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She also recounts, in free verse, formal verse, and one prose poem, the \"misdeeds of Katrina\" as she and others experienced them.<br>Other poems range widely, from reflections on writers Samuel Johnson, Paul Claudel, Andre Malraux, and James Dickey to quiet meditations on the American West, Odysseus, fruits and vegetables, and the recent \"light years\" of the poet's life -- which she characterizes as \"silken... slipping smoothly off\" like a gown.</p>", "author": "Catharine Savage Brosman", "slug": "under-the-pergola-574433-9780807138847-catharine-savage-brosman", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/cover_image/9780807138847.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574433", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574433/under-the-pergola-574433-9780807138847-catharine-savage-brosman", "bisac_codes": [ "POE000000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807138809", "EISBN13": "9780807138847", "EISBN10": "0807138843" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010015090720" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574432", "attributes": { "name": "Crash and Tell", "subtitle": "Stories", "description": "<p>Sometimes wildly funny, yet often serious, jarringly uncanny yet realistic, the stories in Lori Baker's Crash & Tell seem to come from a different time and place. 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Laced with the surreal, the familiar neighborhoods of our lives grow strange through the lens of memory and murder.<br>From the comical re-imagining of Jane Goodall's life among the apes -- told from the eyes of Jane as a debutante escapee -- to a professional research subject who outwits a cunning psychiatrist; a photographer who must come to grips with a peculiar family obsession; a bored wife on vacation experiencing an unexpected seaside interlude with an oddly menacing dentist; and a car crash that leads to the most unromantic of romances -- the alienated suburbanites of these tales value memories (and ghosts) over people.</p>", "author": "Lori Baker", "slug": "crash-and-tell-574432-9780807142073-lori-baker", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/cover_image/9780807142073.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574432", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574432/crash-and-tell-574432-9780807142073-lori-baker", "bisac_codes": [ "FIC000000", "FIC029000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807142080", "EISBN13": "9780807142073", "EISBN10": "0807142077" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023178889" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574431", "attributes": { "name": "Black Americans and Organized Labor", "subtitle": "A New History", "description": "<p>In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. 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Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy -- especially, those of racial paternalism -- were believed to be essential for white southerners. The wealthy employed them to validate their identities as \"aristocrats,\" while less-affluent whites used them to separate themselves from \"white trash\" in the social hierarchy. Even those who were not legitimate heirs of plantation-owning families found that \"putting on airs\" associated with the legacy of the plantation could align them with the forces of power and privilege and offer them a measure of authority in the public arena that they might otherwise lack.<br>Fiction by Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Ernest Gaines, Walker Percy, and others reveals, however, that the racial paternalism central to class formation and mobility in the South was unraveling in the years after World War II, when the civil rights movement and the South's increasing industrialization dramatically altered southern life. Costello demonstrates that these writers were keenly aware of the ways in which the changes sweeping the South complicated the deeply embedded structures that governed the relationship between race and class. He further contends that the collapse of racial paternalism as a means of organizing class lies at the heart of their most important works -- including Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee and her essay \"The 'Pet Negro' System,\" Welty's Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart, Faulkner's The Mansion and The Reivers, Gaines's Of Love and Dust and his story \"Bloodline,\" and Percy's The Last Gentleman and Love in the Ruins.<br>By examining ways in which these works depict and critique the fall of the plantation ideal and its aftermath, Plantation Airs indicates the richness and complexity of the literary responses to this intersection of race and class. 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Onuf and Christa Dierksheide examine how patriotic southerners reconciled slavery with the American Revolutionaries' faith in the new nation's progressive role in world history; Sean Wilentz attempts to settle the long-standing debate over the reasons for southern secession; and Richard Carwardine identifies the key wartime contributors to the nation's sociopolitical transformation and the redefinition of its ideals. <br>George C. Rable explores the complicated ways in which southerners adopted and interpreted the terms \"rebel\" and \"patriot,\" and Chandra Manning finds three distinct understandings of the relationship between race and nationalism among Confederate soldiers, black Union soldiers, and white Union soldiers. The final three pieces address how the country dealt with the meaning of the war and its memory: Nina Silber discusses the variety of ways we continue to remember the war and the Union victory; W. 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Edited by Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins, and introduced by William Bedford Clark, this collection of largely previously unpublished letters and newly discovered material documents Warren's time at the University of Minnesota, his writing and publication of the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel All the King's Men, his appointment as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, and his divorce from Emma Cinina Brescia and subsequent marriage to the writer Eleanor Clark.<br><br>The period 19431952 also saw the publication of A Poem of Pure Imagination; World Enough and Time; The Ballad of Billie Potts; At Heaven's Gate; and Selected Poems, 19231943. Warren's letters shed new light on those works and on his close relationship with his editors Lambert Davis and Albert Erskine. Included too is correspondence concerning Warren's collaboration with Robert Rossen on the movie production of All the King's Men, which received the Academy Award for best picture in 1949.<br><br>The list of friends and colleagues with whom Warren communicated reads like a roll call of major twentieth-century literary figures and clearly shows his ever-widening influence on the world of letters. 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In this comprehensive, up-to-date study, seasoned observers tell the fascinating story of the GOPs remarkable advance at the regional level and in each of the eleven states of the former Confederacy, effectively capturing the current partisan dynamics at work throughout Dixie.<br><br><br>In Southern Politics in the 1990s eleven teams of political scientists and journalistsall of them long-time observers of the political scene in their own statesoffer individual chapters that closely examine partisan and electoral developments in each southern state. Alexander P. Lamis frames the state discussions with introductory and concluding chapters that highlight the evolution of the two-party South and the political transformation the region as a whole underwent during the decade of the 1990s.<br><br><br>Together, the authors show that the amazing Republican spurt was fueled by many factors, including the ongoing entrenchment of the partisan competition begun three decades earlier; the national Republican sweep of 1994 that affected all regions of the country equally; and the successful efforts of Republicans to paint the Democrats as hopelessly mired in a corrupt political system and themselves as untainted reformers who represent the future.<br><br><br>However, as the separate state chapters illustrate, the pace of change differed from state to state. 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