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What Comes Down to Us
The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 29.95What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most accomplished contemporary poets. Together they serve to illustrate the diversity and richness of poetry being written today in the Commonwealth. The poems were collected by Jeff Worley, a poet who has lived in Kentucky for more than two decades. Although the subject matter of the poems... more...
Another South
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 28.95Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of... more...
Our Forgotten Years
University Of Hertfordshire Press 2010; US$ 14.99Full of the language and lore of the Gypsies, this remarkable memoir offers insight into the Romani way of life from an insider?s perspective. Maggie Smith-Bendell shares stories from her traditional Gypsy childhood in the rural South of England, from traveling the countryside and facing hardships, such as the death of a family member, to catching... more...
The Fugitive Poets
J.S. Sanders books 1991; US$ 16.99The indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poets as their region took a ?backward glance? before coming to terms with the modern world. Southern Classics Series. more...
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 44.95The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the state of North Carolina. This collection of poetry,... more...
Alaska Reader
Fulcrum Publishing 2005; US$ 25.00Here is a collection of authentic voices, oral and written, that depicts Alaska with intelligence, integrity, and authenticity. more...
Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men
LSU Press 2010; US$ 19.95In Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men, Thomas Ruys Smith collects nineteenth-century stories, sketches, and book excerpts by a gallery of authors to create a comprehensive collection of writings about the riverboat gambler. The voices of canonized writers such as William Dean Howells, Herman Melville, and, inevitably, Mark Twain hold prominent... more...
The Kentucky Anthology
The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 50.00For over two hundred years, Kentucky has inspired many of the nation's finest writers, both natives of the Bluegrass State and outsiders who were entranced by its rich natural wonders and culture. Now, for the first time, celebrated Kentucky literary historian Wade Hall has assembled a comprehensive collection of writings embodying the hopes, concerns,... more...
Literary Washington, D.C.
Trinity University Press 2012; US$ 16.95The public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life. But, beneath the surface there are countless stories to be told. From the early swamp days to the Civil... more...
Southern Frontier Humor
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 150.00Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest. Beyond Southern Frontier Humor: Prospects and Possibilities represents the next step in this revival, providing a series... more...









