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table OF CONTENTS Announcing... Bartram’s Living Legacy .........................1 Dorinda G. Dallmeyer The Flower Seeker ..................................2 Mercer University Press Philip Lee Williams Christmas Gift! .......................................3 Book Awards Ferrol Sams Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim Wayfarers ...........................4 The Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry L. Lamar Nisly The award is given to the best manuscript that exemplifies the Misfits and Marble Fauns ......................5 poetic language and vision of the author. Wendy Piper The Letters of Austin Warren ................6 The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction George Panichas† This award is for the best book that speaks to the human condition “I Will Give Them One More Shot” ......7 in a Southern context. This category includes both novels and short George Winston Martin stories. MERCER UNIVERSITY PRESS The Tifts of Georgia ...............................8 John Fair The Will D. Campbell Award for Creative Nonfiction William D. Underwood .........University President America’s Historically Black Colleges ....9 This award is given to the best manuscript that speaks to the human Marc A. Jolley ........................................... Director Bobby L. Lovett Edmon L. Rowell, Jr. ......................... Senior Editor condition in a Southern context. This category includes memoir, natural One Step Ahead of Hitler ....................10 Kevin C. Manus-Pennings ........... Associate Editor Fred Gross history, essays, and other genres of nonfiction. Marsha M. Luttrell ................Publishing Assistant Candice Morris Customer Service Representative Five Big Mountains ..............................11 Each Award Includes a book contract and $500 advance. Winners David Schaeffer Barbara A. Keene ...................Marketing Director will be announced in February at the Cross Roads Writers Conference. Sports and Religion Series ...................12 Mary Beth Kosowski .............Marketing Assistant Regenia W. Toole .......................... Business Office The Protestant Ethic Award Guidelines Scott Lee .................................. Shipping Assistant and the Spirit of Sport .........................13 Two (2) copies of the manuscript must be submitted. Steven J. Overman Manuscripts should have one-inch margins using 12 pt. Times font. Hidden Mark ........................................14 MERCER PRESS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Each entry must be postmarked between January 1 and June 30 annually. John Killinger Richard A. Schneider, Chairman Atlanta, Georgia Peter’s Last Sermon ..............................15 Each entry must designate the specific book prize for consideration. George J. Berry ........................... Forsyth, Georgia James M. Dawsey No electronic submissions will be accepted. Tad Brown ............................... Thomson, Georgia Subjectivity and Religious Truth in the No manuscript will be returned without adequate postage provided. Elizabeth Plunkett Buttimer .....Bowdon, Georgia Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard .......16 The Honorable Harold E. Clarke Forsyth, Georgia Awards are open to anyone writing in English. Merigala Gabriel Jimmy L. Gardner ................. Alpharetta, Georgia Mercer Kierkegaard Series ..................17 Employees and students of Mercer University are not eligible. Benjamin W. Griffith, Jr. ............. Macon, Georgia Why Kierkegaard Matters ...................18 For questions contact [email protected] Elizabeth C. Harris ................ Cartersville, Georgia Marc A. Jolley Miriam M. Holland ................ Jonesboro, Georgia International Kierkegaard Send to MUP Book Awards, Mercer University Press, N. Brent Kennedy ................Kingsport, Tennessee Commentary Series ..............................19 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon, Georgia 31207 Edmund E. Olson ......................... Macon, Georgia John M. Sheftall ..................... Columbus, Georgia The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists .................................................20 Howell L. Watkins II .......................Miami, Florida Scott Bryant Marc A. Jolley .............................. Macon, Georgia The Life and Letters of Mercer University Press is a participating Emily Chubbuck Judson .......................21 PUBNET publisher SAN 2200716. George Tooze The James N. Griffith Series in Baptist Studies ..................................22 Mercer University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Featured Backlist Titles ..................23–31 Cover Art by Philip Juras, artist Anthony Shoals, Evening, Broad River GA, 2009 New Release 69 www.mupress.org 866-895-1472 1 Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, native of Bartram’s Macon, Georgia, has worked in the fields of environmental science, Living Legacy international law, and environmental The Travels and the ethics. With other regional nature Nature of the South writers, she created the Southern