Making Poems
(February 2010)
Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets Todd F. Davis - Editor Erin Murphy - Editor
Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.
This diverse collection of poems and companion essays by forty nationally and internationally known poets allows readers to experience the creative process through the eyes and voice of each poet. No matter how often we are told that revision is an essential component of poetic composition, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to...(Read More)
Explores the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut’s work.
“I’ve worried some about why write books when presidents and senators and generals do not read them, and the university experience taught me a very good reason: you catch people before they become generals and senators and presidents, and you poison their minds with humanity. Encourage them to make a bette...(Read More)
Reading the Beatles
(February 2006)
Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four Kenneth Womack - Editor Todd F. Davis - Editor
Addresses the band’s resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music.
Despite the enormous amount of writing devoted to the Beatles during the last few decades, the band’s abiding intellectual and cultural significance has received scant attention. Using various modes of literary, musicological, and cultural criticism, the essays in Reading...(Read More)