A stirring portrait of Vice President Mike Pence from his own daughter: the
story of a Christian husband and father who answers the call to serve America
with his family by his side.

When Mike Pence set out on the vice presidential campaign trail, his daughter
Charlotte knew the next 100 days would be exciting and challenging. But she also
knew that her father-a dedicated public servant-would succeed because he'd cling to
his faith, his love for America, and his family every step of the way.

New York Times bestselling author Charlotte Pence pays tribute to her father,
revealing the lessons he has taught her from his rich spiritual life. Through favorite
memories from childhood and vivid moments captured on the campaign trail, like the
times she helped her dad prepare for debates, Charlotte offers a compelling story of
love, hope, and how to overcome adversity. Featuring a foreword from Vice President
Mike Pence and a sixteen-page color photo spread, Where You Go is an uplifting
celebration of family that will inspire audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Chapters include:

• Trust the Grand Plan
• Speak Your Dreams
• Determine Your Heroes, and
• Find Strength in Your Differences.

"The Poetics of American Song Lyrics" is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres and their crafts. The essayists share a desire to write on lyrics in a way that moves beyond sociological, historical, and autobiographical approaches and explicates songs in relation to poetics. Unique to this volume, the essays focus not on a single genre but on folk, rap, hip hop, country, rock, indie, soul, and blues.

The first section of the book provides a variety of perspectives on the poetic history and techniques within songs and poems, and the second section focuses on a few prominent American songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Stipe. Through conversational yet in-depth analyses of songs, the essays discuss sonnet forms, dramatic monologues, Modernism, ballads, blues poems, confessionalism, Language poetry, Keatsian odes, unreliable narrators, personas, poetic sequences, rhythm, rhyme, transcription methods, the writing process, and more. While the strategies of explication differ from essay to essay, the nexus of each piece is an unveiling of the poetic history and poetic techniques within songs.

Charlotte Pence of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the author of "The Writer's Path: Creative Exercises for Meaningful Essays." She is also the winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition for her poetry chapbook "The Branches, the Axe, the Missing."