Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P681
ISBN: 9780881469097
Price: $22.00
HAPPY NEIGHBORHOOD explores through poetry and prose the cultivation of contented place. How must men in particular sift through the rewards, and belabored grudges, of their own childhoods in order to move productively forward? These thoughtful, carefully crafted meditations seek to define happiness at home.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P468
ISBN: 9780881464474
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $18.00
These poems, written over a period of thirty years, reflect both the experience of growing up and growing old.
The poems seek to find a primitive connection to a natural world that is fast disappearing. They look at what is lost and what is still present, though ignored, in twenty-first-century life.
The familiar subjects of love, death, disaster, discovery, grief, loss, and joy are explored; but the underlying power that keeps emerging lies in the need to rely on images that try to speak a language that cannot be spoken, of music/rhythm to enter that familiar place of the heart, and of a river, the Tennessee River, that drives the heart of this poet.
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Product Code: P662
ISBN: 9780881468748
Price: $20.00
Cathryn Hankla's eleventh volume of poetry and second full-length collection of prose poems, offers us an intimate catalog of what's remembered, what's observed, and what's imagined. Lyrical or narrative by turns, nuanced and deft, Hankla's prose poems range through the realms of reflection and imagination, finding them not so different: they rub shoulders and embrace like old friends.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P440
ISBN: 9780881462685
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $24.00
John Milton was arguable one of the best-read persons of his epoch. Milton's book reveals that in addition to the thoroughly humanistic education he received at Trinity College Cambridge, he also conducted an extensively broad reading program of his own. This biblically annotated edition of Paradise Lost will be useful to scholars and students of Milton alike.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P716
ISBN: 9780881469653
Price: $29.00
Matthew Stallard returns to trace John Milton's Biblical echoes and appropriations in JOHN MILTON, PARADISE REGAINED: THE BIBLICALLY ANNOTATED EDITION. Milton's stunning second epic focuses upon Christ's triumph over Satan found in the New Testament synoptic gospel accounts of the temptation of Jesus in the Judean wilderness.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P621
ISBN: 9780881467826
Price: $17.00
By turns clever, earnest, probing, and mischievous, Marissa Glover's poems take as their subjects the ever-relevant topics of sex, parenthood, loss, illness, and faith, and yet everywhere, in their tone and attitude, speak in the singular voice of a sly and vibrant woman banging up against the absurdities and disappointments of modern life.
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Product Code: P748
ISBN: 9798897360338
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Price: $20.00
LET YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED is Judson Mitcham's first collection of poems in twenty years. It takes as its epigraph Paul Valéry's description of language as "the god gone astray in the flesh." These poems engage a single life and many lives at once, moving toward what is here called soul, traveling a path laid down by a lexicon of plain words. This is a collection that should reward opening the book at random, but it is structured so that it may also be read as the scaffolding of a narrative.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P567
ISBN: 9780881466591
Price: $20.00
In MEMORY & COMPLICITY, we feel Georgia red clay under Eve Hoffman's bare feet on the dairy farm where she grew up; walk with her though an exhibit of one hundred and fifty postcards of lynchings. We see a girl in a yellow dress at the synagogue her great-grandparents founded--the synagogue bombed four hours later by white racists.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P611
ISBN: 9780881467567
Price: $16.00
MERCIFUL DAYS is the fourth collection of poems by East Tennessee poet Jesse Graves, recipient of the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachia from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In a language that is both plainspoken and lyrical, Graves examines the connections that hold people together across generations and against the breaches of time and distance. The landscapes of his native region possess a mythic beauty and Graves writes of the animating force it can become in a poet's imagination.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P572
ISBN: 9780881466751
Price: $16.00
Over the past few decades, the gulf coast of Louisiana has suffered its share of natural disasters. From hurricanes, to floods, to the gradual destruction caused by coastal erosion, the poems in NO BROTHER, THIS STORM serve as archives of the hope and resilience found throughout the region.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1022
ISBN: 9780881468328
Price: $22.00
Cathryn Hankla's tenth collection, NOT XANADU, confronts the recurring imprint of the past--culturally, environmentally, and personally. In innovative poems that reclaim and reinvent traditional forms, reversing haikus and truncating sonnets, Hankla's recognition of resonance and presence evolves as a runner moves through a familiarly strange landscape evoking memory without evading keen observation. The poet reminds us that things are not what they seem on the surface or at first glance.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P557
ISBN: 9780881466478
Price: $17.00
In this brief illustrated guide to the national monument located in Macon, Georgia, that conserves ancient Mississippian mounds and 12,000 years of human presence along the Ocmulgee River, Matthew Jennings and Gordon Johnston, introduce readers to the park's history, archaeology, Native cultures, and landscape. This new guide braids into Jennings's concise historical overview Gordon Johnston's field notes and poems, written while Johnston was writer-in-residence at Ocmulgee National Monument.
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