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Out of Speech: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Grounded in technical mastery, the poems in Out of Speech address issues both universal and timely. In this series of ekphrastic works, Adam Vines explores themes as varied as exile,... Læs mere
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The Confederate Homefront: A History in Documents (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Provides a sample of the enormous documentary record on the domestic population of the Confederate states, offering a glimpse of what it was like to live through a brutal war fought almost entirely on southern soil.
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Search and Rescue: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores what the pagan Celts called the thin places, the spots where otherworldliness bleeds into the everyday. Beginning with childhood, Michael Chitwood meditates on the intersection of the sacred and secular, on those luminous moments we can only partially understand.
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Wolf Moon Blood Moon: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ed Falco considers love and the loss of love, what we have today and what we remember of yesterday, the promise of youth and the disappointments and pleasures of aging. By turns whimsical, meditative, and poignant, these poems examine the joys and sorrows of living.
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Promise: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Features a series of short lyric poems, contemplative vignettes of daily life that examine friendship, marriage, and family with a veneer of playfulness. These poems take us into a space where a year is compressed into minutes and a small trickle of memory floods the mind.
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Time Beginnings: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Meditating upon topics as far-ranging as the movement of photons in the heart of the sun and the single drop of blood on the finger of a girl holding a rosebud, James Applewhite's poems explore deeply the mysteries of the galaxies and the complexities of being human.
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While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Historians of the American Civil War have generally blamed prison conditions and mortality rates on factors beyond the control of Union... Læs mere
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The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides an absorbing account of the Cherokees' involvement in the early years of the Civil War, focusing in particular on the actions of one group, John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles.
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The Humility of the Brutes: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The title of Ron Smith's new collection comes from Yeats's observation that creators “must go from desire to weariness and so to desire again, and live but for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like terrible lightning, in the humility of the brutes.”
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The Octaves: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An accomplished poet and a keen observer of the human condition, David Slavitt deploys both skills to create the whimsical, insightful, and witty poems of The Octaves.
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Love Is No Small Thing: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Meghan Kenny's debut collection, Love Is No Small Thing, gives readers an assembly of keenly drawn characters each navigating the world looking for an understanding of love in its many forms and complexities, be it romantic, parental, elusive, or eternal.
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Stripper in Wonderland: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The percussive poems of Stripper in Wonderland move from birth to death, funk to hip-hop, and racism to religion as Derrick Harriell explores the life of a modern black man transplanted from the American Midwest to the Deep South.
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