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Odyssey of a Wandering Mind
The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817361365
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Paperback
A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own
Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817361242
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Paperback
Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions
Bowed Some, Chanted a Little
Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780817360139
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest
Sustaining Air
The Life of Larry Eigner
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817360818
Pub Date: July 2023
Format: Paperback
The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry
To Do Justice
The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817321239
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
Biography of a civil rights activist who worked tirelessly at the heart of two social and political revolutions
Maurice Samuel
Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321307
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century
Stephen Crane Remembered
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817360627
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Revealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintances
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Small Histories during World War II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817320904
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
An uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors
Mark Twain
The Complete Interviews
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817359959
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Paperback
The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection
André Michaux in North America
Journals and Letters, 1785–1797
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817320300
Pub Date: March 2020
Format: Hardcover
Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists

Odyssey of a Wandering Mind
The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817361365
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Paperback
A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own
Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817361242
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Paperback
Bowed Some, Chanted a Little
Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780817360139
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Sustaining Air
The Life of Larry Eigner
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817360818
Pub Date: July 2023
Format: Paperback
To Do Justice
The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817321239
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
Maurice Samuel
Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321307
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
Stephen Crane Remembered
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817360627
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Small Histories during World War II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817320904
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
Mark Twain
The Complete Interviews
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817359959
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Paperback
André Michaux in North America
Journals and Letters, 1785–1797
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817320300
Pub Date: March 2020
Format: Hardcover