University Of Iowa Press: 221 books
by Aaron McCollough
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“I guess an iceflow came through / to take the road,” writes Aaron McCollough in Rank, a richly strange sequence of poems in which forces of nature, mind, spirit, and language partake of each other in vibrant and shifting ways. “I can only guess that would / destroy these remains slowly,”...
by Timothy Laquintano
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In the last two decades, digital technologies have made it possible for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to rapidly and inexpensively self-publish a book. Once a stigmatized niche activity, self-publishing has grown explosively. Hobbyists and professionals alike have produced millions...
Harvest of Hazards
Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940-1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Farming has always been a dangerous occupation. In the middle of the twentieth century, as farmers adopted a wide array of new technologies, from tractors to pesticides and fertilizers, the dangers became more acute. The economic pressures that agriculture faced in this period compounded the perils...
India's Organic Farming Revolution
What It Means for Our Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Should you buy organic food? Is it just a status symbol, or is it really better for us? Is it really better for the environment? What about organic produce grown thousands of miles from our kitchens, or on massive corporately owned farms? Is “local” or “small-scale” better, even if it’s...
by Charles Haverty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
By turns haunting, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Charles Haverty’s debut collection charts the journeys of men, women, and children cast out of familiar territory into emotional terra incognita where people and things are rarely what they seem. These twelve stories are populated with ex-nuns and...
Between Urban and Wild
Reflections from Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In her calm, carefully reasoned perspective on place, Andrea Jones focuses on the familiar details of country life balanced by the larger responsibilities that come with living outside an urban boundary. Neither an environmental manifesto nor a prodevelopment defense, Between Urban and Wild operates...
Up in Here
Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Raised in a comfortable Dallas suburb, Mark Dostert crossed cultural and socioeconomic boundaries as a college student by volunteering as a counselor at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, Chicago’s infamous 500-cell juvenile jail, known locally as the Audy Home. Inmates there had...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Poetics and Praxis ‘After’ Objectivismexamines late twentieth-and early twenty-first-century poetics and praxis within and against the dynamic, disparate legacy of Objectivism and the Objectivists. This is the first volume in the field to investigate the continuing relevance of the Objectivist...
The Rainy Season
Three Lives in the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Just across the northern border of a former apartheid-era homeland sits a rural community in the midst of change, caught between a traditional past and a western future, a racially charged history and a pseudo-democratic present. The Rainy Season, a work of engaging literary journalism, introduces...
The Courtship of Eva Eldridge
A Story of Bigamy in the Marriage Mad Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Everyone got married in the 1950s, then moved to the suburbs to have the children of the soon-to-be-famous baby boom. For Americans who had survived the Great Depression and World War II, prosperous married life was a triumph. The unwed were objects of pity, scorn, even suspicion. And so in the 1950s,...
What Is Your Quest?
From Adventure Games to Interactive Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
What Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and e-readers are becoming as common as printed books and where fans are blurring the distinction between reader and author. The construction of new ways of storytelling is already underway: it is happening on...
by Kate Milliken
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In these twelve award-winning stories, Kate Milliken unflinchingly shows us what can happen when the uninvited guest of our darkest desires comes to call. Whether surrounded by the white noise of a Hollywood celebration or enduring a stark winter in Maine, the characters of If I’d Known You Were...
by Kirstin Allio
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Set on the coast of Maine and in the high desert of New Mexico in the late 1970s through the early 80s, Buddhism for Western Children is a universal and timeless story of a boy who must escape subjugation, tell his story, and reclaim his soul.
In search of community and transcendence, ten-year-old...
A Place for Humility
Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America’s foremost nature poets, primarily due to their explorations of natural phenomena as evocative symbols for cultural developments, individual experiences, and poetry itself. Yet for all their metaphorical suggestiveness, Dickinson’s...