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In this very fine critical study Terri Mester makes solid biographic thematic technical and figurative cases that W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and William Carlos Williams turned to dance and dancers-actual and mythic-to reinvigorate their literary practices.

Arkansas's rich folklore tradition is treated in this collection of eight essays covering the history of folklore research in the state, traditional songs and music, "tall tales, " folk architecture, traditional foods and their preparation, superstitions and beliefs, and festivals and celebrations. Includes extensive bibliographies of reference works, and audio and video recordings.

." . . a first-rate book of poems full of sad knowledge but richer with wisdom and the earned refinement of art." -George Garrett

... not revisions but one thoroughgoing and far-reaching revision -- of the course of American poetry through centuries, as commonly understood. It is polemical but good-humored, lightly and racily written but with passion, deeply serious, discerning and timely". -- Donald Davie

As seen through the eyes and heart of a sensitive, highly imaginative boy, this story is both captivatingly innocent and full of wisdom.

From June 11, 1890, to April 15, 1891, Nannie Stillwell Jackson recorded with pencils in a small ledger the best and meanest moments of her life on a small farm in southeast Arkansas.

The era between the world wars, from the "roaring 20s" to the grim days of the Great Depression, was a time of tremendous change. The United States became an increasingly urban culture as people left their farms to seek work in the cities. Many blacks moved North to escape the violence and racism of a resurgent Ku Klux Klan in the South. And, while life became more comfortable for many Americans during this period, by 1941 only half the popula...

Marvin Schwartz chronicles the story of Tyson Foods and its impact on both the business community and the poultry market in America in an entertaining and enlightening tribute to the Tyson vision and success.

A specially priced boxed set of contemporary Southern short fiction and poetry in two volumes: Stories, a collection of Southern short fiction, and The Made Thing, an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry.

Though this is a book of stories by Southerners, the settings range widely, from Italy to Ireland, from Montreal to Barbados. Included are works from such diverse Southern writers as Andre Dubus, William Goyen, Mary Hood, Tom T. Hall, Lewis Nordan and Jayne Anne Phillips.

Regional in the best sense, Baker's poems capture the universal human commerce of love and conflict enduring under the water towers and storefronts of America's heartland. Working in syllabics, sonnets, couplets, and free verse, Baker can write unflinchingly about love, illness, madness, and perseverance.

Including those of John Crowe Ransom, Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate, John Ciardi, and Robert Penn Warren, R. S. Gwynn has returned to print many of the pivotal essays written by America's most influential poet-critics in the last fifty years.

An amazing story of Arkansas soldiers and their struggle in the Aleutians. A must read book for those who want to learn about a forgotten part of that great war told from a soldier's point of view." -Major General James A. Ryan The Adjutant General Military Department of Arkansas

Goff resurrects this pivotal figure in a fine biography that is essential reading for all students of Pentecostalism.

-- 1991 Arkansiana Award-- 1993 Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History

The history of the state exuberantly told, from the Spanish rule, French Empire, territorial lawlessness, to its brawling statehood, from its isolated and tragic participation in the Confederacy to the schism of reconstruction and peace, from mountaineers and sharecroppers to its playtimes. The author combines the value of factual material with the fascination of folk tale, comic interludes, and highlighted personalities. Specific geographical...

Peter Viereck's career has been an ongoing experiment in the symbiosis of poetry and history. Tide and Continuities is the embodiment and culmination of that career. It includes many new poems, never before published, and work--some with stunning revisions--from books as recent as his 1987 epic, Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, and as early as his 1948 Pulitzer Prizewinning collection, Terror and Decorum. Tide and Continuties is the...

-- The Pope Joan section, 1992 winner of the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry Magazine

The critic Norman Granz called tenor saxophonist Lester Young "the greatest musician I have heard on the instrument." Douglas Ramsey speaks of Young as "the gentle bedeviled genius whose vision of beauty found expression even though he was hounded throughout his life by nearly every demon the twentieth century had managed to spawn." This is his story, told with love and candor. 1994 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Authorship on Musi...

In 1840, prosperous farming families left North and South Carolina to trek in covered wagons to the unsettled Arkansas River Valley. Absorbing to read and rich with colorful detail, this is a story of the peopling of the western frontier and the ways in which hardship, religion and a shared past bound settlers together into a lasting community