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Gary Margolis's first book of poems is accomplished in its craftsmanship. For many years he has been publishing in magazines and, in this initial gathering of his work, he presents a sustained, mature poetic voice. This is a collection of his best poems and a carefully considered whole, a book that is consistently lyrical and moving.

These are poems of the present, of commercials and human interest stories, of the drive-in windows that make banks and bedrooms of our cars. Describing the world he has seen and loved as well as how that world sometimes threatens itself, Gary Margolis speaks with caring humor and seriousness of the brokenness and beauty of America's present.

Explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction onwards. This book contains twelve case studies that document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography.

The ten stories gathered here show Rebecca Harding Davis to be an acute observer of the conflicts and ambiguities of a divided nation and position her as a major transitional writer between romanticism and realism. Capturing the fluctuating cultural environment of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the stories explore such issues as racial prejudice and slavery, the loneliness and powerlessness of women, and the effects of postwar market capitalism on the working classes. Davis's characters include soldiers and civilians, men and women, young and old, blacks and whites. Instead of focusing (like many writers of the period) on major conflicts and leaders, Davis takes readers into the intimate battles fought on family farms and backwoods roads, delving into the minds of those who experienced the destruction on both sides of the conflict.Davis spent the war years in the Pennsylvania and Virginia borderlands, a region she called a "e;"e;vast armed camp."e;"e; Here, divided families, ravaged communities, and shifting loyalties were the norm. As the editors say, "e;"e;Davis does not limit herself to writing about slavery, abolition, or reconstruction. Instead, she shows us that through the fighting, the rebuilding, and the politics, life goes on. Even during a war, people must live: they work, eat, sleep, and love.

The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times - the specter of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons looms over relations among many countries. This volume examines challenges faced by the international community.

The mass migration of Latin Americans to the US South has led to profound changes in the social, economic, and cultural life of the region and inaugurated a new era in southern history. This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores these transformations in rural, urban, and suburban areas of the South.

Features ten short stories that explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts.