The Kent State University Press: 559 books
by Nancy Kuhl
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“The movement at the center of so many of these poems is that of air, fire, water, night—of what cannot be seen, even as the speaker moves ever inward to face her own dreams, her demons and her desires. The strong central poem, ‘After the Rape,’ defines the moment from which the poet must...
by Matthew Minicucci
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Winner of the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Jane Hirshfield, Judge
“What are we to do with anger? What are we to do with love? What are we to do with one another, given all that happens and has happened between us? These are a few of the questions that haunt Matthew Minicucci’s deeply...
by Lisa Ampleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
“In the old story of love and loss, Lisa Ampleman’s I’ve Been Collecting This to Tell You cuts to the core of the matter with concision and subtlety. Hearts are laid bare, dissected, even grown anew. Masterfully structured and alert to the most vital details, this collection has lots to tell...
by Colin Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
“Colin Hamilton has combined the visible and the invisible into a truly unusual first book. In three poetic sequences, The Memory Palace weaves layers of psychological narrative into separate versions of an inner biography. The writing is exquisite, the mysteries engaging, and the result original.”—Marvin...
by Alex Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A memoir on being a soldier
“At this moment, the nation seems interested in soldiering. Not the politics that complicate the very act of service, but the dirty business of being a soldier. No one, except soldiers, knows much about the aftermath of such service. most succinctly bred opens...
Rolling Down Black Stockings
A Passage Out of the Old Order Mennonite Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
A rare memoir of growing up Old Order Mennonite
Rolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers’s youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother’s love as it is a tale...
Ohio's Western Reserve
A Regional Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
This volume collects essays and documents from a wide selection of sources—many now out of print and difficult to locate—to provide a highly readable story of the settlement and development of the “New Connecticut” region of Ohio. Four divisions in the book logically organize the social, economic,...
Rebellion and Riot
Popular Disorder in England During the Reign of Edward VI
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2000
The short reign of Edward VI was a turbulent one, even by Tudor standards. The kingdom was threatened by widespread unrest, riots, and rebellions among the common people. In this study, Beer looks at these dramatic events from the viewpoint of the rebellious commoners. Above the clamor of the streets...
OSS Against the Reich
The World War II Diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
OSS Against the Reich presents the previously unpublished World War II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America’s first secret intelligence agency, as he observed the war against Hitler. The entries include eyewitness accounts of D-Day, the rocket attacks on England, and...
Linking Rings
William W. Durbin and the Magic and Mystery of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
“So how to tell of the life of a magician whose vocation was politics? A simple biography was out of the question. All of the hard research led to an idea. Why not travel back in time for one night to meet the old wizard himself in a car ride that actually did take place at the end of his life?...
A Fighter from Way Back
The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
A welcome addition to the eyewitness sources available to researchers and scholars of the U.S.-Mexican War
Born in July 1821, Daniel Harvey Hill grew up in “genteel poverty” on a large plantation in York District, South Carolina. He entered West Point and graduated in the middle of the...
by Leonne Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
The U.S. Company of Sappers, Miners, and Pontooniers, which Congress authorized on May 13, 1846, quickly became one of the army's elite units. During the Mexico City campaign, Company 'A' played a significant role in scouting, building fortifications, and setting artillery batteries. Gustavus Woodson...
Haskell of Gettysburg
His Life and Civil War Papers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1989
All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the battle of Gettysburg. A lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a letter to his brother. When it came...
The Second Day at Gettysburg
Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Notable Civil War historians herein continue the evaluation of select commanders begun in The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Using fresh manuscript sources coupled with a careful consideration of the existing literature, they explore issues such as Robert E. Lee’s...