The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, and the national "malaise," Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work, securing his place in the canon of American poetry.
Volume five of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969--1979 includes Warren's letters to friends, family, peers, editors, inquiring scholars, and critics -- recording the details of his personal and professional life and illustrating his pivotal role in...
The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Car...
Though he has authored more than eleven novels including, "Cassandra Singing, The Suicide's Wife, Abducted by Circumstance," and the recent "London Bridge in Plague and Fire," David Madden has been publishing short stories for all six decades of his active career. "The Last Bizarre Tale" consists of works that appeared in journals but that have not appeared together as a collection. Madden used two stories, "The Singer" and "Second Look Presents: the Rape of an Indian Brave," as chapters in his 1980 novel "On the Big Wind." "The Headless Girl's Mother" was first...
Though he has authored more than eleven novels including, "Cassandra Singing, The Suicide's Wife, Abducted by Circumstance," and the recent "Londo...