Soldier's heart: reading literature through peace and war at West Point

By Samet, Elizabeth D.

Publishing Date: 2007

Classification: 800

Call Number: 810.71 SAM

A West Point English professor discusses teaching literature to young men and women preparing for war, describing the changes that have occurred since September 11, what it means to be a civilian teaching at a military academy, and what books and movies mean to her students.

Lives like loaded guns: Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds

By Gordon, Lyndall

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.4 GOR

Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.

In the western night: collected poems, 1965-90

By Bidart, Frank

Publishing Date: 1990

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 BID

In the Western Night brings together in one volume all of the poems to date, including many previously unpublished poems, of one of the most exciting and gifted poets writing today. Frank Bidart's collections of poetry include Star Dust (FSG, 2005), Desire (FSG, 1997), and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the 2007 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.- (McMillan Palgrave)

Milk and honey

By Kaur, Rupi

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.6 KAU

Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.--Amazon.com.

Representative American speeches, 2015-2016

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 800

Call Number: 815.008

Reeling through life: how I learned to live, love and die at the movies

By Ison, Tara

Publishing Date: ℗♭2015

Classification: 800

Call Number: 818.5403 ISO

Looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues of career, family, faith, illness, sex, and love.

All the poems of Stevie Smith

By Smith, Stevie

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 800

Call Number: 821.912 SMI

This new and updated edition of Stevie Smith's collected poems includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five year career.

Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's letters to his mother

By Dahl, Roald

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 823.914 DAH

A revealing collection of personal letters written by the iconic author to his mother details his early childhood milestones, travels to Africa, Royal Air Force service, work in Washington D.C., literary achievements, and rise in Hollywood.

Guilty thing: a life of Thomas De Quincey

By Wilson, Frances

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 800

Call Number: 828.809 WIL

"A biography of the last of the Romantics describes his rags-to-riches life and career as a journalist, translator, essayist and opium addict who inspired generations of writers with his emotional memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,"--NoveList.

Hermann Hesse: life and art

By Mileck, Joseph

Publishing Date: 1980, c1978

Classification: 800

Call Number: 838.9 MIL

"There are to be sure many writers whose biographies are more interesting than their fiction but Hesse is not one of these. He led a long and sometimes eventful life with marital tensions, traveL controversy, crises, even some thoughts of suicide and a period of time as a student in a home for retarded and unmanageable. In addition, there was his search which led him through the culture and arts of West and East, his views of politics and society, of psychology and philosophy. The difference between Hesse and other writers is that virtually every shred and patch of his life was brought into his writing, his fiction particularly. 'He had to write about himself and there is little of what he wrote that is not confessional in form and therapeutic in function.' Autobiography is the very matter of his work. Mileck's contribution is to extend and fill out the evidence of his life, his psychoanalysis, his drive toward self-realization which was the very engine of his being, to show the raw material and thus to invite readers to see how it was transmuted, transfigured, fantasized, poeticized, symbolized."--Los Angeles Times

Maldoror: & the complete works of the Comte de Lautréamont

By Lautréamont

Publishing Date: 2011, ©1994

Classification: 800

Call Number: 843.8 LAU

Andre Breton wrote that MALDOROR is the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential. First published in 1869, MALDOROR is the work of a mysterious genius about whom little is known aside from his birth in Uruguay, 1846, and his early death in Paris, 1870. His writings, published under the pseudonym Comte de Lautreamont, bewildered his contemporaries but have since taken their place alongside other French classics of transgression such as Sade, Baudelaire, Rimbaud. A unique translation.