Pat Cleburne, Confederate general: A biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Purdue, Howell and Elizabeth

Leaders & Notable People

Portals Press

The Mexican Centaur, Oren Arnold's finest book - and he has written at least eighty - has been half a lifetime in the making. His researches on Pancho Villa began at El Paso, Texas, in 1925, not long after Villa's assassination. Arnold interviewed various of Villa's cavalrymen, various of his women, and many of his children. He has handled Villa's weapons, tried on his uniforms, and touched old scars on wounds suffered by members of Villa's brigdes. He regards Pancho Vill as a peerless leader of men. In depicting Villa from the inside out, Arnold performs a feat that became possible only after he had completely mastered his subject from the outside in - only after he had absorbed everything of consequence written by others about his subject and in the process had sparated much chaff of wheat. Yet this sifting was merely the preliminary to writing, for it is the subject's soul that must be reached , understood, respected, and finally loved., before an author's words can represent imperishable his subject's moods, thoughts, and actions. Arnold over the decades of his researches and reflections, attained this total rapport with Villa - both the outer and the inner man. Although The Mexican Centaur hence reads like the most powerful sort of fiction, it is not - it is villa.

The Mexican Centaur: An Intimate Biography of Pancho Villa

Arnold, Oren

This new volume from Nancy Harris, long a leading figure in the vital New Orleans poetry scene, will delight her many established fans and, on the national stage, garner an enthusiastic new readership. Read this book for its impeccable craft, its wit, its verbal fireworks, and its poised sense of presentation but, above all, read Beauty Eating Beauty for its dazzling and nuanced variations on the theme of beauty. You may also feel free to read this volume (especially the sequence of Bear poems) for fun—if you remember that fun is at the core of profundity. - H. R. Stoneback, Author of Voices of Women Singing &amp; other volumes

Beauty Eating Beauty

Literature & Fiction

Harris, Nancy C

Poetry

True is a painter, poet and singer/songwriter. The verses in his collection sail on a restless sea of unpredictable emotion, fanciful manifestations, plotted tensions, liquid introspection, and the occasional gut wrenching spin of a Gulf Coast hurricane. With spyglass to eye, up close and personal, True covers a range of topics and adopts a wide variety of poetic styles in the charting of the vast socio-political orb that we inhabit.

Diabolical Seas

True, Michael S

United States

The women at the well: Poems & a revelation

BAUER, Grace

A collection of linked stories and reports by a Native American journalist who makes unsettling discoveries that endanger not only him but the very south Louisiana environment that he calls home.

J.J.'s Journal

Teche, J.J.

Roach Opera: Poems

Christian Champagne

Geometry of the Heart

Valentine Pierce

Madeleine and Andre Gide: The Platonic Marriage of Saint and Homosexual

Richard H. Akeroyd

Tuscaloosa: Next Four Exits

Ruby Christian

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