Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P628
ISBN: 9780881467987
Price: $20.00
The essays collected in SAID-SONGS range from the personal to the scholarly and explore the hybrid territory in between, where a creative writer considers literary craft and how it influences the generative imagination. Jesse Graves examines the writings of the people and about the places that have most shaped his own poetry. Every writer's journey is also the journey of a reader and Graves invites us to join his ongoing exploration of books, music, and the literary imagination.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P721
ISBN: 9780881469776
Price: $20.00
In this collection of short stories, transgression is the rule, and the profane and the sacred share a bed. Follow hermits and solitary wanderers as they encounter the weird in the Appalachian Mountains and wild spaces of medieval England and Iceland. These tales will transport you to the frontiers of the imagination.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1021
ISBN: 9780881468267
Price: $45.00
This literary biography centers on Dickey as poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and teacher, a man who throughout his life did what writers are supposed to do, write. Dickey spent time teaching and discussing writing, which is also part of the profession of authorship. Here, Van Ness shows Dickey's artistic beginnings and the rise and fall of his career, the man as a writer. Dickey's life was indeed complicated, but his words endure, and they merit the highest attention.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P663
ISBN: 9780881468755
Price: $20.00
This third collection of Kevin Cantwell's poetry is characterized less by formalism than by the lyric poem as an exploration of the process of making art. Intimate poems from family life give pointed texture to the more meditative encounters within the paragraphing of longer stanzas.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P619
ISBN: 9780881467796
Price: $16.00
This debut collection braids together published and new poems into a lyrical album quilt of stories and scenes. Wryly funny, earthy, susceptible to river shoals, hymns, old tools, and favorite shirts, these poems refuse to waste their troubles. The potential blessings and losses in fathering, in having sick friends, in acts of faith, in the work of marriage, and in risking everything from minor surgery to gutting trout in grizzly country give these poems tension, drama, and a wry, grateful humanity.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P616
ISBN: 9780881467765
Price: $16.00
Born and raised in Ohio, Shuly Xóchitl Cawood moved to the South over two decades ago and has also lived and traveled in her mother's native country of Mexico. She writes about all of these places in her debut poetry collection, TROUBLE CAN BE SO BEAUTIFUL AT THE BEGINNING, using their landscape and culture as a backdrop and a contrast to consider her identity and what it means to migrate from one location to another, how a place's values and societal expectations can shape who you are and who you become, and how you can be both a part of something and apart from it.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P712
ISBN: 9780881460452
Price: $20.00
Sarah Gordon's SIX WHITE HORSES is a bold collection of poems concerned with meaning--of such liminal matters as time, family, home, and loss. For Gordon, there are no easy answers; her broadly allusive poetry searches for spiritual mooring through the power of language and a keenly observant eye.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P734
ISBN: 9798897360093
Price: $22.00
Sixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye yearns to escape Good Hope, the remote Georgia coastal barrier island where she resides. Leontyne's heritage is bleak. Leontyne soon realizes her birthright extends beyond the business of making Redemption, while the acceptance of her destiny as the Great Redeemer threatens her very existence. Her refusal: irrevocably shattering the fragile balance between the living and the dead.
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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: HH1045
ISBN: 9780881469349
Price: $25.00
During the summer of 1958, a local church burned to the ground in a small town in central Virginia. While the details of what happened that early June morning were lost over the decades, Mansion Springs still has descendants who knew the people and the places involved. This classic Don Reid book observes the culture, music, lifestyle, warmth, and realism of that era.
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Product Code: P750
ISBN: 9798897360383
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $30.00
It did not take long to see that Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" would have an enduring impact on American culture. Instantly ubiquitous, it was widely reprinted, celebrated, criticized, and mocked during the years between its January 29, 1845, publication in New York and Poe's death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. In QUOTHING "THE RAVEN," Paul Lewis follows America's most famous poem during these years from the literary salons where it was discussed, to the newspapers where it was reviewed, to the twenty-nine parodies that made fun of both the poem and its controversial author.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P637
ISBN: 9780881468281
Price: $19.00
The characters in the story collection TOWER move through their lives with the sense that something is missing. When attempting to fill the void, they discover that the problem isn't what's missing, the problem invariably has to do with a truth they’ve been trying to avoid.
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