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  • Animals in Classic American Poetry

    How Natural History Inspired Great Verse

    by Mary McAleer Balkun, Margarida Vale de Gato, Aaron Moe, Brian Yothers, Susan L. Roberson, Philip Edward Phillips, Heather Cass White, Calista McRae, Daniel Cross Turner, Thomas C. Gannon ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    In this companion volume to Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, John Cullen Gruesser brings together leading experts who explore the integral role animals play in American poetry. The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Summoning Our Saints

    The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey

    by John Wharton Lowe, Keith Cartwright, Doris Davenport, Thadious Davis, Dolores Flores-Silva, Malin Pereira, Hermine Pinson, Andrea Benton Rushing, Daniel Cross Turner, Tracy Watts0, Aldon Lynn Nielsen1 ...
    Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served magnificently in that function during the dark days after Hurricane Katrina, Osbey has summoned up a magical, beguiling, sometimes chilling and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Navigating Souths

    Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region

    by Alix Chapman, Annette Trefzer, Anne Lewis, John Hayes, Kathryn Green, Kathryn Radishofski, Rico D. Chapman, Daniel Cross Turner, Robert Greene II, Melanie Benson Taylor, Charles Reagan Wilson, Kirsten A. Dellinger, Emily Satterwhite, Gwendolyn Ferreti, Jeffrey T. Jackson, Katie McKee ...
    Series series
    The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an advanced understanding of the historical, social, and cultural forces that have helped to shape the U.S. South. However, most of the debates on these ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Undead Souths

    The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture

    by Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, Daniel Cross Turner ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost Cause ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hard Lines

    Rough South Poetry

    Edited by Daniel Cross Turner, William Wright ...
    A collection of contemporary poems exploring the grit of work, love, and the land down SouthDaniel Cross Turner and William Wright's anthology Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry centers on the darker side of southern experience while presenting a remarkable array of poets from diverse backgrounds in the American South. As tough-minded as they are high-minded, the sixty contemporary poets and two ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern Writers Bear Witness

    Interviews

    by Jan Nordby Gretlund ...
    Fourteen Southern storytellers reveal their influences, methods and daily routines, and struggles with the writing processJan Nordby Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of both the literature and its creators. Whether it is their language and reflexive ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Tributes

    American Writers on American Writers

    by Bradford Morrow, Martine Bellen, Lee Smith ...
    Series Book 29 - Conjunctions
    Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers.For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them—whether that was the act of writing itself, writing a certain book, writing in a particular manner, or living in a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bird Relics

    Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau

    by Branka Arsić ...
    Birds were never far from Thoreau’s mind. They wing their way through his writing just as they did through his cabin on Walden Pond, summoned or dismissed at whim by his whistles. Emblematic of life, death, and nature’s endless capacity for renewal, birds offer passage into the loftiest currents of Thoreau’s thought. What Branka Arsić finds there is a theory of vitalism that Thoreau developed in ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Dancing at the Edge of the World

    Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    "Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers." —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Under Magnolia

    A Southern Memoir

    by Frances Mayes ...
    A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • How Reading Changed My Life

    by Anna Quindlen ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist).“Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Kingdom of Speech

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    The legendary reporter and author of The Right Stuff takes on Darwin, Chomsky, and the origin of language in "his boldest bit of dueling yet" ( The New York Times).Tom Wolfe, the great journalist-provocateur, aims his piercing wit at the presiding theories of what makes us human. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech—not evolution—is responsible for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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