By any measure—international reputation, influence upon fellow writers and later generations, number of books published, scholarly and critical attention—Robert Creeley (1926–2005) is a literary giant
Noted Poe scholar Benjamin Fisher includes a comprehensive introduction and a detailed chronology of Poe’s sadly short life; each entry is introduced by a short essay that places the sele
One of the preeminent authors of the early twentieth century, Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) produced eleven ground-breaking plays, nine novels, and fifty short stories. Her work was popular
As the twentieth century drew to a close, experimentalism in American poetry was most commonly identified with Language writing. At the same time, however, a number of poets, many of them women
Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch's Burroughs Award-winning The Desert Year is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound. Although Krutch came to the desert relatively late in his life, his c
Never one to suffer fools gladly, especially if they wore crinolines, Mark Twain lost as many friends as he made, and he targeted them all indiscriminately. The first major American writer born west o
At his death, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was universally acknowledged in America and England as “the Great Romancer.” Novels such as The Scarlet Letter and The House
Bringing together penetrating conversations between poets of different generations as they explore process and poetics, poetry’s influence on other art forms, and the political and social aspects of t
The director of the famous Iowa Writer's Workshop selects the very best American short stories, including work by Thisbe Nissen, David Borofka, Jim Henry, Enid Shomer, Charles Wyatt, Elizabeth Searle,
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
