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In this new edition of Janet Lewis's classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth writes that Lewis's story is \u201ca short novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale ...

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Koyashi Issa (17631827), long considered amoung Japans four greatest haiku poets (along with Basho, Buson, and Shiki) is probably the best loved. This collection of more than 360 haiku, arranged seasonally and many rendered into English for the fi...

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More than six decades after John Deweys death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival. With renewed interest in pragmatism and its implications for democracy in an age of mass communication, bureaucracy, and ever-increasing social comple...

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Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: "The Sealed Room" focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; "The Cafe" brings together a cast of characters already familiar to ...

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In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: "It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a writer would like...

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The Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time. Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemens agreement to ignore what was base or rude, to li...

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With Forms of Discover, Yvor Winters completes his critical canon. The distinguished poet-critic defines by analysis and example the development of the method that he has called "post-Symbolist." Starting with the styles of the English R...

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The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises brings together five essays by Yvor Winters: Problems for the Modern Critic of Literature, The Audible Reading of Poetry, The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Or the Spiritual Drifter...

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This is not a history book. Rather it is a directory of towns, and compilation of known information about those towns. In undertaking the stud, I was amazed at the amount of legend and contradictory information Colorado history has collected in ju...

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First issued in 1957 by Swallow Press, this classic guide to the art of plant identification is now familiar to an entire generation of students. Harrington who was Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium at Colorado State University, giv...

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Yvor Winters has here collected, with an introduction, the major critical worksPrimitivism and Decadence, Maules Curse, and The Anatomy of Nonsenseof the period in which he worked out his famous and influential critical position. The works togethe...

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The story of Martiniano, The Man Who Killed the Deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thor...

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Although Alan Swallow's work on behalf of other poets has tended to overshadow his work as a poet, the reputation of his poems has been upon the ascendancy. This volume, a \u201cselected\u201d one, runs the gamut of Swallow's themes. John Holmes r...

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One of Frank Waterss most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change.

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The catastrophe and holocaust brought about by the two powerful movements of fascism and national socialism will mark human life always. Now, as we feel our hatred for them, we find it difficult to understand how they could have been so powerful, ...

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"The cadences... are those of a musician; its colour that of a painter". -- London Sunday Times

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Nearly 200 photos enhance Champlins readable, fascinating survey of the movies from the Golden Age up through the year 1980. According to Champlin, movies are the art form of our timeperhaps even the art form of this century. With this revised and...

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Nearly 200 photos enhance Champlins readable, fascinating survey of the movies from the Golden Age up through the year 1980. According to Champlin, movies are the art form of our timeperhaps even the art form of this century. With this revised and...

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Kenneth Rexroth wrote: Janet Lewis uses reason to veil and adorn the flesh of feeling and intuition. This is the way the greatest poetry has always been written. The poems in this collection range over a period of 60 years. The style is spare, dir...

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During his more than 40 years of newspaper and magazine work, Harry Chrisman has been answering questions about the American West - both the standard and the oddball queries, such as "What is the most fantastic bear story you ever heard?"...

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Although the Chicago area is famous the world over for its splendid architecture, the architectural treasures of the suburban area have remained largely unknown. Ira Bach, assisting by Susan Wolfson, has now provided a comprehensive readable guide...

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In a time that emphasizes media spectaculars, the short play offers an exploration of minimal possibilities yet has the power to fix history in a moment's structure, a flash of revelation. The short play is a powerful and innovative theatrical med...

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In this collection, Schevill brings together a series of poems that he has been working on since his first book was published in 1947. Diverse characters, both real and imaginary, reveal fantasies of American life and history. The dramatic voices ...

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In this collection, Schevill brings together a series of poems that he has been working on since his first book was published in 1947. Diverse characters, both real and imaginary, reveal fantasies of American life and history. The dramatic voices ...

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This book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse Leonard, a Jungian analyst, exposes the wound of...

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\u201cDuring the nineteen sixties, following the missile crisis and during the Vietnam War, communitarian societies began to reappear in the United States. Those who were of an invincibly optimistic nature gathered together in agrarian or utopian ...

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\u201cDuring the nineteen sixties, following the missile crisis and during the Vietnam War, communitarian societies began to reappear in the United States. Those who were of an invincibly optimistic nature gathered together in agrarian or utopian ...

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During the fabulous reign of Colorado Silver, innumerable prospectors passed by Pikes Peak on their way to the silver strikes at Leadville, Aspen, and the boom camps in the Saguache, Sangre de Cristo, and San Juan mountains. Then, in 1890, a carpe...

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I Have Spoken is a collection of American Indian oratory from the 17th to the 20th century, concentrating on speeches focusing around Indian-white relationships, especially treaty-making negotiations. A few letters and other writings are also incl...

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This reprint makes available again Frank Waters dramatic and colorful 1937 biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, the man who struck it rich at the foot of Pikes Peak and turned Cripple Creek into the greatest gold camp on earth. More than regional...

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