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Above New Orleans: Roofscapes of the Crescent City
$59.95 Add to cartThe first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, Above New Orleans offers readers perspectives never before captured by a camera. Overhead scenes cover the entire metropolis, fro
- Author: Rasi, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0807176060
- Language: English
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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods
$34.95 Add to cartWinner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award
In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry achieves its impact u- Author: Rogoff, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180904
- Language: English
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Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
$34.95 Add to cartTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177598
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$39.95 Add to cartThe Complete Poems contains every poem that John Crowe Ransom wrote, including his three books–Poems About God, Chills and Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds–as well as the additional poems that app
- Author: Ransom, John Crowe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0807171743
- Language: English
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Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations
$39.95 Add to cartWinner of the Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies
Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author’s centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut nove- Author: Begiebing, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178136
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy
$39.95 Add to cartWith In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonanc
- Author: Bland, Sterling Lecater
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178500
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman’s New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles
$34.95 Add to cartWalt Whitman’s short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated poems from Leaves of Grass showing its influence. Wa
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Schöberlein, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176826
- Language: English
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The Last Gift: The Christmas Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
$39.95 Add to cartMary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the
- Author: Smith, Thomas Ruys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180165
- Language: English
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Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Revised)
$19.95 Add to cartThis is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers — George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin — as well as three prolific twentieth-cen
- Series: Southern Literary Studies
- Author: Kennedy, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0807122734
- Language: English
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Which Way Was North: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn Which Way Was North, Anne Pierson Wiese juxtaposes poems from her years living in New York City with work written after her relocation to South Dakota. By exploring local, historical, and personal
- Author: Wiese, Anne Pierson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179310
- Language: English
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The Sentence: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartIn The Sentence, Morri Creech interrogates our daily lives and experiences to examine the anxieties and despair that often attend our awareness of mortality. Through a variety of subjects, and through
- Author: Creech, Morri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180157
- Language: English
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Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History
$29.95 Add to cartThough long neglected, the history and experiences of Indigenous women offer a deeper, more complex understanding of southern history and culture. In Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern
- Series: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
- Author: Usner, Daniel H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179914
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind
$49.95 Add to cartFrank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind is an interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that examines the link between two pivotal intellectual a
- Author: Rahmani, Ayad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179809
- Language: English
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Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life
$39.95 Add to cartThough it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed
- Author: Boulton, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180084
- Language: English
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Brown Pelican
$22.95 Add to cartIn this compelling book, Rien Fertel tells the story of humanity’s complicated and often brutal relationship with the brown pelican over the past century. This beloved bird with the mythically bottoml
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Fertel, Rien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178462
- Language: English
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Mike: The Tigers of Lsu
$29.95 Add to cartMike the Tiger–the only live tiger mascot in the United States–is an iconic presence on LSU’s campus. From his tiger sanctuary next to Tiger Stadium, he draws a steady stream of fans, adults and chi… [more below]
- Author: Baker, David G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180300
- Language: English
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President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
$44.95 Read moreHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party–the first full–scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years
- Author: Leahy, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172545
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917-1932
$39.95 Add to cartFounded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew no
- Author: Blackwood, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179140
- Language: English
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Mardi Gras Indians
$22.95 Add to cartMardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions celebra… [more below]
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Williams, Nikesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178705
- Language: English
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City of the Undead: Voodoo, Ghosts, and Vampires of New Orleans
$29.95 Add to cartFrom its looming above-ground cemeteries to the ghosts believed to haunt its stately homes, New Orleans is a city deeply entwined with death, the undead, and the supernatural. The reasons behind New O
- Author: Roberts, Robin Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180262
- Language: English
