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The teacher assigns her fourth-grade students to write "poems as lovely as trees, " and they go at it, these students whose aspirations are a display board at the county fair. Young Ron McFarland takes the subject to heart, and from his pencil unfurl leaves, sturdy branches, sunlight between the branches, possibly fruit and a wayward kite, and most certainly a nest in which birds burst with song. McFarland, in this and previous collections, go...

In a 1995 interview, prolific Chicano writer Gary Soto noted, "Wonderment has always been a part of my life." This book surveys Soto's immense range of poems, stories, novels, essays and plays for audiences of prereaders to adults. Soto's world moves from the cotton and beet fields of the San Joaquin Valley to the blue-collar barrios of Fresno, and to urban and suburban settings in Oakland and Berkeley. Chapters analyze a wide variety of Soto ...

In more than 30 novels, several short stories, graphic novels, movies, plays and poems, Ernest Hemingway has been introduced or "appropriated” as an important character. This book explores this phenomenon from various perspectives, and deals with such questions as what, if anything, this sort of biographical fiction adds to the ongoing dialogue about America's best known and most talked about writer.

Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's near miraculous escape from encirclement by 1, 000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wars. This definitive biography of Steptoe chronicles his career. His personal letters reveal a thoughtful, sensitive commander who came to question his choice of career even before his final battle.

Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest, List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.' Generations of readers have now accepted the call of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to join his heroine Evangeline in her search for Gabriel, the lover she was separated from during the expulsion...

This study focuses on 10 memoirs from the northern U.S. Rockies. By comparing memoirs representing states that share similar demographic and socio-economic characteristics, this historic and literary analysis reveals both commonalities and divergences among American Western memoirs.