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Muhammad Ali and the
Greatest Heavyweight Generation by Tom Cushman Tom Cushman, one of boxing's great sportswriters, followed the "Ali generation" of fighters from New York to Las Vegas, Nassau to Zaire, reporting for the Philadelphia Daily News from 1966–1982 and for the San Diego Tribune, 1982–1992. Muhammad Ali and the Greatest Heavyweight Generation chronicles the behind-the-scenes stories of the great athletes in boxing's biggest-and-best age—their victories and struggles, crimes and passions, heydays and swansongs.
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Cloth, $35
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Paper, $19
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Plantatia: High-toned and Low-down
Stories of the South by Dixon Hearne Norman German, fiction editor, Louisiana Literature; author of A Savage Wisdom: Plantatia offers a buffet of headstrong and sassy stories sure to please every palate. Dixon Hearne is your acerbic tour guide through the high- and lowlife settings of an Old South revitalized by his keen eye and ear. These stories move with the patience of Eudora Welty and the confidence of Flannery O’Connor. To steal one of Dixon Hearne's phrases, you'll leave these stories "with your heart laughing out loud."
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June 2009
Paper, $15
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Faulkner and Twain Edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Melanie Speight The fifteen papers included in this volume edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Melanie Speight were presented at the Faulkner and Twain Conference hosted by Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies in Cape Girardeau, October 19–21, 2006.
The various essays discuss Faulkner’s and Twain’s treatment of such topics as humor, the frontier, the Mississippi River, race relations, politics, detective fiction and death.
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May 2009
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New Madrid's pioneers reveal their past and their stories through letters, newspapers, official records, and other sources. The author takes the reader through the town's history, recounting tales of legendary people whose lives crossed with those of area residents.
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April 2009
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Raised deep in the Shawnee Hills amid hogback bluffs, a roundabout river, and unending family, two divergent sisters share a colorful journey: first through childhood in a place both blessed and cursed by the hybrid footprints of the Appalachia and Ozark regions surrounding it, and then into the world beyond, compelled by their shared wanderlust. Arkansas (Sass) and Texas MacTerptin gradually understand that the sheltered bluffs of their youth are vastly removed from the broad ground beyond, and they find themselves on a truly foreign journey, separated from familiarity by an ocean and realizing amid their travels the depth of native soil all over again.
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January 2009
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In the Little House "There are books that leave us, once we have turned the last page, with a
soft, clear tone that overrides ideas or emotional impressions. It is the music
of grief and desire, when grief and desire have become indistinguishably joined.
Jenn Habel's In the Little House is such a collection. 'No one told me it
would be so impersonal . . .' says its speaker, 'my charge/ to be her globe,
then station, / then something in a warm wind. . .' How beautiful a book that so
embodies its subject matter, an emptiness from which children are born and poems
imagined. How difficult a resolution to release a child in small increments, a
world whose loveliness can only move continuously away. Habel's poems are the
little houses of that world: in which first memories and first words are right
now being made."
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January 2009
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Back of the Envelope From Okinawa to Vietnam to the marital bed, these poems pack a punch—and a caress. Military and domestic battlegrounds are viewed close up, through the unsparing eye of a photographer. And yet these poems fairly bristle with restrained emotion. These are decent, honorable poems, and under them all is a fine music that makes the grief more bearable." —Barbara Goldberg
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June 2008  |
By Michael Lund and Robert Hamblin Dr. Michael Lund and his brother Carl donated the original poem "About a little girl" by William Carlos Williams to Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University. As part of the celebration of such a unique acquisition, the University Press produced a small artbook that includes the poem, a facsimile of the original artifact, photos, and essays by families of both William Carlos Williams and Marian Macy Lund. The essays include an introduction by Dr. Robert Hamblin that charts the voyage of the poem into Kent Library's safekeeping, an essay by Michael Lund tracing the place and importance of literature in his family, a short explication of the poem, and afterwords by Suzy Williams Sinclaire and Daphne Williams Fox about their illustrious family member.
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Vinyl Cover, Perfect Bound, List Price:
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