Resultaten gefilterd op "University of Iowa Press"

A Chorus for Peace

Arnold

• Hardcover
• Women poets from around the world are gathered here to raise their voices together, to speak out against violence and its calamitous effect upon the h... Lees meer

H.D.and Poets After

Hollenberg

• Hardcover
• This work explores the influence of the poet and prose writer "H.D." upon contemporary American poetry. The contributors - who include eminent America... Lees meer

Field of Vision

Lisa Knopp

• Paperback | Engels
• In this contemplative collection of essays, Lisa Knopp moves out from the prairies of Nebraska and Iowa to encompass a fully developed vision of light... Lees meer

Quick, Said the Bird

Richard Swigg

• Paperback | Engels
• When William Carlos Williams said, "It's all in / the sound," when T. S. Eliot hailed the invigorating force of the "auditory imagination," or when Ma... Lees meer

Unfriendly Fire

Peg Mullen

• Paperback | Engels | Singular Lives
• Outspoken, fearless, and wickedly humorous, Peg Mullen had a dual mission in the years after Michael's death: to penetrate the lies and evasions, both... Lees meer

Struggling with Iowa's Pride

Warren

• Hardcover
• This history of Ottumwa's meatpacking workers provides insights into the development of several forms of labour relations in Iowa during the Democrati... Lees meer

Performing History

Freddie Rokem

• Hardcover | Studies in Theatre History and Culture
• An examination of the ways in which the theatre after World War II has presented different aspects of the French Revolution and the Holocaust. The boo... Lees meer

The People of Denendeh

June Helm

• Hardcover | Engels
• For fifty years anthropologist June Helm studied the culture and ethnohistory of the Dene, "The People," the Athapaskan-speaking Indians of the Macken... Lees meer

Slow Work Through Sand

Leslie Ullman

• Paperback | Engels | Iowa Poetry Prize
• For a number of years, Leslie Ullman has lived in the Southwest, on cultivated land, in the company of horses and with access to uncultivated desert. ... Lees meer

Theatre Fandom

• Paperback | Engels | Fandom & Culture
• By bringing together a range of discussions from leading international fan and performance studies scholars, Theatre Fandom tracks key case studies of... Lees meer

The Men in My Country

Marilyn Abildskov

• Hardcover | Engels | Sightline Books
• In the early 1990s, at the watershed age of thirty, Marilyn Abildskov decided she needed to start over. She accepted an offer to move from Utah to Mat... Lees meer

A Perfect Picture of Hell

Genoways

• Hardcover
• This is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12 Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the south during the Civil War. The ed... Lees meer

Intimate with Walt

Gary Schmidgall

• Paperback | Engels | Iowa Whitman
• In March, 1888, Horace Traubel, Walt Whitman's loyal, hardworking assistant, began to record his almost daily conversations with the good, gray poet. ... Lees meer

Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry

• Paperback | Engels
• Second revised edition of a collection of essays which provide a study of American gay male poetry. Lees meer

Austentatious

Holly Luetkenhaus, Zoe Weinstein

• Paperback | Engels | Fandom & Culture
• The amount of fan-generated content about Jane Austen and her novels has long surpassed the author's original canon. Adaptations like Clueless , Pride... Lees meer

Race and Excellence

Ezra E H Griffith

• Hardcover | Engels
• Chester Pierce was born in 1927; by 1952 he was a graduate of the Harvard Medical School. He went on to become president of the American Board of Psyc... Lees meer

Parsnips in the Snow

Jane Anne Staw, Mary Swander

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Interviews with twelve gardeners reveal their approaches to growing vegetables and flowers in the harsh climate of the Midwest. Lees meer

Kinship with the Land

E Bradford Burns

• Hardcover | Engels
• Pioneers moving into Iowa in the nineteenth century created a distinctly rural culture: family, farm, church, and school were its dominant institution... Lees meer

Black Metafiction

Jablon

• Hardcover
• Examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. The book points to the shortcomings of theories of metafiction founded on... Lees meer

Tied to the Great Packing Machine

Wilson J Warren

• Hardcover | Engels
• Ambitious in its historical scope and its broad range of topics, Tied to the Great Packing Machine tells the dramatic story of meatpacking's enormous ... Lees meer

Like a Sea

Samuel Amadon

• Paperback | Engels | Iowa Poetry Prize
• Drawing equally from Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, and Robert Frost, Samuel Amadon's award-winning Like a Sea is a collection of poe... Lees meer

Tree of Heaven

James McKean

• Paperback | Engels | Iowa Poetry Prize
• This second book by James McKean displays a large, dignified, and precise talent - McKean is always looking and reaching out to the difficult world, p... Lees meer

The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

Martyn Bone

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• Since the publication of her first novel in 2008, Jesmyn Ward has established herself as arguably the most important U.S. author of the twenty-first c... Lees meer

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

Jennifer Sears

• Paperback | Engels | Iowa Short Fiction Award
• In these eleven stories, a Mennonite minister's daughter moves from a youthful, exuberant understanding of her family's faith toward religious doubt. ... Lees meer