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What would you do if a group of poets in search of inspiration appeared on your farm (\"Poet Farmers\")?<br><br>Many of the stories upend expectations of the act of storytelling, as in \"Corrections and Clarifications,\" written entirely in the form of newspaper corrections, or \"Return-to-Sensibility Problems after Penetrating Captive Bolt Stunning of Cattle in Commercial Beef Slaughter Plant #5867: Confidential Report,\" which begins as a straightforward account of slaughterhouse operations but quickly devolves into something wholly surprising and different.<br><br>Warner's relentlessly inventive stories are reminiscent of the works of Donald Barthelme, George Saunders, and Amy Hempel. With comic and tender rambunctiousness, his satirical voice parries and thrusts its way through each narrative, combining a strong wit with a soft heart.</p>", "author": "John Warner", "slug": "tough-day-for-the-army-574413-9780807158036-john-warner", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780807158036.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574413", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574413/tough-day-for-the-army-574413-9780807158036-john-warner", "bisac_codes": [ "FIC000000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807158050", "EISBN13": "9780807158036", "EISBN10": "0807158038" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023178908" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574412", "attributes": { "name": "Hispanic and Latino New Orleans", "subtitle": "Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century", "description": "<p>Often overlooked in historic studies of New Orleans, the citys Hispanic and Latino populations have contributed significantly to its development. Hispanic and Latino New Orleans offers the first scholarly study of these communities in the Crescent City. This trailblazing volume not only explores the evolving role of Hispanics and Latinos in shaping the citys unique cultural identity but also reveals how their history informs the ongoing national debate about immigration.<br><br>As early as the eighteenth century, the Spanish government used incentives of land and money to encourage Spaniards from other regions of the empireparticularly the Canary Islandsto settle in and around New Orleans. Though immigration from Spain declined markedly in the wake of the Louisiana Purchase, the city quickly became the gateway between the United States and the emerging independent republics of Latin America. The burgeoning trade in coffee, sugar, and bananas attracted Cuban and Honduran immigrants to New Orleans, while smaller communities of Hispanics and Latinos from countries such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Brazil also made their marks on the landscapes and neighborhoods of the city, particularly in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.<br><br>Combining accessible historical narrative, interviews, and maps that illustrate changing residential geographies, Hispanic and Latino New Orleans is a landmark study of the political, economic, and cultural networks that produced these diverse communities in one of the countrys most distinctive cities.</p>", "author": "Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney, Annie M. 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Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they \"deconstruct Dixie,\" insisting that writing the South's history means harnessing, not criticizing, the inherent power of narrative.<br>Contributors examine white southern texts from multiple, fresh perspectives and consider ways in which storytelling helped shape identity and mold scholarship over time. Bertram Wyatt-Brown argues that William Percy's life and work blurred fact and fiction to reconcile the anti-intellectual conventions of a rural, hierarchical South with his cosmopolitan mindset. Orville Vernon Burton and Ian Binnington investigate nationalism, local allegiances, and the imagined community of the Confederacy. Farrell O'Gorman, Jewel L. Spangler, David A. Davis, Robert Jackson, Anne Marshall, K. Stephen Prince, and Jim Downs explore diverse topics such as southern Gothic fiction and the centrality of religion, white trash autobiographies, the \"professional southerner\" in literature and criticism, and the \"one-drop rule\" of racial taxonomy in America. <br>These writers look beyond ideology and race, showcasing new ways of interpreting texts and encouraging scholars to move beyond theory to engage the historical context of southern stories and storytelling.</p>", "author": "Jason Phillips", "slug": "storytelling-history-and-the-postmodern-south-574410-9780807150351", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780807150351.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574410", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574410/storytelling-history-and-the-postmodern-south-574410-9780807150351", "bisac_codes": [ "LIT004020", "HIS036120" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807150344", "EISBN13": "9780807150351", "EISBN10": "0807150355" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010018225432" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574409", "attributes": { "name": "Secure the Shadow", "subtitle": "Poems", "description": "<p>Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the poet's brother and father. Emerson covers all aspects of the tragedies that, as Keats believed, contribute to our human collective of Soul-making, in which each death accrues into an immortal web of ongoing love and meaning for the living. Emerson's unwavering gaze shows that loss cannot be eluded, but can be embraced in elegies as devastating as they are beautiful.