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In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a black pickup truck shot two Black deputies in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Deputy Oneal Moore, the driver of the patrol car and father of four daughters, died instantly. His partner, Creed Rogers, survived and radioed in a description of the pickup. Less than an hour later, police in Mississippi spotted the truck and arrested its driver, a decorated World War II veteran named Ern...

Daniel Boone's Window, the second book of poetry by Matthew Wimberley, meditates on the past and future of contemporary Appalachia through explorations of a too often mythologized place and people. In poems that confront a region indelibly shaped by environmental turmoil, economic erasure, and the weight of an outside world intent on destroying it, Daniel Boone's Window works to reclaim and reckon with the realities and complexities of Appalac...

Help Me, Information" is propelled by the speed and motion of the poems that define earlier acclaimed books by David Kirby, poems which move the way the mind does on a good day, puddle-jumping from one topic to another and then coming in for a nice soft landing. The poem might bounce once or twice on the tarmac, but the pilot promised he would get you to the terminal safely, and he does. Colloquial in tone, balancing narrative breadth with mas...

As he prepares to enter his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt, whose debut book of verse appeared in 1961, remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill for meaning, wherever and however he can get it. Traversing Africa, India, Israel, and the America in which he finds himself, Slavitt's new collection visits zoos, casinos, baseball fields, and cemeteries searching for clues from which he m...

For over 40 years, Margaret Gibson's poetry has explored intimate human relationships in the natural and social worlds we inhabit. In her thirteenth volume of poems, Gibson continues to see herself and her world with clarity and awareness, but now with perhaps greater urgency. These poems grieve deeply, even as they warn and celebrate, with elegies for the beloved and elegies for the earth during the impending global crisis wrought by climate ...

In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the amazing social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl A. Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all...

Of the 620, 000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria--a mosquito-borne illness that afflicted over 1.1 million soldiers serving in the Union army alone. Yellow fever, another disease transmitted by mosquitos, struck fear into the hearts of military pla...

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised and amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block "cartoons" and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, political, whimsical, and moral. This delightful book collects in their entirety, for the first time, all of the extant satirical columns and woodcut illus...

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A Stroll in the Rain both distills and expands a body of poetry compiled over some thirty-five years by showcasing the full range of George Bradley's compositional methods and abiding concerns. In his work, Bradley employs a wide variety of verse forms, both formal and free, and the selections in this volume accordingly encompass many different genres: lyric, prophetic utterance, meditative essay, elegy and ode, liturgy and dream, satire and s...

Bird's eye views of New Orleans appeared first in the nineteenth century from the vantage point of hot-air balloons. In the twentieth-century, photographers in bi-planes, commercial aircraft, and helicopters trained their lenses on the Crescent City. While these methods of capturing the city from above offer fascinating glimpses of its neighborhoods, buildings, gardens, streets, and people, the images are broadly focused and necessarily taken ...

What Light He Saw I Cannot Say, " a new poetry collection from Sidney Burris, crafts a subtle weave of consciousness and objective reality, grounded in the act of imagination, as it explores the life of the soul. Poems both demanding and beguiling gain deeper resonance and release new perceptions of recurrent events, people, and the mysterious links they share. In tones and auras encompassing the spiritual, physical, and meditative, "What Ligh...

Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Taylor addresses numerous features of the state's vast prison system, including chain gangs, convict leasing, executions, and the nearby Women's Prison, to describe better the vagaries of living behind bars in the state's largest penitentiary. He in...

In "Sweet Land of Liberty, " Tom Sancton traces the arc of the American image in the eyes of the French left against the backdrop of the major historical developments in both countries between the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. Along the way, Sancton weaves in the voices of scores of French observers, known and unknown, including Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Louis Blanc, Alphonse de Lamartine, Jules Miche...

John Rodriguez's "Spanish New Orleans" is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Spain's governance of the largest imperial city in its North American empire. Rodriguez suggests that the Spanish empire was, at least on the northern edge, slipping into economic and perhaps political independence at least a decade before the overthrow of its Bourbon Spanish rulers in 1808. His work questions that of earlier historians, who argued that Lati...

Every year on March 19, Roman Catholic churches and households in and around New Orleans celebrate St. Joseph's Day, part of which involves preparing elaborate tiered displays filled with foods, prayers, and offerings. As the centerpieces of these celebrations, St. Joseph Altars capture a deep-rooted tradition established in south Louisiana by immigrants from Sicily, whose families have been giving thanks to St. Joseph since the Middle Ages. S...

Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers' Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during the conference over the last several years. Some essays focus on one or two authors, some focus on texts, while others cast their regard more broadly. All are written in response to q...

In the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez and Maxine Hong Kingston, and deeply rooted in the intricacies of the author's Japanese-Hawaiian heritage, Calabash Stories is a lucid, unforgettable collection. Jeffrey J. Higa's stories arise from different points in the same fertile landscape: At times, the recurrence of certain details (a beige Volkswagen bug, a famous entertainer) makes them glow with deeper meaning, at others, the reemergence of...

Paige Quiñones's incisive debut poetry collection investigates the trauma of desire. Quiñones's lyric world is populated with stark dualities: procreation and childlessness, predator and prey, mania and depression. A hunter pursues an ill-fated fox through the woods, heaven is paved with girls who would rather drown than be born, a couple returns from their honeymoon to find a stagnant pond in their marriage bed. Through navigating these dupli...

Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, "Ordinary Psalms, " asks the everyday world to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into the fundamental truth of vision. As she contemplates the loss of one friend to cancer and another to suicide, along with her own visual impairment, Levine holds the world "close as I needed to see." Imagistic, lyrical, and at times imploring d...