Robert Penn Warren

In the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig has left a Bavarian ghetto and sailed for America to join the Union Army. Fired by the revolutionary idealism of mid-nineteenth-century Europe, he hopes to aid a cause which he believes to be as simple as he knows it to be just. But thwarted by the discovery of a physical deformity which he had hoped to conceal, he must try other means to find his "truth."

The scene of this novel is Kentucky; the time, the early days of the last century, when the men who raised tobacco tried to organise themselves against the power of the men who bought it. This conflict of wills and motives led to violence, which bred more and greater violence. The hero, Percy Munn, a young lawyer, is drawn into the battle; against his will, almost before he knows it, he becomes a leader in a struggle that is so pervasive and demanding...

A collection of all of the published poetry of the first Poet Laureate of the United States features collations of all versions of the poems, accompanied by textual and explanatory notes. Winner of the 1998 Jules and Frances Laundry Award. In this indispensable volume, John Burt has assembled every poem (with the exception of Brother to Dragons) ever published by Robert Penn Warren.

A selection of poems from the last six decades including fifty recent poems not previously published.

Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.

"A really strange and complex story of love, betrayal, revenge, and murder in a suspenseful setting."--Amazon.com.