Stephen F. Austin University Press

The Edge of Known Things is a declaration of reverence, a communication from a nontraditional prophet attempting to both explore and adore the world. What some flinch away from is held up for...

The First Republic and A. Lincoln is an exercise in intellectual history. The topics discussed in the book are among the most argumentative in the study of American histroy. Combined with a...

Engrossed by the short lives of innocent victims, Stowers uses The Girl in the Grave . . . and Other True Crime Stories to tell the tales of devastated parents dealing with evil forces and unanswered...

The Innocent and Others, fourteen evocative, elegantly structured stories of innocent and not so innocent characters forced to confront events both uplifting and menacing. In large part, they are...

Gaylord Brewer's The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately delightful and surprising work by one of this country's best poets. Indeed, the poet himself calls this book a "quirky...

In the same vein as Paul Theroux and Robert Olen Butler, some of these stories take place in foreign countries--Zaire (Congo) and Greece--and center on interactions between a host nation and an...

Theories of Decentralization and Local Government brings fresh perspective to the debate and comparative analysis of vertical division of power; i.e. processes of decentralization and relations...

The Wonder Years is a book made from wreckage. And with materials unceasingly sharp and surprising, Katsimbras creates a language of "clean brutality." In these pages, the drought-wracked West decays...

"A storyteller with remarkable gifts." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Wonders of the Little World is a compelling novel that, like a journey down the midway of a colorful carnival, is filled with...

Those We Can No Longer See: New and Selected Poems by Bob Ross embarks on a profound journey where the mundane transforms into the mystical, and the echoes of personal trials resonate with universal...

"Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation/poetic homage to Catalunya's great twentieth-century poet Salvador Espriu. The lion's share of...

People expect that their lives move in majestic sweeps, but that's only because memory and legend work that way, but reality works in the small moments of our experience. Too Heavy to Carry explores...

"Kathleene West's poetry is unflinchingly raw, honest, and emotional; West does not forget her feminist roots or her predecessors in verse: Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Her poetry, hard and...

I originally started out to write down a few of my family's tales for our current generation, but the Piney Woods kept butting in. That is, telling only about family would be about like serving...

Vanishings is a stunning collection of autobiographical narratives that propel us into the life and mind of a literary genius."Yams were in stories about Africa that I read in Sunday school. Tribes...

Christopher Buckley investigates the large, unanswerable questions that have dogged humanity since the Beginning. Often the seascapes along the California coast toss their debris of ontological...

What Kind of Pet Can I GetAuthor: Myrna JohnsonPublisher: Stephen F. Austin University PressPublication Date: May 01, 2014Number of Pages: 24 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Whatever it Took is an account of the author's thirty year career in investigations and law enforcement, covering from l957 to 1987. The first part emphasizes the years LaMascus spent as Chief Deputy...

Wolf Point steps into the raw and rugged landscape where the beauty of desolation meets the complexity of human experience. Shuttleworth's striking collection draws readers into a world where mirages...

Wrestling the Bear, Jeanne Sirotkin's debut short story collection, grips and titillates in ways that I find both rare and lovely, the lure of each story a kind of slantwise-and wise-odd and offbeat...