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Civil Twilight

by Cynthia Huntington

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 Civil twilight is the astronomical term for the minutes just before sunrise and just after sunset. If one took a snapshot, it would be impossible to tell whether the light was increasing or diminishing. The poems in Civil Twilight arise in this liminal space.
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Burn

by Sara Henning

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 A lyrical meditation on time, survival, and merciful moments of joy, Sara Henningâ€™s Burn draws readers deep into the moments that make us, focusing on instances of crisis and renewal to explore our relation to time and lived experience.
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Making The Heartland Quilt - A Geographical History Of Settlement And Migration In Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois

by Douglas K. Meyer

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 Reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations. Douglas K. Meyer argues that mid-continental Illinois symbolizes a historic test-strip of the diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration.
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The Natural Heritage Of Illinois - Essays On Its Lands, Waters, Flora, And Fauna

by John E. Schwegman

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 Offers an engaging collection of ninety-four essays on the lands, waters, plants, and animals found in Illinois. The book discusses how wind, water, glaciers, earthquakes, fire, and people have shaped Illinois' landforms, natural habitats, rivers and streams, and the ways in which native plants and animals, from individual species to entire ecosystems, have thrived, survived, or died out.
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Standby - An Approach To Theatrical Design

by Joshua Langman

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 Proposes a practical philosophy of contemporary theatrical design that addresses all design disciplines, all theatrical collaborators, and all forms of theatre, from the traditional to the avant-garde. Joshua Langman celebrates design as a transformative force with the power to elevate a performance.
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The Flesh Between Us

by Tory Adkisson

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 Intensely and unapologetically homoerotic in content and theme, The Flesh Between Us sensuously conducts the meetings between strangers, between lovers, between friends and family, between eater and eaten, between the soul and the body that contains it.
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The Kitchen Of Small Hours

by Derek N. Otsuji

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 Lyrical and warm, Derek Otsuji's voice sounds out a sinew of words that make the remnants of heritage and home durable. In these poems each new generation seeks to reimagine for itself the elusive American Dream.
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A Backyard Prairie - The Hidden Beauty Of Tallgrass And Wildflowers

by Fred Delcomyn e James L. Ellis

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 In 2003 Fred Delcomyn imagined his backyard of two and a half acres, farmed for corn and soybeans for generations, restored to tallgrass prairie. Over the next seventeen years, Delcomyn, with help from his friend James Ellis scored, seeded, monitored, reseeded, and burned these acres into prairie. This book documents their journey.
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Fieldglass

by Catherine Pond

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 Fraught with obsession, addiction, and unrequited love, Catherine Pond's Fieldglass immerses us in the speaker's transition from childhood to adulthood. A queer coming-of-age, this collection is a candid exploration of sexual identity, family dynamics, and friendships that elude easy categorization.
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The Irish In Illinois

by Sean Farrell

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 Today over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. This concise narrative history brings together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State.
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Hinge

by Molly Spencer

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 Readers enter ""a stunted world,"" where landmarks - a river, a house, a woman's own body - have become unrecognizable in a place as distorted and dangerous as any of the old tales poet Molly Spencer remasters in this elegant, mournful collection.
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Maps For Migrants And Ghosts

by Luisa A. Igloria

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 Crossing oceans and generations, from her childhood home in Baguio City, the Philippines, to her immigrant home in Virginia, poet Luisa A. Igloria demonstrates how even our most personal and intimate experiences are linked to the larger collective histories that came before.
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All The Great Territories

by Matthew Austin Wimberley

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 In 2012 Matthew Wimberley took a two-month journey, traveling and living out of his car, during which time he had planned to spread his father's ashes. By trip's end, the ashes remained, but Wimberley had begun a conversation with his deceased father that is continued here in his debut collection.
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Unearth

by Chad Davidson

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 "What if the end were as colorless as real / estate?" the speaker asks in Unearth. Poet Chad Davidson's latest collection takes a hard look at our world as it collapses under numerous trials and tribulations.
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Chain Of Gold - Greek Rhetoric In The Roman Empire

by Susan C. Jarratt

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 Barred from political engagement and legal advocacy, the second sophists composed epideictic works for audiences across the Mediterranean world during the early centuries of the Common Era. In this study, Susan Jarratt argues that these discourses constitute intricate negotiations with the absolute power of the Roman Empire.
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Even The Dark

by Leslie Williams

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 The speaker in this collection seeks an understanding of the darkness of suicide and mortal illness in the light of Christian faith. Poet Leslie Williams captures this light in tender and piercing poems that traverse a grieving world where healing is always possible but never assured: my God can do this, but my God / might not.
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The River Where You Forgot My Name

by Corrie Williamson

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 Travels between early 1800s Virginia and Missouri and present-day western Montana, a place where "bats sail the river of dark". In their crosscutting, the poems in this collection reflect on American progress; technology, exploration, and environment; and the ever-changing landscape at the intersection of wilderness and civilization.
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Vanishing Acts

by Brian Barker

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 "In "Vanishing Acts" the poems straddle the comic and the tragic. They are by turns funny and haunting and ripe with scathing satire. They draw on the genres of the speculative and science fiction as much as our poetic traditions and speak to the precarious state of man and the natural world in the twenty-first century"--
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Objects Of Hunger

by E.C. Belli

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 "In "Objects of Hunger" the circularity and unsolvable nature of our quarrels against one another and against the self are trapped in a throbbing asceticism, in an exploration of resignation, concession, persistence, and monstrosity"--
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The Archaeology Of Slavery - A Comparative Approach To Captivity And Coercion

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 Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern US, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slaving has occurred. The Archaeology of Slavery investigates slavery in diverse settings and offers a broad framework for the interpretation of slaving.
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Aristotle'S Voice - Rhetoric, Theory, And Writing In America

by Jasper Neel

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 In this book, Jasper Neel's sure-to-be-controversial resituating of Aristotle centres around three questions that have been constants in his twenty-two years of teaching experience: What does it mean to teach writing? What should one know before teaching writing? And, if there is such a thing as "research in the teaching of writing", what is it?
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Opera Scenes For Class And Stage

by Mary Elaine Wallace e Robert Wallace

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 Reprint. Previously published: Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, c1979.
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Conversational Rhetoric - The Rise And Fall Of A Women'S Tradition, 1600-1900

by Jane Donawerth

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 Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized women's rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres.
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Limehouse Nights

by Thomas (Wellesley College, Usa) Burke

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