Böcker utgivna av University of Iowa Press

A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can't escape, Lacy Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study.

Offers a loving ode to the prairies of the Midwest, to west central Iowa, and to family connections that stretch from the authors's Swedish ancestors to his parents to his wife and children. Throughout he embraces "the opportunity, as always, to settle, to remember, and be ready".

A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, this argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else.

Explores the intriguing cooperation of America's writers-including major figures such as Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and Herman Melville-with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and periodical editors who attempted to end the practice of capital punishment in the US during the 1840s and 1850s.

A vivid archive of memories, Beth Alvarado's Anthropologies layers scenes, portraits, dreams, and narratives in a dynamic cross-cultural mosaic. Bringing her lyrical tenor to bear on stories as diverse as harboring teen runaways, gunfights with federales, and improbable love, Alvarado unveils the ways in which seemingly separate moments coalesce to forge a communal truth.

On the surface, L.S. Klatt's poems are airy and humorous - with their tales of chickens wandering the highways of Ohio and Winnebago trailers rolling up to heaven and whales bumping like watermelons in a bathtub - but just under the surface they turn disconcertingly serious as they celebrate the fluent word.

In We Have All Gone Away, his emotionally moving memoir, Curtis Harnack tells of growing up during the Great Depression on an Iowa farm among six siblings and an extended family of relatives. With a directness and a beauty that recall Thoreau, Harnack balances a child's impressions with the knowledge of an adult looking back.

Julie Hanson's award-winning collection, Unbeknownst, gives us plainspoken poems of unstoppable candour. They are astonished and sobered by the incoming data; they are funny; they are psychologically accurate and beautifully made.

Argues that contemporary fiction serves primarily as a therapeutic tool for lonely, dissatisfied middle-class readers, one that validates their own private dysfunctions while supporting elusive communities of strangers unified by shared feelings. Aubry persuasively makes the case that contemporary literature's persistent appeal depends upon its capacity to perform a therapeutic function.

An in depth biography of John Ruan, who rose from gravel hauler to multi-millionaire. During his career, Ruan built a diverse business empire based on trucking, banking, real estate, and international trade. One of Iowa's most famous citizens he is known not only for his business savvy but for his philanthropic efforts.

Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. This title examines from myriad perspectives the way his final works give shape and focus to his complete dramatic opus.

Educates prairie owners and managers about grassland ecology and gives them guidelines for keeping prairies diverse, vigorous, and viable. This title presents the tools necessary to ensure that grasslands are managed in the purposeful ways essential to the continued health and survival of prairie communities.

Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem. This title includes essays that explore the relationships among place, work, and community in this complex landscape.

Examining the relationships among rivers, floodplains, weather, and modern society; stressing matters of science and fact rather than social or policy issues; and by addressing multiple environmental problems and benefits, this title informs and educates those who experienced the 2008 floods and those concerned with the larger causes of flooding.

Revealing the miniature beauties hidden among the patches of prairie, woodland, and wetland that remain in Iowa's sadly overdeveloped landscape, the seventy-five color photographs in this book presents a cross section of the state's smallest inhabitants.

Argues that poets live and write within history, our artistic values always reflecting attitudes about both literary history and culture at large. This title peels back layers of clutter to reveal the important questions at the heart of various complex and fruitful discussions about the connections between culture and literature.

Includes essays that elucidate the various facets of teaching, valuing, and maintaining medical professionalism in the middle of the myriad challenges facing medicine at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

In 1937 and 1938, Ernest Hemingway made four trips to Spain to cover its civil war for the North American News Alliance wire service and to help create the pro-Republican documentary film The Spanish Earth. This is the first book-length scholarly work devoted to this subject.

Robert Scholes's now classic Rise and Fall of English was a stinging indictment of the discipline of English literature in the United States. In English after the Fall, Scholes moves from identifying where the discipline has failed to provide concrete solutions that will help restore vitality and relevance to the discipline.

Exploring a wide range of poetry from the nineteenth century to the present, Poetry after Cultural Studies showcases the unexpectedly rich intersection of cultural studies theory and current poetry scholarship. These essays show forcefully that cultural studies and poetics - once thought incommensurable - in fact are mutually informative and richer for the effort.

More than any other American before or since, Abraham Lincoln had a way with words that has shaped our national idea of ourselves. Showing not only the development of a powerful mind but the ways in which our sixteenth president was perceived by equally brilliant American minds of a decidedly literary and political bent, Harold K. Bush provides some of the most significant contemporary meditations on the Great Emancipator's legacy and cultural significance.