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A short collection of poems about one man's journey to outer space in search of new planets to inhabit, and how things don't always go as planned. 続きを見る

Comprising contributions from writers, scholars, friends, and former students around the world, think of this anthology as being a steaming pot of Gumbo Ya-Ya: simultaneously a dish so delicious it ……続きを見る

Here within resides a collection of unique and soul searching poetry that captures the imagination and heart longing love and denial. Each verse is as a time capsule into a moment of contemplation ……続きを見る

With the world emerging from the great depression in 1934 seventeen year old Connie Neiland faced with an unexpected pregnancy runs away from her small town home and goes to New York City where a ta……続きを見る

Army Captain John Mooney, Jr., M.D., returns from World War II a heroic surgeon, highly decorated for his bravery and the wounds he received saving soldiers in fierce combat all across Europe. In ad……続きを見る

A fight for the very financial soul of America is being waged and has been waged since before America was America, and the vast majority of Americans today aren’t even aware of the battle, much less……続きを見る

From a prison cell to the White House experience the trials and tribulations of a God fearing man who is threatened at every turn by his doppleganger double. After restoring the "American Dream" and……続きを見る

On the eve of their executions, three of history's most tyrannical figures encounter poet Karl Shapiro and enter a philosophical discourse that will further illuminate their devious impact on humani……続きを見る

Besides the groundbreaking novels and stories that brought him fame, William Faulkner throughout his life wrote lettersーto his publisher, his lovers, his family, and his friends. In this first majo……続きを見る

Shoot straight from the hip. Tell it like it is. Keep it real. We love these commands, especially in America, because they appeal to what we want to believe: that there's an authentic self to which ……続きを見る

An exploration of the thematic interests and narrative strategies of a contemporary American master of fiction Earl Ingersoll introduces the fiction of Steven Millhauser, whose distinguished career ……続きを見る

Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writers Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portraya……続きを見る

Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic ……続きを見る

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental ……続きを見る

Continuing his explorations of T. S. Eliot's most captivating yet difficult works, G. Douglas Atkins' new and insightful book takes on the question of Eliot and hermeneutics: understanding and being……続きを見る

Guilt. Insatiable self-torment. Night terrors. Cold sweats. The unforgiving memories haunt him in the darkness of closed eyelids. He wakes to the abundance of the world at his fingertips; then goes ……続きを見る

This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1886 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Ledge on Bald Face' is a collection of poems by……続きを見る

By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This……続きを見る

Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close reading……続きを見る

Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close reading……続きを見る

Interpretations is created as an example of an e-chapbook. Its thirty poems are written using observations of images found in various periodicals. No poems in Interpretations are derived from the au……続きを見る

With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot's debt to the seventeenth-century ……続きを見る

This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related repre……続きを見る

Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and ……続きを見る

In Lennox in Twelve, award-winning poet Van G. Garrett explores moments, both large and small, in the life of heavyweight champion boxer Lennox Lewis. Using an effortless style to peel back the laye……続きを見る

Van G. Garrett explores moments in the life of bluesman Elmore "Hog" Garrett, the imagined godson of the legendary bluesman Slim Harpo. With poems that breathe life into this Southern stor……続きを見る

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain……続きを見る

Although fictionalーand often fantasticーrepresentations of nature have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature ……続きを見る

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period.……続きを見る

The raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler s……続きを見る