Bøger udgivet af Stephen F. Austin State University Press

A collection of short stories characterized by the unexpected detour, the stops along a narrative way that take the reader into a marginal America, where surprises happen and are cast in a dark humour that paradoxically lights our way.

Ciara Shuttleworth's first collection of poems, Rabbit Heart, taps into the carnal energies of her forebears. Poem after poem, from Gypsy Rose Lee to the wreckage of ships and Norma Jean Baker, Shuttleworth's poetry takes you to surprising people, places, and states of heart.

Mari Mazziotti Gillan's new book, When the Stars were Still Visible, asks us to 'remember'. She writes about her people, her community, and the comfort of soothing things 'beckoning me home' ('Even After All These Years'), the way, perhaps, that all poetry should.

Bob Ross writes with an authenticity as poetic and unforgiving as the Nebraska Sandhills themselves. The nine connected stories Billy Above the Roofs paint an indelible portrait of the life and times of one Billy Dixon in an era on the Great Plains not entirely bygone.

The mischievous pug sisters, in Kimberly Verhines's Stella and Maybelle Explore the Oldest Town in Texas, take a fascinating romp around the historic sites of Nacogdoches and meet interesting people along the way.

Joel Peckham's Bone Music does many things so well: it invokes the blue tones and rhythms of Charlie Parker, and the improvisations suggested by 'Prologue' move the music and rhythms, 'layering one upon another', throughout the book. But, the poet is the musician, the horn blower, who must ever be 'Waiting'.

Reveals for the first time the story of how a few dozen oilmen stole up to 20 million barrels from the East Texas Oil Field. This slant-hole story is a significant piece of Texas history, and it must be told before no one is left to tell it.

J.V. Brummels's newest collection, All the Live-Long Day, continues the legacy of a strong-voiced, strong-armed poetry. As the title suggests in a mocking, self-effacement, these are the poems of a man who has been working, perhaps not on the railroad, but in the classroom, in the fields, with his horses and his cattle.

A collection of plays written by Stephen F. Austin State University Professor Emeritus Bobby Johnson. Before creating the plays, Johnson accumulated five-hundred plus interviews dealing with East Texas. In this collection, his interviews have been used verbatim to preserve a sense of history, though some were edited for dramatic effect.

Spans two very different decades. From the Nazi concentration camp of Dora-Mittelbau to the coast of central Florida in the late 1960s, this book tells the story of the real life intersections between the horror of the Third Reich's V-2 rocket program and the wonderment of the Apollo missions.

Philip Levine came to teach at Fresno State in 1958 and Peter Everwine followed in 1962; C.G. Hanclicek came in 1966 and the initial group of Fresno poets collected here became their students and colleagues. This book focuses on the community of poets first coming through Fresno, beginning in the early 1960s, starting it all off.

A collaborative, bilingual conversation in poetry and art, Borderland Mujeres depicts the multifaceted experiences of women living in the borderlands of deep south Texas. Three women, each with a different relationship to the borderlands offer their vision of the cultural, linguistic, and ecological landscape of this complex region.

Erin Elizabeth Smith's Down is immediately a delight. Refreshing in its take on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the reader discovers here the odd world and new experience that Smith draws them 'down' into.

A book of poems about Nebraska. Not cornfields, not cows: cities, highways, long drives and the political conversations simmering.

Written in hauntingly lyrical prose and filled with beautifully rendered illustrations by graphic illustrator Tristan Brewster-Arnold, Sailing Against the Odds takes readers on a marvellous journey of friendship and survival.

This new selected poems from noted historian Milton Jordan leads readers into the beautiful Idaho wilderness to Slate Creek where, '...the mountain casts its first shadow'. Jordan's poems infuse life with nature, with 'sluggish gray beginnings' and the 'sound of Linda Ronstadt' on a Saturday full of 'miles of silence'.

Chronicles the cold, clear February morning, Mary Interlandi drove to the top of the Nashville Sheraton parking garage and leapt to her death, seven stories below. She was 19 years old. The author had know her and her family his entire life. Visiting Hours chronicles their friendship, her sudden death, and the aftermath of suicide.

Explores the human dynamics, gone wrong and right, of family, of loss for women who never 'said they needed their husbands to come back from the dead', of the ghosts that populate the world.

Derek Updegraff's latest collection of fifteen short stories, Pup! Et cetera, continues his exploration of fictional characters whose lives are fascinating and completely unexpected. There is, in this book, a pulse of familiarity in all the strangeness, something to cling to as sirens rage louder and louder.

Takes readers on a nostalgic, coming of age ride about life in Marshall, Texas, during the '50s and '60s. Told through the eyes of a narrator who has now reached his 70s, Puberty Drove the Car relates the sometimes clumsy and often funny march toward adulthood.

Covering two decades of David Keplinger's engagement with the lyric narrative. Through echoes of Dickinson, Rimbaud, William Blake, and a host of other voices, this volume maps the ongoing 'long answer' to the poet's individual inquiries about family, influence, and originality.

Hilda Raz has long been a significant voice for American poetry. She writes of widows dancing and of squirrels fat in late September, of the power of a woman's voice, solitary, 'blessed to be the womb put to use or not.' Raz brings to her poetry an authority wrought of compassion, of awareness and hard-won wisdom.

Estaban Rodriguez's In Bloom is an exquisite array of lyrical poetry. The title poem takes us through a catalogue of images, beautifully phrased, of family members who 'lent themselves to a pendulum of trumpets, / accordians, drums, guitars, and lyrics that taught us' Spanish and solitariness, the disenchantment.

Takes us into the territory of memory, where 'in a distant city', someone falls down stairs and makes 'a song of it', where siblings speak of family secrets that make breathing different, where selflessness is the mother's gift to her children. These poems are close and personal, affectionate.

Fred Dings' The Four Rings: New and Selected Poems joins the best of his two previous collections along with twenty-nine new poems. In his world, Time, which forgets / none of us, remembers to carry you, finally, back to me.

Kevin Catalano's collection of stories, Deleted Scenes delights because, as an editor might cut scenes from a film, those cuts assembled into a montage become far more enthralling than the film - the 'deleted scenes' become the bonus.

Steve Davenport's Bruise Songs is aggressive, 21st century blues, a rap for the times, a hymn for the hurts we bear and for which we recover.

In his debut collection, The Fight for Space, Roberto Ontiveros explores the modes of art and obsession with eleven stories that run from fabulist comedy to surrealist noir. Atmospheric and erotic, the stories in The Fight for Space, recall the literary mysteries of James M. Cain by way of Twin Peaks.

Filled with adventurous writing, sharp scrutiny, meticulous and audacious use of language, North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara: A Little Further into the Nebraska Sand Hills winds around its subjects the way the rivers and creeks of the Great Plains twist around humps of prairie grass, ranches and rock outcroppings.

In his new and selected, Jim Barnes crafts bliss from the urgent and allusive with an enigmatic voice that is often mysterious.