Edward J. Rielly

Profiles the life and literary career of the American novelist, author of "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night."

There is insufficient recognition given to Native American women, many of whom have made enormous contributions to their respective tribal nations and to the broader United States. The 14 stories in this book are representative of the countless Native American women who have excelled as leaders (including Debra Haaland and her history-making role as Secretary of the Interior). They come from across the centuries and from a range of tribal nations, and represent a wide range of society, including politics, the arts, health care, business, education, wellness, feminism, environmentalism, and social activism. Most of these women have made their mark in more than one area. Each chapter includes personal biographical and public life information. Some of the women have given us much in writing, including memoirs, while others have left behind little or nothing written. Even in the absence of their own words, though, their actions still speak eloquently.

This revised and expanded edition of Edward J. Rielly's Abandoned Farmhouse features 17 poems in the title sequence, and an additional 49 haiku in four seasonal sections. The author trusts that readers will not see his farmhouse haiku as unrelentingly sad because, he says, writing these haiku has been "at heart a joyous experience, even a celebration." About the AuthorEdward J. Rielly is a professor emeritus of English and former director of the writing and publishing program at Saint Joseph's College in Standish, Maine. A widely published author, his books include a memoir of his childhood (Bread Pudding and Other Memories: A Boyhood on the Farm), children's picture books, biographies, cultural histories, studies of baseball and football, and many collections of poetry. His haiku have appeared in several chapbooks and dozens of magazines since the 1970s. His Answers Instead: A Life in Haiku is the 2016 recipient of the Kanterman Memorial Award from the Haiku Society of America. He lives in Westbrook, Maine, with his wife, Jeanne. From the Introduction"I grew up on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin between Darlington and Mineral Point, a dairy farm that my father operated with my mother, brothers, and sister. Many of the following haiku arose from that heritage-reflecting, I think, both the beauty and sadness of farm life. I prize my years on the farm. They have contributed more than I can measure to who I am and therefore to my writing." Appreciations"Abandoned Farmhouse is a celebration in haiku of the indelible life that exists in a farmhouse and a testament to the breadth and depth of farm life. This essential haiku collection conveys the inextricable linkage of farm life to nature's flow of seasons, day by day, chore by chore, illuminating a beautiful round of relationships." -Tom Clausen "Ed Rielly is a skilled and sensitive poet, as these carefully crafted haiku clearly show. The 'Abandoned Farmhouse' poems are poignant and deeply felt. Read and re-read these poems. Their meaning deepens and broadens. Listen to the quiet music of this gifted poet." -Elizabeth Searle Lamb "With a breath's worth of words Ed Rielly brings the living moments of other places, other times, into the present. His haiku indeed act as 'wallpaper peeling back / to my childhood.' Ed Rielly has the technique, the eye, the heart of a master." -Carol Purington

This book describes the plight of Native Americans from the 17th through the 20th century as they struggled to maintain their land, culture, and lives, and the major Indian leaders who resisted the inevitable result.From the Indian Removal Act to the Battle of Little Bighorn to Geronimo's surrender in 1886, the story of how Europeans settled upon and eventually took over lands traditionally inhabited by American Indian peoples is long and troubling. This book discusses American Indian leaders over the course of four centuries, offering a chronological history of the Indian resistance effort. Legends of American Indian Resistance is organized in 12 chapters, each describing the life and accomplishments of a major American Indian resistance leader. Author Edward J. Rielly provides an engaging overview of the many systematic efforts to subjugate Native Americans and take possession of their valuable land and resources.

Football. Far more than a game, America's favorite spectator sport is an intrinsic part of the nation's popular culture—a proving ground for high school athletes, a springboard for stars, a multimillion-dollar business, and a vast entertainment enterprise. Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture provides a detailed look at America's pastime through the lens of pop culture, a fascinating A-to-Z inventory of how certain aspects of the game affect and reflect broader society. From African Americans in football to the meaning of Zero in the sport, this volume profiles players and personalities, teams and events, games and football concepts, and sociological and technological changes in the sport. The goal is not to name every Hall of Famer or to retell the game's entire history, but to give a clear and detailed account of where, in football history, the importance of people and events extends beyond the playing field. Its wide-ranging entries examine such names as Joe Montana and Byron "Whizzer" White and phenomena from concussions, mascots, team names, and literature to U.S. presidents and football's presence in television commercials. The encyclopedia covers all levels of play—professional, collegiate, high school, and youth—offering a from-the-ground-up, gridiron look at the game of football within the matrix of American culture.

