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Books by Stephen Cushman
  | | The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms(3rd Edition) Third Edition by Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17043-5, ISBN: 0-691-17043-6 "An essential handbook for literary studiesThe Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms―drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics―provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully revised and updated entries, including 100 that are new to this edition, the book offers clear and insightful definitions and discussions of critica ..." |
 | | Hothead A Poem by Stephen Cushman Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2018 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6782-3, ISBN: 0-8071-6782-7 "Hothead is a haibun-patterned, book-length declamation in which no topic is off limits―Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, America, global warming, eros, mental illness, the natural world, technology, the aging body. Cushman’s poetry shows us how to live in a world in which it is difficult to balance “the place where light and dark meet.” With an outmoded laptop named Patience as his daily consort, the speaker navigates through themes of love, poli ..." |
 | | Belligerent Muse(Reprint) Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (Civil War America) by Stephen Cushman, Gary W. Gallagher Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2017 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3339-8, ISBN: 1-4696-3339-6 "War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and enduring literary works. In Belligerent Muse, Stephen Cushman considers the Civil War writings of five of the ..." |
 | | Bloody Promenade(1st Edition) Reflections on a Civil War Battle (The American South Series) by Stephen Cushman Hardcover, 295 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-1874-7, ISBN: 0-8139-1874-X "On 5 and 6 May 1864, the Union and Confederate armies met near an unfinished railroad in central Virginia, with Lee outmanned and outgunned, hoping to force Grant to fight in the woods. The name of the battle―Wilderness―suggests the horror of combat at close quarters and an inability to see the whole field of engagement, even from a distance. Indeed, the battle is remembered for its brutality and ultimate futility for Lee: even with 26, ..." |
 | | Heart Island by Stephen Cushman Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2016 by Wordtech Communications Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-933456-35-5, ISBN: 1-933456-35-3 "Book by Cushman, Stephen" |
 | | Riffraff(1st Edition) Poems (LSU Press Paperback Original) by Stephen Cushman Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2011 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3760-4, ISBN: 0-8071-3760-X "Stephen Cushman's Riffraff embodies the spirit of its title, a Middle English word for ''every particle'' or ''things of small value.'' In this striking collection, scraps of the overlooked, and distasteful--a prostitute passed in the street, the speaker's own forgotten dreams, toothless dogs rolling in deer offal--become occasions to meditate on the rich experiences from which we too often turn away.The poems reflect on the possibiliti ..." |
 | | Bloody Promenade(Updated) Reflections on a Civil War Battle (The American South Series) by Stephen Cushman Paperback, 295 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-2041-2, ISBN: 0-8139-2041-8 "On 5 and 6 May 1864, the Union and Confederate armies met near an unfinished railroad in central Virginia, with Lee outmanned and outgunned, hoping to force Grant to fight in the woods. The name of the battle Wilderness suggests the horror of combat at close quarters and an inability to see the whole field of engagement, even from a distance. Indeed, the battle is remembered for its brutality and ultimate futility for Lee: even with 26, ..." |
 | | Civil War Writing New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) by Stephen Cushman, Professor Gary W. Gallagher, Keith Bohannon, William C. Davis, Matthew Gallman, Sarah Gardner, Kathryn Shively, Brenda Stevenson, Elizabeth Varon, T. Michael Parrish Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2019 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7024-3, ISBN: 0-8071-7024-0 "Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings have sustained their influence over generations and include histories, memoirs, journals, novels, and one literary falsehood posing as ..." |
 | | Fashion beyond Versailles Consumption and Design in Seventeenth-Century France by Stephen Cushman Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2002 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2760-5, ISBN: 0-8071-2760-4 "In his second collection of poems, Stephen Cushman explores, appraises, and celebrates many different forms of connections -- domestic, social, historical, and religious. With an easygoing voice, an engaging humor, and a sure understanding of his craft, he addresses subjects from marriage and travel to urbanism and the Civil War, illustrating the rewards of a sensitive regard for the junctions in everyday life and language.Invoking "all ..." |
 | | The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms(3rd Edition) Third Edition by Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17199-9, ISBN: 0-691-17199-8 "The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully revised and updated entries, including 100 that are new to this edition, the book offers clear and insightful definitions and discussions of critical concepts, genres, forms, movements, an ..." |
 | | The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries by Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman Hardcover, 720 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17152-4, ISBN: 0-691-17152-1 "The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe. With more than 165 entries, the book combines broad overviews and focused accounts to give extensive cover ..." |
 | | 1 Nation of Letters: A Concise Anthology of American Literature by Stephen Cushman, Paul Newlin Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 1998 by Brandywine Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-881089-89-6, ISBN: 1-881089-89-4 "Nation of Letters evokes the wisdom and artistic literary expression inherent in the American experience at its best. The editors have produced an anthology of manageable size and affordable length, one thatcan comfortably be carried to the classroom.Beginning with Native American legends, the 112 selections include poetry, fiction, and essays, and span the decades through the poems of Emily Dickinson." |
 | | The Red List A Poem (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy Series) by Stephen Cushman Paperback, 8 Pages, Published 2014 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-5689-6, ISBN: 0-8071-5689-2 "The "red list" of Stephen Cushman's new volume of poetry is the endangered species register, and the book begins and ends with the bald eagle, a bird that bounded back from the verge of extinction. The volume marks the inevitability of such changes, from danger to safety, from certainty to uncertainty, from joy to sadness and back again. In a single poem that advances through wordplay and association, Cushman meditates on subjects as va ..." |
 | | Belligerent Muse(1st Edition) Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (Civil War America) by Stephen Cushman, Gary W. Gallagher Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2014 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1877-7, ISBN: 1-4696-1877-X "War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and enduring literary works. In "Belligerent Muse," Stephen Cushman considers the Civil War writings of five of t ..." |
 | | Fictions of Form in American Poetry (Princeton Legacy Library) by Stephen Cushman Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2014 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-60203-5, ISBN: 0-691-60203-4 "In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that American poets tend to overvalue the formal aspects of their art and in turn overestimate the ..." |
 | | Fictions of Form in American Poetry(1st Edition) (Princeton Legacy Library) by Stephen Cushman Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 1993 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-06963-0, ISBN: 0-691-06963-8 " In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that American poets tend to overvalue the formal aspects of their art and in turn overestimate ..." |
 | | The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries by Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman Paperback, 720 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17051-0, ISBN: 0-691-17051-7 " The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe. With more than 165 entries, the book combines broad overviews and focused accounts to give extensive c ..." |
 | | Blue Pajamas Poems (Poetry) by Stephen Cushman Hardcover, 53 Pages, Published 1998 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2302-7, ISBN: 0-8071-2302-1 "Finally, at a moment in the history of American poetry when partisans of formal and free verse view each other with mutual suspicion, Cushman's poems demonstrate the pleasures and powers of treating the varieties of verse design as a poet's ..." |
 | | Blue Pajamas Poems (Poetry) by Stephen Cushman, Richard E. Chandler, Kessel Schwartz Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 1998 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2303-4, ISBN: 0-8071-2303-X "In the title poem of this impressive debut collection, Stephen Cushman speaks as much of his poetics as he does of his role as father to a young child: “I perform the offices of comfort / as best I can. . . . I put it all on the line / one piece at a time.” In many poems in this volume, Cushman puts himself on the line with respect to family life, focusing on a parent or grandparent, spouse or child. In others he roams freely among subj ..." |
 | | The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics(4th Edition) Fourth Edition (Princeton Reference) by Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul F. Rouzer, David Marno, Harris Feinsod, Alexandra Slessarev Hardcover, 1,680 Pages, Published 2012 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13334-8, ISBN: 0-691-13334-4 " Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compile ..." |
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