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Animal Virtue
Animal Virtue is Nathanael Tagg's first book, a poetry collection about the challenge of living well, especially in times of personal, political, existential, and environmental trouble. The book has three sections, which showcase Tagg's creative range and his penchant for sonic play. Sections one and three are formally heterogeneous. Section two contains sonnets, experimental poems (each one comprised of a single sentence), and ekphrastic poems. One of the sonnets defines "animal virtue" in fourteen ways that come into play throughout the book.
Green Jesus
In Green Jesus, Nathanael Tagg's second collection of poetry, readers encounter a trinity: spiritual, environmental, and relational. The book is inspired by Tagg's growing up in evangelical Christianity and expanding his worldview thanks to education, nature, writing, long-distance running, marriage, and parenthood. This coming-of-age story not only touches on disillusionment and rebirth; it also highlights the amusing ironies of continuity between then and now, sacred and secular, parent and child, intellectual and athletic, human and nonhuman, historical and contemporary, and so forth. Although stories and identities may break down upon closer inspection, many pieces-if not held too tightly-are still usable and valuable.
Confrontation
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The Tallgrass Prairie Reader
This is a collection of literature from and about the tallgrass bioregion. It focuses on autobiographical nonfiction including adventure narrative, spiritual reflection, childhood memoir, Native American perspectives, literary natural history, humor, travel writing and reportage. Writings by early explorers are followed by works of nineteenth-century authors that reflect the fear, awe, reverence, and thrill of adventure of the time. After 1900, following the destruction of the majority of tallgrass, much of the writing became nostalgic, elegiac, and mythic. A new environmental consciousness asserted itself midcentury, as personal responses to tallgrass were increasingly influenced by larger ecological perspectives. Preservation and restoration emerged as major themes. Early twenty-first-century writings demonstrate an awareness of tallgrass environmental history and the need for citizens, including writers, to remember and to help save our once magnificent prairies.
Congressional Record
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Chariton Review 40.1
Chariton Review Spring/Summer 2017
Sensational Modernism
Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using what he calls an "aesthetic of astonishment," focused on startling, graphic images of pain, injury, and prejudice. Traditional portrayals of the poor depicted stoic, passive figures of sentimental suffering or degra...
