Lsu Press: 854 books
A Horse with Holes in It
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
A Horse with Holes in It, Greg Alan Brownderville’s third collection of poetry, employs inventive phrasing and vivid imagery to construct a particular life marked by religion, confused by desire, dulled by alcohol, and darkened by death. But Brownderville also skillfully uses humor to soften the...
Reinventing Dixie
Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Tin Pan Alley, once New York City's songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating the imaginary view...
Blue Smoke
The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A contemporary of blues greats Blind Blake, Tampa Red, and Papa Charlie Jackson, Chicago blues artist William "Big Bill" Broonzy influenced an array of postwar musicians, including Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, and J. B. Lenoir. In Blue Smoke, Roger House tells the extraordinary story of "Big...
by Professor David Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Celebrated poet David Kirby says that when he was a boy he wanted to run away and join the circus but never found one he liked, so he invented his own. Many of the poems in his dazzling new collection, Talking about Movies with Jesus, suggest his personal carnival is still a work in progress.
Much...
by Kelly Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
“Robert Oppenheimer was a complex human being. No biography yet written comes even close to this elegant skein of poems in capturing his life and character.”—Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer records in poetry...
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism
Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers sometimes overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899--1971),...
by Clinton D. Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
From its earliest appearance in the mid-1600s, the lyric theater form of zarzuela captivated Spanish audiences with its witty writing and lively musical scores. Clinton D. Young’s Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880–1930 persuasively links zarzuela’s celebration of Spanish history...
Captive Voices
New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the poems...
Dawn to Twilight
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Drawing from a career of almost fifty years, Daniel Mark Epstein’s collection of new and selected poems forms a lyrical autobiography of its author as a poet and a man. Dawn to Twilight examines universal themes such as love and aging, happiness and despair, each of which Epstein approaches differently...
Alive Together
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the...
by Susan Larson
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For booklovers, a visit to the Big Easy isn't complete without whiling away the hours in an antiquarian bookstore...
River of Dreams
Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American culture and consciousness. Throughout the antebellum era, the Mississippi acted as a powerful symbol of America's conception of itself --...
Voices of D-Day
The Story of the Allied Invasion Told by Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
In 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to record the recollections of as many people as possible -- civilians as well as soldiers -- who were involved in one of the most pivotal events of the century. Skillfully edited by Ronald J. Drez and first published on...
by Bradley R. Clampitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
During the Civil War, Vicksburg, Mississippi, assumed almost mythic importance in the minds of Americans: northerners and southerners, soldier and civilian. The city occupied a strategic and commanding position atop rocky cliffs above the Mississippi River, from which it controlled the great waterway....