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  | | Resurrecting Trash Dan Phillips and the Phoenix Commotion by Doug Haines, Don R. Bates, Amanda Dellett, Christina Fernandez, Jake Gebhardt, Anna R. Jennings, Dustin Levien, Lauren Mcauliffe, Margaret Miller Sellers, Donald R. Bates, Resurrecting-Trash, Texas Review Press Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-86-1, ISBN: 1-933896-86-8 "The Phoenix Commotion is a local building initiative created to prove that constructing homes with recycled and salvaged materials has a viable place in the building industry. This process uses only apprentice labor and teaches marketable skills to anyone with a work ethic who is willing to swing a hammer. By keeping labor costs low and using donated or found materials, the homes created are truly affordable. (www.phoenixcommotion ..." |
 | | Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume I Virginia by Casey Clabough, Thorpe Moeckel, Texas Review Press Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2016 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-075-4, ISBN: 1-68003-075-2 "Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not all, volumes in the series indirectly r ..." |
 | | The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII North Carolina by William Wright, Paul Ruffin, Jesse Graves, Texas Review Press, Stephen Gardner Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2015 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-87-9, ISBN: 1-937875-87-3 "Robert Morgan and Kathryn Stripling Byer, Al Maginnes and Cathy Smith Bowers, Thomas Rain Crowe and Michael McFee, as well as many new voices. . . Indeed, the variegation of the Tar Heel State's landscapes, as well as its rich history, is reflected through the myriad voices of its contemporary verse. As with other volumes of The Southern Poetry Anthology, this book--full of a wide gamut of poetic styles and approaches--will appeal to ma ..." |
 | | The Gold Piano by Stephen March, Texas Review Press Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2015 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-008-2, ISBN: 1-68003-008-6 ""The Gold Piano" tells the story of Emerson Wainwright, a young man whose idyllic life in a small North Carolina town is turned upside down after his father is caught on videotape in a homosexual act at the county hospital. To escape from his hometown and its painful memories, Emerson enrolls at an under-funded historically black college a hundred miles away, attending on a minority grant. As the only white student living on campus, he ..." |
 | | Zhiqing(1st Edition) Stories From China's Special Generation by Kang Xuepei Kang, Li Wei, Zeng Jianjun, Qing Yang, Ji Jiahuang, Texas Review Press Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-69-5, ISBN: 1-937875-69-5 ""Zhiqing: Stories from China's Special Generation" presents the recollections of fourteen men and women who were "sent down" to the countryside during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Teenagers or young adults at the time, the authors left school to heed Mao's call for China's "educated youth" (zhiqing) to go to the poorest provinces and distant borders, where they worked with the local people in villages or on ..." |
 | | Goodbye Mexico Poems of Remembrance (Paperback) by Sarah Cortez, Texas Review Press Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2014 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-004-4, ISBN: 1-68003-004-3 "Many on both sides of the border grieve the loss of the Mexico that was, particularly the Mexico that existed during the last half of the Twentieth century. This loss engenders memory; memory engenders poems." |
 | | Women of War(1st Edition) Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War by Casey Clabough, Texas Review Press Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2014 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-49-7, ISBN: 1-937875-49-0 "In their variety, the memoir, poetry, and fiction included in this exciting new anthology show the transitory nature of the literature of southern women who lived through a violent and defining crossroads in their lives. In rare and rediscovered excerpts and verses these women writers evidence the early hopes of a cause destined to be lost, the propagandic rhetoric which accompanied it, and the destruction ultimately visited upon them, ..." |
 | | Southern Poetry Anthology V(1st Edition) Georgia by Paul Ruffin, William Wright, Stephen Gardner, David S. Pointer, Texas Review Press Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-93-9, ISBN: 1-933896-93-0 "Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin, "The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V" Georgia brings together over one hundred of Georgia's poets, including David Bottoms, Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey, as well as myriad other luminous voices. The volume marks the fifth of the series "Art & Literature" has called "one of the most ambitious projects i ..." |
 | | Coping With Transition Men, Motherhood, Money and Magic: Memoirs from the Lives of Professional Women by Susan Briggs Wright, Texas Review Press Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-78-6, ISBN: 1-933896-78-7 "Houstonians from business, law, consulting, art, and journalism share their transitions through challenges in various stages of life. They have coped with parental neglect, failure to marry “on schedule,” conflicts between career and family, turf wars in competitive careers, retirement anxiety, and grievous losses. Magic is found in a teenage duckling’s transformation to swan, a stray thought that leads to international adoption ..." |
 | | The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3 Contemporary Appalachia by Jesse Graves, William Wright, Paul Ruffin, Texas Review Press Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 2010 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-64-9, ISBN: 1-933896-64-7 "Every place has its own poetry. For some places, the poetry appears in the tones of voice between neighbors in the grocery store, or in the spirit people share when a high school football team brings them out of their houses on Friday evenings, or even through the sounds engines make as they idle in traffic on the road out of the city after a workday. The poetry of Appalachia sings in all those familiar ways, but also in the music of ..." |
 | | That Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last A History of Hurricane Katrina by Heather Andrews, Michael Dunican, Tameika Ashford, Joshua Bowen, Brandon Cooper, Lesley Cort, Steven Rydarowski, Melanie Sweeney, Paul Ruffin, Texas Review Press Paperback, 181 Pages, Published 2008 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-00-7, ISBN: 1-933896-00-0 "On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina - the costliest hurricane ever to hit the United States - monopolized headlines, thoughts, and hearts across the country as lives were forever changed, some erased. This book not only chronicles the devastation of that storm but also immortalizes through words and photographs some of the tales of personal tragedy associated with it, while celebrating the resilience of the human spirit, as communitie ..." |
 | | The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. 1 South Carolina by Stephen Gardner, William Wright, Texas Review Press, Stephen Leroy Gardner Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-06-9, ISBN: 1-933896-06-X "T"he Southern Poetry Anthology Volume I: ""South Carolina" is the first in a series of poetry anthologies that will focus on contemporary poetry of the American South, region by region. In this inaugural collection, editors William Wright and Stephen Gardner have collected and compiled the work of seventy-six poets who claim--or have claimed sometime in their life--South Carolina as home and as a palpable influence on their work." |
 | | SO THERE YOU ARE(1st Edition) THE SELECTED PROSE OF GLENN BROWN, JOURNALIST. Edited by Paul Ruffin. by Paul Ruffin, Glenn Brown, Texas Review Press, Editor-Paul Ruffin Pasta Dura, 244 Pages, Published 2006 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-881515-11-1, ISBN: 1-881515-11-7 "So There You Are is a collection of short essays, mostly newspaper columns, written by Glenn Brown over a period of almost fifty years. Whether he is writing about his early life in East Texas, his period of incarceration in a prisoner of war camp in Korea, or his later life in Huntsville, Texas, Brown always entertains with a sprightly prose reminiscent of the great American humorist Mark Twain." |
 | | The Blessings of Hard-Used Angels by John Cottle, Texas Review Press Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2004 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-881515-67-8, ISBN: 1-881515-67-2 "Crafted with care and strongly plotted, these stories are about developed characters, people whose lives matter." |
 | | Cabin Fever(1st Edition) The Roberts-Farris Cabin by Texas Review Press Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2003 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-881515-53-1, ISBN: 1-881515-53-2 "This is a hilarious account of a summer spent by college students and their professor saving a cabin for posterity. The book also includes articles contributed by students on the history of the area and the family. The Roberts-Farris Cabin was built around 1840 for Allen Roberts, step-son of one of Walker county's original settlers, Hezekiah Farris. In 2001 Maggie Farris Parker donated the cabin to the City of Huntsville, and it was res ..." |
 | | So There You are(1st Edition) The Selected Prose of Glenn Brown, Journalist by Paul Ruffin, Glenn Brown, Texas Review Press Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-881515-12-8, ISBN: 1-881515-12-5 "So There You Are is a collection of short essays, mostly newspaper columns, written by Glenn Brown over a period of almost fifty years. Whether he is writing about his early life in East Texas, his period of incarceration in a prisoner of war camp in Korea, or his later life in Huntsville, Texas, Brown always entertains with a sprightly prose reminiscent of the great American humorist Mark Twain." |
 | | George Garrett The Elizabethan Trilogy by Professor Brooke Horvath Phd, Irving Malin, Fred Chappell, Texas Review Press Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1998 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-881515-13-5, ISBN: 1-881515-13-3 "This new volume is a collection of essays and poems on George Garrett's best-selling trilogy of Elizabethan England: "Death of the Fox, The Succession," and "Entered from the Sun." Contributors of the essays include Richard Betts, "'To Dream of Kings': George Garrett's "The Succession""; Nicholas Delbanco, ""The Succession" A Novel of Elizabeth and James"; Joseph Dewey, "'A Golden Age for Fanta-sticks': Imagination, Faith, and Mistery ..." |
 | | George Garrett(Updated) The Elizabethan Trilogy by Professor Brooke Horvath Phd, Irving Malin, Fred Chappell, Texas Review Press Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1998 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-881515-14-2, ISBN: 1-881515-14-1 "This new volume is a collection of essays and poems on George Garrett's best-selling trilogy of Elizabethan England: "Death of the Fox, The Succession," and "Entered from the Sun." Contributors of the essays include Richard Betts, "'To Dream of Kings': George Garrett's "The Succession""; Nicholas Delbanco, ""The Succession" A Novel of Elizabeth and James"; Joseph Dewey, "'A Golden Age for Fanta-sticks': Imagination, Faith, and Mistery i ..." |
 | | The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VIII(1st Edition) Texas (Volume 8) by Nick Lantz, Dr. William Wright, Paul Ruffin, Texas Review Press Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2018 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-063-1, ISBN: 1-68003-063-9 "Texas sprawls. No other state can claim such varied nationalities, geographies, and cultural richness a largesse of natural resources, cityscapes, and landscapes of every ecosystem. With a unique, raucous, and rich history, Texas also abounds with some of the most diverse contemporary poets, many of whom consider themselves Southern, and the eighth volume of "The Southern Poetry Anthology" reflects this variegation with poems both trad ..." |
 | | Mascot Mania Spirit of Texas High Schools by Sabrina Barlow, Betty Burdett, Damien Carey, Urania Fung, Patricia Healy, Tamara Hill, Kelly Rowan, Christina Tonan, Gary Charles Wilkens, Amanda Huffer, Texas Review Press Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2005 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-881515-72-2, ISBN: 1-881515-72-9 "We've all heard that in Texas, high school sports are a religion. What is a religion without Spirit? This book takes a look at the Spirit behind the high schools of Texas - the Mascot that represents each school's "religion." We've discovered that Texans have everything from Bulldogs to Buttons, and Panthers to Punchers, to bolster team morale and liven the voice of the crowd. Laugh out loud as you peruse the origins of the zanier masco ..." |
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