Points of Interest contains poems about people, animals, relationships, life and death. The topics include growing up, getting older, dying, love and struggle. Imagine if the navigation system in your vehicle could display these things in addition to mere locations. Not just banks, stores, restaurants and street addresses, but the thoughts and lives of the people who inhabit those places. As you look at the screen it shows a supermarket, but inside, a young mother checks out her groceries and deals with her frustrations. The screen shows people in nursing homes, the ambivalence of a yard sale, a puppy in its first snowfall and a man reminiscing about all the cats he has owned in his life. Other “locations” include people dealing with grief, falling in love, divorcing, and fantasizing. Each poem is associated with the physical location of a city and state. Many of these locations represent the geographical place where the poem was actually written. In other cases the poet traveled mentally to a location and incident from his past while crafting the work. Either way, these points of interest, and the people who occupy them, are ready for you to view. Just touch the screen.
Following William Ogden Haynes' first successful collection of poetry "Points of Interest" this new book contains fifty poems and five short stories most of which have been previously published in literary magazines. "Uncommon Pursuits" brings his work from disparate journals into a single collection. Each poem and short story shares a tinge of the uncommon, whether it is the topic, the unfolding of the tale or the way it ends. As in his first collection, "Uncommon Pursuits" presents poetry and stories that are accessible to all readers, whether they are seasoned poets or those who have never enjoyed this genre before.
William Ogden Haynes had never set foot in the South until he was thirty years old and accepted a job at a university in Alabama. Now, some forty years later, Haynes presents in narrative poetry, infused with wit and insight, the observations and experiences of a transplanted Yankee adapting to Southern culture.
Time on My hands was written during the pandemic of 2020-2021. It was a time of isolation for nearly a year when the author, a retiree who lives alone, was determined to fill his days doing something productive. He had published six books of poetry and over 200 poems in literary journals, but all that was done while he led a normal life. Looking down the barrel of many months of isolation, several things occurred to him. First, there would be no excuses for not writing poetry since each day was a new beginning with no schedule. Second, because there were no excuses, writers block was a real threat. Third, he didn't want to write a book of poetry about COVID19 because it would be depressing. So, the book of poetry evolved on topics unrelated to the virus, and this made surviving the isolation possible for the author. There is no overarching theme of the poems. They cover the typical topics all of us encounter in our lives like childhood, family, work, love, hate, pets, philosophy, success, failure and nature to name a few. The author, throughout his writing career has endeavored to write poetry that is approachable, real, and deals with concerns of every person in life. Many of the works are about common events we all share and may offer a slightly different perspective on those occurrences.
Mr. Smith has rescued from obscurity all references to individuals as can be found in the early statutes of Kentucky, producing, in effect, the Kentucky equivalent of Personal Names in Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia. For each of the 5,000 persons named in this index, there is provided an identifying piece of information, such as occupation, legal status, relationship, etc., as well as the volume and page number in "Littell's Laws" where the name originally appears.This volume is also available on our Family Archive CD 7519.
A comprehensive and focused review of all of the Supreme Court's overturns of Congress on constitutional grounds from 1789 to the present suited to college-level political science and constitutional law courses as well as law school students. The always-controversial practice of judicial review of Congress is not prescribed in the Constitution, but is arguably a valid way to protect the rights of individuals or guard against unfair rule by the majority. This book offers a historical review and indictment of the Supreme Court's overruling of Congress, ultimately taking a position that this has been more detrimental than beneficial to the democratic process in the United States, and that in the aggregate rights of individuals and minorities would have been better served if the relevant laws of Congress had been enforced rather than struck down by the Court. Written by an author who is a historian and a lawyer, the book covers all Supreme Court overrides of Congress through 2014, including major historical turning points in Supreme Court legislation and such recent and relevant topics as the Affordable Care Act, limits on contributions to political candidates and campaigns from wealthy individuals, and the Defense of Marriage Act. The discussions of specific cases are made in relevant context and focus on "big picture" themes and concepts without skipping key details, making this a useful volume for law and university level students while also being accessible to general readers.
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