Winner of the 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Opium and Ambergris is the haunting debut collection by poet Colin Dekeersgieter, whose lyric poems scrutinize a family's history with addiction, death, and mental illness. Reeling from the loss of his brother to a heroin overdose, Dekeersgieter grieves while doing his best to keep his suicidal ......
Grounded in deep concern about the climate crisis, Carolyn Williams-Noren's Oil Courses recalls a family reliant on the oil industry-her father worked for British Petroleum in Anchorage, Alaska-and a summer spent in its service on Endicott Island. What "curriculum" has oil offered each of us? To answer, Oil Courses turns to strange happenings in ......
Examining the life and career of Harriet Dame, Civil War battlefield nurse, and her major contributions to the Union cause In June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a matron. No Place for a Woman recounts her dedicated service throughout the Civil War. She camped with the ......
The Union's forgotten mid-level officers and their commitment to the cause More Important Than Good Generals is an in-depth study of the Army of the Tennessee's junior officers--the company and field grade lieutenants, captains, majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels. While many studies have examined generals and common soldiers, Civil War ......
Guiding us to better communication about illness, treatment, and health through simple art practicesLiving at the intersection of medicine and art, medical illustration is a field that is not well understood by most-especially by physicians and other healthcare practitioners. In this comprehensive and practical guide to medical illustration, ......
George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac, leading his army through the brutal Overland Campaign and on to the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. ......
Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture
How Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movement Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once considered "the most famous farm in the world." Farmers, conservationists, politicians, businessmen, and even a few Hollywood celebrities-including ......
Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park through Poetry
A literary hike through Ohio's oldest national park An anthology celebrating the biodiversity and staggering beauty of Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Light Enters the Grove collects 81 poems, each of which reflects its author's unique connection to a living organism found within the park-ranging from white-tailed deer to brown bats and from ......
The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All
One young woman's correspondence with her community's servicemen, maintaining connection and boosting morale throughout the Civil War During the American Civil War, soldiers frequently wrote letters to friends and family members as a way of maintaining their connections to loved ones at home. However, most of the published collections of Civil ......
