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Potluck suppers with could-be relatives, junkets to exotic locales, and the importance of strangers in our lives

In Never in a Hurry the poet Naomi Shihab Nye resist the American inclin…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602058/Ars-Poetriae
Restores a medieval genre to its rightful place in rhetorical history

In this study of thirteenth-century poetry and prose composition, William M. Purcell corrects the tendency of class…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602090/Traveling-in-Notions
In Traveling in Notions Michael J. Rosen creates a novel in poems, a questing contemplation, an alter ego Gordon Penn who holds to hopefulness amid circumstances that will have none of it. Pen…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602050/Blood-Tie
1978 National Book Award for Fiction • "Settle has done a remarkable job of capturing a culture that is, in a sense, the most important character in her book."—New York Times

In a novel…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602114/Promiseland
A portrait of a dynamic African American community in the rural South

Promiseland chronicles the intergenerational story of fifty African American families living in the rural community…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3603165/Heaven-Is-a-Beautiful-Place-second-edition
Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602042/Understanding-Primo-Levi
A thorough introduction to an author who mixes devotion to art and science with the harrowing experiences of Auschwitz

Primo Levi emerged from the Holocaust as one of the most powerful…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602082/Gullah-Images
Paintings, magisterial and universal, that capture the essence of a vibrant African American community

In his art Jonathan Green paints the world of his childhood and an ode to a people…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602098/The-Chief-Justiceship-of-John-Marshall-1801-1835
A sweeping assessment of the most influential Chief Justice in American history

Perhaps no one has exerted a more profound influence on the United States Supreme Court or on the Federal…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602106/Portrait-in-a-Spoon
By turns comic and poignant, the poems in Portrait in a Spoon explore the uses and abuses of language as it intersects the uses and abuses of power. Taking George Eliot's observation that even…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700