Louisiana State University Press Forlag
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Uke Rivers Delivers: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts.
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Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Soon after the start of the Civil War, celebrated civil engineer Charles Ellet, Jr, formed the Ram Fleet under US secretary of war Edwin Stanton. Perhaps the... Læs mere
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Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in American Poetry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With eloquence, grace, and a searching intelligence, Dave Smith illuminates both poems and poets. Believing that “great poetry cannot be divorced from an intimate, organic link to place”, he builds a compelling case for the importance of southern poets.
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The Memory of Gills: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Kitchen Heat: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Records in woman's language the charm and bite of domestic life. Ava Leavell Haymon's poems form a collection of Household Tales, unswerving and unsentimental, serving up the... Læs mere
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Portrait of the Artist As a White Pig: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
These rich, lyrical poems, written by Jane Gentry over ten years, register the resonance between the poet's inner being and the outer world's everyday events. Moments of insight expose the bright bones of the swiftness of time's passage, reminding us to stay attentive.
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Half Wild: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A spiritual biography wound backwards, spiraling into the world rather than out of it. Though it reflects on the paradoxes of our violent times, Mary Rose O'Reilley's collection hangs on... Læs mere
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Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When attorney John Jay Cornelison severely beat Kentucky Superior Court judge Richard Reid in public... Læs mere
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Walker's Texas Division, C.S.a.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg's award-winning book chronicles in detail one of the most dramatic events of the American Civil War.
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Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When Generals in Gray was published in 1959, scholars and critics immediately hailed it as one of the few indispensable books on the American Civil... Læs mere
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The Bad Secret: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Takes readers on a dark yet sometimes comic sojourn through the undercurrents of a life suddenly unmoored by grief, and then to the subsequent rise of the spirit to recovery.... Læs mere
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