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Riding Like the Wind
This saga of a writer done dirty resurrects the silenced voice of Sanora Babb, peerless author of midcentury American literature. In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In Riding Like the Wind, renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. Dunkle follows Babb from her impoverished childhood in eastern Colorado to California. There, she befriended t...
Unknown No More
Thanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her publisher not thought the market too small for two Dust Bowl novels, hers and Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Into the twenty-first century, Babb wrote and published lyrical prose and poetry that revealed her prescient ideas about gender, race, and the environment. The essays collected in Unknown No More recover and analyze her previously unrecognized contributions to American letters. Editors Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith have assembled a group of distinguished scholars who, for the firs...
Cry of the Tinamou
Acclaimed writer Sonora Babb was born in Oklahoma in 1907 and grew up in eastern Colorado, where her parents struggled to homestead. As an adult, she worked as a journalist, country schoolteacher and college writing teacher. Her marriage to a cinematographer took her around the world. Babb mined and transformed her experiences into the novels and stories collected in this volume.
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Fisherman's Creek
Laura and Harry Bell are unaware of its tragic history when they move into an elegant mansion on Fisherman's Creek. They are a handsome but oddly matched couple: Laura, a willowy, serene blonde with the poise of a well-born Englishwoman; her husband is of a rougher cut, with a volatile temper and menacing aura. They met on a singles tour in Italy when his good looks and impressive physique attracted her at once. Laura hopes the move will revive their marriage. All goes well until the unexpected visit of Jason Hunter, Harry's college roommate. Then the Bells' life is changed forever. "A fun and fast read with lots of twists. This subtle and unique suspense story deceives the reader until the very end."-Ann Caron, author of Strong Mothers, Strong Sons. "Tina Bishop's first novel is filled with what seems like innocent maneuvering, but nothing should be taken for granted. Her use of setting and dialogue is fast-paced as she takes you on what may be the most circuitous mystery you will ever read."-Rev. Anita E. Keire, author of The Mustard Seed Series.
By Reason of Breakings
By Reason of Breakings, Andrew Zawacki's first book of poetry, overwhelms and silences by virtue of its extremely austere beauty. In highly wrought lyrics, prose poems, fragments of apocrypha, and splintered efforts at song, this volume is forceful and haunted by doubt. Each intimate and restrained line is a glimpse at a wisdom that defies paraphrase, each image carefully chosen and constructed. Zawacki's language summons and invites and is almost menacing in its delicate intensity: "Weight is the syntax of filling empty spaces: scalpels and expired tissue fall, but fire rises to fever and sere." While pursuing an explanation for the disappearance of God and for the denouement of a love affair, and exploring the failure of language to compensate or console, these poems maintain their sublime power and elegance.
Timing the Market
The first definitive guide to understanding and profiting from the relationship between the stock market and interest rates It's well established that interest rates significantly impact the stock market. This is the first book that definitively explores the interest rate/stock market relationship and describes a specific system for profiting from the relationship. Timing the Market provides an historically proven system, rooted in fundamental economics, that allows investors and traders to forecast the stock market using data from the interest rate markets-together with supporting market sentiment and cultural indicators-to pinpoint and profit from major turns in the stock market. Deborah Weir (Greenwich, CT) is President of Wealth Strategies, a firm that does marketing for traditional money managers and hedge funds. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is the first woman president of the Stamford CFA Society.
Told in the Seed and Selected Poems
Told in the Seed and Selected Poems offers poems from Sanora Babb’s more than sixty years of writing and publishing poetry. This new collection adds many of her earliest poems to those of her later years in the original Told in the Seed. A new introduction by Carol S. Loranger notes that “Of all Sanora Babb’s writings, it is the poetry, perhaps, that offers the most intimate and unvarnished picture of the woman and the artist.” In the introduction Loranger weaves together relevant information about Babb’s life with the more personal poems to further enhance the reader’s appreciation. Babb published her first poem at fourteen in the Forgan Eagleand continued to write and publish poetry from the 1920s to the early 1990s. She won the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award in 1967 for “Told in the Seed” and the Gold Medal Award in 1932 for “Captive” from the Mitre Press Anthology, London. Having a strong empathy with people and their daily lives, an affinity with all in the natural world, and the ability to elevate the ordinary into the extraordinary, Babb reflects all this in her poetry. Her poems quicken with lyricism, clarity, and a powerful sense of immediacy.
Ain't Got No Home
Ain t Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left"
On the Dirty Plate Trail
Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008 The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Ironically, their work risked sublimating the subjects—real people and actual experience—into aesthetic artifacts, icons of suffering, deprivation, and despair. Working for the Farm Security Administration in California's migrant labor camps in 1938-39, Sanora...
