Swallow Press imprint: 58 books
The Wounded Woman
Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
This book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse Leonard, a Jungian analyst, exposes the wound of the spirit that both men and women of our culture...
Catching Stories
A Practical Guide to Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories of personal struggle and hope, of war and peace, of family and friends, of beliefs, traditions, and...
An Abundance of Flowers
More Great Flower Breeders of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Walk into any nursery, florist, or supermarket, and you’ll encounter displays of dozens of gorgeous flowers, from chrysanthemums to orchids. At one time these fanciful blooms were the rare trophies of the rich and influential—even the carnation, today thought of as one of the humblest cut flowers....
by Janet Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
This is the first digital version of Cases of Circumstantial Evidence, a collection of three historical novels by noted American writer Janet Lewis. For the first time, these works have been brought together in a single edition, each with a new introduction by Kevin Haworth:The Wife of Martin GuerreBased...
Landscaping with Trees in the Midwest
A Guide for Residential and Commercial Properties
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Trees not only add beauty and value to property but also enhance the physical environment by providing shade, reflecting heat, and blocking wind. Choosing the right trees for the right location and conditions, however, is not always easy: each species has its own requirements for sunlight, water,...
The Memoir and the Memoirist
Reading and Writing Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal...
The Constant Listener
Henry James and Theodora Bosanquet—An Imagined Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In 1907, in a quiet English village, Theodora Bosanquet answered Henry James’s call for someone to transcribe his edits and additions to his formidable body of work. The aging James had agreed to revise his novels and tales into the twenty-four-volume New York Edition. Enter Bosanquet, a budding...
Terminal Diagrams
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Garrick Davis’s Terminal Diagrams may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world. Regardless, their vision...
Prophetic Politics
Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas's thought. Harold argues that Levinas’s mature position in Otherwise Than Being breaks radically with the dialogical inclinations of his earlier Totality and Infinity and that...
Fire Is Your Water
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Sacred chants are Ada Franklin’s power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day in 1953 that her family’s barn is consumed...
Upcycling Sheltered Workshops
A Revolutionary Approach to Transforming Workshops into Creative Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
At a time when the traditional sheltered workshop model has fallen under rightful criticism, and a new paradigm for disability programming is not yet in place, Upcycling Sheltered Workshops offers a revolutionary alternative. As many push to dismantle sheltered workshops, Susan Dlouhy and Patty Mitchell...
The Third Brother
An Andy Hayes Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
It’s a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute he’s finishing up some grocery shopping ahead of a custody visit with his sons. The next, he must come to the rescue of a Somali American mother and her young children as anti-immigrant bullies torment...
Hatred at Home
al-Qaida on Trial in the American Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
One day in 2002, three friends — a Somali immigrant, a Pakistan–born U.S. citizen, and a hometown African American — met in a Columbus, Ohio coffee shop and vented over civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan. Their conversation triggered an investigation that would become one of the most...
Belonging
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
There are worlds within our own in which even the smallest victories are hard won, the tender moment is almost unbearable, and the understated rings like a bell. Belonging, a new collection by British poet Dick Davis, is an extended visit to these worlds.
Deepened by his dry wit and the formal...