Inspired by the legacy of Cesare Pavese, Judith Vollmer’s The Pavese Stone unfolds across the Italian countryside and burrows deep into the interior landscapes of memory, mortality, and connection. This is a vivid, haunting, and intimate meditation on the porous boundary between life and death, the longing for communion, the brutality of reality, and the quiet grace that resides within it.In these pages, fortitude, elegy, ...

Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this gui...

Wenn der Tag zur Neige geht, dann ist Kuschelzeit! Dieses Buch lädt Kinder ein, die Augen zu schließen und zu lauschen, was Regenwurm Rüdiger und die Amsel Alma alles erleben, wie ein Delfinkind zum Retter wird oder warum Tobi der schnellste "Einschlafer" der Welt sein will. Die 20 berührenden, fantasievollen und traumhaft schönen Gutenachtgeschichten schaffen wunderbare Einschlafmomente, und vermitteln den kleinen Zuhörern, dass Gott sie liebhat und auf sie aufpasst. Mit farbigen Illustra...

Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick's previous books, beginning with The Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called Under the Carpathians. His work—known for working class and Catholic themes—probes labor and social history, post-World War II America, Eastern European identity, Eastern Rite Catholicism, and Russian icons and fine art and especially Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.