Betty Adcock brings fierce insight to her seventh poetry collection, Rough Fugue. Her elegant stanzas evoke bygone moments of beauty, reflection, and ...

Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking ...

Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical ...

In Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies, Carol Shloss moves from biographical, thematic, and theological approaches and instead focuses her criticism ...

Throughout his career, William Faulkner produced a literary discourse remarkably contiguous with other discourses of American culture, but seldom has ...

One Body is Margaret Gibson's most intimate collection of poems to date. Written as if to honor the injunction 'Work to simplify the heart,' the ...

In The Petticoat Affair, prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek offers the first in--depth investigation of the earliest -- and perhaps greatest -- ...

Praise for David R. Slavitt 'Slavitt's touch is light, and he writes beautifully.... His satire is sharp, and he can be wildly funny.' -- New York ...

In dark, lyrical verse, Black Flowers follows a speaker from childhood into adulthood, as he navigates the animistic world of crows, conjurings, and ...

New People is an insightful historical analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and blacks from colonial times to the present, of the 'new people' ...