Ark by EdMadden Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-943977-08-6, ISBN: 1-943977-08-9
"In a spring of floods, a son returns to rural Arkansas to help care for his dying father. A difficult and beautiful book about a father's death from cancer, Ark is also a book about family, about old wounds and new rituals, about the extraordinary importance of ordinary things at the end of life, about the gifts of healing to be found in the care of the dying. At once a memoir in verse about hospice care and a son's book-length lament f ..."
"Tim Conroy is a theologian of the best kind, a theologian of the ordinary. He knows, as we learn from the rough father in the first poem, that there are no assurances in this life—and there probably isn’t another. We face crushing loss and daily difficulties. We have to learn to live the best we can here, now. For Conroy, truth won’t be found in the pews. It will be found in the small blessings of daily coffee in a familiar cafe, or the ..."
Out Loud(1st Edition) The Best of Rainbow Radio by EdMadden, Candace Chellew Hodge Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2010 by Hub City Press ISBN-13: 978-1-891885-76-1, ISBN: 1-891885-76-6
"From a small radio studio in the heart of the Deep South, the voices of gay and lesbian Southerners suddenly filled the AM airwaves. “For far too long,” the announcer stated, “talk radio airwaves have been dominated by the people who talk about us. Starting this fall, we speak for ourselves!” What began as an experiment―Rainbow Radio, South Carolina’s first gay and lesbian radio show―has grown into a grassroots-driven community radio sh ..."
"Halfway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Columbia, South Carolina sits on the southeastern edge of the great Piedmont plateau, an area defined in South Carolina by the Appalachians and the fall line formed where the Broad and Saluda rivers converge to create the Congaree. In this third issue of Fall Lines - a literary convergence, Jasper Magazine once again presents an anthology of poetry and prose demonstrating ..."
"The feel of wet soil beneath the knees of the winter-weary gardener as she plants spring peas. The sound of the Carolina fight song echoing down Main Street. The smell of meat crackling in Crisco on the stove top. The taste of tea so sweet it curls your tongue. The sight of deer on the side of the road or the sun going down on the statehouse dome. All these things and more ground us in what it means to be from the South Carolina Midland ..."
Prodigal Variations by EdMadden Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2011 by Lethe Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59021-340-7, ISBN: 1-59021-340-8
"The poems in Ed Madden's second book, Prodigal: Variations, explore relations between men-fathers, sons, brothers, lovers-as well as questions of home and exile, memory and loss, and the promises and compromises of any return. In poems that are at once both mythic and deeply personal, Madden asks how we define home, what rituals and relationships sustain us in a world shaped by loss. Consistently reimagining and reinterpreting the bibli ..."
Tiresian Poetics(1st Edition) Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888-2001 by EdMadden Hardcover, 402 Pages, Published 2008 by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8386-3937-5, ISBN: 0-8386-3937-2
"Blind seer, articulate dead, and mythic transsexual, the figure of Tiresias has always represented a liminal identity and forms of knowledge associated with the crossing of epistemological and ontological boundaries. In twentieth-century literature, the boundaries crossed and embodied by Tiresias are primarily sexual, and the liminal and usually prophetic knowledge associated with Tiresias is based in sexual difference and sexual pleasu ..."
Irish Studies(Unabridged) Geographies and Genders by Marti D. Lee, EdMadden Hardcover, 210 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-84718-549-5, ISBN: 1-84718-549-5
"Highlighting the work of both established and emerging scholars in Irish studies, this collection brings together fifteen essays working at the intersection of two important and developing fields of Irish studies: gender studies and cultural geography. Developed from papers first presented at a regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies in South Carolina in 2006, not only does this work suggest the importance of link ..."
"In this collection of poetry, prose, and visual art, thirty artists from Columbia, SC and neighboring vicinities respond to the commemoration of the first anniversary of the thousand year flood of their city and its surroundings which occurred on October 4th, 2015. Literary artists include Jennifer Bartell, Cynthia Boiter, Claudia Smith Brinson, Paul Toliver Brown, Bugsy Calhoun, Tim Conroy, Carla Damron, Worthy Evans, Rachel Haynie, Bi ..."
"Halfway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Columbia, South Carolina sits on the southeastern edge of the great Piedmont plateau, an area defined in South Carolina by the Appalachians and the fall line formed where the Broad and Saluda rovers converge to create the Congaree. In this second issue of Fall Lines - a literary convergence, Jasper Magazine once again presents and anthology of poetry and prose demonstratin ..."
Tiresian Poetics Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888-2001 (Hardback) by EdMadden Hardcover, 402 Pages, Published 2008 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-230-1, ISBN: 1-61147-230-X
"Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney ..."
"Crooked Letter i offers a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct 'coming out' experiences of a complex cross-section of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Southerners from all walks of life and at different stages in their lives. There is the Appalachian widower who, following the death of his wife, decides it's time to tell his church community. There is the young man who left his hometown as a girl, re ..."
Nest (Salmonpoetry) by EdMadden Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2014 by Salmon Poetry ISBN-13: 978-1-908836-63-2, ISBN: 1-908836-63-6
"Ed Madden's third book of poetry, Nest, is a book about home-the homes we leave and the homes we learn to make for ourselves. These are emphatically poems of place as well: from poems grounded in the fundamentalist culture of the rural South, through poems of travel and dislocation in Ireland and elsewhere, to a final section emphasizing the repurposed and re-imagined. Born and raised in rural Arkansas, Ed Madden teaches at the Universi ..."
AIDS in America by EdMadden, Ina Roy Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2013 by Pearson Import ISBN-13: 978-0-205-32668-6, ISBN: 0-205-32668-4
"Ed Madden, as with any of our most necessary poets, locates us plainly in this
conflicted Eden, this garden of the reverent imagination — greatest or creations
and, perhaps, if we fail to mind and tend it. ultimately our undoing. He interprets
with ..."
Irish Studies Geographies and Genders by Marti D. Lee, EdMadden 210 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-1495-9, ISBN: 1-4438-1495-4
"In his preface to the exhibition catalog, the photographer Ron Levine describes
how the project began as “a simple photo shoot” which expanded into multiple
prison visits, several exhibitions, a book project, a 2004 documentary film,7 and
ultimately became a ten-year commitment to prison reform. The exhibit, in all its
incarnations, explores the “conflict between feelings of sympathy and the desire
for punishment, while revealing t ..."
"This work takes readers beyond an exploration of gay sexuality into dealing with the importance of friendship, providing insights into a range of dimensions, including mentorship, spirituality, survival and partnership. A range of gay authors offer a variety of perspectives."