Steady Daylight Edward Pillar Representing the Race is a

Representing the Race is a bold explanation of what's at stake in continuing to politicize African American literature in the new millennium

the coherence of national culture has been challenged by the expansion of - and attacks on - individual and group rights

Centering perspectives from LGBTQ

the Brooklyn Dodgers became truly the first "America's team

and its fate in the hands of succeeding generations

Steady Daylight Edward Pillar Representing the Race is aSteady Daylight, the latest volume of poetry from Joseph Bathanti, returns to the place he grew up, the now vanished neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. The speaker traipses fearlessly between real and imagined realms, in the face of often conflicted sensibilities, secrets, and silence. While the physical touchstones of the "old" East Liberty have evanesced, Bathanti invents a world ample enough for the dead and the living through incantatory