Publications
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The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers
(2008)
One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can ...
The Beautiful Lesson of the I
(2005)
May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 9, with foreward by Rachel Hadas. Frances Brent's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Notre Dame Review, Yale Review, and in many other journals. She was born in Chicago and was educated ...
Body My House: May Swenson's Work and Life
(2006)
The first collection of critical essays on May Swenson and her literary universe, Body My House initiates an academic conversation about an unquestionably major poet of the middle and late twentienth century. Includes many ...
Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris
(2007)
Mary Lois Walker Morris was a Mormon woman who challenged both American ideas about marriage and the U.S. legal system. Before the Manifesto provides a glimpse into her world as the polygamous wife of a prominent Salt Lake ...
Beneath These Red Cliffs
(2006)
In this new and updated edition---with a foreword by Lora Tom, chairwoman of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah---Holt recounts the survival of a people against all odds. A compound of rapid white settlement of the most ...
Borgo of the Holy Ghost
(2001)
May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 5, with foreward by Richard Howard. An accomplished poet with credits in such literary magazines as APR, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many others, Stephen McLeod is the 2001 recipient of ...
The Centaur
(2007)
First published in 1955, May Swenson's ""The Centaur"" remains one of her most popular and most anthologized poems. This is its first appearance as a picture book for children.In images bright and brisk and nearly tangible, ...
Children's Folklore
(1999)
A collection of original essays by scholars from a variety of fields
The Arc and the Sediment
(2007)
Gretta Bitsilly, gin-steeped mother of two and self-proclaimed expert at standing outside the margins of ethnicity and peering in, has been all but eclipsed by the world that eludes her--as a wife, a writer, a skeptic in ...
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion
(2009)
Nineteenth century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. ...