On April 24, 1862, Federal gunboats made their way past two Confederate forts to ascend the Mississippi River, and the Union navy captured New Orleans. News of the loss... Læs mere
A master craftsman who seamlessly combines vision and contemplation, Brendan Galvin is considered among the most powerful naturalist poets today. Habitat, Galvin's fourteenth poetry book, combines eighteen new works with lyric pieces from the past forty years.
Paul Hoffman's groundbreaking book focuses on a neglected area of colonial history - southeastern North... Læs mere
Following her critically acclaimed first book of poetry, Judy Jordan here returns to a time in her life when she was homeless and working as a pizza... Læs mere
Spiraling between the tenses of time, David Huddle creates in these vibrant poems a defense against the encroachment of age through the resources of language and memory, imagination and... Læs mere
This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman's life - Mary Greenhow Lee... Læs mere
Employs a comprehensive approach supported by provocative groundbreaking research to explain the... Læs mere
Researching the story of elite southern white women's successful quest for a measure of independence between antebellum strictures and the... Læs mere
In this book, Aldo P. Magi and Richard Walser have brought together twenty-five accounts of Thomas Wolfe talking to the press, ranging from his first interview, a... Læs mere
This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison situates her as an African American writer within the American literary... Læs mere
From the signing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War there persisted the belief that slaveholding southerners held the reins... Læs mere
The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories and novellas takes its title is credited as Wolfe's final effort. It tells the story of the Joyner family and conveys Wolfe's fine sense of family traits, rooted in a traceable past.