A revered political, spiritual, and military leader, Sitting Bull was legendary for his stubbornness and battle prowess as head of the Lakota Sioux in the 1860s. His resistance of U.S. government encroachment onto Native lands and his fight to preserve Sioux culture inspired his people to do the same, culminating in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Despite his eventual surrender, Sitting Bull was one of the most influential figures in the history of U.S.-Native American relations. This accessible biography marks the first of several Native American volumes to come in the Greenwood Biographies series and is an essential supplement to any American history or Native American studies curricula.

Discover baseball's role in American society! Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's impact on American society through the eyes of the game's foremost scholars, historians, and commentators. Edited by Dr. Edward J. Rielly, author of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, the book examines how baseball and society intersect and interact, and how the quintessential American game reflects and affects American culture. Enlightening and entertaining, Baseball and American Culture presents a multidisciplinary perspective on baseball's involvement in virtually every important social development in the United Statespast and present. Baseball and American Culture examines baseball’s unique role as a sociological touchstone, presenting scholarly essays that explore the game as a microcosm for American societygood and bad. Topics include the struggle for racial equality, women’s role in society, immigration, management-labor conflicts, advertising, patriotism, religion, the limitations of baseball as a metaphor, and suicide. Contributing authors include Larry Moffi, author of This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s and Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959, and a host of presenters to the 2001 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, including Thomas Altherr, George Grella, Dave Ogden, Roberta Newman, Brian Carroll, Richard Puerzer, and the editor himself. Baseball and American Culture features 23 essays on this fascinating subject, including: On Fenway, Faith, and Fandom: A Red Sox Fan Reflects Baseball and Blacks: A Loss of Affinity, A Loss of Community The Hall of Fame and the American Mythology Writing Their Way Home: American Writers and Baseball God and the Diamond: The Born-Again Baseball Autobiography Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is an essential read for baseball fans and historians, academics involved in sports literature and popular culture, and students of American society.

Discover baseball's role in American society! Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's impact on American society through the eyes of the game's foremost scholars, historians, and commentators. Edited by Dr. Edward J. Rielly, author of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, the book examines how baseball and society intersect and interact, and how the quintessential American game reflects and affects American culture. Enlightening and entertaining, Baseball and American Culture presents a multidisciplinary perspective on baseball's involvement in virtually every important social development in the United Statespast and present. Baseball and American Culture examines baseball’s unique role as a sociological touchstone, presenting scholarly essays that explore the game as a microcosm for American societygood and bad. Topics include the struggle for racial equality, women’s role in society, immigration, management-labor conflicts, advertising, patriotism, religion, the limitations of baseball as a metaphor, and suicide. Contributing authors include Larry Moffi, author of This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s and Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959, and a host of presenters to the 2001 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, including Thomas Altherr, George Grella, Dave Ogden, Roberta Newman, Brian Carroll, Richard Puerzer, and the editor himself. Baseball and American Culture features 23 essays on this fascinating subject, including: On Fenway, Faith, and Fandom: A Red Sox Fan Reflects Baseball and Blacks: A Loss of Affinity, A Loss of Community The Hall of Fame and the American Mythology Writing Their Way Home: American Writers and Baseball God and the Diamond: The Born-Again Baseball Autobiography Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is an essential read for baseball fans and historians, academics involved in sports literature and popular culture, and students of American society.

Beautiful Lightning, as the subtitle (Spiritual Poems in a Difficult World) indicates, includes poems that face often challenging, if not unpleasant, events, but can still exhibit the sudden brilliance of lightning. Lightning can be dangerous, but it can also enlighten and demonstrate a beauty of its own. These poems, composed by an experienced and award-winning poet, lead the reader through an array of moments seen through a spiritual prism. That the spiritual dimension of a poem is not always explicit fits human experience, as the divine is not only present in obvious places, such as houses of worship, but also in the most commonplace of locations and moments. There is spirituality in a young girl in a doctor's office pointing at something no one else sees, in spring mud, in sun shining in one's hair, in a mother making bread pudding for her family. Something as common as rain recalls God's refreshing and strengthening grace. Conversely, the overtly religious can call us to make a connection we have not made before. For example, a poem about Barsabbas, rejected as a replacement disciple, summons readers to consider their own rejections and what they can make of them. ""These poems illuminate spirit in the material world. A baby's small fist, one tear, a lone lost sheep, a mosquito's bite, the drive-thru line for coffee. Nothing exists outside one source of creation. 'Coming home is always a family affair, ' and Ed excludes no one and nothing. Spiritual life is a means of resisting exclusion and alienation. From farm boy to professor, Ed mines the 'mortal coil' for simplicity and mystery."" --Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel, historian, teacher, poet ""Dr. Rielly's Beautiful Lightning, a multifaceted window into mystery, is a tour de force of poetic expression. Readers will delight in sharing in the author's story narratives, including his mother's making bread pudding, and reflections on topics such as birth, aging, and death. The poems in this collection serve as exquisite entryways into spiritual reality embedded in the ever-changing seasons of human experience."" --Marilyn Sunderman, RSM, Professor of Theology, Saint Joseph's College of Maine ""'What does He ask of us' begins Beautiful Lightning, and the question echoes throughout this elegant book. What, indeed? The gentle dignity of Rielly's language and graceful symmetries of form and imagery create a safe, sacred space where readers can explore the answers. I love how Rielly trusts us to find God and maybe a little bit of ourselves in his work."" --Lora Homan Zill, writer, artist, publisher, Time of Singing: A Journal of Christian Poetry Edward J. Rielly, professor emeritus and former director of the writing and publishing program at Saint Joseph's College in Maine, is the author or editor of approximately thirty books, including the memoir Bread Pudding and Other Memories: A Boyhood on the Farm, children's picture books, biographies, cultural histories, literary studies, and collections of poetry. His Answers Instead received the Mildred Kanterman Memorial Award from the Haiku Society of America in 2016.

