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Asks and answers the most difficult questions about the trauma of mental illness, divorce, financial and emotional despair. This book provides hope and fellowship for those who seek to know themselves better.

Includes author's collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century.

Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience-a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene.

Confronts the hypocrisy of critics from both the right and the left who attempt to exploit popular misperceptions about lawyers and judges to further their own social and political agendas.

The beauty and barrenness of the southwestern landscape naturally lends itself to the art of storytellers. It is a land of heat and dryness, a land of spirits, a land that is misunderstood by those living along the coasts.

An anthology of New Criticism that includes essays by such influential poets and critics as T S Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, Cleanth Brooks, R P Blackmur, W K Wimsatt, and Robert Penn Warren. It is an introduction for students to the American poetry criticism of the twentieth century.

The various lenses - ethical, political, sexual, religious, and so forth - through which we may view art are often instrumental in giving us an appreciation of the work. This book presents an overview of the arguments about the importance of considering the relevant context in determining the true merit of a work of art.

A collection of poems.

The twelve stories in Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison's barbed wire and iron bars.

At the age of 27, Fannie Sedlacek left her Bohemian homestead in Nebraska to join the gold rush to the Klondike. From the Klondike to the Tanana, Fannie continued north, finally settling in Katishna near Mount McKinley. This woman, later known as Fannie Quigley, became a prospector who staked her own claims and a cook who ran a roadhouse.

In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors.

The first new collection in twelve years by renowned California poet and New Formalist, Timothy Steele. A quiet intelligence pervades the lines of these poems and reinforces Steele's mastery of form and image.

Presents a collection of poems, in which the acclaimed author of "Belonging", addresses themes that he has worked with - travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, and the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows. This collection introduces a theme that revolves around the idea of happiness.

Animal rights. Those two words conjure diverse but powerful images and reactions. Some nod in agreement, while others roll their eyes in contempt. Most people fall somewhat uncomfortably in the middle, between endorsement and rejection, as they struggle with the profound moral, philosophical, and legal questions provoked by the debate.

Presents a spectrum of human expression, vision, and experience. This book reflects a wisdom and maturity of character that has been constant during the entire span of author's writing career.

These stories infuse stark reality with occasional hints of magical realism to explore what the American dream means to twenty-first-century suburbanites.

Immerses readers in the lives of people caught up in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, which left 500,000 dead. This book captures the hand-to-mouth existence on the streets of Madrid of two war orphans, whose friendship redeems their shattered world; and an old soldier's memories of a fallen militiawoman.

Masculine codes of honor and dominance often are expressed in acts of violence, including war and terrorism. This book examines the lives of five famous men - great leaders and crusaders - who actively resisted violence and presented their causes with more humane alternatives.

One-Smoke Stories is a collection of folk tales from Native American, Spanish Colonial, mestizo, and European American peoples of the Southwest retold in the enthralling words of one of the bestselling writers of her day, Mary Austin.

This is the first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 details the struggle of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole.Dawn

The novels and nonfiction work of writer Frank Waters stand as a monument to his genius and to his lifetime quest to plumb the spiritual depths that he found for himself in the landscape and people of his beloved Southwest.

Deepened by Davis' dry wit and the formal rigour of his verse, these poems negotiate their way among personal and political divides. His own cosmopolitan background provides the context for many of the poems, yet he is concerned also with finding the humanly universal in the local and anecdotal.

In 1967, Yvor Winters wrote of Helen Pinkerton, "she is a master of poetic style and of her material. No poet in English writes with more authority." Unfortunately, in 1967 mastery of poetic style was not, by and large, considered a virtue, and Pinkerton's finely crafted poems were neglected in favor of more improvisational and flashier talents.

The boys and men who left their Greek valley and mountain villages in the early 1900s for America came with amulets their mothers had made for them.

Poet, teacher, and critic, Yvor Winters was a man of letters in more ways than one. This selection of his personal correspondence spans half a century of literary history and a lifetime of intellectual development and growth.

Smart, ambitious, competitive, and courageous, Belinda Mulrooney was destined through her legendary pioneering in the wilds of the Yukon basin to found towns and many businesses. She built two fortunes, supported her family, was an ally to other working women, and triumphed in what was considered a man's world. This book tells her story.

Pontiac, Sequoyah, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle. These legendary names are familiar even to the uninitiated in Native American history, yet the life stories of these great spiritual leaders have been largely unknown.In

In this fascinating piece of scholarly detective work, biblical scholar Savina J. Teubal peels away millenia of patriarchal distortion to reveal the lost tradition of biblical matriarchs.