Books Archive

  • Night of the Grizzly

    Night of the Grizzly

    Night of the Grizzly by Michael Burns Pre-release April 2012 July 2012, 6 x 9, 78 pages, $10.95 paper 978-0-913785-38-6 What poets are saying about Night of the Grizzly: Poetry pleases for many reasons. It entertains. It affirms. It prepares. It chronicles a life we want to know. That’s all here. Michael’s wily little poem “Snake” summarizes his [...]

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  • Blue Sabine

    Blue Sabine

    Blue Sabine
 by Gerald Duff December 2011
6×9, 320 pages
$19.95 paper   Blue Sabine is a story of five generations of women in the same family, told in their voices, along with those of some men of Holt blood. It is set along the Sabine River, which divides the state of Texas from Louisiana and the [...]

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  • robert e smith: Paintings, Drawings, Poems, and Stories

    robert e smith: Paintings, Drawings, Poems, and Stories

    robert e smith Paintings, Drawings, Poems, and Stories Selected and Edited by Eric Pervukhin and Carla Stine   “Folk art can help you to lead a halfway decent life,” Robert E. Smith (1927-2010) was heard to say; but Springfield, Missouri’s most famous, eccentric, and beloved painter pushed his work into the realm of outsider art. [...]

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  • Moon City Review 2011

    Moon City Review 2011

    Moon City Review 2011: 
An Annual of Poetry, Story, Art, and Criticism
 Edited by Marcus Cafagña and Joel Chaston. 
Photography by Bruce West   The 2011 volume in the MCR book series focuses on alumni in the broadest sense of the word. Some of the best writers and artists in and from the Ozarks are featured, [...]

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  • Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri

    Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri

    Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri. Edited by Craig A. Meyer, with Casey D. White, Adam C. Veile, and Amber V. Luce. Foreword by Roseann Bentley. 6 x 9, 360 pages, 48 early photographs. $24.95, paper. November 2010 release.   Confederate Girlhoods gathers materials from the Campbell-McCammon Collection, as preserved in The History Museum for [...]

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  • The Panther: Posthumous Poems

    The Panther: Posthumous Poems

    The Panther:
Posthumous Poems
 Written by James Whitehead.
Edited by Michael Burns. 
Introduction by James Tabor 5 x 7, 57 pages
$15.00 cloth   “I’m deeply moved that my own historical Quest and the poetic Quest of James Whitehead were so closely intertwined, even though they never intersected in time. . . . I hope that, through this [...]

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  • For, From, About James T Whitehead

    For, From, About James T Whitehead

    For, From, About James T. Whitehead
: Poems, Stories, Photographs, and Recollections 
Edited by Michael Burns
. Photographs by Bruce West 6 x 9, 156 pages, 16 photographs. 
$15.99 paper   “I have relished Jim’s poetry and consider Joiner to be one of the South’s best novels. He meant a lot to me, and I’m grateful for his [...]

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  • The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”

    The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”

    The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”
Celebrating Springfield’s Theatre History, 1926–2006
Edited by James S. Baumlin 
Preface by Roy Blunt 
Artwork and design by Eric Pervukhin 7 1/2 x 11, 96 pages, with 80 
historic colorized photographs and illustrations
. $22.95 paper. 2006 release.   “While written for a popular audience, this book is perhaps the most detailed study published [...]

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  • The Heroes Have Gone

    The Heroes Have Gone

    The Heroes Have Gone: Personal Essays on Sport, Popular Culture, and the American West Written by Jim W. Corder Edited with an Afterword by Keith D. Miller and James S. Baumlin 5 x 8, 183 pages with illustrations by the author. $15.00 paper. 2008 Release.   “Whether writing about cereal box icons, rock-kicking, Mickey Mantle, or the [...]

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  • Moon City Review 2010

    Moon City Review 2010

    Moon City Review 2010 An Annual of Poetry, Story, Art, and Criticism ISBN 978-0-913785-30-0 6 x 9, 200 pages, 12 illustrations $15.95 paper ISBN 978-0-913785-30-0 Edited by Lanette Cadle and Marcus Cafagña Cover by Eric Pervukhin “Moon City Review will certainly be worth keeping an eye on.” —Sima Rabinowitz, in NewPages   The 2010 volume of Moon City Review takes [...]

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