Robert Kirschten maintains that most formal analyses of Jams Dickey's poetry have been unsatisfactory or at best only partially... Læs mere
When Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence, she finds a city gripped by fear. The city's haves and have-nots glare at each other across a yawning racial divide as fear turns to hate and an us-against-them mentality.
John Burt's Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren is more broadly representative of Warren's poetry than any previous selected gathering. More than two hundred poems from every phase grace the volume, a vehicle ideal for sampling- or soaking in- the finest of Warren's rich output.
With a penetrating eye, Betty Adcock writes poems that range from elegy to dark humour as they confront both loss and possibility. Intervale, selections from her first... Læs mere
For two weeks every year, literary figures from across America gather in Sewanee, Tennessee, to lead the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a series of workshops and colloquia aimed... Læs mere
Offers the first complete history of the interaction among whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in the... Læs mere
Explores the passionate political strife that raged in Britain as a result of the American Civil War. R.J.M. Blackett opens the subject to a wider... Læs mere
An investigation of the earliest political sex scandal in American history. During Andrew Jackson's first term in office,... Læs mere
In this impressive work — the first full-scale study of the effect the Union League had on the... Læs mere
Some historians extol Major General Benjamin Butler as a great humanitarian, whereas others vilify him as a brazen opportunist. In this... Læs mere
A second collection of autobiographical "memory poems" by David Kirby. Kirby confides in narrative poems the events he actually or vicariously experienced - as a child, a... Læs mere
For more than twenty years Michael Holt has been considered one of the leading specialists in the... Læs mere