Nebraska Presence

Author : Greg Kosmicki
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ISBN 13 : 9780979393433
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Presence written by Greg Kosmicki and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by more than 80 contemporary Nebraska poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, several poets who have had their poems read on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac including Greg Kuzma, Marjorie Saiser, Twyla Hansen, Grace Bauer, and Greg Kosmicki, as well as widely noted poets Hilda Raz, Roy Scheele, Steve Langan, and many others.

Author : Paul A. Johnsgard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496222962
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildlife of Nebraska written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wildlife of Nebraska: A Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard surveys the variety and biology of more than six hundred Nebraska species. Narrative accounts describe the ecology and biology of the state's birds, its mammals, and its reptiles and amphibians, summarizing the abundance, distributions, and habitats of this wildlife. To provide an introduction to the state's major ecosystems, climate, and topography, Johnsgard examines major public-access natural areas, including national monuments, wildlife refuges and grasslands, state parks and wildlife management areas, and nature preserves. Including more than thirty-five line drawings by the author along with physiographic, ecological, and historical maps, Wildlife of Nebraska is an essential guide to the wildlife of the Cornhusker State.

Author : Mary K. Stillwell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209443
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser written by Mary K. Stillwell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a flash of lightning it came to him--the unathletic high school student Ted Kooser saw a future as a famous poet that promised everything: glory, immortality, a bohemian lifestyle (no more doing dishes, no more cleaning his room), and, particularly important to the lonely teenager, girls! Unlike most kids with a sudden ambition, Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and thirteenth poet laureate of the United States, made good on his dream. But glory was a long time coming, and along the way Kooser lived the life that has made his poetry what it is, as deeply grounded in family, work, and the natural world as it is attuned to the nuances of language. Just as so much of Kooser's own writing weaves geography, history, and family stories into its measures, so does this first critical biography consider the poet's work and life together: his upbringing in Iowa, his studies in Nebraska with poet Karl Shapiro as mentor, his career in insurance, his family life, his bout with cancer, and, always, his poetry. Combining a fine appreciation of Kooser's work and life, this book finally provides a fuller and more complex picture of a writer who, perhaps more than any other, has brought the Great Plains and the Midwest, lived large and small, into the poetry of our day.

Author : Louise Pound
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803287884
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Folklore written by Louise Pound and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic compilation of Nebraska lore and legend, first published in 1959, includes a selection of weather lore, superstitions, cave legends, superheroes, folk customs, hoaxes, a study of the use of dialect in folklore, and a critical analysis of the origins of American cowboy and folk songs. Reprint.

Author : Donald R. Hickey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080321572X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Moments written by Donald R. Hickey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of defining Nebraska moments, including: surviving the Oregon and Mormon trails; completing the Union Pacific Railroad; and winning national football championships, Nobel and Pulitzer prices, and presidential nominations.

Author : Gerald Vizenor
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218086
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Provenance written by Gerald Vizenor and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Vizenor’s Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions such as creation and trickster stories and dream songs. A respected authority in the study of Native American literature and intellectual history, Vizenor believes that the protean nature of many creation stories, with their tease and weave of ironic gestures, was lost or obfuscated in inferior translations by scholars and cultural connoisseurs, and as a result the underlying theories and presuppositions of these renditions persist in popular literature and culture. Native Provenance explores more than two centuries of such betrayal of native creativity. With erudite and sweeping virtuosity, Vizenor examines how ethnographers and others converted the inherent confidence of native stories into uneasy sentiments of victimry. He explores the connection between Native Americans and Jews through gossip theory and strategies of cultural survivance, and between natural motion and ordinary practices of survivance. Other topics include the unique element of native liberty inherent in artistic milieus; the genre of visionary narratives of resistance; and the notions of historical absence, cultural nihilism, and victimry. Native Provenance is a tour de force of Native American cultural criticism ranging widely across the terrains of the artistic, literary, philosophical, linguistic, historical, ethnographic, and sociological aspects of interpreting native stories. Native Provenance is rife with poignant and original observations and is essential reading for anyone interested in Native American cultures and literature.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Ancestree written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver B. Pollak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738519678
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Courthouses written by Oliver B. Pollak and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: County courthouses stand at the center of Nebraska local government. Their authority in the state extends over hundreds of square miles with county populations ranging from less than a thousand to nearly half a million. The activities taking place within these buildings range from storing vital statistics, such as birth and death certificates, to hosting the trials of common criminals and not-so-common "crimes of the century." Using over 235 photographs, Nebraska Courthouses vividly describes the architectural and political evolution of the courthouse. Often in the early years of Nebraska statehood war nearly broke out in these courthouses as county formation saw spirited battles to become the county seat. Today, the courthouse remains the center of community pride, anchoring the downtown of each county seat. Courthouses contain the offices of elected officials and county staff. In this volume you will see the places where judges, lawyers, the County Attorney, social workers, librarians, janitors, and other individuals that make government work.

Author : Arthur Kent Dame
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Probate and Administration for Nebraska written by Arthur Kent Dame and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: