Towns Facing Railroads(First Edition) Poems by JoMcdougall Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-199-9, ISBN: 1-55728-199-8
"". . . a first-rate book of poems full of sad knowledge but richer with wisdom and the earned refinement of art." -George Garrett"
"In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougallAEs long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poetAEs signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language; surprising metaphor; humour; irony; idiomatic speech; and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom concerning death and loss. In McDougallAEs world, folks maki ..."
Satisfied with Havoc(1st Edition) (Autumn House Poetry) by JoMcdougall Paperback, 71 Pages, Published 2004 by Autumn House Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9669419-9-9, ISBN: 0-9669419-9-3
"Signed in purple ink by author on title page. FEP missing, else as new. A very clean, tight, and crisp copy. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: ..."
Dirt(1st Edition) Poems (Poetry Series Volume 4) by JoMcdougall Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2001 by Autumn House Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9669419-3-7, ISBN: 0-9669419-3-4
"In these moving poems, Jo McDougall writes of loss -- the loss of her daughter to cancer, as well as the loss of her own childhood in the rural South. The ghost of the past haunts these poems, and so as McDougall moves from pain to joy and finally to a hard-earned serenity, the reader rejoices in her triumph of the spirit."
Towns Facing Railroads(1st Edition) Poems by JoMcdougall Hardcover, 57 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-181-4, ISBN: 1-55728-181-5
"." . . a first-rate book of poems full of sad knowledge but richer with wisdom and the earned refinement of art." -George Garrett"
Women Who Marry Houses by JoMcdougall Paperback, 38 Pages, Published 1983 by Coyote Love Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-913341-01-8, ISBN: 0-913341-01-0
The Undiscovered Room by JoMcdougall Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2016 by Tavern Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935635-55-0, ISBN: 1-935635-55-7
"Poetry. In her signature economical style, Jo McDougall invites readers into the small towns of the rural South and Midwest and the dramas of their inhabitants. Through her spare, stoic, and at times spectral form of storytelling, she depicts lives limited by privation yet buoyed by dreams. Grief, resignation, awe, death, and joy abide in her work. McDougall is wed to realism, but obliged to invent; it's these inventions that lend her p ..."
Daddy's Money(1st Edition) A Memoir of Farm and Family by JoMcdougall, Hilary Masters Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-967-4, ISBN: 1-55728-967-0
"Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir. Recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers, through family archives and oral histories, she traces how the clan made their way into the fabric of America, beginning with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the twentieth century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice f ..."
"These poems span a wide range of subjects, including love and death, pathos and humor, and the extraordinary dimensions of such deceptively ordinary topics as "Women Married to Houses," "The Tractor Driver's Funeral," and "When the Buck or Two Steakhouse Changed Hands." McDougall combines rich wit and irony with keen insight into the human condition."
From Darkening Porches(1st Edition) by JoMcdougall Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-408-2, ISBN: 1-55728-408-3
"C.D. Wright has said that Jo McDougall writes "a lean stoic line; each poem makes its mark, like spit." With precise clarity McDougall brings to life farmers, dressmakers, widows, and waitresses so that we take part in the strange delights and tangled mysteries of their faltering lives."
Under an Arkansas Sky.(1st Edition) by JoMcdougall Paperback, 16 Pages, Published 2010 by Tavern Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935635-01-7, ISBN: 1-935635-01-8
"This limited-edition pamphlet showcases 6 haunting new poems by the noted poet and memoirist."
In the Home of the Famous Dead Collected Poems by JoMcdougall Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-630-7, ISBN: 1-55728-630-2
"In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougall’s long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poet’s signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language; surprising metaphor; humor; irony; idiomatic speech; and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom concerning death and loss. In McDougall’s world, folks making d ..."
"In her signature economical style, Jo McDougall invites readers into the small towns of the rural South and Midwest and the dramas of their inhabitants."
Daddy's Money A Memoir of Farm and Family by JoMcdougall 184 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61075-483-5, ISBN: 1-61075-483-2
"Duke and Cindy's son Collin, eight, remembers Dad vaguely; his brother, Merritt,
five, remembers neither of my parents. ... There's a constant ache in my throat,
seeing on one hand the graying place that neglect has claimed, and on the other
the shimmering vista of earlier ... Many stories about my parents will disappear
with Charla, stories only she can remember. ... shop, a garage for the farm trucks,
various sheds, the grain dry ..."
"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 ..."
"Selections made from nominations by the editors of independent noncommercial presses and magazines. The first Editor's Choice spanned the period from 1965 to 1977. The volume following this one, Editor's Choice III, spans the period from 1983 to 1990."
In the Home of the Famous Dead Collected Poems by JoMcdougall 363 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61075-560-3, ISBN: 1-61075-560-X
"I move on to the barn where dust motes hang like stars in an unsteady heaven. I
enter my grandmother's kitchen. Canning sausage, she doesn't look up. my aunt
sits folding clothes, her back to me. laughing, they speak of people I've never ..."
""Lewis Nordan: Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope" examines and celebrates the work of southern writer Lewis Buddy Nordan, whose stories reveal his own pain and humanity and in their honesty force us to recognize ourselves within them. Written by scholars and fiction writers who represent a fascinating range of experience from a Shakespearean scholar to English professors to a former student of Nordan s this is a rich array of essays, poems, a ..."