Georgia Books

Claiborne, the infamous food critic for the New York Times dishes out a tasteful and delightful compilation of the best food from the south.

CREATING THE BIG EASY: NEW ORLEANS AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN TOURISM, 1918-45 is especially important today as the city struggles to rebuild and redefine itself. It's a survey of tourism-based development and the cultural and economic forces that transformed New Orleans from a port to a national tourist destination. Urban development, historic preservation and taxes along with the city's efforts to promote its cultural heritage to outsiders makes for an in-depth survey on how visitors are enticed by an image of an urban area's past and present. A 'must' for any who would understand the roots of modern New Orleans' development and the task at hand for rebuilding it.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This book tells the story of Dalton, Georgia, and how the textile mill led to its development. It is a very detailed look at the townspeople and their struggles throughout a century. It provides a unique and perceptive view of the South's economic and social transformation beginning during the aftermath of the Civil War and continuing with the rise of technology into the Reagan years.

All of the books I have read by Georgia Heard are very creative and fun and easy. These poems just flow from the beggining to end. They are simple to read yet bring on complex thoguhts. I recommend this book to anyone who'd like to read poems and just relax.

People need to take a real good look and see what the primary function of our Children and Youth Services is. It seems that they operate in such a way to fit their own needs and not the needs of the children. I rate this book a five star. Why should we be held responsible for what we do while they bury their mistakes within the system. It is about time these so called Social Workers started be held accountable for destroying people's lives.

This collection of the best of Kennedy's career spans an amazing variety of tones and themes, frequently with wit and poignancy. It justifiably won the Los Angeles Times Book award for poetry in 1985. Kennedy almost always adheres to strict rhyme and meter, placing him squarely in the tradition of past masters.

For readers tired of the first-person lyric so popular in our day, read Paul Zimmer, who must share this ennui. Through his career, Zimmer has been one of our finest Persona poets and one of our best Character poets, in the tradition of Edwin Arlington Robinson. Here, collected for the first time, are his wonderful Zimmer poems, his many poems celebrating eccentric characters, and his fine traditional nature lyrics (which don't neglect the dark side of nature as well). Richly humorous in some poems, moving in others (a fine writer of love poetry), you'll laugh richly and feel deeply with this end-of-the-alphabet poet, among our finest.

I checked this book out of my college library for a research paper I was working on. I was not at first planning on reading the whole book. But once I started looking at it I found it very interesting and couldn't help myself. I learned a lot I never knew before about female involvement in Medieval art, etc.

This is a book that Cumberland Island history buffs must have. Bullard has accomplished an amazing level of research and put it together in a very readable format. While she has glossed over many details found in other books, she presents facts and data I have never seen in any other book written about Cumberland. So, it is not the only book you need to understand Cumberland; you do need the others. too. The history written here goes as far back as one could go in the written history of Cumberland. You will not be displeased with this book. And as I said earlier, it is a must have for those who collect books on the Cumberland Islands. As a side note, I had hoped for a little more data on Little Cumberland Island...but, this is one great book. And for you researchers, almost the last third of the book contains reference material where you can begin or further your own research of Cumberland Island or the variety of people connected with her past.

Cups is a good read. Candy wrote it when she was teaching creative writing at the bohemian/cowboy college SUL ROSS. Many of the images have pseudo-post modern style lyrics. But Candy goes beyond the imagined and produces some wild imagery.

Anyone can get excited with this one. If you dig it, it will really make your skull tweek!