Tracing the concept of the open society - one based on the idea of a universal community of mankind - from its origins to the present day, Dante Germino reveals... Læs mere
Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of... Læs mere
Catharine Savage Brosman offers lyrical and narrative poems about the American West and Southwest, from Wyoming to New Mexico to California. She explores three different types of ranges- mountains, grazing ranges, and the scope and spectrum of light, a constant motif.
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first “impossible but... Læs mere
In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood - one that took her from the purges of... Læs mere
In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts.
Soon after the start of the Civil War, celebrated civil engineer Charles Ellet, Jr, formed the Ram Fleet under US secretary of war Edwin Stanton. Perhaps the... Læs mere
With eloquence, grace, and a searching intelligence, Dave Smith illuminates both poems and poets. Believing that “great poetry cannot be divorced from an intimate, organic link to place”, he builds a compelling case for the importance of southern poets.