Download or read book From Darkening Porches written by Jo McDougall and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just five lines, Jo McDougall can make you shudder. Her poems are often as stark and open as their settings - the Kansas plains and Southern bottomlands. But in these wide fields and hot kitchens, on these front porches where ordinary people tell their stories, the everyday becomes fabled, truth becomes hallowed. To C. D. Wright, McDougall writes "a lean, stoic line; each poem makes its mark, like spit". In those lines, McDougall brings to life farmers, dressmakers, widows, and waitresses with such precise clarity that we take part in the strange delights, the struggles, the tangled mysteries of their faltering lives.
Download or read book Dark Porch Mysteries written by Thom Bennett and published by Dark Porch Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House on Skeleton Bay – Dr. Anne McCauley is researching the dark rituals of America’s First Nations. Aided by a local shaman, she is learning the haunting tale of a legendary cannibal creature. Suddenly, her son and his wife arrive at her secluded home and a series of diabolical events is triggered that brings Anne face to face with her darkest fears---that territory where the supernatural blends with ritual murder. The Curse of Shadow Island – In 1939, a man fell to his death from the top of a lighthouse. Some superstitious people believed his death was unnatural. Twenty years later, the lighthouse has been closed and the lightkeeper’s widow and children have turned the island into a thriving resort. Now, in 1959, a woman and her teenage daughter have come to the resort for a week of tennis lessons. However, the twists of the tale will take readers on a haunting journey where some characters won’t survive to the final gunshot! The Secret of Santa Mesa – Welcome to Santa Mesa, a tropical resort where the owner provides fantasy vacations for the very rich. Greg Hunter thinks his darkest desires are going to come true, but little does he realize this club can turn his dreams into inescapable nightmares. Soon he will be asking, “What is reality and what is part of his chosen vacation script?” The Haunting of Harvey Hardwick – Bonus Short Story featuring Cass Gentry, the star of The Death Merchants and The Man With Hemingway’s Face. This time, Cass and his girlfriend Eleanor travel from New York to Toronto to help solve a mystery that comes too close to home. Touches of humor and romance are blended in this new Cass and Eleanor short mystery. You’ll want to leave the lights on for this compilation of noir thrillers that twist and turn in such a way that you won’t be able to guess what’s coming until it grips you with an icy hand. As a bonus, Bennett includes an engaging tale featuring his popular Cass and Eleanor duo, once again proving that he is one of the most versatile writers I know. Melodie Campbell, winner of the Derringer and Arthur Ellis Awards for mystery writing
Download or read book Porches Decks and Patios written by Rick Peters and published by Hearst Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its first three volumes, Popular Mechanics MoneySmart Makeovers is helping thousands redo their kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms. Now the successful series--written by one of the most trusted experts in DIY--steps outside, with authentic makeovers that anyone can accomplish. After discussing in detail all the basics that go into constructing a good porch, deck or patio, Rick Peters gets to work and remodels one of each, three times-- economy, mid-range, and high-range-to demonstrate what you can achieve on a real- world budget. While there are beautiful shots to inspire you to try your own makeover, these are no studio set-ups, every project was designed and carried out on an actual family's home.
Download or read book Arkansas Arkansas written by John Caldwell Guilds and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary writers as Maya Angelou, Ellen Gilchrist, and Miller Williams, Arkansas has enjoyed a rich history of letters. These two volumes gather the best work from Arkansas's rich literary history celebrating the variety of its voices and the national treasure those voices have become.
Download or read book In the Home of the Famous Dead written by Jo McDougall and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougall’s long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poet’s signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language; surprising metaphor; humor; irony; idiomatic speech; and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom concerning death and loss. In McDougall’s world, folks making do with what they have take the stage to speak of, in the words of one critic, “the tangled mysteries of their faltering lives.” Her work has been described as having “excruciating honesty” (Gerald Stern), giving voice to the “ineffable emotions of plain people” (Judith Kitchen). Miller Williams notes that the work has “cleanness and clarity . . . in all the funk and smell of humanity.” This is the poetry of midwestern plains and southern botttomlands, of waitresses and professors, farmers and bankers, the disadvantaged and privileged alike. Often beginning in the personal and expanding to the universal, this poet takes note of the phenomenological world with a mixture of joy, despair, and awe, providing a haunting look at the cosmic irony of our existence. McDougall’s style is indescribable, yet wholly accessible. As Kelly Cherry notes, “Call it magic, call it art; either way [Jo McDougall’s work] is something like a miracle.”