<br>The macabre title poem refers to the old custom of making daguerreotypes, primitive photographs, of deceased loved ones. Other striking poems describe animal deaths -- mysterious calf killings, a hog slaughter, the burial of a dead jay, \"identifiable / but light, dry, its eyes vacant orbits.\" <br>Death, as the speaker's heart and mind instruct her, exists in a shadow world. When the body disappears, the shadow also flees. By securing the shadow, the poet finds a representation of the dead's soul, a soul always linked to the body. Hence, Emerson's attention to the minute details of the body's repose -- reflected in the long, related sequence of refrained poems -- never allows its memory to fade.</p>", "author": "Claudia Emerson", "slug": "secure-the-shadow-574409-9780807143049-claudia-emerson", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/cover_image/9780807143049.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574409", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574409/secure-the-shadow-574409-9780807143049-claudia-emerson", "bisac_codes": [ "POE000000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807143032", "EISBN13": "9780807143049", "EISBN10": "0807143049" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010018225334" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574408", "attributes": { "name": "Using Plants for Stormwater Management", "subtitle": "A Green Infrastructure Guide for the Gulf South", "description": "<p>The subtropical climate of the Gulf South supports a varied abundance of flora, and this diversity is sustained by the ample amount of rainwater that characterizes the region. Managing rainwater in a planned environment and mitigating its effect on human habitation can test the skills of even the most seasoned landscape architect or designer. That challenge has never been more acute as increased human demand for natural resources compels professionals and home gardeners alike to seek out sustainable ecological solutions.<br>In this guidebook, Dana Nunez Brown details ways to manage each drop of rainwater where it falls, using a cost-effective and environmentally sensitive approach. Under natural conditions, rainfall primarily percolates into the ground and flows as groundwater until it is absorbed by trees and other vegetation, after which it is evaporated into the atmosphere and the cycle starts anew. 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A Yale graduate and an ordained minister, Torrey set up a well-organized route for escaped slaves traveling from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia and Albany. Arrested in Baltimore in 1844 for his activities, Torrey spent two years in prison before he succumbed to tuberculosis. By then, other abolitionists widely recognized and celebrated Torrey's exploits: running wagonloads of slaves northward in the night, dodging slave catchers and sheriffs, and involving members of Congress in his schemes. Nonetheless, the historiography of abolitionism has largely overlooked Torrey's fascinating and compelling story. <br>The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey presents the first comprehensive biography of one of America's most dedicated abolitionists. According to author E. Fuller Torrey, a distant relative, Charles Torrey pushed the abolitionist movement to become more political and active. He helped advance the faction that challenged the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, provoking an irreversible schism in the movement and making Torrey and Garrison bitter enemies. Torrey played an important role in the formation of the Liberty Party and in the emergence of political abolitionism. Not satisfied with the slow pace of change, he also pioneered aggressive abolitionism by personally freeing slaves, likely liberating more than any other person. In doing so, he inspired many others, including John Brown, who cited Torrey as one of his role models. <br>E. Fuller Torrey's study not only fills a substantial gap in the history of abolitionism but restores Charles Torrey to his rightful place as one of the most dedicated and significant abolitionists in American history.</p>", "author": "E. 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In this, the second volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, the documents cover Davis unsuccessful race for the state legislature, his selection as a Democratic state elector, his marriage to Varina Howell, his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, and his departure therefrom to assume command of the First Mississippi Regiment in the Mexican War.