Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...book, Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean. An interdisciplinary exegesis in the fields of Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Ecocriticism, Water Graves...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Rare Book Library, March 29, 2016. Photograph by Kelly Gannon. Courtesy of Kelly Gannon. Today, as a doctoral student in Emory University's Institute for the Liberal Arts, I research contemporary...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...of this book. Consider it more a thought experiment than a ready-made policy. Any actual solution would require the knowledge of people who live in the mountains and the sponsorship...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...historical perspective to southern Latinx populations, communities, and experiences. This includes two recent books by historians Cecilia Márquez—Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (2023)—and Sarah McNamara—Ybor City:...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
Review Benjamin Wise's book is a fiercely intelligent yet accessible biography of elite white Delta Mississippian William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), poet, pedagogue, patron of the arts, and author of the...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...amount of £ 340 Sterg To purchase religious books for The Poor.1The stone and that of the minister's sister Mary Davie are now inside a brick-walled enclosure built in 1927....
Social Justice Environmentalism
...The Forgotten Commitment to Sustainability," in Living in the Anthropocene: The Earth in the Age of Humans, eds. W. John Kress and Jeffrey K. Stine (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, in...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
Introduction Cyrille Bissette (1795–1858). Print by François Le Villain originally published in Joseph Elzéar Morénas's Précis historique de la traite des noirs et de l'esclavage colonial, contenant l'origine de la traite, ses progrès,...