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Jim W. Corder will be remembered by students and colleagues at Texas Christian University for his writing, teaching, and original thinking. He was one of the most influential composition specialists of his generation - his ""Handbook of Rhetoric"" went through numerous editions, becoming a classroom staple nationwide - yet he gave his final years to the 'fourth genre' of creative nonfiction. His numerous publications include ""Lost in West Texas"" (1988), ""Chronicle of a Small Town"" (1989), and ""Yonder: Life on the Far Side of Change"" (1992).

'Your father is a good man. He just has a disease'. ""Some of the Words Are Theirs"" is far more than White's personal story of an abandoned seven-year-old boy whose alcoholic father (a Navy officer) went on to drink himself to death. It is a memoir of how one man forged his own healing narrative. Those whose lives have been touched by alcoholism will recognize the subtle ways an alcoholic parent shapes personal development and find clues on how to give up life-shaping family myths. Members of Alcoholics Anonymous will be especially interested in this dramatic and powerful true tale of loss and redemption.

Shows off Jim W Corder's consummate skills as a memoirist, essayist, and cultural critic. This title features subjects that are wide-ranging - West Texas, World War II, writing and teaching, TCU football - one looms above the rest. It deals with Corder's lifetime love affair with America's pastoral sport, baseball.

Through a series of dramatic monologues (spoken by Mary, the Angel Gabriel, Paul of Tarsus, and the 'Sidonian archer', Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), the fourteen poems gathered here give life to the Jewish-apocryphal legend of ""Jesus, son of Pantera"" - the story that Jesus was sired by a Roman soldier. Having learned of a tomb (unearthed in Germany) bearing the soldier's name, Whitehead spent the last years of his life researching and writing about this fascinating, controversial tradition. In his introduction to the collection, renowned Biblical scholar James Tabor recounts the Scriptural, apocryphal, and archaeological evidence upon which the story is based.

When James T. Whitehead (or 'Big Jim', as friends knew him) passed away in 2003, Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas lost one of its finest poets and beloved teachers. In 1965, Whitehead joined with his friend William Harrison to found the University's Creative Writing Program. He taught in that nationally prestigious program for the next thirty-four years, from 1965 to 1999. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a Robert Frost Fellowship in poetry. Whitehead's novel, ""Joiner"" (University of Arkansas Press), was listed among the ""New York Times""' Noteworthy Books of 1971. His many poetry collections include ""Domains"" (1967), ""Local Men"" (1979), and ""Near at Hand"" (1993). With his untimely passing, Whitehead left a large body of work unpublished. In this anthology of original poetry, short fiction, essays, and remembrances, twenty-four of Whitehead's colleagues, students, and friends join in celebrating the man's life and contribution to American letters. Included are posthumous works by Whitehead himself: six poems, an excerpt of creative nonfiction, and a draft-excerpt from ""Coldstream"", projected sequel to ""Joiner"".

Moon City Review 2009 is a newly established book annual intermingling poetry, story (both fiction and creative nonfiction), visual art, and timely cultural and literary criticism. Featuring the invited work of nationally renowned authors, ""MCR 2009"" also provides a venue for upcoming authors and artists. Students and seasoned authors alike are invited to submit their best work for consideration in future volumes. ""MCR 2009"" includes original poetry and fiction by Burton Raffel; poetry by Ted Kooser, Marcus Cafagna, and Michael Burns; short fiction by Michael Cyzniejewski; and, criticism by Billy Clem. Of special interest to John Updike fans will be 'Updikeana in the Ozarks', an inventory describing the author's manuscripts, artwork, and unpublished correspondence currently housed in the Missouri State University Library Special Collections and Archives.

