This collection of essays details the author's mother's experiences during her 1904 trek to North Dakota, and her life as a landowner, wife, and mother
Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians explores the profound connections between medicine and poetry through the eyes of contemporary physician-poets. These one hundred poems record instances of pain an
Drawing on his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer and trainer, the author pens a collection of stories set in the mountains of Guatemala that reflects the tradition of magic realism and won the Io
Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by students who had emigrated to northeastern Iowa from Mecklenburg, in northeastern Germany, Johannes Gil
From its incorporation in 1847 in Wisconsin Territory to its first run in 1851—twenty miles between Milwaukee and Waukesha—to its later position of far-flung power, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul
The author pioneers the musical variety of the prose poem in this unique collection of lyrical poetry that explores eroticism and sensuality on the American landscape. 2001 Iowa Poetry Prize. Original
