Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P705
ISBN: 9780881469561
Price: $25.00
During the past forty years, Dana Gioia has had as transformative an impact on American literature as any living author. A major poet, creative visionary, and forthright critic, he has played a pivotal role in the field by arguing for more honest reviewing, questioning the isolated state of American poetry, and advocating for the return to form and narrative. This collection of twenty essays is the first multi-author critical effort to explore the extent of Gioia's influential presence on the literary world.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1037
ISBN: 9780881468960
Price: $27.00
Stella Bankwell has suddenly found herself in a "heap of trouble" in the words of her mountain people. Ten years ago, the charming redhead was a sports marketing executive when she married unforeseen trouble, Asher Bankwell, who is descended from old Atlanta money and prestige. After public humiliation in front of Atlanta's snootiest at a black-tie gala, Stella is banished from high society. Simply trying to escape her scandalous embarrassment and an unhappy marriage, she's now facing real trouble.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P643
ISBN: 9780881468366
Price: $35.00
João B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern Baptist Convention missionaries in the largest Latin America country shaped aspects of Latin American evangelicalism in general and the Brazilian Baptist Convention in particular.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P645
ISBN: 9780881468465
Price: $25.00
DIARY OF A ROCK AND ROLL TOUR MANAGER chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the day-to-day touring of The Allman Brothers Band from 1970 to 1976, detailing their rise from obscurity to the absolute pinnacle of rock super stardom. Perkins shepherded the band from their lowly beginnings in smoke-filled bars to six figure payoffs before hundreds of thousands of fans in outdoor venues.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P623
ISBN: 9780881467857
Price: $25.00
In this volume of essays, based on the 2019 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas at Mercer University, eleven scholars take up some of the complex questions that emerge when one considers carefully how Plato presents democracy and liberty in the dialogues, particularly in terms of the threats they seem to pose to justice and philosophy.
Contributors include Peter Ahrensdorf, Jennifer Baker, Khalil Habib, Kevin Honeycutt, Alex Priou, Richard Ruderman, Nicholas D. Smith, Devin Stauffer, Mary Townsend, Jeffrey Dirk Wilson, and Catherine Zuckert.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P682
ISBN: 9780881469103
Price: $20.00
The poems in Bill King's first full-length collection articulate a life grounded in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. We see memories of his youth in southwestern Virginia's Back Creek Valley, as well as poems of adult years in (and exploring the Monongahela Forest that surrounds) the mountain town of Elkins, West Virginia. These poems follow the root of a life nourished by and inseparable from garden soil, mountain rivers, and the hearths and kitchen table of home back to its origins. King's poems offer a language for how to love a world we must, ultimately, leave.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1027
ISBN: 9780881468588
Price: $45.00
Brigadier General Samuel Elbert's story spans most of Georgia's history in the eighteenth century. He is best remembered for his role as a commander of Georgia troops during the American Revolution. Before the war, he was a prominent Savannah merchant and a member of the General Assembly when James Wright was Georgia's governor.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P664
ISBN: 9780881468762
Price: $20.00
Marissa Glover once again addresses herself, with her signature wit and moxie, to matters political and personal, sacred and profane, in a voice at once disarmingly colloquial and slyly erudite. Varying tonal registers with an easy grace, she ranges freely over national affairs of great historical importance and tiny, shrewdly observed incidents from domestic life.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P718
ISBN: 9780881469684
Price: $20.00
In 2022 the symposium, "Glad Reunion: Celebrating the Ministry and Legacy of John R. Claypool," was held at the Cresent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Many attended the event, underlining the effect that the life and preaching of John Claypool still has on people. AS YOU GO, REMEMBER: SELECTED SERMONS OF JOHN CLAYPOOL emerged, in part, out of this symposium.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P626
ISBN: 9780881467918
Price: $24.00
Andrew M. Manis recruited clergy from a broad spectrum of interracial, interreligious, and interdenominational communities of faith in Macon, Georgia, to address their congregations on the perennially controversial theme of racial reconciliation. Acknowledging the truism that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning remains the "most segregated hour" of the week, Manis argues that neither White nor Black congregations are familiar with what the other hears about race on the other side of the color line. Fourteen clergy bring their scriptural interpretations to bear on the longstanding problem of White supremacy in American life and culture.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P638
ISBN: 9780881468304
Price: $17.00
THE LOST THING is a collection of poems exploring absence and loss and the potential of language to witness that loss. These poems capture the certain fading away--of family, individuals, places, and emotions.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1008
ISBN: 9780881468021
Price: $35.00
The history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and SOMETHING IN THE WATER provides a lively narrative of the city's musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980. For generations, talented musicians have been born in or passed through Macon's confines. Some lived and died in obscurity, while others achieved international stardom. From its pioneer origins to the modern era, the city has produced waves of talent with amazing consistency, representing a wide range of musical genres including country, classical, jazz, blues, big band, soul, and rock.
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