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This collection of poetry explores the myths and themes that make fantasy and fairy tales permanent fixations in the hearts and lives of us all.

As part of an initiative to enhance the Latin American Studies programme, an interdisciplinary, international conference series on Latin American Studies was established in 2009. The conference drew participants from many different universities across three continents. This collection of essays, in English and Spanish, represent a multifaceted perspective on Latin America today.

In the seven essays that comprise Riddled with Light, Mark Sanders explores the development of W.B. Yeats' metaphorical concepts throughout the poet's career, analysing the types of metaphors Yeats used while tracing the impact of specific metaphors on a poem's language, rhythm, metrical and grammatical structures, and form. Individual chapters are devoted to the conceptual metaphors that unify Yeats' work and provide readers with an overreach...

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In a small East Texas town, in a season of social unrest, God would weave together the lives of two very different people and two very different families into a single, stunning strand of grace.

Charles D. Jones is an East Texas legend, a Renaissance man by all measures. Here, beautifully printed and housed in an embossed cloth cover is a retrospective of nearly a half-century of Jones's artwork - drawings and sketches, paintings and prints, and woodcuts that range from blues musicians to modern authors, horses to insects, and flora of East Texas.

Begins with the death of six young people—three in Mexico, two in the United States, and one in Spain. All are admitted to heaven by St. Peter and given special assignments to interview six important personages in the conquest of Mexico: Hernando Cortés, Pedro de Alvarado, and Martín López, Doña Marina, Isabel Moctezuma, and Leonor Cortés Moctezuma. The six messengers are returned to life and placed in the century of conquest with specific ass...

Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath shows that looking at Plath's Ariel through the lens of tarot and mysticism opens the poems up to amazing new--and quite obvious--meanings. Critics and scholars have long looked at the mysticism in her husband Ted Hughes' work. Sylvia Plath virtually worshipped her husband, letting him hypnotize her, cast her astrological chart and horoscope, teach her to meditate, and together they visited loc...

The latest children's book by Nacogdoches, Texas author and illustrator Myrna Johnson. This work is filled with whimsical artwork and fun, alliterative wordplay appropriate for early readers. Children will delight in this book, as will parents and grandparents.

David Young's new translation of Alturas de Macchu Picchu / Heights of Macchu Picchu sensitively captures the journey of Neruda's persona through the ruins of the Inca city, Machu Picchu, the high ground where the Inca tribe endeavoured to escape the conquest of Spanish invaders.

Based on a series of one hundred pen and ink drawings by Captain Benjamin Comeau, a POW at Camp #1 in Korea from 1950-1953, Honey Bucket Charlie contains letters Comeau wrote during his time in the prison camp, as well as photographs and interviews with his son, brother, and grandson.

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Features thirty-five works by thirteen advanced photography students from Libera Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy. These works represent a wide range of subject, media, and approach to contemporary photography in Italy, and they demonstrate the impact of global culture. The photographs contained in this collection range from landscape, portrait and self-portrait, the nude, to fantasy and constructed realities of dream-like intensity.