Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Sabishi
Poems from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1994
These poems are like yen the color and the size of dollars. They are American poems, they are English, but they almost seem like versions of the Japanese. The music is lovely and the form is graceful. They are a delight to read.-Gerald Stem
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Ernest Hemingway’s place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high school and college curricula. Just as influential as his famed economy of style and unflappable heroes, however, is his public persona. Heming- way helped...
Hemingway, Race, and Art
Bloodlines and the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A social historical reading of Hemingway through the lens of race
William Faulkner has long been considered the great racial interrogator of the early-twentieth-century South. In Hemingway, Race, and Art, author Marc Kevin Dudley suggests that Ernest Hemingway not only shared Faulkner’s racial...
Hemingway's Spain
Imagining the Spanish World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Ernest Hemingway famously called Spain “the country that I loved more than any other except my own,” and his forty-year love affair with it provided an inspiration and setting for major works from each decade of his career: The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.”...
The Lousy Racket
Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The business of making an American literary icon
The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway’s working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical...
Why Cows Need Names
And More Secrets of Amish Farms
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
An inspiring glimpse into the struggles of a young Amish farm family
Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the United States with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly, well over 100,000 new small family farms have sprung up in the past few years . . . and almost no one noticed.
Why...
Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
Glossary and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is...
by Toyin Falola
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A critical study of a progressive period in Nigerian history
Created as a result of British colonialism, Nigeria emerged as a nation-state during the mid–twentieth century. The British colonial administration, in a state of economic crisis and with huge debts to the United States, was uninterested...
Sacred Land
Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern, Modernisms, and the Sacramental Vision of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From the 1910s through the 1930s, Midwestern writers were conspicuously prominent in American literary life. A generation of writers from the Midwest had come of age and had shared an important and motivating cultural experience: the encompassing transformation of rural and urban Midwestern life from...
The Admirable Radical
Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. His tireless campaign for social justice prompted his former Spelman College student, Alice Walker, to remember...
The Good-Bye Door
The Incredible True Story of America's First Female Serial Killer to Die in the Chair
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The true story of the first female serial killer to die in the electric chair
Nicknamed “the Blonde Borgia,” Anna Marie Hahn was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. When the State of Ohio strapped its first woman...
A Family and Nation under Fire
The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The brothers correct newspaper coverage of the war, disagree with...
War + Ink
New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Casts fresh light on the formative years of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary figures
Ernest Hemingway’s early adulthood (1917–1929) was marked by his work as a journalist, wartime service, marriage, conflicts with parents, expatriation, artistic struggle, and spectacular...