Bøger udgivet af Stephen F. Austin State University Press

A collection that represents where Gary Soto is in his life. He finds himself positioned in life as the older gent, or old guy. His poetry mirrors his personality, snarky and full of mockery. Soto writes about mainly aging and the loss of one's dignity as the years pass. It's very funny, poignant, sad, and especially true.

A collection of Greg Kuzma's poems. Kuzma's gift is his ability to slip deeply into the territories of human soul, where he teaches us to endure against loss, to ascend from despair, and to celebrate how beautiful imperfect lives may be.

This novel is set on a US Forest Service firefighting crew stationed in Southern California in the mid-1960s. In its fidelity to the physical, emotional, and social world of the crews, Fire Season offers an account of the fiery intersection of the human and the natural world-an ongoing encounter that has decisively shaped the natural history-and, therefore, the human history-of the West.

There is cinema... and there are the movies. This is a book for movie junkies: salutes to the once great but now forgotten stars, to the acknowledged behind-the-scenes movers and shakers, and to the movies themselves - the classics major and minor, the overlooked gems, the guiltiest of guilty pleasures.

The poems in Working Class integrate the experiences of construction labour, Sicilian roots, family and spiritual life. These mostly free-verse poems incorporate subtle metrics, rhymes, and stanza structures to make the poems both accessible and lyrical.

Navigates past and present in Michael Catherwood's world of colourful scenarios of a one-armed Vietnam Vet running pool tables, dreaming alternate endings to John Wayne films, a vacation photo of a father scalping his son next to a teepee in the deserts of Arizona, and a man frozen in time.

This collectio of stories ranges in locale from the piney woods of Deep East Texas, to the mean streets of Memphis, to the suburbs of Washington, DC. Highly comic and deeply serious, the collection reaches from the late 19th century to the present day.

In the same vein as Paul Theroux and Robert Olen Butler, some of these stories take place in foreign countries-Zaire (Congo) and Greece-and centre on interactions between a host nation and an American visitor. Others are set in the US in the modes of Alice Munro and Tobias Wolff, focusing on human relationships. Each story reveals a main character's moral centre in the face of unexpected events.

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.

A memoir that will engage readers from young to old. From being a ""chicken-catcher"" in his youth, to climbing a mountainside to fight wildfires as an adult, Felix Holmes takes readers on a journey where family stories come alive in Texas.

Embraces the complexities of the particular in place and person, from the deserts of the Southwest to the author's current home territory in Nebraska. Waggener's heartland is wherever his poetic visions land, regardless if they are open, spare places or urban streets; they explore, as well, so wonderfully the characters who populate such territory.

There is profound depth, imagination, hard truths, beauty, and a vital spectrum of feelings to be found in this groundbreaking collection, which is just as wonderfully insightful and emotional as the world itself. William's writing is expressive, alive, and she gets to the point, knowing how to keep you wrapped up until the end.

While the poems in this collection focus upon the daily and particular concerns of the Great Plains and of ranch life, frontpew places Brummels' readers up close and personal into the sermon that a long life may be. The poems are not didactic by any means, but they are wise and contemplative.

In her debut poetry collection, Delicia Daniels uniquely relates different experiences, including a new outlook on past history, intimacies, hardships, the joys of relationships, and the stepping stones of faith we were all born with. This wonderful poetry journey will leave you asking for more.

Presents a compilation of twelve stories that give a small glimpse into the lives of fictional characters whose stories and personalities are based around adventure, love, wonderment, faith, and life.

Springing from the London School explosion in rural New London, Texas, Aftermath begins more than forty years later, when the narrator recalls the dreadful day she lost her mother and many of her schoolmates. As she weighs the joys and the sorrows of the life, she comes to terms with the reality that the tragedy can never be overcome, but it can, in significant ways, be redeemed.

This is a book full of wild flames. The construction of this book may at first glance resemble poetry, prose, nonfiction, and art, but if you look and listen more closely you'll find it is more like flickering flames displaying visions from the past, present, and future.

Presents a collection of personal essays about healthcare and healthcare reform. Although the content of these essays is factual, the authors utilize literary techniques to create an interesting narrative that conveys an intentional message. The essays in this collection often have a familiar tone and are characterized by authorial introspection and a personal struggle for honesty.

A collection of short fiction about the changing world of la frontera/the borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The stories centre around contemporary times when the political upheavals of Mexico began to effect peoples lives on both sides of the border.

With deceptively pellucid language, Dangerous Bodies offers precise, jewel-like crystallizations of understanding that illuminate the craggy and often harrowing emotional terrain of a family gone wrong. Out of abandonment and incest, the wounded child turns to the long building of a self she can rightfully claim as her own.

Explores the rich and complex food history and culture of the Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb in western Louisiana. The corn complex is an indispensable component of Choctaw-Apache food traditions. Corn was such an important part of the tribe's culture that, according to Rhonda Remedies Gauthier, many families grew two seasons of corn every year.

"In The Women at the Well, Bauer sings out of silent alternative stories of the Biblical women she first encountered as a schoolgirl listening to the nuns. Wry humour is only one element of Bauer's illuminating re-vision as she inhabits her women in the longing, sassiness, rebellion, compassion, wavering, and triumph." - Carole Simmons Oles

These essays paint a portrait of Nacogdoches both before and after integration. Readers will find a collection of essays written by scholars but also by people who have firsthand experience in conflicts that arose in Nacogdoches after 1970. The essays focus upon both the objective, measurable dimensions of race in Nacogdoches, but also upon the actual lived experiences of African Americans.

These thirteen short stories are linked thematically by the recurring idea of flight, in its various definitions and senses. The characters ares ometimes in flight from their situations, sometimes from other people, sometimes from themselves. The stories range from contemporary to historical, from realistic to magical realist.

Presents a collection of the writings of famed African American teacher and scholar. These works ere published over a lengthy period of time, early 1920s to mid-century.

In this collection we read of men and women struggling in love and longing, adultery and addiction, between staying in a place and moving on, while trying to rediscover who they are. Characters in these tales haunt the fringes of their own lives shipwrecked in society as they seek identity, hoping to rescue themselves.