The 2010 volume of Moon City Review takes “speculative futures” as its special theme, emphasising utopian, diastopic, sci-fi and fantasy literature and criticism. In addition, MCR 2010 includes original poetry by Jim Daniels, Jeannine Hall Gailey, and Alysse Hotz; fiction by Juned Subhan, Nancy Gold, Ted Chiles, and Pete Duval; criticism by Landis Duffett; and creative nonfiction by Julie Platt. The “Archival Treasures” section continues its exploration of Ozarks-born artist and creator of the Kewpie, Rose O’Neill. New to this volume is a translations section, which includes Hernan Mugoya’s short story, “El Fantasma,” translated by Nikki Settlemeyer; and poetry by Per Aage Brandt, translated by Thomas Satterlee.

Lavishly colour-illustrated, the 2012 volume of Moon City Review centres on children’s literature and its increasingly blurry borderlands. MCR 2012 offers a variable feast of poetry, fiction, criticism, graphic arts, and “archival treasures” by Rose O’Neill, Robert Wallace, and Young E. Allison (author of “Derelict” or “Dead Man’s Chest”), all for and/or about children and young adults. Contributors include D. Gilson, David Harrison, Jean Stringam, and Laura Lee Washburn.

The eleven essays included in this volume offer the most authoritative account yet published of the distinctively urban history of Springfield, Missouri—the largest city in the Ozarks. Essays on early history include “Quinine and Courage: The Battle of Springfield, January 8, 1863,” by William Garrett Piston and John C. Rutherford. Post-Civil War histories include “Retail Rivals: Springfield’s Commercial Street versus the Public Square, 1870-1945,” by Angela Wingo Miller, and “Memories of Walter Majors: Searching for African American History in Springfield,” by Richard L. Schur. Post-World War II histories include “From Zenith to Nadir: The Story of Springfield’s Largest Manufacturing Plant,” by Tim Knapp, and “The Demise of O’Reilly Hospital and the Beginning of Evangel College, 1946-1955,” by Lawrence J. Nelson. The volume concludes with Holly A. Baggett’s “Creation of a Community: A History of Gay and Lesbian Springfield, 1945-2010.

Moon City Review 2013 presents a collection of original poems, short stories, and essays from talented authors both established and emerging in their craft. The issue also features translations of work not originally composed in English, as well as reviews of recent contemporary creative books.Moon City Review 2013, edited by creative writing faculty and students from Missouri State University, provides a challenging and entertaining representation of today’s competitive literary landscape.

Moon City presents another edition of its annual examination of the best in contemporary literature. Today’s best writers contribute short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, and translations of works not originally penned in English.Contributors to this 2014 edition of Moon City Review include Craig Albin, Roy Bentley, Vanessa Blakeslee, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, George Looney, Richard Newman, Phoebe Reeves, Amber Sparks, Matthew Vollmer, and Gabriel Welsch.

Sally LaChance leads a double life. By day, she works as a park ranger in a midsized Missouri town. At night, she acts as emcee for the local roller derby team, the Boonslick Bombers, at the Empire Roller Rink. Sally loses her temper one day and pulls a gun on a group of polluters in Karst Park. Her boyfriend, a video artist, captures the moment on film and posts the footage to YouTube, putting Sally’s job, her relationships, and her life at risk.Just before the financial crash of 2008, Sally LaChance must wind her way through the crumbling economy, a DIY skating corps, angry veterans, a slacker boyfriend, an evangelical mother, the war machine, and ever-encroaching private interests. The Empire Rolls captures the changing cultural landscape of the Midwest at a critical moment in history. The Empire Rolls. And it is rolling still.

As the sequel to Morkan’s Quarry, The Teeth of the Souls tells the story of a marriage betrayed, a lifelong and secret love, and an Ozarks city riven by an Easter lynching. The story begins just after the Civil War when Leighton Shea Morkan, son of Irish immigrants, marries Patricia Grünhaagen Weitzer, daughter of a German banking family. Yet he can’t let go of his childhood love and wartime confidante, the house hand and former slave, Judith. Both unions produce children, one a shrouded secret, and one the heir to the Morkan legacy: the limestone quarries of Springfield, Missouri, and the bloody past, what Judith calls “The Teeth of the Souls.”Grounded in broad historical research and spanning Missouri’s reconstruction, vigilantism, and fall from grace, The Teeth of the Souls chronicles the violent melding of immigrant strains—Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African American—into the fabric of the Ozarks.

