University Of Iowa Press: 221 books
How to Live, What to Do
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
H**ow t**o L**ive, What t**o Do is an indispensable introduction to and guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare and Milton. Like them, Stevens shaped a new language, fashioning an instrument adequate to describing a completely changed environment of fact, extending...
Biting through the Skin
An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
At once a traveler’s tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, Biting through the Skin offers a first-generation immigrant’s perspective on growing up in America’s heartland. Author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau’s parents brought her from Bengal in northern India to the small town of Pittsburg,...
by Paul Errington
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Standing with such environmental classics as Loren Eiseley’s The**Immense Journey, his friend and mentor Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, and Joseph Wood Krutch’s The Voice of the Desert, Paul Errington’s Of Men and Marshes remains an evocative reminder of the great beauty and intrinsic...
Full Moon at Noontide
A Daughter's Last Goodbye
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Full Moon at Noontide is the story of Ann Putnam’s mother and father and her father’s identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. It’s the story of the journey from one twin’s death to the other,...
Running to the Fire
An American Missionary Comes of Age in Revolutionary Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In the streets of Addis Ababa in 1977, shop-front posters illustrate Uncle Sam being strangled by an Ethiopian revolutionary, parliamentary leaders are executed, student protesters are gunned down, and Christian mission converts are targeted as imperialistic sympathizers. Into this world arrives sixteen-year-old...
Detailing Trauma
A Poetic Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In a series of linked lyric essays, Detailing Trauma explores in vivid, sometimes graphic detail the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may suffer—and heal. Mapping the diseases and injuries that can afflict the body, the author asks how we can continue to live and love in...
Coming Close
Forty Essays on Philip Levine
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This collection of essays pays tribute to Philip Levine as teacher and mentor. Throughout his fifty-year teaching career, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Levine taught scores of younger poets, many of whom went on to become famous in their own right. These forty essays honor and celebrate one of our...
A Nation Empowered, Volume 1
Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This new report, A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students builds on the momentum of the 2004 report, A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. A Nation Deceived initiated a critical dialogue about academic acceleration,...
A Nation Empowered, Volume 2
Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This new report, A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students builds on the momentum of the 2004 report, A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. A Nation Deceived initiated a critical dialogue about academic acceleration,...
by Philip Levine
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Levine published Sweet Will, his eleventh volume of poems, in 1985. His last book with Atheneum, it has been unavailable for many years. Because of its subdued and thoughtful nature, it was seen as a transitional book for Levine, one that presaged the tone of much...
by Jean Ross Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Jean Ross Justice’s Family Feeling, a novella and collection of stories, is a moving portrait of American domestic life of the last half-century. Often spanning generations, the stories are defined by subtle shifts in both family relationships and the ways in which we reconfigure them in memory...