Böcker av Liam Corley

"In a quietly epic narrative - lashed-together from the author's life-experiences as husband and father, literary scholar, and U.S. Navy Reserve intelligence officer - Liam Corley's debut collection of poetry, Unwound: Poems from Enduring Wars, navigates with readers previously unseen frontiers in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). With care and precision, Corley's poems probe the dark, interior corners of American heroic ideals, marriage, family, and homecoming. In the collection's titular poem, for example, he delivers "a poem for the other soldiers / citizens who never fired back [...]" He writes: "[...] I see you with a yellow-ribbon wound tight around your chest, looking down when asked about the war [...]" For veterans, family members, and other citizens, Corley's collection provides a beacon of clear-eyed reflection and assessment about troubled times"--

When Commander Tauran's young son, Lausus, is diagnosed as one of the despised changeling mutants, Tauran believes the government assurances that his boy will be treated well. His less trusting wife, Beatra, however, flees with Lausus to a changeling planet. After years of leading troops into battles against the mutants, while tirelessly searching for signs of Beatra and Lausus, Tauran seizes on an offer from a trusted, yet rogue, scientist with a time travel device that will enable Tauran to harvest fresh DNA from humans before Earth's nuclear wars. Teamed with three others-a scientist, a scholar, and a war criminal with nothing to prove-Tauran maxes out the time travel device, arriving to Earth's first century where he encounters a healer from an abandoned religious sect. Faced with more of a mystery than ever, Tauran determines to learn the healer's secrets or risk kidnapping him for his DNA to save Lausus, purge the mutation, and end the war between humans and their mutant offspring. But Tauran and his team have to move fast-before mutants from their own era overrun the team's time travel site on Terra, and before a government conspiracy to prolong the war destroys what's left of humanity's home world with a final nuclear blast.

Bayard Taylor (18251878) was a nineteenth-century American who combined in his writings and career a catalog of accomplishments and creations that made him one of the most celebrated literary men of his time. The range and significance of Taylor's oeuvre explains his growing importance today to scholars working in the fields of American studies, gender and queer theory, and the aesthetics of racial and class identities. In less than 35 years, he wrote seventeen volumes of poetry, four novels, eight critical works and translations of German classics, nineteen travel narratives, innumerable magazine essays, stories, and reviews, and thousands of letters to friends, admirers, hostile reviewers, business acquaintances, and intimate male companions. His extraordinary success on the public lecture circuit made him one of the best-known men of his day. Taylors diplomatic career enhanced his reputation and influence as a travel writer and included service as a writer for the Perry Expedition to Japan, as a charge d'affaires to Russia during the Civil War, and ambassador to Germany in 1878. This analysis of Taylor's life and works helps to explain three important shifts in American culture: the contradictory development of American ethnocentrism and cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth century; the impact of homophobia and homophilia upon American literary production, criticism, and culture; and the inspirational role played by poetry within a religious and economically-driven society. The introduction describes Taylors changing fortunes within literary history and presents a methodological approach to the Genteel tradition that recovers its distinctive aesthetic and social values and explains how Taylor is its most winning and significant representative. Taylor was a key figure in the genealogy of American interactions with the Islamic world, and his travel writing demonstrates how individual advancement in an egalitarian society can be linked with aggressive imperialism abroad. Taylor's novels display a subtle pattern of transgressive sexuality and demonstrate how Taylors manipulation of reputation and genteel aesthetics created a space for individual expression and freedom. Taylor's 1870 novel, Joseph and His Friend, is frequently cited as Americas first gay novel. This books analysis of Taylor's poetry draws the strands of egalitarian racialization and male-male intimacy together with his abiding concern with regional American identities and the mixed influences of religious subcultures.