A collection of more than two hundred poems, along with an extended biographical analysis, permits a comprehensive assessment of the work of a man Thomas McGrath described as one of the very best of the revolutionary poets.
A collection of more than two hundred poems, along with an extended biographical analysis, permits a comprehensive assessment of the work of a man Tho...
Collected works of Vincent Ferrini, known as the people's poet of the 20thcentury. With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed. Radical Christian gnosis and the conviction that poetry should be more than a display of word-craft distinguished him from poets like T. S. Eliot, infusing his work with dynamic images of Christ as a fighter, a revolutionary, and a martyr in opposing the mighty for the sake of the poor.
Collected works of Vincent Ferrini, known as the people's poet of the 20thcentury. With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Gre...
Cumberland Island is the largest and most beloved of the Georgia barrier islands. Although it can be reached only by boat, more than forty thousand people make the trip each year to enjoy the island's natural splendor and solitude. As on most barrier islands, human activity has long been a shaping force on Cumberland. It is among the few islands, however, that we have let return to a relatively natural state. With its expansive oceanfront beaches, dunes, interior maritime forests, freshwater ponds, tidal creeks, and salt marshes, Cumberland is all the more special for its restored natural...
Cumberland Island is the largest and most beloved of the Georgia barrier islands. Although it can be reached only by boat, more than forty thousand...
The great majority of historians of American philosophy and intellectual life have concentrated on the East as representative of the whole nation. Yet the West produced its own vibrant culture and outstanding personalities, who embodied the qualities of hardy individualism and devotion to freedom of thought and expression. This remarkable anthology of freethought writing from the American Midwest and West provides a bracing view of a rich and vital democratic culture that has existed on the "American frontier" over the past 150 years. Freethought on the American Frontier illustrates the...
The great majority of historians of American philosophy and intellectual life have concentrated on the East as representative of the whole nation. Yet...
