Explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. Lowell Gudmundson... Læs mere
Explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. Lowell Gudmundson... Læs mere
Gathers a chorus from the storytelling working classes of the Upper South. In narrative poems made of sinewy, Whitmanesque lines, Bobby Rogers composes portraits of dwellers in the... Læs mere
Deeply felt and brimming with humour and philosophical inquiry, Sporadic Troubleshooting, the latest volume from Clarence Major, both acknowledges poetic literary tradition and explores exciting new territories in language.
The first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences their content. The book comprises one poet's... Læs mere
The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic,... Læs mere
Explores how the world becomes more wondrous and more perilous in the permanent after of parenthood. Pocket Universe traces an arc from the challenges and bodily horror of the... Læs mere
Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition... Læs mere
With The Glass Globe, poet Margaret Gibson completes a trilogy distinguished by its meditative focus on the author's experience of her late husband's Alzheimer's disease. In this... Læs mere
Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in... Læs mere
Explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global... Læs mere
Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers' Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and... Læs mere