is the latest children's book by Nacogdoches, Texas author and illustrator Myrna Johnson. This newest work is filled with whimsical artwork and fun, alliterative wordplay...

Many books have been written about the superintendency and all aspects of it. Additionally, "standards for superintendents" have been written by the American Association for School Administrators...

Ledbetter's writing is often about people on the small farms of Southern Illinois, Nebraska, and the Palouse in Southeast Washington who have lost their ability or inclination to talk to each other,...

Decoration Day and Other Stories ranges in locale from the piney woods of Deep East Texas, to the mean streets of Memphis, to the suburbs of Washington, DC. Highly comic and deeply serious, the...

The Dialects of the Tribe provides an overview of the various schools of poetry that developed during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. It provides...

Documentation of Associated and Unassociated Caddo Funerary Objects by Timothy K. Pertulla, et al., presents the documentation and study of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act...

Dragonfly, Walking Stick examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English...

Jerry D. Mathes' Fever and Guts is hard-hitting literary nonfiction. Reminiscent of the exacting sharpness found in Hemingway's bullfighting stories and as deeply reflective as Tim O'Brien's The...

Dive into the heart of 1901 Deep East Texas with "Gurdon Marion," a compelling novel set in the burgeoning town of Jasper, a place alive with the beauty of nature and the vibrancy of community life...

History, Advice and Other-Half Truths explores the intersections of Western legends, landscapes, love, terror, as a range of characters struggle to live passionate lives. Here Doc Holliday is turned...

There is cinema . . . and there are the movies. This is a book for movie junkies: salutes to the once great but now forgotten stars, to the acknowledged behind-the-scenes movers and shakers, and to...

If Not Me, Who? What One Man Accomplished in His Battle for Equality covers the life of civil rights activist and civic leader Wendell H. Baker Sr. from his birth to eighty plus years of age. Both...

"One of the wonderful things about Jimmy & Rita is that Kim Addonizio never imposes herself in any way, so the poems sing themselves into us. We experience the victories and defeats of Jimmy and Rita...

Charlotte Warren's memoir, Jumna, chronicles her childhood in India during its fight for independence from Great Britain, and her coming of age in the United States during the turbulent sixties...

Lana Ladybug loves to entertain and decides to have a Garden Party for her ladybug friends. She also invites her next door neighbor, Max, a mouse who stopped by. He has been painting his house and...

A middle-schooler attempts to bring a mix tape to a girl he has a crush on, a girl whose star-athlete brother has recently died. A father joins forces with his ex-wife and a renowned intervention...

As part of an initiative to enhance Latin American Studies Programs, an interdisciplinary, international conference series on Latin American studies was established in 2009. This collection of...

Little Heretic presents one person's pilgrimage back to the New York of his youth, where the City is seen not for the ghosts of junkies, musicians and ex-lovers that haunt it, but for the spiritual...