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First printed in 1858, this was written to recruit emigrants to Iowa. A Home in the West tells of Walter and Annie Judson who one March night decide to move to the West in search of a better life. It portrays the challenges and transformations of the period and includes the Panic of 1857, the Mormon Handcart Expedition and Native Americans in Iowa.

In a Fine Frenzy reveals what Shakespeare's poetic children have made of their inheritance. The poets respond to the sonnets, the comedies, the tragedies, the romances, and, to a lesser degree, Shakespeare the man. They reveal the aspects of his work most captivating to modern writers.

Collected here are the reminiscences of people who knew Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) . Many of the printed recollections in this book appeared after Alcott became famous and showcase her as a literary lion, but others focus on her teen years, when she was living the life of Jo March.

Wetlands in Your Pocket celebrates the plants and animals that call the wetlands of the Midwest home. This laminated pocket guide illustrates a hundred of the most common plants and animals to be found in wetlands six inches to six feet deep.

"Nelson's story, which is told largely through the west river settlers' own words, reveals a bond between people and the land so strong that only the most overwhelming adversity could finally break it. It is a fascinating tale of hopes raised and dreams shattered within a single generation. One cannot help being moved. The book should be required reading for all who seek to understand human persistence in a zone that outsiders have been too willing to dismiss as submarginal." - John C. Hudson, Northwestern University; "Highly readable.... The term 'wide open spaces' takes on new meaning in Nelson's book....A marvelous job of presenting the lives of west river South Dakotans during times of extreme stress in a way that should touch all readers' emotions regardless of where they live." - Dorothy Schwieder, Iowa State University"

Wallace Stevens and the Apocalyptic Mode focuses on Stevens' stance toward the apocalyptic past: his use of and resistance to apocalyptic language. It explores the paradoxical roles of apocalyptic and anti-apocalyptic rhetoric in modernist and postmodernist poetry and theory, particularly as these emerge in the poetry of Stevens and Jorie Graham.

The many meanings of ""economy"" are the ground for the mediation and lament of Ledger. It places an individual's crisis of spirituality and personal stewardship, or management of her resources, against a backdrop of a culture that has focused its ""economy"" on financial gain and has misspent its own tangible and intangible resources.

This book explores Whitman's ability to appeal across distances and centuries. It focuses on both Whitman in his time and place, and within UK culture from the late 19th to the late 20th century.

In a startling and original poetic voice, Megan Johnson in The Waiting reveals a vigilant young person who has suffered an unmentionable loss and who dismantles and reconstitutes lyric modes in a relentless search for solace. A lyric adventure of grief and search, The Waiting reinvents language from raw materials, driven by intense emotional need.

Early in 1958, instruments on the space satellites Explorer I and Explorer III revealed the presence of radiation belts, enormous populations of energetic particles trapped in the magnetic field of the earth. This work tells the story of this dramatic and hugely transformative period in scientific and cold war history.

This collection features emerging poets who combine a commitment to innovation and experimentation with a love for the lyric tradition, whose poetry transcends ""mainstream"" and avant garde practice to create new and exciting poetic territories.

This collection features emerging poets who combine a commitment to innovation and experimentation with a love for the lyric tradition, whose poetry transcends ""mainstream"" and avant garde practice to create new and exciting poetic territories.

The author tells of the excavation of Rivas, a great ceremonial centre at the foot of the Talamanca Mountain range which flourished between AD900 and 1300. He discusses Rivas' builders and users, theories on chiefdom societies and the daily interactions and surprises of modern archeology.

Reading like one long odyssey, the author takes the reader on his many adventures which range from the ludicrous to the life-threatening with Carlyle flying into the light and carrying the reader with him on his perplexing and fanciful journey.

Here, the author confronts the slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural processes - the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love and the deaths of human beings. The poems negotiate between desire for something irrefutable and an uneasy bedrock of paradox.

Since the 1980s, Ecuador has seen the development of numerous significant indigenous and ethnic movements and organizations, leading to a new president and constitution for 2003, reflecting these changes. These essays explore the cultural, political and social developments.

In this study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment - what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside and a boundary between the two - as the dominant metaphor of Cold War theatre-going.

From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland. It was the largest unincorporated coal-mining community in Iowa and the majority of its 5000 residents were African Americans - unusual for a state which was over 90 per cent white.

In these poems, Lesle Lewis's craft rides the waves of the New England landscape, both internal and external. If her world is a collage, as she says, then her poems provide the glue that anchors everything from shifts in the weather to world events to a cacophony of thoughts.

How do you thank the person who gave you a vantage from which to see the world? The opening question of this volume of essays reflects its central theme: the connections between fathers, fathering and nature. It offers personal stories of the important roles of fathers and nature.

Parenthood is full of secrets. The pregnant body, labour, the mysteries of a new child, the transformation of relationships - men and women are themselves reborn as they become parents. This text collects the work of 50 accomplished writers to guide new parents through this complex terrain.

In this psychological portrait of a family bound together by the uneasy permutations of love, Abramson relies not on sensationalist narrative but on a collection of the many small moments that glitter along the bumpy path of her life.

From the Anglo-American woman who makes a spectacle of herself trying to be Cuban, to the estranged son leading his father on a hostile hike in New Mexico, Valeri's characters are loaded with desire and anger. The stories grow through subtle shifts, and reveal unexpected moments of clarity.

A guide to the common woodland plants of the American Midwest region. Artist and botanist Mark Muller has provided common and scientific names, blooming dates, heights, and colour illustrations for 59 common native midwestern species.

This volume contains 21 stories that won the Iowa Short Fiction Award between 1991 and 2000. The authors include David Borofka, Mark Brazaitis, Tereze Gluck, Elizabeth Harris, Renee Manfredi, Sondra Spatt Olsen, Nancy Reisman and Don Zancanella.

Using jazz as the key metaphor, Porter refocuses old interpretations of Ellison by placing jazz in the foreground and by emphasizing, especially as revealed in his essays, the power of Ellison's thought and cultural perception.

Diaspora constitutes a powerful descriptor for the modern condition of the contemporary poet, the spokesperson for the psyche of America. The poems in this collection focus on the struggles and pleasures of creating a physical and mental home out of displacement, exile, migration, and alienation.

This is the diary of Sarah Fisher, an Old Order Amish woman from Kalona, Iowa. Written throughout 1976 and 1977, it is an ongoing account of her seasonal routine, telling of a life where all tasks are undertaken without the conveniences of electricity, telephones or automobiles.

This anthology gathers work by 80 poets inspired by Emily Dickinson. Beginning with Hart Crane's 1927 poem ""To Emily Dickinson"" and moving forward through the century to such luminary figures as Archibald MacLeish and Yvor Winters, this book offers both a celebration and a homage to a great poet.

Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in ""Leaves of Grass"". In this book Joann Krieg argues their importance within the larger framework of Whitman studies.