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In Ghostlight: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn Ghostlight, a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Wilson, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 31, 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181293
- Language: English
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I, Divided: Poems
$22.95 Add to cartAn underlying cynicism lies at the heart of the questions asked by Chelsea Dingman’s I, Divided: What is a life worth? Today. Now. Why is that? Who gives anyone permission to be? And how is that dete
- Author: Dingman, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: November 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180173
- Language: English
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Eyes, Stones
$19.95 Add to cartIn this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The poems inv- Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
- Author: Bell, Elana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 16, 2012
- ISBN10: 0807144649
- Language: English
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The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartCollege football is a massive enterprise in the United States, and southern teams dominate poll rankings and sports headlines while generating billions in revenue for public schools and private compan
- Author: Bell, Andrew McIlwaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0807171204
- Language: English
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Refusal: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny–invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide–to
- Author: Molberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: February 12, 2020
- ISBN10: 0807170747
- Language: English
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Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
$24.95 Add to cartConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selec
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12, 2012
- ISBN10: 0807147346
- Language: English
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Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
$29.95 Add to cartIn the early 1970s, two idealistic young people–Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin–decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart
- Author: Roland, Gwen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0807130893
- Language: English
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Our Lady of Bewilderment: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartWinner of the Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award
Whether by way of visitations from secular saints, hauntings from childhood, or back talk from “indelicate broads,” a complicated world spea- Series: Barataria Poetry
- Author: Pelegrin, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176796
- Language: English
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The Rising Water Trilogy: Plays
$29.95 Add to cartWidely praised by critics and hailed by audiences, the award-winning plays in John Biguenet’s The Rising Water Trilogy examine the emotional toll of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Approaching th
- Author: Biguenet, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 10, 2015
- ISBN10: 0807161403
- Language: English
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That Beauty in the Trees: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartMoving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith’s new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Smith, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807177989
- Language: English
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Newly Not Eternal
$20.95 Add to cartEqual parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection, a son has died on the cusp of his first breath
- Author: Clark, George David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 31, 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181277
- Language: English
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Breaking Barriers: A View from the Bench
$29.95 Add to cartIn Breaking Barriers, Judge Freddie Pitcher Jr. describes how he made history in Baton Rouge by becoming the first African American to be elected to judgeships at three different levels of the court s
- Author: Pitcher, Freddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 080717811X
- Language: English
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Rethinking American Disasters
$34.95 Add to cartRethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proc… [more below]
- Author: Kierner, Cynthia a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179930
- Language: English
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Bite Every Sorrow
$20.95 Add to cart“This is a splendid book, morally serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning.” — C. K. Williams, from his judge’s citation for the 1997 Walt Whitman Award Barbara Ras, a poet exquisitely h
- Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
- Author: Ras, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: April 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0807122645
- Language: English
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Building the National WWII Museum
$34.95 Add to cartAs the second-most visited museum in the United States, The National WWII Museum attracts hundreds of thousands of patrons every year to its campus in New Orleans. Guests can tour its extensive perman
- Author: Mueller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179515
- Language: English
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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
$26.95 Add to cartIn the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the c
- Series: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
- Author: Reed, John Shelton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 08, 2014
- ISBN10: 0807156108
- Language: English
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Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
$24.95 Add to cartIn a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fas
- Author: Mueller, Lisel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0807121282
- Language: English
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Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist
$34.95 Add to cartNever in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But–amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world–has the human cost of trekking t
- Author: Lindholdt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179493
- Language: English
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Po’boy
$22.95 Add to cartPo’Boy tells the story of how a humble sandwich became a symbol of New Orleans culture, history, and cuisine. Invented to help feed a crowd of out-of-work individuals in New Orleans’s streetcar indust
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Bischoff, Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180475
- Language: English
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Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans: Authentic Vintage Cocktails from A to Z
$24.95 Add to cartIn the 1920s Prohibition was the law, but ignoring it was the norm, especially in New Orleans. While popular writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald invented partygoers who danced from one cocktail to the
- Author: Leonhardt, Olive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0807159921
- Language: English