Nature Project to encourage writing William Bartram† aimed at conserving the Southern Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, editor environment for generations yet to come. She has twice received the Philip Reed Memorial Award for Out- standing Writing about the Southern Environment. A devoted naturalist, Dorinda and her husband David live on 50 acres in rural Madison County, Georgia. Philip Juras, a native of Augusta, A unique anthology of Bartram’s Travels Georgia, now lives in Athens, and paints the landscapes of travel, but and new essays on his legacies focuses primarily on remnant natural landscapes that offer a glimpse More than two centuries have tors, and even deadlier humans. And of the Southeast before European passed since the publication of throughout the book, Bartram reveals a settlement. William Bartram’s Travels in 1791. deep spiritual connection to nature as a That his book remains in print would manifestation of divine Creation. Bar- be notable enough, but Bartram’s work tram’s holism lays the foundation for Contributors was visionary. It fostered the develop- major themes of modern nature writing Janisse Ray ment of a truly American strain of as well as environmental philosophy. B i ll B e ll e v i ll e natural history. His writings transcend- In this unique anthology, for the J o h n L a n e ed scientific boundaries to deeply influ- first timeTravels is joined with essays R o g e R P i n c k n e y ence Coleridge, Wordsworth, and other acknowledging the debt Southern J . D R e w L a n h a m D o u g D av i s Romantic poets. And his text continues nature writers owe the man called the g e R a ld T h u R m o n D to ignite the imaginations of Southern- “South’s Thoreau.” We hope this book k a T h y R n e . h o ll a n D B R a u n D ers who love nature. will introduce a new generation of c h R i s T o P h e R c a m u T o Bartram’s ability to marry science environmentally minded Southerners m a tt h e w c . s m i T h with poetry ensured Travels a world- to Bartram’s timeless work, not only D i x o n B y n u m wide audience for the last 200 years. standing on its own but also interpreted T h o m a s h a ll o c k J a n D e B L i e u William Bartram was a cultural histo- through passionate, personal essays by T h o m a s R a i n c R o w e rian, too, carefully recording the way in some of the region’s finest nature writ- w h i T g i bb o n s which the Indians used the land along ers. Rather than wallowing in nostal- with the changes wrought by European gia for the long-gone world Bartram F e a t u r i n g settlers. describes, this anthology provides us Original Artwork by Being on the road with Bartram with a starting point for reconstructing P h i L i P J u R a s involves cliffhanger encounters with and reclaiming the natural heritage of dreadful weather, charismatic preda- the South. SEPTEMBER 2010 | LITERARY CRITICISM 7.25 x 9.25 | 464 pp. | Cloth, $55.00t | 978-0-88146-209-8 | H808 | 16 Color Plates | Maps 7.25 x 9.25 | 464 pp. | Paper, $28.00t | 978-0-88146-222-7 | P415 | 16 Color Plates | Maps 2 mercer universit y press Fall/winter 2010 New Release Philip Lee Williams is the author of fourteen published books and The has written about the natural world Flower most of his career and taught nature writing at the University of seeker Georgia, from which he retired in An Epic Poem of William Bartram March 2010. He is the winner of Philip Lee Williams numerous literary awards, includ- ing the national Michael Shaara Prize for his 2004 novel, A Distant Flame. Among his earlier books from Mercer University Press are In the Morning: Reflections from First Light (essays), The Campfire Boys (novel), and a collection of poetry, A work of breathless imagination and pure genius— Elegies for the Water. CD includes original music composed by the author and a recording of the Keowee River in South Carolina titles B y thi S A u tho R William bartram’s Travels, The Flower Seeker begins with an published in 1791, remains a seminal unusual but regular stanzaic form but book for understanding the American quickly changes as Bartram changes South, its flora, fauna, and people. during his four-year ride on horseback Now, acclaimed poet and novelist around the South. Philip Lee Williams, who has known Following in the shadows of other Bartram’s work almost since child- epic poems such as Ezra Pound’s Elegies for Campfire Boys hood, has written what will surely be Cantos, Paterson of William Carlos the Water A Novel Poems Philip Lee Williams acclaimed as one of the finest long Williams, or The Maximus Poems Philip Lee Williams Cloth | $26.00t | H788 poems ever to come out of the South. by Charles Olson, The Flower Seeker Cloth | $20.00t | H757 978-0-88146-153-4 978-0-88146-142-8 The Flower Seeker is an epic poem is a dazzling compendium of poetic that follows the young William Bar- devices and approaches. In it, Williams tram on his journey in the American uses the Travels as the basis for an South and during his old age in his expanding and imaginary universe that father’s gardens. It is truly a southern describes Bartram’s interior world as Odyssey, using techniques of fiction much as the one he rode through.