Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony against a legal system that often fails victims of physical trauma and domestic abuse.
Explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake... Læs mere
Originally published in 1971, Allen Trelease’s White Terror was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject.
The poems in The Gentle Art, a compelling new collection from William Wenthe, move between the life of the painter James McNeill Whistler and a poetic version of the author, who is at once inspired and disturbed by Whistler.
Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith’s new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive organic shapes.
The final year of the Civil War witnessed a profound transformation in the practice of modern... Læs mere
Louisiana’s bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to... Læs mere
The highly anticipated second collection by Michael Shewmaker, Leviathan offers an innovative reimagining of the book of Job. Set in the landscape of modern East Texas, the poem unfolds... Læs mere
The speed and mobility evoked in this new collection by Jacqueline Osherow are not only physical-a traveler’s movement in a crowded, thrilling world-but imaginative, and its poetic... Læs mere
Provides an insightful account of the education of the Spanish Habsburgs from 1601 to 1634. Hoffman's work fills a significant historiographical gap and offers new revelations into a previously neglected aspect of royal life.
Traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to... Læs mere
By exploring the translation of the sensory world into art, James Brasfield faces the passage of time and the transitory nature of experience, thought, and memory. The poems find ‘angles of... Læs mere