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The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow people - literally, or through the rituals of labour, or through the raptures of ecstatic vision, induced by blessings or madness - and people's ability to forge connections in spite of extreme conditions.

William Virgil Davis is a widely published, award-winning poet. His poems regularly appear in leading journals. His Dismantlements of Silence brings together a generous selection of Davis's poetry to date. It includes samples of his early uncollected work, poems from his previously published books, and selections from his most recently published work.

Draws on nine book-length collections of Thomas's poetry, and includes a generous selection of new poems. Five of the collections are comprised of poems of geographic place, four of which are set primarily in Texas. The poems selected from his remaining collections range in subject matter from outlaw bikers to ekphrasis; from the avian world to an asylum for the criminally insane.

A mysterious woman comes out of the wheat fields late one night to complicate the life of Chief Ranger Aldo Springer, recently banished to Fort Pawnee National Historical Site in central Kansas. She demands asylum and backs up her demand by threatening to jump from the highest point in the historical site-a crow's nest halfway up the hundred-foot mast of the fort's flag pole.

This collection, Morton's tenth, is a bold book of poetry delving into risks. Using a combination of quotes, mythological images, and exquisite metaphors from nature, Morton delivers poems that describe the absolute urgency of giving one's heart over to life, the burning drive to have faith in the world, the insistence that everything, in its own way, is holy.

Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. The camp served as a model site for POW installations across the country and set a high standard for the treatment of prisoners. During the last months of the war, the American military selected Camp Huntsville as the home of its top-secret re-education programme for Japanese POWs.

"The essays in Wedding the Wild Particular make plain the sheer delight I have taken in the primary world and the degree to which that delight has enriched my academic vocation. They make what I believe is a coherent argument for the importance of natural literacy in the intellectual life."" - Robert Benson

Traces the evolution of the Browning Automatic Rifle from the Model of 1918, first to face combat in World War I, through its various configurations in all arenas of combat all the way to the present-day 1918 A3 SLR developed and manufactured by Ohio Ordnance Works.

Jack Butler's Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems is a celebration that refuses to explain away pain and trouble, or to oversell the very transcendence it seeks. Its poems are always musical, whether formal, improvisational, or written according to the music of speech itself.

Six couples from Austin, Texas, have vacationed on Lake Como in Italy during the month of August for the last seven years. This year they learn that during this month for the last seven years little girls have gone missing around the lake. A mystery with a set of vivid characterizations, Black August explores Americans abroad, the question of evil, and the story of a marriage in crisis.

Tells the story of Magdalene Tucker, a jilted woman who takes in a drifter during one of Sun, Louisiana's worst recorded droughts. When the townspeople find out about this, they decide to lead a sort of crusade to Magdalene's farm in order to put an end to Magdalene's and this man's sins, thinking them the sole cause of the town's plight.

This is a darkly humorous collection of linked stories set in the southern haunts of coastal Texas - near where the Rio Grande dumps its brackish water into the Gulf of Mexico. These stories ponder deformity in all its forms. But binding them is a gentle humanity. Brian Allen Carr moves his grotesque characters toward the hollows of hearts, heaving despicable actions toward tender outcomes.

When Monique LeBlanc disappears from Nova Scotia, her cousin Michelle is panic-stricken. Their summer vacation has taken an ominous turn, and a search begins. At the site of Monique's disappearance in Grand-Pre Historic Park, police find a picture of her mother, Catherine, who passed away years ago, near Evangeline's statue.

Takes the reader on an odyssey including sixteenth-century England, the ancient hills of Spain, a Renoir painting in Ft Worth, a precarious cliffside inn on California's Highway One, a rare-book library in the heart of Houston, a high-school gym in Georgia, an East Texas pine forest, and the violet crowned hills of Austin.

Offers a fictional account of a journey through the nightmare of the American labor inferno. The author joined the Laborers Union when he graduated from high school in 1979 and spent seven years as a gunite construction worker, witnessing atrocities that don't make the evening news.

Jan Lee Ande has created a steady, contemplative and sometimes playful voice, often melding the factual and the fanciful, the hallowed and the sensual. These poems bring new perspectives to the commonplace - a stone, an avocado, a sea urchin - and a celebration to the mysteries of human experience.

Sam, a reclusive underachiever with a record of failed marriages and aspirations, must face the prospects of middle age, professional outplacement, and unwanted responsibilities toward both his father and his son, two men whom he has spent much effort putting at a distance.

Grapples with issues of belonging and connection, all from the perspective of someone who does a lot more observing and ruminating than living in the present. Most of the poems draw from Nguyen's imperfect memory of himself and others as it changes throughout time.

Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella's narrator - a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier - finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Cafe Bovary.

This novel examines the connotations of lucky and unlucky, the complexities of sibling rivalry, and the hand fate delivers without reason.

Surreal, playful, and always poignant, the prose poems in Jose Hernandez Diaz's masterful debut chapbook introduce us to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt, all of whom explore their inner selves in Diaz's startling and spare style.

Candy is a tough-talking California teen with a rough home life. A sarcastic stranger, Carlos, arrives to stay with the janitor's family in Candy's apartment building, forcing her back to the land of the living. Candy's romance with Carlos provides a sweet counterpoint to the chaos she faces every day.

Garret Keizer's first book of poetry, is the winner of the 2018 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. The poems are mostly lyrical, often personal, and always accessible.

Widower and former pastor, Rex Wells is struggling with Parkinson's disease when his twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Wendy, lands the starring role in an action movie. He makes the arduous journey from Nashville to the Hollywood premiere but finds the aptly titled Overkill almost as disagreeable as her filmmaker boyfriend.

Sophie has managed to keep herself clean for a full year. Now, against her sponsor's advice, she's agreed to a road trip with her boyfriend Sid, who sees the journey a chance to recapture their past. This is a story of addiction that, at its heart, seeks to understand why we stay in situations that no longer serve our needs.