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VOYAGES TO THE INLAND SEAS SERIES

THE DOCTRINE OF SELECTIVE DEPRAVITY by Bruce Cutter 1980, (long poem) ISBN 1-55780-081-2, $8.00 paper, 4th printing

"Technically the poem is a marvel ... Most impressively, (it) remains poem as well as narrative, balancing out what each demands". . . THE COTTONWOOD REVIEW


THE CARRABASSETT, SWEET WILLIAM, WAS MY RIVER
by John Judson 1982, (autobiography) ISBN 1-55780-082-0, $9 paper.

'The book is about many things: family, friendship, education, poetry, geography, rivers, mountains, Maine, the polarities of place. But mostly it's an inner journey ... of a father coming to terms with the death of a son killed in a skiing accident ... An extraordinary book that ... flows truly and reflects the human heart on every page." . . . THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL


DOUBLE VIEW
by W. R. Moses 1984, (selected poems)
ISBN 1-55780-083-9, $9.00 paper.

"Moses shows us that man, with his dual sense of alienation and attachment, cannot be a passive appreciator of the natural world." . . . THE KANSAS QUARTERLY


THE LITERARY HERITAGE OF WISCONSIN-VOL
.1
 edited by Richard Boudreau 1987, cloth $20 ISBN 1-55780-079-0,

The first anthology of Wisconsin writings to be published since 1930 and the first comprehensive anthology of Wisconsin writings ever. Volume 1 covers the beginnings to 1925 and is edited by Richard Boudreau, Prof. of English at the University of Wisconsin.-La Crosse.

"(The) entire collection seems to me judicious, exciting, and badly needed." . . . Kay Whitford, Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences.


THE JESSE TREE
: selected short stories by T. Alan Broughton 1988. ISBN 1-55780-100-2, paper $12.00, ISBN 1-55780-102-9,  

"He understands this not-quite urban land, and writes about the people who live in its fine houses and its trailers, men and women, alone and together, with great compassion and insight." . . . Rosellen Brown

 

WORD OF MOUTH by J.D. Whitney, 1986, ISBN 1-55780-049-9,$8.00

"J.D. Whitney cares enough to write the very best-again and again and again." --Robert Creeley

"Poems that are clean, gleaning, warmed up, and ready to go; close tolerances and laughter." Gary Snyder

 

THE SHRINE AND SELECTED STORIES, by John Iorio, 1987, ISBN 1-55780-080-4,
paper $8.00

These mysterious and mythic tales of contemporary life originally appeared in The Southern Review, The Texas Quarterly,. Southwest Review, Colorado Quarterly, and the Gryphon. Mr. Iorio, formerly a WWII paratrooper and reporter, teaches at the University of South Florida. He has three times received citations in Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories.

WILLIAM N. JUDSON SERIES OF

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY

 

ASH IS THE CANDLE'S WICK by John Judson, 1975, ISBN 1-55780-050-2,
Winner of the Midwestern Book Award (toured South America & Europe in exhibit)

PROVED BY TRIAL by James Hearst, 1977, ISBN 1-55780-055-3
 (Poet Laureate of Iowa)

. VOICES FROM THE FOREST by Lisel Mueller, 1977, ISBN 1-55780-056-1 
(Pulitzer Prize winner)

SUBJECT TO CHANGE by Felix Pollak, 1978, ISBN 1-55780-057-x, 
(Wisconsin Writer's Award)

 ANATOMY OF DECEMBER by R.E. Sebenthall, 1978, ISBN 1-55780-059-6, (Wisconsin Writer's Award)


NORTHEAST
The Authors League of America Award, 1974, 1975

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