Books by James Silas Rogers

The Collector of Shadows, by James Silas Rogers, is a collection of poetry set primarily in the upper Midwest and celebrating the extraordinary in the ordinary. Rogers, an award-winning essayist and well-published poet, is the author of a chapbook, Sundogs, and of a collection of essays and poems involving cemeteries, Northern Orchards: Places Near the Dead.

Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it's often an indirect one. Opening a new window on the meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, this work also reveals how Catholicism, so key to the identity of earlier generations of Irish Americans, has also evolved.