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With an entirely new approach to poetry and the art of collage, Jessy Randall transforms diagrams, schematics, charts, graphs, and other visual documents from very old books into poems that speak to the absurdities, anxieties, and joys of life in this modern age.

Like David Kirby's previous acclaimed collections, More Than This is shot through with the roadhouse fervour of early rock'n' roll. Yet these rollicking poems also contain an oceanic feeling more akin to the great symphonies of Europe than the two-minute singles of Little Richard and other rock pioneers.

A collection of pastoral poetry for the Anthropocene. Sarah Barber celebrates nature through attention to the scientific method and with appreciation for surrealist absurdities. Punchy and elegant, Barber's poems reintroduce readers to the strange beauty of a world they only thought they knew.

Follows a Civil War orphan's transformation from public school teacher to nationally known progressive educator and feminist. Rebecca Montgomery places feminism and gender at the center of her analysis and offers a new look at the postbellum movement for southern educational reform through the life of Celeste Parrish.

Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, was home to many notable women, including Cammie Henry, the mistress of Melrose during the first half of the twentieth century. In Cane River Bohemia, Patricia Austin Becker provides a vivid biography of this fascinating figure.

Recovers and analyses the global imaginings of Reconstruction's partisans, those who struggled over and with Reconstruction, as they vied with one another to define the nature of their country after the Civil War.

Inspired by ancient, modern, and contemporary writings, Fred Chappell's sprightly new collection of verse, As If It Were, presents tales, anecdotes, pointed stories, and aphorisms to spark the conscience of readers young and old.

Too often depicted as a region with a single, dominant history and a static culture, the American South actually comprises a wide range of unique places and cultures, each with its own history and identity. This book offers a medley of writings that examine how ideas of the South, and what it means to be southern, have changed over time.

Compiles and explains John James Audubon's essential writings on the region. Beginning in 1810 as Audubon arrives in the upper Louisiana Territory, Audubon's journals, essays, and letters reveal his struggles to fill his portfolio with new watercolors, his discoveries, and the transformative effect the area had on both his art and his life.

Founded in the summer of 1972 by a few friends as a modest celebration, the Southern Decadence festival has since grown into one of New Orleans's largest annual tourist events. This book brings together an astounding array of materials to provide the first comprehensive, historical look at the festival.

Tells the story of how, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Oberlin residents, black and white, understood and acted upon their changing perceptions of race, ultimately resulting in the imposition of a colour line.

Penelope Lemon is a recent divorcee, closet Metallica fan, and accidental subversive to all the expectations of suburban motherhood. After ending her marriage with James, a woodsy intellectual who favours silky kimonos too short for his knobby knees, Penelope finds herself, at forty, living with her randy mother in her childhood home.

Considers whether poor northern men bore the highest burden of military service during the American Civil War. Examining data on median family wealth from the 1860 United States Census, Marvel reveals the economic conditions of the earliest volunteers from each northern state during the seven major recruitment and conscription periods of the war.

In this sequel to his previous exploration of Louisiana's bayou country, conservationist Kelby Ouchley continues his journey through the vast ecosystems of the state with a fresh array of historical and cultural narratives, personal anecdotes, and reflections.

While an array of scholarly and legal literature has examined New York Times v Sullivan and subsequent cases, the St. Amant case - once called "the most important of the recent Supreme Court libel decisions" - has not received the attention it warrants. Eric Robinson corrects this with a thorough analysis of the case and its ramifications.

In the first complete history of the celebrated Faubourg Marigny neighbourhood, Scott Ellis chronicles the incomparable vitality of life in the Marigny, describes its architectural and social evolution across two centuries, and shows how many of New Orleans's most dramatic events unfolded in this eclectic suburb.

Building upon the work of late twentieth-century scholars in the field of feminist studies, Megan Taylor Shockley provides an in-depth look at feminism in the modern US South. Shockley challenges the monolithic view of the region as a conservative bastion and argues that feminist advocates have provided crucial social progressive force.

Investigates how American participation in World War I further strained the region's relationship with the federal government, how wartime hardships altered the South's traditional social structure, and how the war effort stressed and reshaped the southern economy.

Offers delightful histories from Louisiana's most famous route. Mary Ann Sternberg's latest explorations include a trip on a towboat as it pushes a fleet of barges down the river; the true story behind the Sunshine Bridge; a tour of one of the last working sugar mills along the River Road; and much more.

Regarded as one of the most vocal and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote's unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne fills this gap in his examination of the life of this gifted and volatile public figure.

Reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana's Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition deftly brings the analysis forward to account for the continuation of violence and mayhem in the region in the early twentieth century.

Alternately restricted, oppressed, belittled, and enslaved, women sought to embrace an identity that would give them some sense of self-respect and self-worth. The rich and varied roles that mothers inherited, this book shows, afforded women this empowering identity.

Examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organisation committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. The book follows the Council from its establishment, through its expansion across America and its success in incorporating elements of its agenda into national politics, to its dissolution in 1989.

Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960.

Tracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara Bellows' Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependent relationship between wartime enemies in the Civil War South.

Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries. James McSwain reveals how these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances.

For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention, hoping to end a years-long feud that divided black America. An intense and revealing history, this book provides an in-depth evaluation of this critical moment in American history.

Wallace Stevens remains one of the major figures of American modernist poetry, celebrated for his masterful style and investigations of the natural, political, and metaphysical worlds. Stevens scholar George Lensing explores the poet's progress in the creation of his body of work, considering its development, composition, and reception.

Showcases regional dishes and cooking styles associated with the "German Coast", a part of southeastern Louisiana located along the Mississippi River north of New Orleans. This rural community produced a vibrant cuisine comprised of classic New Orleans Creole dishes that also feature rustic Cajun flavors and ingredients.

In these essays, Gary Fincke combines a journalist's relentless investigations into the darkest corners of the human condition with an academic's love for arcana. Fincke plumbs the depths - child abuse, violence, illness, grief - not for their sadness but for moments of courage, hope, empathy, and light.