Song of the Open Road
9781429096386
Regular price $12.95 Sale price $7.46 Save 42%Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road, from his seminal work Leaves of Grass, is a celebration of freedom and the joy of journeying.
In Whitman's classic poem, the road becomes a metaphor for life's journey, full of possibilities, adventures, and the promise of personal discovery. Song of the Open Road encapsulates the essence of American transcendentalism, advocating for self-reliance and a profound connection with nature. Whitman's language and verse mirrors the free spirit of the open road, where societal constraints dissolve and the individual becomes one with the world.
“To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.”—Walt Whitman
Poems of Phillis Wheatley
9781557092335
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Blueberries
9781429096027
Regular price $12.95 Sale price $9.71 Save 25%In his 1915 poem “Blueberries,” Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Frost makes the ordinary experience of picking wild blueberries into an extraordinary endeavor, where you can smell the morning damp, feel the sun on your head, and take delight in being the first to discover a blueberry patch ripe for picking. In the poem, Frost also introduces the reader to a poor neighbor family that needs the wild berries they pick to survive. This short work is part of Applewood’s “American Roots,” series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America’s most famous writers.
Sweeter Voices Still
9781948742818
Regular price $20.00 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A groundbreaking nonfiction collection about queer life in the Midwest. A marvelous ode to humanity and its passions.--Little Village
The middle of America―the Midwest, Appalachia, the Rust Belt, the Great Plains, the Upper South―is a queer place, and it always has been. The queer people of its cities, farms, and suburbs can't be reduced to just blue dots within red states. Every story about a kid from Iowa who steps off the bus in Manhattan, ready to finally live, is a story about a kid who was already living in Iowa. Sweeter Voices Still is a collection full of stories about that kid, written by people just like them.
This collection, edited by Ryan Schuessler (The St. Louis Anthology) and Kevin Whiteneir, Jr., features queer voices you might recognize―established and successful writers and thinkers like Aaron Foley and Jeffery Bean―and others you might not. You'll find sex, love, and heartbreak and all the other beings we meet along the way: trees, deer, cicadas, sturgeon. Most of all, you'll find real people.
Perfect for anyone looking for fully realized stories about the nuanced, joyous complexity of queer identity in the Midwest.
Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.
9781626199736
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Arkansas Slave Narratives
9781557090119
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Cornhuskers
9781429095297
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%“I am a brother of the cornhuskers who say at sundown: To-morrow is a day.” -Carl Sandburg, “Prairie”
Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Price in Poetry, Cornhuskers is an homage to America and the American midwest from one of the nation’s most acclaimed writers, Carl Sandburg. One hundred years after the book’s first publication, this 104-poem collection breathes life into our national past - honoring the prairie, the changing seasons, and the hard working people of the heartlands.
Succinct and remarkably beautiful. These poems sing with a certain unencumbered honesty that both complicates and informs our understanding of the author’s midwestern wilderness. Sandburg, as the “poet of the people,” as he came to be so affectionately known, writes plainly and unpretentiously about the place that he had called home.