Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
Eldest Daughter
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
In Eldest Daughter, Ava Leavell Haymon displays her mastery of the craft and engages us with the poetic gifts we have come to expect from her. As in previous collections, she combines the sensory and the spiritual in wild verbal fireworks. Concrete descriptions of a woman's life in the mid-twentieth-century...
by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
“I greatly admire Alison Deming’s lucid and precise language, her stunning metaphors, her passion, her wild and generous spirit, her humor, her formal cunning. I am taken, as all readers will be, by the knowledge she displays and how she puts this knowledge to a poetic use; but I am equally taken—I...
Broken Cup
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Broken Cup brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret Gibson describes as "traveling the Way of Alzheimer's" with her husband, poet David McKain. After his initial and tentative diagnosis, Gibson suspended her writing for two years; but then poetry returned, and the creative process became the...
Secure the Shadow
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the poet's brother and father. Emerson covers all aspects of the tragedies that, as Keats believed, contribute to our human collective...
The Biscuit Joint
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Praise for David Kirby
"Kirby is exuberant, irrepressible, maniacal and remarkably entertaining.... Okay, let me just say it: he is a wonderful poet." -- Steve Kowit, San Diego Union-Tribune
"Kirby's voice and matter (teaching, literature, traveling, rock 'n' roll, everyday bozohood) are utterly personal...
The Opposite House
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
With graceful lines swooping like a bird in flight, Claudia Emerson's newest collection explores the harsh realities of aging and the limitations of the human body, as well as the loneliness, fear, and anger that can accompany us as we live.
Keenly observed and beautifully executed, these poems...
Uke Rivers Delivers
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A Confederate reenactor...
Faster Than Light
New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories...
Steward of the Land
Selected Writings of Nineteenth-Century Horticulturist Thomas Affleck
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
In the first collection of published writings of Thomas Affleck (1812--1868), Lake Douglas re-establishes the reputation of a tireless agricultural reformer, entrepreneur, and horticulturist. Affleck's wide range of interests -- animal husbandry, agriculture, scientific farming, ornamental horticulture,...
Artisan Workers in the Upper South
Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Though deeply entrenched in antebellum life, the artisans who lived and worked in Petersburg, Virginia, in the 1800s -- including carpenters, blacksmiths, coach makers, bakers, and other skilled craftsmen -- helped transform their planter-centered agricultural community into one of the most industrialized...
Kriegie
An American POW in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Oscar G. Richard - a native of Sunshine, Louisiana -was not the usual World War II serviceman. After enlisting in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 and training diligently for many months, the B-17 bombardier spent only one week in combat. On his third and last mission - on January 14, 1944 - his plane...
A Perfect War of Politics
Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Though antebellum Louisiana shared the rest of the South's commitment to slavery and cotton, the presence of a substantial sugarcane industry, large Creole and Catholic populations, numerous foreign and northern immigrants, and the immense city of New Orleans made it perhaps the most unsouthern of...
Patrick Henry Jones
Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Patrick Henry Jones's obituary vowed that "his memory shall not fade among men." Yet in little more than a century, history has largely forgotten Jones's considerable accomplishments in the Civil War and the Gilded Age that followed. In this masterful biography, Mark H. Dunkelman resurrects Jones's...
Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi
Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
In the 1890s, Mississippi society still drew a sharp line between its African American and white communities by creating a repressive racial system that ensured white supremacy by legally segregating black residents and removing their basic citizenship and voting rights. Over the ensuing decades,...