Results for "Rogers, James Silas"

The Collector of Shadows, by James Silas Rogers, is a collection of poetry set primarily in the upper Midwest and celebrating the extraordinary in the ordinary. Rogers, an award-winning essayist and well-published poet, is the author of a chapbook, Sundogs, and of a collection of essays and poems in... Read More about The Collector of Shadows: Poems

Engagingly designed and boasting a wide array of more than fifty Minnesota poets, including Robert Bly, Broad Wings, Long Legs contemplates the iconic birds of the Midwestern marshlands, paying homage to the herons and cranes that stalk, stand and fly into and out of the lakes, ponds, backwaters, an... Read More about Broad Wings, Long Legs: A Rookery of Heron Poems

Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it's often an indirect one. True, the age of heroic immigration is over, and today the term "Irish-American" almost always means an American of Irish descent. If the Irish long ago ceased to be America'... Read More about Irish-American Autobiography

A thought-provoking collection of essays and poems that explore memory, the meaning of place, and sacred space.... Read More about Northern Orchards: Places Near the Dead

A leading journal of Irish Studies, New Hibernia Review opens each issue with a personal essay. For the first time, here is a selection of the finest of these, of which four have been recognized as "Notable Essays of the Year" in Best American Essays. This engaging collection sheds light on the perp... Read More about Extended Family: Essays on Being Irish American from New Hibernia Review

The essays in this volume - now in paperback - examine diverse aspects of the Irish-American community during the postwar years and cover both the immigrant community within the US - which witnessed a surge in immigration from Ireland - and the subsequent expressions of an Irish identity among later... Read More about After the Flood: Irish America, 1945-1960 (The Irish Abroad)