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If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stones, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious, competitive, and courageous, Belinda Mulrooney was destined through her legendary pioneering in the wilds of the Yukon basin to found towns and many businesses. She built two fortunes, supported her family, was an ally to other working women, and triumphed ...

The U.S. Capitol was designed to aesthetically memorialize thevirtues, events and persons that best represented our ideals. A variety of authors examine the capitol and its influences, along with how the political landscape has changed since its inception and what the capitol does to reflect it through its artistic and aesthetic qualities.

Helen Papanikolas has been honored frequently for her work in ethnic and labor history. Among her many publications are Toil and Rage in a New Land: The Greek Immigrants in Utah, Peoples of Utah (ed.), and her parents' own story of migration, Emily-George. With Small Bird, Tell Me, she joins a long and ancient tradition of Greek story-tellers whose art informs and enriches our lives.

The Sheep Book is widely recognized as a classic. Ron Parker brings together a farmer's day-by-day practical experience and a scientist's mind in a gracefully written narrative. In this revised edition, he updates many aspects of sheep stewardship--such as new or newly banned medications, progress in reproductive technology, popular new sheep breeds, and the growing dairy sheep field. Updated nutrition tables, as well as email and web addresse...

A comprehensive account of Shawnee culture, based on fieldwork among the present-day Shawnee as well as historic accounts, photographs, and paintings.

These were the words of Robert Penn Warren to Timothy Murphy when he graduated from college in 1972.Fifteen years in the making, Set the Ploughshare Deep is a memoir in prose, verse, and wood cuts. It depicts the consequences of Warren's advice for a writer who turned his back on cities and the academic world, who bought and sold, farmed and failed like his forbears, all the while distilling what he saw, heard, or felt into his tall tales and ...

These were the words of Robert Penn Warren to Timothy Murphy when he graduated from college in 1972.Fifteen years in the making, Set the Ploughshare Deep is a memoir in prose, verse, and wood cuts. It depicts the consequences of Warren's advice for a writer who turned his back on cities and the academic world, who bought and sold, farmed and failed like his forbears, all the while distilling what he saw, heard, or felt into his tall tales and ...

As part of the ongoing effort of the Ohio University Press/Swallow Press to reintroduce the work of a number of significant twentieth-century poets to a new generation of readers, we are especially enthusiastic about publishing the selected poems of Yvor Winters, whose work and influence was so central to the development of the poetry list at Swallow Press.Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several genera...

Since the appearance in print of her early poems over seventy-five years ago, the poetry of Janet Lewis has grown in quiet acclaim and popularity. Although she is better known as a novelist of historical fiction, her first and last writings were poems. With the publication of her selected poems, Swallow Press celebrates the distinguished career of one of its most cherished authors.Critics as disparate as Kenneth Rexroth, Timothy Steele, Theodo...

Body Story conveys Julia K. DePree's troubling journey from adolescence to adulthood and from anorexia to health.In high school, the five-foot-ten De Pree weighed as little as 114 pounds. She was too weak to raise her arms above her head. De Pree renders the starkness of anorexia along with the process of recovery, relapse, and, ultimately, redemption. She also tells the story of the physical landscape, from her origins in the Midwest to the A...

One-Smoke Stories is a collection of folk tales from Native American, Spanish Colonial, mestizo, and European American peoples of the Southwest retold in the enthralling words of one of the bestselling writers of her day, Mary Austin.

Howard Nemerov-Poet Laureate of the United States, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets-was one of the most prolific and significant American poets of the twentieth century. By the time of his death in 1991, he had published fourteen collections of poetry.

Lucien Stryk's poetry is made of simple things -- frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, a neighbor's fuss over his lawn -- set into language that is at once direct and powerful. Years of translating Zen poems and religious texts have helped give Stryk a special sense of the particular, a feel for those details which, because they are so much a part of our lives, seem to define us. Stryk's poetry is neither an attempt to...

This lavishly illustrated volume showcases the rich cultural history of Cincinnati, one of America's foremost art centers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This lavishly illustrated volume showcases the rich cultural history of Cincinnati, one of America's foremost art centers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati-the largest, longest-lasting, and arguably most important American Art Pottery-reflected the country's cultural and commercial milieux in the production, marketing, and consumption of its own products.

... one of the most welcome events of the year: fascinating, and in my opinion, indispensible". -- James Dickey

The Optimist was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In Joshua Mehigan's award-winning poetry, one encounters a vision driven by an amazing facility with the metrical line. Most of the poems in The Optimist use traditional poetic technique. Whether narrative or lyric, dramatic or satirical, Mehigan's poems explore death, desire, and change with a mixture of reason and compassion.

In terms of geological time, good cooks are a young species. They've been evolving for a scant half a million years, since fire was first tamed and tended. Rare Bits is a delightful and illuminating account of humankind's progression from skewering meat to whipping up a batch of Strawberries Sarah Bernhardt.The range is wide, from Bismarcks to Green Goddess dressing. Stevens provides much food for thought as she delves always deeper, brushing ...

In terms of geological time, good cooks are a young species. They've been evolving for a scant half a million years, since fire was first tamed and tended. Rare Bits is a delightful and illuminating account of humankind's progression from skewering meat to whipping up a batch of Strawberries Sarah Bernhardt.The range is wide, from Bismarcks to Green Goddess dressing. Stevens provides much food for thought as she delves always deeper, brushing ...