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Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it's hard to be understood and make that look easy, " he descri...

Reducere. In this debut collection, Chanda Feldman's stunning poems unveil her childhood as well as that of her parents. Memories of desegregation, the days ...

Reducere. DescriptionSoaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African Americ...

Reducere. Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration,...

"Dying never / ends for us. It only slowly rearranges us, " writes Steve Scafidi in his poignant new collection. Inspired by his own work as a cabi...

Reducere. A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home ...

Reducere. The percussive poems of Stripper in Wonderland move from birth to death, funk to hip-hop, and racism to religion as Derrick Harriell explores the l...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsIn her debut poetry collection The Glacier s Wake, Katy Didden attends to the large-scale tectonics of the natural world as she cons...

Reducere. In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly o...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this powerful collection, Chelsea Rathburn seeks to voice matters once deemed unspeakable, from collisions between children and preda...

Reducere. Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured...

"We need poetry as we need love and company, " according to Miller Williams. Making a Poem speaks to us all -- those of us trying to write a first ...

Reducere. A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poigna...

Originally published in 1963, this powerful novel spools a rewarding, dramatic storyline while it probes the deeper philosophical search for self-d...

A rare Sephardic Jew in the Old South and a favorite of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin has been described as "the brains of the Confederacy." H...

Reducere. In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Gov...

Reducere. Louisiana Young Readers' Choice AwardMolly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return.So...

Reducere. Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career a...

Reducere. A prominent Louisiana political scientist makes plain the reasons for the state's political peculiarities. In the popular American imagination, Lou...

Reducere. The Sazerac, the Hurricane, and the absinthe glass of Herbsaint are among the many well-known creations native to New Orleans's longstanding drinki...

Reducere. This study encompasses a complete history of Louisiana's isleno community from the Spanish era to the late 20th century.

Reducere. A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk im...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanis...

The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg's award-win...

Reducere. One of the first women s organizations to mask in a Mardi Gras parade, the Million Dollar Baby Dolls redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition. ...

Reducere. AwardsPROSEDescriptionThe grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petal...

Reducere. Two self-proclaimed "crotchety old horticulture professors, " Ed O'Rourke and Leon Standifer share an immense love of gardening, a vast knowledge o...

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible -...

In lush verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can result from destructive situations, encompassing ecological devastat...

Huey "Piano" Smith's musical legacy stands alongside that of fellow New Orleans legends Dr. John, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Doe, and Allen Toussaint. Hi...

"Splendid. . . . McAlexander's biography only makes it clearer than ever that Peter Taylor was our last great southern man of letters."--Chicago Tr...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Reducere. In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable f...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Orleans: The Underground Guide shows visitors how to experience the Big Easy like a local, looking past staples like beignets and Bo...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery basketball team has its star player. From 1967 to 1970, Louisiana State University saw the rise of a legend: "Pistol Pete" Maravic...

Reducere. On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, recently inaugurated president Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft t...

Billy Cannon's name, his image, and his remarkable athletic career serve as emblems for Louisiana State University, the Southeastern Conference, an...

Reducere. Before The Lost Get-Back Boogie appeared to wide acclaim in 1986, James Lee Burke had been out of print in cloth for thirteen years and his fifth n...

Reducere. Preservation Hall, located in the French Quarter just three blocks from the Mississippi River, remains an icon of New Orleans and an essential stop...

Reducere. Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Loui...

Reducere. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

Reducere. Whether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn K. Fontenot's The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidel...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examini...

Reducere. "A sensitive and forthright analysis of one of the most gruesome episodes in Florida history... McGovern has produced a richly detailed case study ...

Reducere. M m re's Country Creole Cookbook showcases regional dishes and cooking styles associated with the "German Coast, " a part of southeastern Louisiana...

Reducere. The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13, 000 Fe...

Neon Revelations tracks the groundbreaking career of comics innovator and iconoclastic auteur Howard Chaykin and the impact of his work on the tran...

Reducere. Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set...

Reducere. Description"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a famili...

Reducere. Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civi...

Reducere. With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon C. Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial...

Reducere. Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climacti...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1978, Claude F. Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconst...

If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the ...

Reducere. Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last ...

Reducere. When Generals in Gray was published in 1959, scholars and critics immediately hailed it as one of the few indispensable books on the American Civil...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

Reducere. Fresh herbs offer a healthy and delicious way to spice up any meal, but growing and cooking with these delectable plants are endeavors fraught with...

Reducere. A native of western Flanders, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq served in several posts as diplomatic representative for the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I (Ki...

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." --...

Reducere. In John Kennedy Toole's iconic novel, Ignatius J. Reilly is never short of opinions about food or far away from his next bite. Whether issuing gibe...

Reducere. In March of 1972, civil rights activists and black power leaders met for three days in Gary, Indiana, looking to end their intense four-year feud t...

Magnificent, maddening, thrilling, heartbreaking-- over the years, LSU football has been called many things; boring is not among them. But no perio...

Reducere. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful gro...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Introduction by: Susan V. DonaldsonFirst published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural...

Reducere. After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home a...

Reducere. DescriptionA National Historic Landmark with a complex and remarkable two-hundred-year history, Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, wa...

Reducere. New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polariz...

As a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like "leper", whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illne...

Reducere. DescriptionToo often depicted as a region with a single, dominant history and a static culture, the American South actually comprises a wide range ...