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The Irish Voice in America Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780813109701
Pub Date: 18 Nov 1999
Description:
In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years.Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T.
Conversations with Kentucky Writers II Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813121246
Pub Date: 07 Oct 1999
Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series
Illustrations: photos
Description:
In this sequel to Conversations with Kentucky Writers, L. Elisabeth Beattie brings together in-depth interviews with sixteen of the state's premiere wordsmiths.This new volume offers the perspectives of poets, journalists, and scholars as they discuss their views on creativity, the teaching of writing, and the importance of Kentucky in their work.

Then Suddenly--

Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780822957096
Pub Date: 28 Sep 1999
Description:
Finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s 1999 Poetry Book of the YearA reader and a writer don their respective roles and embark on the journey of a book. This is their story--ultimately a love story--darkly funny, mournful, testy. It is about a reader who at times presides over the page like a god, and at others follows the leash of the author's voice through the dark streets of the book like a dog, and it is about a writer of determined slipperiness.
Borrowed Children Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 134
ISBN: 9780813109725
Pub Date: 23 Sep 1999
Description:
" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid mother. She gets an excape, she thinks, when she's offered a trip to stay with her grandmother and her sophisticated Aunt Laura in Memphis. But during the visit, she discovers unexpected parallels between her mother's childhood and her own and comes to understand her own individuality as well as what it means to be part of a family.
Water Between Us, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780822957102
Pub Date: 23 Sep 1999
Description:
1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner.The Water Between Us is a poetic examination of cultural fragmentation, and the exile's struggle to reconcile the disparate and often conflicting influences of the homeland and the adopted country. The book also centers on other kinds of physical and emotional distances: those between mothers and daughters, those created by being of mixed racial descent, and those between colonizers and the colonized.

The Reform'd Coquet, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, and The Accomplish'd Rake

The Reform'd Coquet, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, and The Accomplish'd Rake Cover
Format: 
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813121277
Pub Date: 16 Sep 1999
Series: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813109695
Pub Date: 16 Sep 1999
Series: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
Description:
The Reform'd Coquette (1724) tells the story of Amoranda, a good but flighty young woman whose tendency toward careless behavior is finally tamed. Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725), a satire of both political debate and women's place in society, portrays a Tory man and a Whig woman who find themselves discussing love, even though they have pledged to remain platonic friends. The Accomplish'd Rake (1727) follows the exploits of Sir John Galliard from youth to manhood, when he is forced to accept responsibility for his actions.
Records of Woman, with Other Poems Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780813109640
Pub Date: 02 Sep 1999
Description:
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), one of the most influential and widely-read poets of the nineteenth century, wrote Records of Woman in 1828 at the height of her long career. In the series, which includes nineteen poems about exemplary lives, Hemans explores what it means to be a woman, challenging traditional beliefs while at the same time reinforcing persistent stereotypes. Her work celebrates the lives, events, and imagined thoughts of unremembered women from different cultures and time periods whose deeds show nobility of spirit and inner strength.
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 158
ISBN: 9780819563798
Pub Date: 27 Aug 1999
Description:
The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence is a brilliant consideration of the strategies of poetry, and the similarities between early Zen thought and some American avant-garde writings that counter the "language of determinateness," or conventions of perception. The theme of the essays is poetic language which critiques itself, recognizing its own conceptual formations of private and social, the form or syntax of the language being "syntactically impermanence."Whether writing reflexively on her own poetry or looking closely at the writing of her peers, Leslie Scalapino makes us aware of the split between commentary (discourse and interpretation) and interior experience.
New Strangers in Paradise Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813192000
Pub Date: 26 Aug 1999
Description:
New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores.
Seven for the Apocalypse Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9780819563828
Pub Date: 13 Aug 1999
Description:
Seven for the Apocalypse brings together Kit Reed's powerful 1994 novella with seven short stories about love and isolation. A work of metaphysical science fiction and a finalist for the Tiptree award, Little Sisters of the Apocalypse interweaves two stories. The first follows a motorcycle gang of radical nuns on their mission to save an island of women, abandoned by the men who have gone to war, from a band of outlaws.
Sporty Creek Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780813109657
Pub Date: 05 Aug 1999
Illustrations: photos
Description:
With illustrations by Paul Brett JohnsonSporty Creek is a series of short stories set in the Kentucky hills. Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth), the book tells the story of his family during the Great Depression. With work in the coal mines sporadic, they move from place to place, trying to earn a living the best they can.
Misogynous Economies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780813121161
Pub Date: 25 Jun 1999
Illustrations: illus
Description:
The eighteenth century saw the birth of the concept of literature as business: literature critiqued and promoted capitalism, and books themselves became highly marketable canonical objects. During this period, misogynous representations of women often served to advance capitalist desires and to redirect feelings of antagonism toward the emerging capitalist order. Misogynous Economies proposes that oppression of women may not have been the primary goal of these misogynistic depictions.
Romanticism and Women Poets Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813121079
Pub Date: 25 Jun 1999
Illustrations: illus
Description:
One of the most exciting developments in Romantic studies in the past decade has been the rediscovery and repositioning of women poets as vital and influential members of the Romantic literary community. This is the first volume to focus on women poets of this era and to consider how their historical reception challenges current conceptions of Romanticism. With a broad, revisionist view, the essays examine the poetry these women produced, what the poets thought about themselves and their place in the contemporary literary scene, and what the recovery of their works says about current and past theoretical frameworks.
The Young Philosopher Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 438
ISBN: 9780813109626
Pub Date: 10 Jun 1999
Series: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
Description:
In The Young Philosopher, George Delmont embraces an agrarian life and devotes himself to the pursuit of knowledge. But it is George's love Medora Glenmorris and her mother Laura who provide the emotional core of the novel. Contrasting the pain and suffering of individuals with the idealism of the French Revolution and the hope provided by glimpses of life in America, Smith exposes philosophical enlightenment as an ineffective weapon for fighting the widespread corruption of English society.
Sustainable Poetry Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780813121208
Pub Date: 06 May 1999
Description:
Focusing on the work of A.R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, W.
First Course In Turbulence Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780822956976
Pub Date: 01 Apr 1999
Description:
Finalist for ForeWord Magazine 1999 Poetry Book of the YearWith rapid shifts between subject and tone, sometimes within single poems, Dean Young’s latest book explores the kaleidoscopic welter of art and life. Here parody does not exclude the cri de coeur any more than seriousness excludes the joke. With surrealist volatility, these poems are the result of experiments that continue for the reader during each reading.