Aftermath
...your breath it rose from your mouth to disappear in the air above you. You see, aftermath is easier, opening again the wound along its numb scar; it is the...
Runaway
...Around it without stump or stumble. I left The door slightly open; no draft lives in Louisiana's summer. And how I could not move so quickly and away When twenty...
Huntsville, Alabama images
...incorporated town in the Alabama Territory. Tourists and Rockets, U. S. Space and Rocket Center The U.S. Space and Rocket Center opened in 1970 on land donated by the U.S....
Artist Repertoire Index
...New Orleans Bound Oh, Red Paparia Open You Big Fat Thighs Poor Boy Rock Me The Root Blues See What You Did to Me Slow Song (I Can’t Go Home)...
Stones and Shadows
...asking where we've been. She holds the door open for us — me, the voice, my father's body. 2. Shadow In the late afternoon, he is cooking steaks on the...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...branches and watch the exhausted laborers from the Burgreen Construction Company sit down in the shade, unwrapping their ham and salami and popping open their thermoses. Apparently, they too are...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
Review Open Cameron B. Strang's Frontiers of Science and you will encounter a fascinating frontispiece that receives no mention in the remarkable study that follows. The image is perhaps too...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...mineral rights and vast landholdings, opening of the "billion dollar coalfields," growth of company towns and the exploitative trap of scrip (non-legal tender in which miners received wages), company stores,...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...labor, and open commerce," writes Karp, "these, for the proslavery South, were the lineaments of global modernity in the mid-nineteenth century" (169–170). Amid the domestic crises of the 1840s and...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...service to the United States with his personal financial interests. As military leader and federal treaty commissioner, Jackson opened millions of acres of Native American land to non-Indian settlement. Making...