A collection of poems focusing on Sarmatia, an ancient name for a part of Eastern Europe near Russia, dealing with the guilty spirits of this place that the author loved as a child, and helped destroy as part of the Nazi army.

When Aaron Langford' s friend, Otis Thomas, gives him a divination tray as a housewarming gift, Aaron thinks nothing of it. However, as weird occurrences begin to happen around him, Aaron' s life is suddenly thrust into turmoil with the disappearance of his son, Asher, and daughter, Imani. As Aaron' s marriage and life spiral out of control and the police zero in on him as the prime suspect in his children' s disappearance, Aaron realizes he and his friends may have unleashed ancient supernatural powers that were best left alone. In a desperate attempt to bring his children back and clear his name, Aaron decides to embark on an improbable journey with the help of the divination' s tray original owner, Urbi Houna, as his guide. Shadowland explores one man' s attempts to overcome death and despair as well as pierce the veil between life and death.

In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.