Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Splintered Light: Tolkien's World, Revised Edition
Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A collection of...
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
An anthology of the best scholarship on the celebrated African American writer
A prolific nineteenth-century author, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African American poet to gain national recognition. Praised by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Frederick Douglass, who called him...
The Space Between
Literary Epiphany in the Work of Annie Dillard
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Annie Dillard, a foremost practitioner of the literary epiphany, has become a representative of a necromantic movement that combines the ecological interest of wilderness literature with the aesthetics of a highly stylized literature. This first full-length study of the Pulitzer prize-winning essayist...
The Sweet and the Bitter
Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
In 1956, J. R. R. Tolkien famously stated that the real theme of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." The deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of Tolkien's masterpiece have a great deal to teach us. From the heroic to the humble, Tolkien draws on medieval concepts...
A Sea of Change
Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream - a Contextual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A fresh perspective on Hemingway's work
Early in his career, when To Have and Have Not was published, Ernest Hemingway's portrayal of themes, setting, and character was often compared to Cezanne's art - abstract. By contrast, in 1952, with the publication of The Old Man and the Sea, his style...
The Bones of the Others
The Hemingway Text from the Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Novels
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
“There is no work that competes with this. . . . Every chapter is fresh—and always interesting. The Bones of the Others is a strikingly contemporary way to approach this never-dated modernist. Justice shows how Hemingway got where he was trying to go, perhaps even before he knew the direction...
Hemingway's The Garden of Eden
Twenty-five Years of Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The first book-length study of the novel that transformed Hemingway scholarship
When The Garden of Eden appeared in 1986, roughly twenty-five years after Ernest Hemingway's death, it was a watershed event that changed readers' and scholars' perceptions of the famous American author. Following...
No Uncle Sam
Forgotten of Bataan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999
On April 9, 1942, Gen. Edward King, commander of the Fil-American forces in Bataan, surrendered to the Japanese. To this day, it remains the largest American army in history to surrender, numbering more than 70,000 Filipinos and Americans. After the surrender the Japanese marched their captives to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
This revised edition of Ambrose Bierce’s 1892 collection of “Soldiers” and “Civilians” tales fills a void in American literature. A veteran of the Civil War and a journalist known for his integrity and biting satire, Ambrose Bierce was also a lively short-story writer of considerable depth...
by Susan Neale
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
“'Everywhere we have been since beginning/Is Mapped in the memory somewhere,’ writes Susan Neale at the outset of this ambitiously conceived and enormously satisfying collection of poems. Here is a poet who wants nothing less than to know the past. Her fields of study are the history of light...
by Elizabeth Breese
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
"Traveling from her pastoral America to Neruda's Chile and the Ireland of St. Kevin, Elizabeth Breese sings the lonely-wild lyric of ditch flowers and raw honey, tornados and radios, broken birds and sailors lost at sea. Her ars poetica: 'little bee hand in pocket editions, the rough-/ cut paper...
by Victoria Redel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
“I like Victoria Redel’s poems because of their braveness and their lucidity… .There is no flight here to incoherence; the poems speak plainly and, in some cases, beautifully. The music is lovely and the tone, distinctive… .” —Gerald Stern
by Leah Poole Osowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
“In Leah Osowski’s exquisite debut, hover over her, the poet immerses us in geographies of unrealized adolescence, where young women are singular amidst their cacophonous backdrops, whether beside a lake, inside a Dali painting, or stretched out in a flower garden. These spaces are turned inside...
by Jody Rambo
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
“Jody Rambo’s poems push and pull, travel and rest, occupy and set free. Her ‘tether’ both holds her fast to the facts and words that make up our world, but at the same time it liberates her to roam and travel, inclined as she says, ‘to wander off into the green beyond recoverable limits.’...