Turner Cassity
Turner Cassity was born in 1929 in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of seven collections of poetry and the recipient of numerous prizes and awards. He retired in 1991 as a catalog librarian at the R. W. Woodruff Library, Emory University.
Author of…
No Second Eden
Poems
If you think that Turner Cassity has mellowed or slowed down since the 1998 release of his selected poems, The Destructive Element, think again. In No Second Eden Cassity is back more Swiftian than ever.…
The Destructive Element
New and Selected Poems
Turner Cassity is like a highly accomplished traditional composer—Camille Saint-Saëns, say, or Richard Strauss—who does not doubt that the music is the score and the score is the music. That is, poetry is verse and verse is poetry.…
Devils & Islands
Poems
As he approaches eighty, Turner Cassity may finally be out of control. His hatchet has never fallen more lethally, meaning if you have the stomach for him he is more enjoyable than ever. Under the blade come Martha Graham, Johann Sebastian Bach, musicologists, tree huggers, Frank Gehry, folk music, folk art of all times and all places, folk… .…
- Edwin Cady
Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus at Duke University… - Terry Caesar
Professor of English at Clarion University… - Luli Callinicos
- Vibert C. Cambridge
Associate professor of telecommunications and chair of the department of African American studies at Ohio University… - Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Associate professor of English at the University of Kansas… - A. E. Campbell
Professor emeritus, University of Birmingham and a leading British scholar of early twentieth-century American history… - Donna Campbell
- Elizabeth A. Campbell
- Gwyn Campbell
Author and editor of many works, including Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar… - Louis W. Campbell
- SueEllen Campbell
Associate professor of English at Bowling Green State University… - Joseph Candido
Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance drama… - Dorothy Canfield
Popular writer in the first half of the century… - Lucia Capacchione
- Mary Wilson Carpenter
- Alicia Carroll
Assistant professor in the English department at Auburn University… - Jo Carson
Writer and performer from Johnson City, Tennessee… - Meredith Carson
Born in Brooklyn in 1913… - Peter Carstens
Professor of social anthropology at the University of Toronto… - Grace Carswell
Lecturer in geography at Sussex University… - Turner Cassity
Born in 1929 in Jackson, Mississippi… - Alfred L. Castle
Graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and Colorado State University and the author of numerous journal articles, book reviews, and feature articles, as well as the author of a book on the history of philanthropy… - Henry Northrup Castle
- David Castronovo
Professor of English at Pace University in New York City… - Andrew R. L. Cayton
Author of several books, including Ohio: The History of a People and, with Fred Anderson, The Dominion of War: Liberty and Empire in North America, 1500–2000… - Julius L. Chambers
Chancellor of North Carolina Central University and the former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund… - Charles Champlin
- Julie A. Charlip
Associate professor of history at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington… - Hélène Charton-Bigot
CNRS researcher at the CEAN at the University of Bordeaux… - D. P. Chattopadhyaya
- Andrée Chedid
Poet, essayist, dramatist and novelist of Egypto-Lebanese origin… - Lynda Salter Chenoweth
Quilter who has lived in Sonoma, California since retiring from the University of California at Berkeley… - Janet Cherry
Human rights activist, researcher, and academic who teaches at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa… - Charles W. Chesnutt
First nationally known African American fiction writer… - Harry E. Chrisman
Born on a Nebraska ranch and worked as a cowhand and horse wrangler… - Carl C. Christensen
Professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder… - Chris Christiansen
- Diane M. Ciekawy
Associate professor of anthropology at Ohio University… - Mark Cioc
Professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000… - Aninka Claassens
Land rights activist and researcher and writer on land rights and customary tenure… - Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
Assistant professor of English at Indiana University East in Richmond, Indiana, and has published articles in several journals and edited collections… - Ricky Clark
Affiliate scholar associated with Oberlin College and the author of several works on Ohio Quilts, including, as coauthor, Quilts in Community: Ohio’s Traditions… - Anthony Clayton
- William M. Clements
Co-author of Native American Folklore, 1879-1979: An Annotated Bibliography… - Richard L. Clutterbuck
- Lenore McComas Coberly
- James Cochrane
Professor and Director of the Church and Public Policy Programme in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town… - Donald V. Coers
- Christina Cogdell
Assistant professor of art history at the College of Santa Fe and the author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s… - David William Cohen
Professor of anthropology and history at the University of Michigan… - Matthew Isaac Cohen
Senior lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London… - Jane Candia Coleman
Co-founder and Director of the Women’s Creative Writing Center at Carlow College in Pittsburgh… - John Comaroff
- H. Jason Combs
Associate professor of geography at the University of Nebraska Kearney… - William Faricy Condee
Professor of theater and the director of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University… - William R. Conrad Jr.
- Christopher A. Conte
Associate professor of history at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, where he teaches African and environmental history… - Patrick J. Cook
Author of Milton, Spenser, and the Epic Tradition… - Brenda Cooper
- Robert M. Cooper
Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee… - Ron L. Cooper
Native South Carolinian who received his Ph.D… - William O. Cord
- Dennis D. Cordell
Professor of history and adjunct professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University… - Temple H. Cornelius
- Alice M. Cornell
- Joost J. Coté
Senior lecturer in history at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia… - H. R. Coursen
- Ben Cousins
Director of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies… - Pierre Coustillas
Professor of English, University of Lille, France… - Jeffrey N. Cox
Associate professor of English at Texas A&M University, where he serves on the Steering Committee of the Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study… - Thomas H. Cox
Assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University… - Jeanne L. Crabtree
Writer and a former editorial adviser to the law reviews published at the University of Oklahoma College of Law… - Nicholas M. Creary
- Ashby Bland Crowder
Peace Professor Emeritus of English, American Literature, and the Humanities at Hendrix College… - Samuel Crowl
Author of Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen as well as numerous essays, articles, reviews, and interviews on aspects of Shakespeare in performance… - Susan Crowl
Professor of English at Ohio University… - Jonathan Crush
Canada Research Fellow and an associate professor of geography at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario… - Sue C. Cummings
Ohio textiles… - James Cummins
Born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Cleveland and Indianapolis… - Susan Currell
Lecturer in American literature at the University of Sussex and the author of The March of Spare Time… - James Currey
Editorial director at Heinemann Educational Books in charge of the African Writers Series from 1967 to 1984… - Philip D. Curtin
Herbert Baxter Adams Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University… - Devon Curtis
- Frank Cushing
- Greg Cuthbertson
Chair of the department of history at the University of South Africa and coordinating editor of the South African Historical Journal… - Julia P. Cutler
- William P. Cutler
