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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.

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.

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.

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.

Takes young children on a tour through Stephen F. Austin State University's Lumberjack land. Whether visiting Homer Bryce Stadium where the Lumberjacks dominate the field, the Johnson Coliseum where Lumberjack athletes show off their talents,or the newly built STEM centre with its magical planetarium, this is a book for Lumberjack fans of all ages.

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 Article III judges, up through the civil rights era and more recently, who presided over the contentious issues of the day. Armed with the power to transform and make changes, this book portrays judges who leaped, untroubled and unhesitatingly, at the issues of the day.

Ryan Conley is a marine second lieutenant stationed in Abu Al Khasib, Iraq. Just as he is about to rotate out of the war zone, Ryan is severely wounded and granted a medical discharge, so he can return home to the family ranch in Sweetwater, Texas, to focus his energy on recovery. But life never goes as planned for the young marine, and he is unexpectedly found dead.

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.

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.

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.

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.

These mythical and magical poems examine the duality of nature, the sacrifices women make daily, and the deeper societal ills such as female foeticide, dowry deaths, violence against women, and the role of the media, "Ravan's hundred thousand eyes", in perpetuating this violence.

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

Celebrates the wisdom and wit of single adults who are living their lives to the fullest. Sometimes humorous, sometimes contemplative, this marvellous collection of ten authors share their secrets and insights to living meaningful lives as single adults.

Cyrus Cassells' vibrant translations grow on the page as though the essence of Francesc Parcerisas' work has also moved forward in a Janus-like fashion. These translations are not simply the same poems in a different language; Cassells has crafted new poetry.

In her captivating style, Nancy Demme weaves a tale of what it means to be human and growing up in deep Texas.

Tries to understand what it means for a poem to be humble or humorous, decorous or confident, and what that tells us not only about poems, but also about the larger world of social virtues, personal vulnerabilities, and political problems that define so much of our time together and apart.

From its beginnings in the spring of 1933 to its close with US entry into World War II, the New Deal significantly impacted the state of Texas. This collection of essays highlights examples of the lasting positive impact of New Deal projects and programs.

Wonderfully new and vividly descriptive, Happy Birthday, Dear Darrell and other Stories provides an unflinching portrait of everyday life that is a true and rare find. Lacy writes with both courage and compassion in every story he creates.