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Cryptozarkia is a bestiary of freaky Ozark hybrids whose cast includes hoop snakes, wampus cats, man-eating gator gars, bogus Ozark howlers, the mythical blue humans of Blowing Cave lore, the last rampaging American wild man, the notorious marauding Mexican crab tick, and much much more. Via the avant-garde approach of investigative poetics, monster-spelunker Mark Spitzer hunts these enigmas down, interviews authorities, cites folklore and his...

Wild Muse is a collection of contemporary poetry engaging Ozarks nature and environment. Some topics and themes explored here are nature's beauty, sense of place, loss of place, environmental diminishment, and human dependence on nature and its sublime indifference to our existence. Combining the best aspects of chapbooks and anthologies, this "chapthology" features extensive selections from the work of nine Ozarks poets (C. D. Albin, Wendy...

Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on the history and culture of the Ozarks region. This journal publishes folklore, history, poetry, fiction, book reviews, and regional studies from most all academic disciplines. Issue Eleven contains sixteen poems, three short stories, nine essays, and eleven book reviews-the work of 21 writers.

It's 1966, Christmas Day, the Missouri Ozarks. Johnny Bell, not quite sixteen, is found in a snowdrift by a poor farm family named Ogletree. It seems he's an orphan, but like many a Dickens character Johnny does have a heritage, part of which is an instinct for hard work. He learns the value of friendship from a dairy goat named La, a shrewd old "hillbilly" named Virgil, and a humble ex-con named Clyde. He learns about religion from a well-mea...

The 50 poems in Follow invite the reader to stray, along paths made by water or deer, into a nearby wild. Through Ozark Mountain forests haunted by crow and coyote, these poems smell of wet limestone, sing with hidden warblers, and resound with surprises-a jawbone, a keyhole of cave, a nameless waterfall. With 14 photographs illuminating its pages like light through leaves, Follow encourages readers to map their own trails of spirit and wonder...

Ozarks RFD is a collection of essays written by a popular Ozarks newspaper columnist reflecting on life in rural Missouri. Topics include such things as weather events, childhood memories, grief and loss, continual evolution of place, old cars, old dogs, holiday rituals, and family and community.