Southern Illinois University Press imprint: 153 books
by Charif Shanahan
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
Finalist, Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award
In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems, Shanahan—queer and mixed-race—confronts...
by Jehanne Dubrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow’s latest book offers valuable testimony to the experiences of military wives. Frequently employing rhyme, meter, and traditional forms, these poems examine what it means to be both a military spouse and an academic, straddling two communities...
by Moira Linehan
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In her collection Incarnate Grace, poet Moira Linehan explores, questions, and ultimately celebrates her attempt to live in the temple of the present.
After learning she has breast cancer, the poet struggles to live an examined life. Alienated and estranged from her own body, she turns her...
by Alexandria Peary, Tom C Hunley
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The creative writing workshop: beloved by some, dreaded by others, and ubiquitous in writing programs across the nation. For decades, the workshop has been entrenched as the primary pedagogy of creative writing. While the field of creative writing studies has sometimes myopically focused on this single...
by Bruce Bond
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In his collection Gold Bee, Bruce Bond takes his cue from Wallace Stevens’s Harmonium, bringing a finely honed talent to classic poetic questions concerning music, the march of progress, and the relationship between reality and the imagination.
Blending humor and pathos, Bond examines the...
Villainous Compounds
Chemical Weapons and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Most studies of modern chemical warfare begin with World War I and the widespread use of poison gas by both sides in the conflict. However, as Guy R. Hasegawa reveals in this fascinating study, numerous chemical agents were proposed during the Civil War era. As combat commenced, Hasegawa shows, a...
Engineering Victory
The Union Siege of Vicksburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
On May 25, 1863, after driving the Confederate army into defensive lines surrounding Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union major general Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee laid siege to the fortress city. With no reinforcements and dwindling supplies, the Army of Vicksburg finally surrendered...
Swim Pretty
Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Drawing on cultural associations with bodies of water, the spectacle of pretty women, and the appeal of the concept of “family-friendly” productions, performative aquatic spectacles portray water as an exotic fantasy environment exploitable for the purpose of entertainment. In Swim Pretty, Jennifer...
Willie's Time
Baseball's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before his time, prompting Joe DiMaggio to label him, “ the closest you can come to perfection.” He was the first player to hit fifty home...
Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives
Composing Pasts and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Winner, 2018 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Grassroots historiography has been essential in shaping American sexual identities in the twentieth century. Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives examines how lesbian collectives have employed “retroactivist” rhetorics to propel...
Prison Etiquette
The Convict's Compendium of Useful Information
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
Of the fifty thousand Americans who declared themselves conscientious objectors during World War II, nearly six thousand went to prison, many serving multiyear sentences in federal lockups. Some conscientious objectors, notably Robert Lowell, William Everson, and William Stafford, went on to become...
Surrender
Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of research collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Maute’s life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted...
Dilemma of Duties
The Conflicted Role of Juvenile Defenders
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
The role of a juvenile defender is riddled with conflict, and clients are uniquely challenging because of their lack of life experience and their underdeveloped decision-making abilities. In Dilemma of Duties, Anne M. Corbin examines the distinct function of defense counsel in juvenile courts, demonstrating...