Beautiful Lightning, as the subtitle (Spiritual Poems in a Difficult World) indicates, includes poems that face often challenging, if not unpleasant, events, but can still exhibit the sudden brilliance of lightning. Lightning can be dangerous, but it can also enlighten and demonstrate a beauty of its own. These poems, composed by an experienced and award-winning poet, lead the reader through an array of moments seen through a spiritual prism. That the spiritual dimension of a poem is not always explicit fits human experience, as the divine is not only present in obvious places, such as houses of worship, but also in the most commonplace of locations and moments. There is spirituality in a young girl in a doctor's office pointing at something no one else sees, in spring mud, in sun shining in one's hair, in a mother making bread pudding for her family. Something as common as rain recalls God's refreshing and strengthening grace. Conversely, the overtly religious can call us to make a connection we have not made before. For example, a poem about Barsabbas, rejected as a replacement disciple, summons readers to consider their own rejections and what they can make of them. ""These poems illuminate spirit in the material world. A baby's small fist, one tear, a lone lost sheep, a mosquito's bite, the drive-thru line for coffee. Nothing exists outside one source of creation. 'Coming home is always a family affair, ' and Ed excludes no one and nothing. Spiritual life is a means of resisting exclusion and alienation. From farm boy to professor, Ed mines the 'mortal coil' for simplicity and mystery."" --Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel, historian, teacher, poet ""Dr. Rielly's Beautiful Lightning, a multifaceted window into mystery, is a tour de force of poetic expression. Readers will delight in sharing in the author's story narratives, including his mother's making bread pudding, and reflections on topics such as birth, aging, and death. The poems in this collection serve as exquisite entryways into spiritual reality embedded in the ever-changing seasons of human experience."" --Marilyn Sunderman, RSM, Professor of Theology, Saint Joseph's College of Maine ""'What does He ask of us' begins Beautiful Lightning, and the question echoes throughout this elegant book. What, indeed? The gentle dignity of Rielly's language and graceful symmetries of form and imagery create a safe, sacred space where readers can explore the answers. I love how Rielly trusts us to find God and maybe a little bit of ourselves in his work."" --Lora Homan Zill, writer, artist, publisher, Time of Singing: A Journal of Christian Poetry Edward J. Rielly, professor emeritus and former director of the writing and publishing program at Saint Joseph's College in Maine, is the author or editor of approximately thirty books, including the memoir Bread Pudding and Other Memories: A Boyhood on the Farm, children's picture books, biographies, cultural histories, literary studies, and collections of poetry. His Answers Instead received the Mildred Kanterman Memorial Award from the Haiku Society of America in 2016.

This book describes the important changes in American society during the 60s, from feminism and civil rights to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Individual chapters explore various aspects of popular culture, including advertising, fashion, literature, music, visual arts, and travel. Supplemental resources include a timeline of important events, an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a subject index. This book describes the important changes in American society during the 60s, from feminism and civil rights to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Individual chapters explore various aspects of popular culture, including advertising, fashion, literature, music, visual arts, and travel. Supplemental resources include a timeline of important events, an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a subject index. Iconoclasts such as Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Namath, Ralph Nader, and Andy Warhol brought color and controversy to this tumultuous decade, while cultural events such as the Stonewall March, The Graduate, and the Monterey Pop Festival provided indelible images of a bellwether time in American society. Whether it was Beatlemania, bell-bottoms, or bumper stickers, the cultural contributions of the 60s showed that the times were definitely a-changin'.