In This Distance examines the relationship between distance and desire, the erotic and the ecstatic, pleasure and paradise. Esther Perel, Audre Lorde and the biblical figure of Eve co-exist in this collection, offering their real and imagined insight as the speaker grapples with questions such as: do we need distance in order to maintain desire? ......
Randall James Tyrone's debut collection City of Dis is a searing exploration of contemporary existence intertwined with medieval notions of damnation, invoking Dante's "Inferno" to craft a modern-day epic. Doubling as a novel-in-verse, City of Dis follows the unnamed protagonist as they navigate a cityscape that is both a circle of hell and also ......
Critics describe The Cave, the long-awaited second collection from award-winning poet Ryan Vine, as "powerful and completely realized," "profound and enduring," and "utterly masterful and deeply moving." The Cave contains haunting meditations on fatherhood, fearless contemplations of place and lineage, clear-eyed examinations of generational ......
From the sandy pine hills and river bluffs of North Louisiana to the cypress swamps and reedy marshes of South Louisiana-from the Ozarks to the Gulf-David Middleton celebrates, in evocative descriptions and compelling stories, the flora and fauna, the history and prehistory, the geography and the people, of his native state. But like Robert ......
From the sandy pine hills and river bluffs of North Louisiana to the cypress swamps and reedy marshes of South Louisiana-from the Ozarks to the Gulf-David Middleton celebrates, in evocative descriptions and compelling stories, the flora and fauna, the history and prehistory, the geography and the people, of his native state. But like Robert ......
Set in Galveston during the 1900 storm, the most devastating natural disaster in the history of the United States, this sweeping novel follows the fates of several richly drawn characters. And it is the story of Galveston herself, the grand old lady of the Gulf Coast, with her harbor filled with ships from the world over; her Victorian homes and ......
Teenage Wyland and his older brother Lee must navigate the world of guns, girls, basketball and family honor on the rez. Will Wyland be a bully to eager Derrin Kinyonie, or let him play? Will he step out of his brother's shadow and learn what it means to stand alone in the shifting, ever-changing landscape of military fathers and tests of ......
When his son uncovers a Weezer CD at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cody Taitano recalls his first job at McDonald's during his senior year of high school. Back in 1999, he is a quiet kid desperate to make friends. His classmates, though, see nothing about him worth knowing, and his own family often leave him to figure out his problems for ......
This is the entertaining story of a Texas History college class from Sam Houston State University that saved a 180-year-old log cabin from destruction during a long hot summer in 2001 as part of a Main Street Program. Members of the class, including the oldest graduate at Sam Houston State and a retired colleague, all contributed chapters that ......
