Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia brings together over one hundred of Georgia's poets, including David Bottoms, Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey, as well as myriad other luminous voices. The volume marks the fifth of the seriesArt & Literature has called “one of the most ambitious projects in contemporary Southern letters.”
Robert Morgan and Kathryn Stripling Byer, Al Maginnes and Cathy Smith Bowers, Thomas Raine Crowe and Michael McFee, as well as many new voices. . . Indeed, the variegation of the Tar Heel State's landscapes, as well as its rich history, is reflected through the myriad voices of its contemporary verse. As with other volumes of The Southern Poetry Anthology, this book--full of a wide gamut of poetic styles and approaches--will appeal to many readers, prove an excellent teaching resource for North Carolina students of literature, and serve as the definitive poetic document for North Carolina for many years. Conceived by Series Editor William Wright in 2003, The Southern Poetry Anthology is a projected twelve-to-sixteen volume project celebrating established and emerging poets of the American South, published by Texas Review Press. Inspired by single-volume anthologies such as Leon Stokesbury's The Made Thing, Gil Allen's A Ninety-Six Sampler, and Guy Owen and Mary C. Williams' Contemporary Southern Poetry: an Anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology aspires to provide readers with a documentary-like survey of the best poetry being written in the American South at the present moment. Specifically, the editors' goals are twofold: first, to re-establish poetry of the South as a major presence in American literature, and second, to include a greater range of poets from the South to introduce a new poetic geography, a fresh corpus of what we understand to be "Southern Poetry."
Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century—the cultures that shaped Willa Cather’s childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to many of her deeply held values—are addressed in her fiction. In two related sets of essays, seven contributors track within Cather’s life or writing the particular cultural formations, emotions, and conflicts of value she absorbed from the atmosphere of her distinct historical moment; their ten colleagues offer a compelling set of case studies that articulate the manifold ways that Cather learned from, built upon, or resisted models provided by particular nineteenth-century writers, works, or artistic genres. Taken together with its Cather Studies predecessor, Willa Cather and Modern Cultures, this volume reveals Cather as explorer and interpreter, sufferer and master of the transition from a Victorian to a Modernist America.
Winner, TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series North Carolina Inhabiting myriad landscapes, including the marshes, rivers, and sounds of the North Carolina foothills, as well as gulfs, floodplains, and the overflowing banks of the Chattahoochee, Sally Stewart Mohney's Low Country, High Water consists of delicate, often minimal explorations of family, mortality, nature, and the world behind perception. Often dreamlike and painterly, these poems brim with a lyrical and imagistic power, a contemplative force that ignites the imagination. With a Dickinsonian penchant for portraying states of mind through telescoped metaphors, Mohney crafts poetry that proves insightful, compassionate, and subtle. Even as this work conveys the transitory nature of our world and the people and places that construct our lives, this poetry glows with mystery, vitality, and timelessness. Communion Salvation can finally come as simply as lighting heat in an early kitchen. You enter, chilly in slippers, start several small fires to find your way. Coffee, chimney, bacon, then toast. Setting out white cups bowls, plates--a creamer pewter spoons. Light pours in, as pale blue mercy
"As a territory, and later a state, Louisiana has survived French rule, Spanish rule, Rebel rule, and even Republican rule. And somehow the people and place have managed to retain their culture and character. Whether it's been the Natural State, the Dream State, or the Sportsman's Paradise, Louisiana has always been a state of resiliency, community, and joie de vivre. Poem by poem, the pages of The Southern Anthology, Volume IV: Louisiana demonstrate the variety and resiliency of a state that's overcome wars, hurricanes, and floods to make more of itself every time. The lines between these covers are as beautiful and diverse as the people of Louisiana, as rich as the state's history, and as promising as the future we're all working towards." --Jack B. Bedell author of Come Rain, Come Shine and Call and Response
A collection of twenty-five short stories by North Carolina writers showcases the southern flavors and literary pyrotechnics born of this state's rich storytelling traditions. Simultaneous.
