The Wild Rose Asylum
The Wild Rose Asylum

Author: Rachel Dilworth

Publisher: Akron Series in Poetry (Paperb

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931968614

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The poems of The Wild Rose Asylum give to the women of the Magdalen laundries a voice that sharpens the air. The testimonies rendered here are stark yet fiercely lyrical, bearing witness to generations of lost women and lost freedom.

In the Season of the Wild Rose
In the Season of the Wild Rose

Author: Clara Rising

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13:

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A big, opulent, full-bodied novel of love and war centering on John Hunt Morgan, the Confederate cavalry general whose fearless Raiders nearly turned the tide of the Civil War. Maps.

Herd Book
Herd Book

Author: National Pig Breeders' Association, London

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 824

ISBN-13:

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Requiem for the Orchard
Requiem for the Orchard

Author: Oliver De la Paz

Publisher: The University of Akron Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1931968748

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These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the tallest thing in the valley, ' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck / with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties"or because of them"there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, / letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. "Martin Espada