In her debut collection, winner of the 2014 Moon City Short Fiction Award, Cate McGowan introduces us to a passenger manifest, an assortment of characters voyaging through loss and salvation. The book's title borrows from Melville's Moby Dick: ""It is not down on any map; true places never are."" McGowan's characters are off the chart; they venture into wondrous worlds as knotty and distressing as the places they aim to leave.With poetic prose and a flashlight pointed at the dark spots in her characters' souls, McGowan gives us nineteen tales located in a colony of laundromats and the Louvre; of mule pulls and boxing rings; of Georgia red clay and city cobblestones. Populating these worlds is an unusual hodgepodge of everyman--children, men, and women who inhabit different eras and countries, all seeking deliverance. They occupy the aftermath of tragedy.True places are indeed hard to find in this collection, yet hope is every person's traveling companion. In True Places Never Are, McGowan reminds us redemption is not that far away. This book will take you to places you never dreamed of going and aren't quite sure you want to stay, but you won't regret the journey.

The editors of Moon City Press present another anthology of the best in contemporary literature. Established writers and new voices have both contributed short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, and translations to make up this annual edition.

In Sad Math, Sarah Freligh takes us for a ride through an American girlhood, a retrospective landscape of parking in cars and illicit kisses in a Donut Delite. Here, time is measured not only in days and years but in physical distance, a past that is understandable only when viewed through a rearview mirror. Along the way, there are not only losses, but also the accumulation of experience and the insistence of possibility.

In her debut collection of stories, Laura Hendrix Ezell assembles a har- monious chorus of resilient female voices—many speaking from the margins of their own lives, all contemplating their complicated relation- ships with the men who influence their trajectories. Set against rural backdrops whose emptiness and isolation hint at constrictive forces rather than wide open spaces, Ezell’s stories capture their characters not only at their most vulnerable and desperate, but also at essential moments of self-discovery, of purposeful recognition of the extenuating circumstances that have shaped their respective fates.Throughout A Record of Our Debts, Ezell weaves together diverse, distinctive tales with remarkably fluid yet muscular prose that belies the desolate imagery contained within. These are striking, memorable odes to overcoming, though not always in ways that leave the characters whole. These are people who somehow manage to find themselves in the aftermath of loss, who uncover their own modest strengths while surrounded by so much weakness. This is a long, winding road of adolescents forced into prostitution by their own fathers, healers still haunted by the men they could not save, and widows who convert aban- doned churches into makeshift diners in the hopes of luring back their husbands’ spirits. In short, this is a powerful exploration of the human spirit at both its best and its worst.Ezell’s figures extend well off the page, lingering in one’s memory long after the final line. For that, readers owe Ezell a debt of gratitude.

Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the 2015 MoonCity Poetry Award, delivers a whimsical look at our culture’sobsession with apocalypse as well as a thoughtful reflectionon our resources in the face of disasters both large and small,personal and public. Pop-culture characters—from MarthaStewart and Wile E. Coyote to zombie strippers and teenvampires—deliver humorous but insightful commentary onsurvival and resilience through poems that span imaginedscenarios that are not entirely beyond the realm of possibility.The characters face their apocalypses in numerous ways,from strapping on rollerblades and swearing to taking notesas barns burn on the horizon. At the end of the world, themost valuable resource is human connection—someoneholding our hands, reminding us “we are miraculous.”

Moon City Press presents another edition of its annualexamination of the best in contemporary literature. Bothestablished and up-and-coming writers contribute fiction,nonfiction, and poetry.Contributors include Jim Daniels, Sean Thomas Dougherty,Laura Hendrix Ezell, Jeannine Hall Gailey, MarkIrwin, Sandra Marchetti, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and WilliamTrowbridge.