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Cather Studies
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 35.00Explores Willa Cather's iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. This work states that not only are Cather's own life and work subject to enshrinement, but as a writer, she herself often returned to the motifs of canonization and to the complex relationship between the onlooker and the idealized object. more...
Boomer
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 16.95Harry BedwellÕs The Boomer portrays an elite fraternity of railroad men-men who were driven by one of the defining elements of the American character: a desire to wander. Boomers were the glory of railroading and Bedwell reveals the behind-the-scenes battles that were fought to keep the trains running. This edition also includes a glossary of... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 18.00An introductory overview of the works of one of America's most important and complex novelists. more...
Summer Unbound and Other Poems
University of Minnesota Press 1958; US$ 60.00Summer Unbound and Other Poems was first published in 1958. The Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship Fund made it possible for Mr. Mayo to spend two years recently in England, and it was during this time that most of these poems were written. He has said of this experience: "During my visit I came to love England and the English people very much,... more...
Wilderness and Other Poems
University of Minnesota Press 1958; US$ 60.00The Wilderness and Other Poems was first published in 1958. This collection, Mr. Coxe's third published volume of poetry, includes the long narrative poem "The Wilderness" and thirty-four shorter lyric poems. Of this book, Morton Dauwen Zabel writes: "The Wilderness is a collection of series and thoughtful poems, scrupulously conceived... more...
Portrait of Your Niece
University of Minnesota Press 1959; US$ 60.00Portrait of Your Niece was first published in 1959. Carol Hall wrote her first poem, addressed to Santa Claus, when she was four years old. She has been writing ever since and has contributed poems to many magazines, but this is the first collection of her poetry to be published in book form. The volume contains fifty lyric and dramatic poems. Richard... more...
Fifty Poems Fifty
University of Minnesota Press 1970; US$ 60.00Fifty Poems Fifty was first published in 1970. In this, the seventh volume of his poetry to be published, Reed Whittemore presents fifty poems, all making their first appearance in book form here. Commenting on this collection, John Malcolm Brinnin writes: "Whittemore has his own distinctive voice, his own spare, artfully simple way with a poem,... more...
New And Selected Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00"He is one of our finest poets, " Anthony Hecht has said of Donald Justice. Winner most recently of a 1996 Lannan Literary Award, Justice has been the recipient of almost every contemporary grant and prize for poetry, from the Lamont to the Bollingen and the Pulitzer. The present volume replaces his 1980 Selected Poems and contains, in addition,... more...
Selected Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00This generous selection of Mona Van Duyn?s distinguished, award-winning work spans four decades. Beginning with her classic Valentines to the Wide World (1959), encompassing the intimate voice of Bedtime Stories (1972) and the moving Letters from a Father (1982), crowned by the life-spanning Firefall (1993), Selected Poems reacquaints us... more...









