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Homer sends the hero of "The Odyssey" to interview the dead in order to discover his destiny. The poems in this book pursue a similar mission, bringing to life in monologues and narratives figures from history and recollection, all rendered with careful attention to the idiom, customs, emotions, and ironies of their time and region. The earlier, nineteenth century figures include Mary Lincoln, Ambrose Bierce, Meriwether Lewis, Federal veterans...

Excerpt from Poetica Erotica, Vol. 2: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory VerseRanging the Plain Says Dick to Dolly Sit Down, My Dear Sylvia Songs from The Cupid State and Ambition Sylvia a May Roving The Bashful Maid The Bunch of Rushes The Country Lass Cumberland Lass The Danger Is Over.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from Poetica Erotica, Vol. 2: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse Ranging the Plain Says Dick to Dolly Sit Down, My Dear Sylvia Songs from The Cupid State and Ambition Sylvia a May Roving The Bashful Maid The Bunch of Rushes The Country Lass Cumberland Lass The Danger Is Over The Distressed Maid The Dream Th O O O O O e njoyment Fall of Man The Fashionable Shepherdess Fickle Maid Tu O O O O O O O O 2: Gallant Schemer's Peti...

The International Thermal Conductivity Conference was started in 1961 with the initiative of Mr. Charles F. Lucks, who passed away on 8 July 1982 and to the memory of whom this volume is dedicated. These Conferences on thermal conductivity grew out of the needs of researchers in the field. The Conferences were held annu­ ally from 1961 to 1973 and have been held biennially since 1975 when our Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis ...

A good cut--sliver by sliver--finds an owl's eye in the texture. You rasp and sand for the curve of muscle, the feel of bone, then smoke and varnish for the whiskey sheen. When it's dry and strung, tune it to the wind till it comes alive, brightwood again. If a fiddle's fashioned with such ardor, it can stir the world's first spark, drawn the way healing always is--from the stridor of the dark.

A companion volume to his previous collection Trespasser and the second book of the trilogy "Dreaming in Irish", Messenger continues R.T. Smith's exploration of the threshold between story and song. Employing a disciplined and echoing free verse, Smith touches the sources of emotion without losing his poems' extraordinary composure, offering coherence and order in service of the ecstatic note.Binding the lyric to narrative, these poems move al...

Collaborative Therapeutic Neuropsychological Assessment Edited by Tad T. Gorske, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine Steven R. Smith, University of California at Santa Barbara   Perhaps the greatest challenge faced by neuropsychological assessment is its image as a bearer of bad news, i.e., the diagnosis of cognitive impairment. To meet this challenge and better address patient needs, practitioners need to fill the void that too oft...

Chronicles the title family's encounters with ruthlessness over several generations. Ranging through time from the Civil War to the present, this intricate and exquisitely written collection further confirms the author as one of America's best writers.

A companion volume to his previous collection Trespasser and the second book of the trilogy "Dreaming in Irish, " Messenger continues R. T. Smith's exploration of the threshold between story and song. Employing a disciplined and echoing free verse, Smith touches the sources of emotion without losing his poems' extraordinary composure, offering coherence and order in service of the ecstatic note. Binding the lyric to narrative, these poems move...

Presents a retrospective collection of poems gleaned from over three decades of writing by a poet absorbed by nature and culture in the American South. These often-narrative poems are concerned with history, race, indigenous music, the many Southern dialects and customs and the quest for authentic identity.

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In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A Confederate reenactor receives a message from the beyond to lay to rest the remains of Stonewall Jackson's horse. A docent at Washington and Lee University's Lee Ch...

Outlaw Style is the finest most powerful book of R.T. Smith's mighty career. It bristles with candor and violence and makes the kind of music that only comes from a rare mix of craft and abandon. This book reminds me why southern poetry matters - it is a shining chunk of the American soul. If you want a masterpiece, here it is." - Steve Scafidi, author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer "Rod Smith's new book makes even the grimmest, quasi-Mani...