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Download or read book Off the Porch written by Carl Hill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons from the Porch written by Ed Poole and published by Lessons for Your Journey, I. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons from the Porchis Ed Poole's thoughtful memoir of life's lessons, which he shares with endearing charm and good-natured heart. The book is a thoughtful journey and an engaging reminiscence.Lessons from the Porchwill allow the reader to consider questions such as: Have you wondered how you arrived at your current stop along your journey? Have you ever asked the question, "What am I supposed to be learning from this experience?" How can I leave this world a bit better than it was when I found it? Although written about his own experience battling depression, the book is meant for anyone embarking on a journey to know themselves and cultivate new friendships. We all have places from which we learn life's lessons. For some it may be sitting beside a meandering stream. For this author, the place to which he returned to understand his journey was the porch that surrounded his house as he grew up. Metaphorically, Poole's porch represents how he either has or has not accepted changes in his life. The dilemma about how and when to leave his porch goes back to his early boyhood when his mom would always say, "Eddie, don't get too close to the edge of the porch, because you might fall off."
Download or read book What Persists written by Judith Kitchen and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and many of whom were not yet part of the contemporary canon. Her essays reveal a cultural history from the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, through 9/11 and the Iraq War, and move into today's political climate. They chronicle personal interests while they also make note of what was happening in contemporary poetry by revealing overall changes of taste, both in content and in the use of craft. Over time, they fashion a comprehensive overview of the contemporary literary scene. At its best, What Persists shows what a wide range of poetry is being written--by women, men, poets who celebrate their ethnicity, poets who show a fierce individualism, poets whose careers have soared, promising poets whose work has all but disappeared.
Download or read book The Made Thing written by Leon Stokesbury and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition features twelve new poets as well as new work by Donald Justice, T. R. Hummer, Dave Smith, Pattiann Rogers, Andrew Hudgins, Henry Taylor, Gerald Barrax, Rodney Jones, and others. Among the new additions are Mark Jarman, Cathy Smith Bowers, and Charlie Smith. Many teachers realize that the best way to get their students to relate to poetry is to show them poems that contain landscapes and subjects they understand and can identify with. Leon Stokesbury has put together a richly varied collection used in classrooms not only in the South but all over the country as a means of studying the important influence of southern poetry on American literature. With the publication of the second edition of The Made Thing, Stokesbury has marked the end of the twentieth century and the rise to prominence of southern writers. This collection serves as a substantial sampling of poets whose works span more than five decades and who explore the rich personal and cultural history that extends beyond the boundaries of the South.
Download or read book Daddy s Money written by Jo McDougall and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir. Recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers, through family archives and oral histories, she traces how the clan made their way into the fabric of America, beginning with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the twentieth century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice farm in the 1930s and 1940s. The Garot family's acreage near DeWitt and the town itself provide the stage for McDougall's wry, compelling, and layered account of the day-to-day of rice growing on the farm that her father inherited. In that setting she discovers a rich "universe of words" in the Great Depression, comes of age during World War II, and finds her way alongside "that whole quirky, compelling cast of characters" that comprised her kin. In this conflicted, ironic, southern-but-universal account of betrayal, heartbreak, loss, and joy, "the vagaries and the grace" of the land join forces with the power of money as family bonds are both forged and dissolved. Deeply felt, unsentimental, and often humorous,Daddy's Money presents McDougall's life and the lives of her relatives in the way that all our lives are eventually framed-as stories. "When all else is lost," the author maintains, "the stories remain."
Download or read book The Dark Canyon written by Micah S. Hackler and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns, and The Shadow Catcher IN A RUGGED LAND STEEPED IN THE BLOOD OF HISTORY. A KILLER HAS COME BACK FOR REVENGE.... NEW BLOOD ON AN ANCIENT GROUND... In an air-conditioned university office, a man lies dead, brutally bludgeoned. A hundred miles away, in the high, arid New Mexico mountain country that Sheriff Cliff Lansing is sworn to protect, an animal is devastating ranchers' livestock, and is now turning to human prey.... For Lansing, the two cases are linked. The murder victim was part of an archaeological dig, and a local Indian believes that the animal killings have been unleashed by the excavations. Struggling to put together the jagged pieces of a puzzle. Lansing unearths a mystery of a missing emerald carving, a one-hundred-year-old diary, and a man accused of a crime he did not commit. To stop the bloodshed, Lansing must throw out everything he has ever believed about police work, evidence, and reason. Because between an archaeologist's ambitions and the secrets still hidden in the land, Lansing must follow his own trail of myth, legend, and intuition—to find a very real killer stalking the night....
Download or read book An Early American Home written by Claude H. Miller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells how a reproduction of an early New England, central-chimney farm-house was built in New Jersey - a 1731 model with modern conveniences. We have lived in this house a year. It seems to be a success. That is why I am writing about it. Some people wouldn't like a period house like ours. It might be considered too old fashioned to supply appropriate scenery for fireless cookers and one-piece bathing suits. For the benefit of modernists, the book also attempts to tell how we solved many problems common to the building of any house.
Download or read book New Peterson Magazine written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Porch Swing written by Mary Jane Haley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book of poetry written over many years, there is something here for everyone. There are poems inspired by life's many and varied experiences growing up in the mountains of West virginia, by grief and loss and happiness, by a mother's love of children and grandchildren, and happy poems for the child in all of us.
Download or read book Farm Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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