Are you ready to jump out of the fishbowl? Are you tired of what you've been swimming in? Do you want to be inspired? If you are experiencing a transition in your life, this is the perfect book for you. The 101 articles in this book guide you through personal stories to overcome the challenges we all face. The authors are teachers, coaches, and those who have made it their mission to inspire the world with their wisdom. Feel free to join us in our free facebook group as well and be part of the Inspirations Movement! www.facebook.com/groups/inspirationsdailyIn this book, you will: -Experience heartfelt personal stories of growth and transformation. -Shift your mindset around fear, anxiety, stress, illness, abuse, and loss. -Explore new possibilities and gain new understandings. -Be reminded that you are never alone. -See the author list with their contact information.Authors list: Rollie Allaire, Kim Andrews, Linda Ballasteros, Pam Baren Kaplan, Brooke Bensinger, Kristi Blakeway, Meredith Brookes, Jenny Cabaniss, Jeannie Church, Tami Close, Gilda Jill Cook, Joann Cooper, Liz Dawn, Cecilia Deal, Kandice Den, Katie Elliott, Juhl B Estar, Ana Evans, Benjamin Evans, Kathryn Ferguson, Lori Verbin Flaum, Karen Gabler, Sarah Gabler, JG Delos Reyes Garcia, Kim Giles, Rach Gill, Dina F. Gilmore, Michelyn Gjurasic, Scott Goodell, Nikki Griffin, Elizabeth Harbin, Suzanne Harmony, Julia Hawkins, Patricia Haynes, Dr. Debbie Helsel, Dr. Vicki L. High, Lisa Holm, Jillian Holper, CCHt, LC, Rosemary Hurwitz, Foxye Jackson, RN, CA-SANE, CRM, JamieLynn, Vanessa Johnston, Cindy J. Kaufman, Susan Marie Kelley, Amy King, Julie Lalande, Barbara Larrabee, Michelle LaRue, E. Chloé Lauer, Kenneth Laws II, Anne Mackie Morelli, Sarah McArthur, Ghene't Lee-Yong McCormick, Stacey Moore McGown, Paula Meyer, Tina Miller, Meaghan Miller Lopez, Roseann Minafo, Aerin Morgan, Luann Morris Morton, Kiauna Skye Murphy-Ballard, Georgia Nagel, Barbara Nersesian, Nicole Newsom-James, Peggy O'Neal, Ashe Owen, Lisa Paquette Yee, Cheryl Peterson, Nicole Piotrasche, Anna Pitchouguina, Colleen Porter, Elicia Raprager, Samantha Renz, Marci Rosenberg, Laura Rudacille, GG Rush, Michelle Ryan, Bruno Salvatico, Chelsea Sandoval, Felicia Shaviri, Jonathan Siegel, Brooke Smith, Matthew Steadman, Janice Story, Cathy Stuart, Lisa Thompson, PhD, Chantalle Ullett, Monet Vincent, Allison Voth, Nanette Waller-Stafford, Patricia Walls, Jamalyn Warriner, Leanne Weasner, Jondi Whitis, Jan Wilson
From the Kermadecs to Campbell Island, beloved endemics to passing vagrants, albatrosses and shearwaters to kiwi and kaka, Birds of New Zealand is the ultimate guide to this countrys extraordinary avian life. It is illustrated with almost 1000 new photographs and uses the latest information from birders and biologists to draw a definitive introduction to bird identification and behaviour. Includes expert information on the 345 bird species found in New Zealand; key identification characteristics and variation by age and sex; authoritative texts covering behaviour, distribution and taxonomy; and Maori, English and scientific names. A copy of this must-have guide belongs in every bach and backpack. The author of Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World, Paul Scofield is a leading New Zealand ornithologist. Brent Stephenson is a New Zealand bird photographer and tour leader.
"John Thomas York has long been known as the Yadkin Bard. But he is also a poet of the vast reaches of the night sky, of deep memory, of wonder. His voice is distinctive, fresh, bringing to life a world long forgotten, of work, of struggle, of family bonds and community. I know of few poets who recreate so effectively the awe and aching immediacy and imaginative intensity of childhood. It is a pleasure to welcome the abundance, the full range of achievement, of Cold Spring Rising, which has both the sweetness and thrilling sting of the coldest and boldest spring water." - Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Terroir.
