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Mississippi Milkwater
In her sharp memoir of growing up in 1950s Mississippi, Sybil Pittman Estess shares the history of her state and the lessons she's learned along the way, in pristine, beautifully rendered memories full of vivid characters who live and breathe.
2018: Found Poems and Weather Reports
2018 is a poetic march through the stirring calamity of our times and its people in a single year, day-to-day. Real life problems of broken pipes, marriages, love, school shootings, higher education instructing, child raising, women's rights, racism, wildfires, politics and the force of nature show a dislocated nation in turmoil.
KD: a Jazz Biography
Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark, this poetic biography traces the story of musician Kenny Dorham's career performing with the greatest legends of jazz history's bop and hard bop eras--including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane. Also discussing extensive touring as a musician and his lamentably short-lived group the Jazz Prophets, this biography demonstrates the importance of Dorham's career.
the almost stories
This collection of short fiction delves into relationships with poignant insights, illuminating realities of living, dying, and innocence set in an idyllic world that can change quickly to become harsh and sad. In these “Almost Stories,” characters struggle with life against seemingly impossible odds. They do not always win, but they do not give up.
"Whether Dorothy Barnett is contemplating a father's indiscretions, sidestepping unpleasant youthful losses, or navigating scenes of a ten-year-old at a domino game free-for-all, her storytelling is the next best thing to living it. Her descriptions of bittersweet losses were enough to jog my own memories about the past. I read these fifteen stories (almost fiction and almost fact, as Ms. Barnett calls them) in one sitting ending at four o'clock in the morning. They are a wonderful teaser for what I hope will be many more stories to come. A must-read book!"
--Diane Wilson, author of An Unreasonable Woman and Holy Roller
thealmoststories
by Dorothy Ellis Barnett
ISBN: 978-1943306121
The Hero's Fall I Fell For: Jazz Poems
With these poems devoted to jazz, Dave Oliphant offers a testament to the variety and significance of the art form and its artists. These poems are an attempt to pay homage to the art of jazz and to its musicians, whose lives and performances have long been a source of pleasure, inspiration, and solace.
The Hero's Fall I Fell For: Jazz Poems
by Dave Oliphant
ISBN: 978-1943306091
Old Men on Tuesday Mornings
Lyrical poetry on the process of aging and the transition from one life-stage to another, on the passing of time and its relentless impact on masculinity and the male image, and on on the place of the solitary individual in 21st Century America.
Old Men on Tuesday Mornings
by Lyman Grant
ISBN: 978-1943306084
Bly's Dust
"Dorothy Ellis Barnett’s savvy work mirrors a life lived in the service of art. Her fine diction and syntax, 'the best words in the best order' (Coleridge), reveal a poet who misses nothing remaking a world she has learned to see so well. Nor does she remain silent about being engagé in our political climate. And it is thedifferences in her poems—never a sameness—that propel her toward excellence." — Ken Fontenot, author of For Mr. Raindrinker
Bly's Dust
by Dorothy Ellis Barnett
ISBN: 978-1943306138
Austin: A Poem
"Written with knowledge and sympathy, the poem contains a delightful tangle of details. Lyndon Johnson, Elisabet Ney, Peter Flawn, Custer, O. Henry, and Joseph Jones (the sage of Waller Creek)--public figures and personal friends interact in the city of Oliphant's imagination....A lengthy proem, set at the grave of Stephen F. Austin in the State Cemetery, contains a brilliant passage about Austin in prison.... The oblique narration is kept on track with masterful transitions....[T]he language is carefully crafted, with interesting and often beautiful sound-play in virtually every line."
--John Herndon, Austin American-Statesman
Austin: A Poem
by Dave Oliphant
ISBN: 978-1943306107
Backyard Volcano: And Other Mysteries of the Heart
Backyard Volcano: And Other Mysteries of the Heart
by Kathryn Lane
ISBN: 978-1943306046
Between Two Gardens
Between Two Gardens
by Laura Quinn Guidry
ISBN: 978-1943306053
U.S. and Them: The Re-Enchantment of a Cold War Childhood
U.S. and Them
by Patricia Bjorklund
ISBN: 978-1943306022
Maria's Book
Maria's Book
by Dave Oliphant
ISBN: 978-1943306015
For Mr. Raindrinker
For Mr. Raindrinker
by Ken Fontenot
ISBN: 978-0990863274
ABWW14
ABWW14
Edited by Lowell Mick White
ISBN: 978-0990863267
Blood at the Root
Blood at the Root
by Lee Meitzen Grue
ISBN: 978-0990863236
ART STRONGER THAN HATE! (hardcover)In Issa Nyaphaga's new book, Art Stronger Than Hate!, the social justice advocate and former artist for the French magazine Charlie Hebdo offers a visual commentary on our current political, social, and economic world, arguing for Free Speech rather than Hate Speech. Art Stronger Than Hate! is evidence that art can save lives and inspire the human spirit.
Art Stronger Than Hate! by Issa Nyaphaga hardcover ISBN: 978-0990863250 |
ART STRONGER THAN HATE! (Paperback)In Issa Nyaphaga's new book, Art Stronger Than Hate!, the social justice advocate and former artist for the French magazine Charlie Hebdo offers a visual commentary on our current political, social, and economic world, arguing for Free Speech rather than Hate Speech. Art Stronger Than Hate! is evidence that art can save lives and inspire the human spirit.
Art Stronger Than Hate! by Issa Nyaphaga paperback ISBN: 978-0990863243 |
Like That: New and Selected Poems
Like That: New and Selected Poems
by Sybil Pittman Estess
ISBN: 978-0990863229
The Cowtown Circle
The Cowtown Circle
by Dave Oliphant
ISBN: 978-0990863212
Janie's Garden
Introduction by Diane Wilson
Edited by Lowell Mick White
ISBN: 978-0990863205
ABWW13
ABWW13
Edited by Lowell Mick White
ISBN: 978-0615950570