Natural Theologies
Essays About Literature of the New Middle West
Published on 1. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-1-935218-22-7 (ISBN)
Description
NATURAL THEOLOGIES: ESSAYS ABOUT LITERATURE OF THE NEW MIDDLE WEST is the first critical study of contemporary Mid-Plains literature. Denise Low shows how the region's writers inherit a Frontier legacy from Indigenous and American settler communities. Myths continue to provide framework for fiction writers and poets, as well as nature and the rich community life. Not all of the region is rural. Cities like Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City, have presence in the literature-but in context of the great acreage around them. This innovative book defines the region's character while, at the same time, illuminating a panoramic past. Indigenous peoples and their philosophies add to this unique look at the Mid-continent's literary culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-935218-22-7 (9781935218227)
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Denise Low has published 20 books of poetry and essays. Among her publications are Words of a Prairie Alchemist (Ice Cube Press, 2006), Ghost Stories of the New West (Woodley Memorial Press, 2010), and Langston Hughes in Lawrence (Mammoth Press, 2004). Most recently, she is the author of NATURAL THEOLOGIES: ESSAYS ABOUT LITERATURE OF THE NEW MIDDLE WEST (The Backwaters Press, 2011). She has served on the board of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, where she was also president and conference chair. She has taught at Haskell Indian Nations University, the University of Kansas, and the University of Richmond. In addition to being the Kansas Poet Laureate from 2007-2009, she is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Newberry Library, Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kansas Arts Council, Kansas Center for the Book, and the Roberts Foundation National Writing Competition. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Wichita State University and a PhD from the University of Kansas.