Candid, poignant, and deeply researched, Melted Away is the true story of how a writer at midlife reclaims her agency, and an ardent plea to care for the planet by embracing collectivism and mutual aid.
A revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree’s For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father’s death and struggles to raise her child amid private and public turmoil.
Collects a lifetime of thought and writing by Alice Friman, presenting poems of passion and permission, gravity and humour, alongside a great deal of truth telling peppered with the salt of invention.
A long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson that considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems... Læs mere
A debut collection of poems by J. Bruce Fuller, that investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings. The... Læs mere
Equal parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection, a son has died on the cusp of... Læs mere
The essays in Chad Davidson’s Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year mainly concern the loss of the author’s father directly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which the pandemic itself provided a strangely ideal backdrop to grieving.
A complicated love letter to both the intergalactic and the terrestrial. Using the lens of spaceflight, Lisa Ampleman explores subjects ranging from the personal to the political, from fertility tests and parenting to climate change and civil rights.
One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773-1833) led a life marked by controversy. The first biography of Randolph in... Læs mere
Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, one final, dramatic confrontation occurred between the Lee family and... Læs mere
From its founding in 1906, the Louisiana State University Law School has offered its students a truly distinctive legal education. In... Læs mere
Reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural... Læs mere