Shooting The Pistol:
Courtside Photos of Pete Maravich at LSU
A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House
Molly The Pony: A True Story
Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks
Stalking The Ghostbird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in LouisianaDivorce360.com, an Internet community which deals with the issues surrounding divorce, recently interviewed LSU Press author Claudia Emerson about her Pulitzer Prize winning book, Late Wife. Click here to read the entire article.
The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) recently ran a great feature on LSU Press and its Yellow Shoe Fiction series. Click here to read the full article.
Just in time for April’s observance of National Poetry Month, LSU Press author Danny Heitman has published an op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor arguing for the continued importance of poetry. “While I’m not a poet myself, I’ve really deepened my appreciation for poetry over the years by reading the exceptional, Pulitzer Prize-winning line of poetry published by LSU Press, and that, in no small part, is why I try to promote poetry through national commentaries such as this one,” Heitman said of the op-ed. Readers can check out the piece here.
Although Heitman isn’t a poet, his new LSU Press title, A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House, has been hailed for its poetic sensibility. Nationally renowned historian Neil Baldwin praised the book as “satisfying and artful: local history as poetic metaphor.”
The San Diego Union-Tribune has a great review of David Kirby's The House on Boulevard St., proclaiming, "Kirby is exuberant, irrepressible, manical and remarkably entertaining. . . . If you want to see how lively and personable American poetry can be, read The House on Boulevard St." You can read the entire article here.
LSU Press poet Dave Smith will be the first Lamont Poet in the Lamont Poetry Program for 2007–2008 at Phillips Exeter Academy. Smith will give a reading at Exeter on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public. Smith is the author of numerous books of poetry, including, Little Boats, Unsalvaged, as well as works of criticism, fiction, and collections of short stories and essays, including his most recent book Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in American Poetry. Smith is also the editor of the LSU Press Southern Messenger Poets series.
David Kirby's latest book, The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems is listed as #3 this week on Entertainment Weekly's “5 Reasons to Live.” Columnist Ken Tucker says that Kirby “writes . . . with an invaluable appreciation for popular culture because he knows that it is culture, our country's culture.” Click here to read the entire article.
LSU Press poet David Kirby's new collection of poems, The House on Boulevard St. was featured May 8th on Nancy Pearl's Under The Radar books segment during NPR's Morning Edition. Pearl describes Kirby's poetic style as "conversational, more or less stream of consciousness. . . . The poems, filled with specific details, invite readers into often complicated and convoluted stories, and you can never predict from the opening lines just where the poem is going to end up. For anyone who feels baffled and/or put off by poetry, Kirby's the man to change your mind. " To read the entire review, click here.
LSU Press would like to congratulate Greg Delanty, author of the recently published The Ship of Birth: Poems, on his 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has awarded over $256 million dollars to over 16,000 recipients. The 2007 Fellowship winners include a wide variety of artists, scholars, and scientists selected from a pool of almost 2,800 applicants. For more on this prestigious honor and for a complete list of Fellows, visit www.gf.org.
A native of Cork, Ireland, and now an American citizen, Greg Delanty is the author of seven full collections of poetry, including American Wake, The Hellbox, Southward, The Blind Stitch, and Collected Poems, 1986–2006. He is a recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry Award and is artist in residence of the English department at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont, where he has taught since 1987.
David R. Slavitt’s William Henry Harrison and Other Poems has been named to the American Library Association’s Notable Books list for 2007. The book is one of only three poetry collections included.
The list is compiled annually for use by the general reader and by librarians who work with adults. The Notable Books Council, ALA Reference, and User Services Association, selected the titles for their significant contribution to the expansion of knowledge or for the pleasure they can provide to adult readers. Titles were selected from books published from November 2005 through November 2006.
Miller Williams's Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It, was featured in the Los Angeles Times and praised for his ability to convey how poetry is necessary to the human spirit. Williams, professor emeritus of English at the University of Arkansas and poet for Bill Clinton's second presidential inauguration, is also the father of singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.
The Wall Street Journal recently reviwed Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War by Louis Mazzari, calling it "an engaging account of this indefatigable do-gooder, capturing along the way a lot of period detail about the South and about the social world that Raper was investigating." Mazzari's is the first biography of on influential southern sociologist who advocated racial justice in an effort to modernize the South.
