Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels is proud to present the 2008 edition of the Arkansas Historical Report. Published just once each decade by order of the General Assembly, this ready reference is a unique compendium of appointed and elected officials over the state’s colonial and territorial periods as well as its 172-year history. Its comprehensive listings of county, state, and federal officials make it a must-have for historians, journalists, genealogists, and other researchers. The 2008 edition also features essays by C. Fred Williams, Jay Barth, David Ware, Ann Early, and George Sabo III that provide insight into the state’s history, politics, and Native American cultures. This new edition of the Historical Report includes, for the first time, an alphabetical index of state legislators. It also features a variety of historical photographs and has been substantially redesigned to create a more user-friendly reference tool.

Historical Report of the Arkansas Secretary of State 2008

History

Daniels, Charlie

Historical Study & Educational Resources

University of Arkansas Press

A study of the development of Richard Hugo's poetry over the span of eight books, 'We are Called Human: The Poetry of Richard Hugo' focuses on one of the most distinctive and powerful voices in contemporary American poetry. After discussing the emergence of a "poetics of need,"  the author takes up each book in turn, from the poetry of "Northwest baroque" (as Frederick Garber calls it) in 'A Run of Jacks' (1961) to the crucial but often overlooked 'Good Luck in Cracked Italian' (1969) to the western sensibility of 'The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir' (1973) and through the widely acclaimed 'The Right Madness on Skye' (1980). ln this thorough survey, the strengths of Hugo's poetry become clear: his careful sensitivity and use of sound and metrics; his startling imagery, evident long before the advent of fashionable surrealism; his ﬁrm regional roots in the people and the landscape of the Northwest and West; and, above all else, his consciousness of the essential connections between people-connections that ultimately make us human. We live in an increasingly fragmented society and the voices of our poets have become increasingly isolated, aloof, arcane. Along with the poetry of Philip Levine, the late James Wright, William Stafford, and Maxine Kumin, Hugo's poetry carefully weighs the losses of community in our lives and celebrates what remains of that "continuum of song" that is the essential heart of poetry.

We Are Called Human: The Poetry of Richard Hugo

Literature & Fiction

Michael S. Allen

Poetry

Story Hour (University of Arkansas Press Reprint Series)

Hay, Sara Henderson

From June 11,1890, to April 15, 1891, Nannie Stillwell Jackson wrote with pencils in a small ledger the best and meanest moments of her life on a small farm in southeast Arkansas. The combination of dreariness and charm that informs the diary is found on every page in the accounts of social gatherings, floods, poultry trades, dress-hemmings, and deaths. The experience is rich and awful, as is also what we may learn from it about the human spirit on the edge of civilization.

Vinegar Pie and Chicken Bread: A Woman's Diary of Life in the Rural South, 1890-1891 (President's Series in Arkansas & Regional Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Bolsterli, Margaret Jones

Jackson, Nannie Stillwell

Regional U.S.

DJ in Mylar, No damage. Back to the beginnings of Poetry and History blending the two. De Soto discovers Arkansas's Hot Springs, you will get the feeling a good novel gives along with meeting real and memorable people, sharing important hours in their lives. Well researched.

The great riding: The story of De Soto in America (The University of Arkansas Press reprint series)

Peter, Lily

No markings. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean. Very clean, crisp, and tight copy. Covers show stains and sticker residue. Stray pen mark at top of front cover. Publisher's typo copy with "typo" label taped to bottom of spine. Includes typos. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Save on shipping by ordering multiple titles. 157pp. Softcover Very Good Condition Size: 5 1/2" x 9" English Text

The Collected Poems of George Garrett

Garrett, George P.

From June 11, 1890, to April 15, 1891, Nannie Stillwell Jackson wrote about the best and meanest moments of her life on a small farm in southeast Arkansas. The combination of dreariness and charm that forms the diary is absorbing. Jackson's experience is rich and awful, as is what we may learn from it about the human spirit on the edges of civilization.

Vinegar Pie and Chicken Bread: A Woman's Diary of Life in the Rural South, 1890–1891

Bolsterli, Margeret

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Oxbridge Blues, and Other Stories

Raphael,Frederic

From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.

The Selected Poems of John Ciardi

History & Criticism

... a monumental effort that the authors can be justly proud of. It belongs on the shelf of any birder in the mid-South, in every library, in the region, and in any serious ornithological library. -- Journal of Field Ornithology

Arkansas Birds, Their Distribution and Abundance

Science & Math

Douglas A. James

Nature & Ecology

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