Young Lucas grew up as a gar fisherman's son, in the steamy backwater bayous of southeastern Louisiana. His story invites you into a brutal world that is dominated by domestic violence, poverty, and the day-to-day struggle for survival ... a struggle that might have left even the strongest of us emotionally scarred and bitter.  Lucas (a distinctly non-heroic hero) reveals the childhood fights, the family traumas, and the fiercely wrought beauty of a visceral existence that feels ill at ease with itself. He gives us an unflinching look at a place and people we need to know.  As you begin reading The Gar Diaries, be aware: the language is vivid, the emotions are intense, and the honesty is often disturbing. This book will truly reshape your perception of life in the Deep South - and might very well haunt your mind for years to come.

The Gar Diaries

Literature & Fiction

Bourgeois, Louis

Genre Fiction

The Other Publishing Company

In Our Own Words is a collection of prison writing from Vox's Prison Writes Initiative (PWI). The program is a Creative Writing program set-up for Mississippi inmates, a first of its kind in the state. The stories in the book are from inmates of Parchman Farm, Mississippi's oldest and only maximum security prison. The book is edited by VOX's editor and program director of the PWI, the poet Louis Bourgeois.

In Our Own Words: Writing From Parchman Prison

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Vox Press

Discusses the application of science to sports in areas such as equipment, and performance-enhancing drugs

Sports Lab: How Science Has Changed Sports (Science Lab Series)

Children's Books

Sheely, Robert

Education & Reference

Silver Moon Press

Gritty and lyric, Bourgeois's writing entwines the earthy particulars of a remembered rural south, with surrealist dream images. His dark wit employs vernacular and mythic motifs to create an original universe. His is a voice to watch for in American poetry. -Celia Rabinovitch, author of Surrealism and the Sacred.

The Animal: Prose Poetics by Louis E. Bourgeois

Bourgeois, Louis E.

Poetry

BlazeVOX Books

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