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The past and the truth are slippery things, and the art of nonfiction writing requires the writer to shape as well as explore. In personal essays, meditations on the nature of memory, considerations of the genres of memoir, prose poetry, essay, fiction, and film, this work attempts to find answers to the question of what truth in nonfiction means.

In 1939, just before graduating in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. When he became ill with cancer in the fall of 2002 - sixty years after he had developed the last of his bulk film - Everett opened his time capsule and printed the images from his youth.

Suitable for people with memories of the small-town America that the author describes with such affectionate realism and to those interested in the roots of this renowned man of letters.

Summarizing the geological, archaeological, and ecological features that shaped Iowa's modern landscape, this book recreates the once-wild native communities that existed prior to Euroamerican settlement. It examines the dramatic changes that overtook native plant and animal communities as Iowa's prairies, woodlands, and wetlands were transformed.

Reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students.

A debut collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona. These ten stories are full of misfit transients like Julian, a crematorium worker who decorates abandoned urns to create a ""lush underground island,"" and the instant Mormon missionary Eli, a hapless divorce who ""always likes people better when they're a little broken.

Devising a formalism rather than concerning itself with discovering the what, this book is about discovering how to say what needs to be said.

Civilization has collapsed after World War XII, dogs have deserted their masters, all the groves and gardens have been destroyed, and love has vanished from the earth. Then one day, ""a young girl who had never seen a flower chanced to come upon the last one in the world.

Looks at the question of ownership, of the words with which we define ourselves and each other, and of whose and what claims are legitimate. This work is a lyric which is grounded in the New American tradition of poets such as John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Olson.

The life of Grove Karl Gilbert, first chief geologist of the US Geological Survey, spanned the heroic age of American geology during the time that this young earth science was being intellectually and institutionally defined. This biography reveals that few other scientists can match Gilbert's range of talents.

A collection of stories that aims to show us how vulnerability, although dangerous, is what makes life astonishingly beautiful and reality strangely unreal.

Matthew Mark Trumbull was a Londoner who immigrated at the age of twenty. Within ten years of his arrival in America, he had become a lawyer in Butler County, Iowa; two years later a member of the state legislature; and two years after that a captain in the Union Army. This biography details the amazing life of this remarkable man.

Introduces us to the volunteer soldiers of the Pioneer Grays and Cedar Falls Reserves infantry companies and in turn examines Iowa's role in the Civil War. This work uses the soldiers letters home as its primary source.

William Vermilion (1830-1894) was a captain in the Iowa Infantry between 1862 and 1865. Mary Vermilion (1831-1883) was a schoolteacher from Indiana. This text is a selection of the hundreds of supportive, informative and heart-wrenching letters they wrote each other during the war.

William Henry Harrison Clayton was one of nearly 75,000 soldiers from Iowa to join the Union ranks during the Civil War. Possessing a high school education and superior penmanship, Clayton served as a company clerk in the 19th Infantry, witnessing battles in the Trans-Mississippi theater. His diary and his correspondence with his family in Van Buren County form a unique narrative of the day-to-day soldier life as well as an eyewitness account of critical battles and a prisoner-of-war camp.Clayton participated in the siege of Vicksburg and took part in operations against Mobile, but his writings are unique for the descriptions he gives of lesser-known but pivotal battles of the Civil War in the West. Fighting in the Battle of Prairie Grove, the 19th Infantry sustained the highest casualties of any federal regiment on the field. Clayton survived that battle with only minor injuries, but he was later captured at the Battle of Stirling's Plantation and served a period of ten months in captivity at Camp Ford, Texas.Clayton's writing reveals the complicated sympathies and prejudices prevalent among Union soldiers and civilians of that period in the country's history. He observes with great sadness the brutal effects of war on the South, sympathizing with the plight of refugees and lamenting the destruction of property. He excoriates draft evaders and Copperheads back home, conveying the intra-sectional acrimony wrought by civil war. Finally, his racist views toward blacks demonstrate a common but ironic attitude among Union soldiers whose efforts helped lead to the abolition of slavery in the United States.

Including sixty-two short essays, this work describes in many voices the emotional complexity and historical record of one experience most of us have in common: elementary and secondary school, from our first day all the way to graduation twelve years later.

Although the many common birds of the Upper Midwest are lovely to hear and see, there is no doubt that the uncommon birds attract more attention. An illustrated companion to ""Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest"", this work celebrates the rarer birds of the Upper Midwest.

In the sparsely settled hills of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, winter's toughness is matched only by the animosity and affection of its inhabitants for each other and for the land that unnerves them. This book evokes a place dominated by two great lakes whose power and ferocity influence the lives of every inhabitant.

This study introduces and explores Lacan's complex theories of subjectivity and desire through close readings of cananical children's books such as "Charlotte's Web", "Stellaluna", "Holes", "Tangerine" and "The Chocolate War".

Presenting a collection of poems, this work embarks on a journey to the land of America's female children. Demonstrating the seriousness of female childhood - which is as dangerous and profound as war, economics, and history - it reveals the extremes of self-doubt and self-righteousness inherent in being a contemporary American girl.

Iowa's place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State's inhabitants. This work includes information about the state's name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of vanished counties and towns.

Embraces the possibility that we can learn as much from objects as we can from other people, from the inanimate as much as the animate. This work reveals what the world is like when your attention is focused elsewhere, when your head is turned the other way.

A compilation of essays and images that reveals an essential component of Czech contributions to the world of modern theatre. Featuring the craft of twenty-seven of the best stage and costume designers of the twentieth century, it supplies evidence of their consistently high quality and dynamic creativity. It is accompanied by a CD.

Starting with the notion of Germany as the ideal site for academic study and travel in the 19th century and concluding with the twentieth-century image of Germany as an aggressive country, this work examines the everchanging image of Germans and Germany in the writings of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, William James, John Dewey, among others.

Contains one hundred poems that explore medical practice, interpersonal relationships, and the modern world. These poems record instances of pain and suffering, joy and grief, humor and irony; and the subjects range from caregivers, patients, trainees, and teachers to poverty, injustice, and war throughout the world.

Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.