Louisiana Books

Fine words on common subjects...Burris' style is free of that too-much sentiment often found in his poetic form.

Similar to Bruce LM's work...

This listing is NOT a paperback, but a hard-copy with dust cover from LSU press in 1979. As a scholarly work on the depths and frequent perversions of 19th Century intellectual thought, "The Dream..." is thoroough, well written and well researched. If you seek insight into the thought patterns, philosophy, and psychological bent of such diverse personalities as Disraeli, Houston, Chamberlain, Shaw, Marx, Kant, and Freud, you will find it here. I'm just not quite clear as to how much you will find out about "Wagner's Ring and the Modern World".

I am always looking for a good collection of lullabies and really enjoy international collections. This one is probably our favorite along with the "Lullaby, a collection" by music for little people. Both our infant and toddler enjoy the CD, and so do we. It is a good way to wind down and a great introduction to the different musical sounds and languages that are important to developing minds.

What a great resource on the issues facing educators of the 21st Century. Ms. Hill really utilized excellent resources. Every high school teacher and student teacher should read this!

Printed on heavy stock, water-resistant paper and featuring stunning full color photography throughout, East Gulf Coastal Plain Wildflowers is a field guide wildflowers found in a region of the United States including Southwest Georgia, Northwest Florida, Southern Alabama, Southern Mississippi, and parts of Southeastern Louisiana. An introduction and overview offers maps, information about floral diversity, and tips for using the guide, yet the bulk of East Gulf Coastal Plain Wildflowers is devoted to single-column entries of individual blossoms. Each flower's entry includes a color photograph, extensive text description, information on its bloom season and habitat range, and more. A glossary and index round out this superb quick-reference field guide.

I have been researching performance poetry as a historical predecessor to Slam poetry. I think I found something better than slam, and it is performance poetry. I have to recommend this CD of the someone who is called the original performance poet, Hedwig Gorski, because she made up the term to publicize what she started doing in the late 1970s. There is a great book out linked in this review that shows how she started with what she called in a recent interview as "neo-verse drama" coupled with "conceptual art." You don't hear about literary artists doing anything this new and daring anymore. Here is a link to the book if you want to read about something so bizarre and unexpected, that it will spin your ideas about poetry around 360 degrees.
Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street
The band work like that in the "Clown" CD comes after the performance poetry theater events archived in the book. If anything, it sounds much more radio friendly and even entertaining. She comes "as close to singing as anyone can without really singing," a playwright wrote of Gorski vocals. It is really something that should be part of every slam poet's collection. Has anyone been thinking that all the slam poets are beginnig to sound the same? How about Def Poets? Are they all beginnning to deliver the same style of poems and voice inflections? I think so. That is why performance poetry is so much better than slam. Especially the one and only original performance poet, so-called, on the CD. Gotta hear it and own it before the CDs disappear. Really a treat.

eat.shop.new orleans: The Indispensable Guide to Inspired, Locally Owned Eating and Shopping Establishments (eat.shop guides series)

What a fabulous guide to the flip side of dining out in New Orleans! As former residents with ties to the hospitality industry, my husband and I spent 8 years during the 1980's entertaining in the best of the hot spots. I've had little interest in returning even for a long weekend visit until I browsed through this little nugget of gold covering eateries and shops I never knew were there....some of them weren't at that time, but the spirit of the city that inspired the newest shops was and could easily go unappreciated in the white linen establishments where the name over the door commanded the $$$ rating. Make no mistake, the 'dining' and shopping in those places was fabulous, but I just might have to go back sometime for a good supper! I'd send in a personal request for a second volume, but my bet is that the big easy still holds true to the reputation that few of us could stand that kind of assault on our girlish figures!
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This book focuses on domestic life in the South during the period of European settlement. It makes clear that many of the white farm families would not have survived had they not had the cooperation and instruction in practical living techniques generously provided by their native neighbors. I was amused at how many of the "Southern" traditions of food and cooking that I grew up with are really Native American traditions that were adopted by the settlers. Gray is an entertaining writer who has gathered many facts that may appear trivial, but which help to develop a detailed picture of what life was like on the frontier when the frontier was east of Atlanta.

This book gives a really good insight into how Mercy Ministries came to be founded and many amazing stories of God's abundant provision for this ministry. It's a very encouraging read with amazing testimonies of what a difference God has made in the lives of young women who have been through the program and experienced God's incredible Mercy

Renza tackles a cognitive-philosophiocal issue herein that few would have the learned energy to engage. As well, the book enlightens the work of Poe and of Stephens in a way that avid readers of either will appreciate.