A comprehensive examination of the significance of women in Melville's life and work The twelve new essays in this collection extend the interest in Melville and women evident in recent scholarship, biography, art, and drama. Throughout his life, Melville lived surrounded by women, and he wove women's experiences into most of his literary work, early and late. Treating his poetry and prose and using a variety of theoretical approaches from the biographical to the ecocritical, the essays focus not only on Melville's female characters but also on gender roles, colonialism, intertextuality,...

The White-Skin Deer: Hoopa Stories follows the Mammoth Publication mission of recovering histories. It is a first-hand, fictionalized account of tribal elders' stories, written by a sincere and respectful non-Native woman, Elizabeth Schultz. Schultz wrote these stories based on her experiences living on the Hoopa Valley Tribe's land during the 1950s. This was a time period when Bureau of Indian Affairs policies of assimilation were at their height. Their boarding elementary and high schools actively worked against Native cultural practices, including Native language, ceremonies, economic...

Peeling away stereotypes with knife-sharp images, Elizabeth Schultz's collection of poems opens up the Kansas landscape to reveal astonishing complexities and subtleties. These poems dazzle the senses, breathing life not only into plants and animals, but also into seasons and the sky. For readers familiar with America's heartland as well as for those unfamiliar with it, THE SAUNTERING EYE becomes a necessary guide to seeing more fully and more deeply, to envisioning this and other landscapes as myriad-layered, connected to the remote past as well as to a perplexing future.

The poetry in this book speaks from the author's heart, life, love, and faith. She talks about depression, the questions she has concerning aspects of human nature, praises and cries out to God, and becomes angry at injustice that has been done to her. Her children, new love, and her Lord are very important to her, and are prominent in her poetry. Enjoy

Elizabeth Schultz's sixth book of poetry, WATER-GAZERS, confirms and inspires our dependency on and our fascination with water. With particular attention to lakes and oceans, her poetry considers water not only as a source of multitudinous life, but specifically as a source of joy, of surprise, and occasionally of distress and disaster. The rhythms of water are the rhythms of her poetry. Schultz's poems allow us to contemplate our diverse relationships with water as we share it with other living beings, as we travel across it, as we abuse it, and as we listen to it in our dreams.