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An educator memoir about Robert W. Hamblin's work with his colleague Louis Daniel Brodsky in gathering the Faulkner Collection at Southeast Missouri State University.
The Midwest Book Review, The Bookwatch: "Mind the Gap is a compendium of free-verse poetry that evokes imagination and wonder from observing the longstanding grandeur of London and the activities of both the ordinary and the eccentric people who live there. Mind the Gap is a verbal feast of impressions for the imagination."
DOGWOOD WINTER AND OTHER SEASONS is Robert Hamblin's sixth book of poems. His previous titles include FROM THE GROUND UP, MIND THE GAP, KEEPING SCORE, CROSSROADS, and DUST AND LIGHT.
For decades now literary critics have universally praised Faulkner as one of the greatest writers of the modern era, yet students assigned to read his novels in university, college, and high school classes continue to struggle to make sense of his convoluted plots, prolix style, and complex characterizations. The broadest treatment to date of a topic of increasing concern, this book is designed to provide fresh strategies and practical suggestions for the classroom study of several of Faulkner's finest novels and stories, including The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, The Unvanquished, and Go Down, Moses. The contributors, all noted Faulkner scholars who regularly teac...
In this poignant and heartfelt memoir the final illness and death of his father leads Robert Hamblin to recall his upbringing in rural northeast Mississippi and to pay tribute to his parents for their influence on his life and career.
In the early 1990s, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war. Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did ...
DUST AND LIGHT presents a montage of 36 poems based on the life and writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit priest, paleontologist, philosopher, and author who died in 1955. The poems dramatize Teilhard's lifelong endeavor to reconcile religion and science, as well as his conflict with the Catholic Church over his ideas and his own personal quest for justice, order, and love.