Louisiana State University Press Forlag
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A Scrap in the Blessings Jar: New and Selected Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A volume of new and selected poems by David Bottoms, A Scrap in the Blessings Jar captures the evolution of the poet’s spiritual quest over the past fifty years. A native and longtime resident of Georgia, Bottoms draws inspiration from the American South.
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Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Investigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp magazines in the 1930s.
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I, Divided: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In poems that use the science behind chaos theory as a lens for examining illness and agency, Chelsea Dingman explores the divide between determination and accident, whereby the body... Læs mere
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Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how... Læs mere
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How to Reread a Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of... Læs mere
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The Sentence: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Through a variety of subjects, and through styles ranging from rhyme and meter to prose poetry, Morri Creech takes an unflinching look at what it means to live in the shadow of the end, the common fate to which each of us is sentenced.
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Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Engages the lengthy debate over the ivory-bill woodpecker’s status by examining reported sightings and extensive efforts to find the rare bird in Louisiana.
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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Exhaustively researched, Death in a Promised Land is the compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom.
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Once I Gazed at You in Wonder: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder “quite simply, the most endearing book I've read in some time.” Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree.
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Reading Walker Percy's Novels (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Serves as a companion guide for readers who enjoy Walker Percy's novels but may be less familiar with the works of Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dante. In addition to... Læs mere
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How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Furies: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