<br><br>In the congressional documents Davis emerges as a hardworking freshman representative who quickly won for himself the respect and esteem of his fellow congressmen. There were, however, notable exceptions. One such exception was Andrew Johnson, a tailor by trade, who strongly resented Davis remark on the floor of the House that a blacksmith or tailor could not be expected to achieve the same results in battle as a trained military man. In the somewhat bitter exchange that followed, some have professed to see the beginnings of the long-standing animosity between Johnson and Davis.<br><br>The 255 documents in this volume (two appendixes contain undated and late-arriving items) provide a clear picture of Jefferson Davis, the man and the politician, and give an intimate view of Mississippi in the 1840s.<br><br>Throughout the volume are rumblings of the then distant storm that was to break so disastrously over the nation in the 1860s.</p>", "author": "Jefferson Davis", "slug": "the-papers-of-jefferson-davis-574406-9780807158647-jefferson-davis", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780807158647.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574406", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574406/the-papers-of-jefferson-davis-574406-9780807158647-jefferson-davis", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS036050", "REF000000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807100820", "EISBN13": "9780807158647", "EISBN10": "080715864X" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010018224640" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574405", "attributes": { "name": "Albert Taylor Bledsoe", "subtitle": "Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause", "description": "<p>Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809--1877), a principal architect of the South's \"Lost Cause\" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals. In Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause, Terry A. Barnhart sheds new light on this provocative figure.<br>Bledsoe gained a respectable reputation in the 1840s and 1850s as a metaphysician and speculative theologian. His two major works, An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will (1845) and A Theodicy; Or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, As Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral World (1853), grapple with perplexing problems connected with causality, Christian theology, and moral philosophy. His fervent defense of slavery and the constitutional right of secession, however, solidified Bledsoe as one of the chief proponents of the idea of the Old South. In An Essay on Liberty and Slavery (1856), he assailed egalitarianism and promoted the institution of slavery as a positive good. A decade later, he continued to devote himself to fashioning the \"Lost Cause\" narrative as the editor and proprietor of the Southern Review from 1867 until his death in 1877. He carried on a literary tradition aimed to reconcile white southerners to what he and they viewed as the indignity of their defeat by sanctifying their lost cause. Those who fought for the Confederacy, he argued, were not traitors but honorable men who sacrificed for noble reasons.<br>This biography skillfully weaves Bledsoe's extraordinary life history into a narrative that illustrates the events that shaped his opinions and influenced his writings. Barnhart demonstrates how Bledsoe still speaks directly, and sometimes eloquently, to the core issues that divided the nation in the 1860s and continue to haunt it today.</p>", "author": "Terry A. 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His first attempt had ended in his near starvation as he hid for nine weeks in a swamp, before hunger compelled him to return to his master. This time the slave sought the help of a neighbor with abolitionist sympathies, and he joined the hundreds of other fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River and north to Canada on the Underground Railroad. After his arrival in Toronto he discarded his master's surname (Parker), renamed himself Francis Fedric, and married an Englishwoman. In 1857, he traveled with his wife to Great Britain, where he lectured on behalf of the antislavery cause and published two versions of his life story. <br>Born in Virginia circa 1805, Francis Fedric was not unlike thousands of other African Americans who escaped slavery in the southern states and sought refuge in Britain. Many of his fellow ex-slaves also joined the abolitionist lecture circuit and published memoirs to support both the cause and themselves. Addressed to a British audience, these memoirs constitute a distinctive subgenre of the slave narrative, and an essential continuation of the narrative tradition established in England by Olaudah Equiano, Ottobah Cugoano, and Mary Prince. <br>The first of Fedric's two memoirs, Life and Sufferings of Francis Fedric, While in Slavery: An Escaped Slave after 51 Years in Bondage (1859), offers a brief but vivid and dramatic twelve-page description of his escape. Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (1863) provides a much more detailed account of life as a slave and of plantation culture in the southern states. Together the two works present a mesmerizing and distinct perspective on slavery in the South. Amazingly, these narratives, among the most interesting of the genre, remained out of print for nearly a hundred and fifty years. Collected here for the first time and meticulously edited by C. L. 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