University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
Fearless Confessions
A Writer's Guide to Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper—or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide...
Begin with a Failed Body
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.S. South as it voices singular lives carved out of immediate and historical trauma. While these poems dwell in the body, often meditating on its frailty and desire, they also question the weight that literary, historical, and religious...
by Sarah Gorham
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland. There, boot camp style, she experienced deprivation, acute embarrassment, and keen educational guidance,...
Exploded View
Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Exploded View “graphic” essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and with how illustration and text work together in print. As with a graphic novel, the story is not only in the text but also in how that text interacts with the images that accompany it.
Diagrams were...
by Debra Monroe, John Griswold
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers but never...
Turn Me Loose
The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of...
Arkansas Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women’s experiences across time and space from the state’s earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively...
The Greatest Trials I Ever Had
The Civil War Letters of Margaret and Thomas Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This edited collection of Civil War correspondence between Col. Thomas Cahill and his wife, Margaret, offers a rare glimpse into the symbiotic relationship between soldiers and their home communities. In the only substantial extant collection of letters from an Irish American woman on the northern...
Selling the Serengeti
The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches...
The Geography of the Everyday
Toward an Understanding of the Given
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday,” the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this slippery aspect of reality. Now, Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual...
Fire and Stone
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The questions that drive Priscilla Long’s Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins.
Using...
Pandora's Garden
Kudzu, Cockroaches, and Other Misfits of Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Pandora’s Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essay, part nature writing, part narrative nonfiction, the chapters in Pandora’s Garden are like the...
Fallen Forests
Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for...
by John Lane
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula, Montana, Lane set out to discover all he could about his new...