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Combining incantation, elegy, documentary poetics, and lyric memoir, this book is a raw recounting of the author's mother's tragic death entwined with a book-length meditation on light, language, and...

Classic and new work by poet and jazz writer A. B. Spellman A. B. Spellman is an acclaimed American poet, music critic, and arts administrator. He is widely recognized as a leading figure in the...

The author delivers new understandings of jazz history through a fine-grained social history of African American musicians, from the Civil War until the onset of Jim Crow, placing New Orleans in a...

Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American PoetsAuthor: Sam SaxPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Sep 04, 2018Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage:...

A multivoiced dance history book, authored by twelve diverse choreographers In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this...

A lyrically and formally innovative exploration of desire and its cost DEED, the follow-up to torrin a. greathouse's 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award winning debut, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, is...

Inventive poetry explores Jewish identity in America "How can I teach a prayer / I only know how to recite?" "America, whose death / didn't you come from?" These are some of the questions that poet...

A double book by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout What will we call the last generation before the looming end times? With The Finalists Rae Armantrout suggests one option. Brilliant and...

Keen, pithy meditations on a world that continues to surprise us The poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout's new book are concerned with "this ongoing attempt/ to catalog the world" in a time...

A chapbook of love poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa I Said That Love Heals From Inside: Love Poems is a small treasure featuring five decades of love poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Free Jazz,...

mahogany is about the passing of time and unimaginable loss, strength, humor, and love mahogany takes its name from the dark wood prized for its durability, workability, and elegant look, and from...

Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith achieve a laudable adaptation of Cesaire's work to English by clarifying double meanings, stretching syntax, and finding equivalent English puns, all while...

Now It's Dark (Wesleyan Poetry Series)Author: Peter GizziPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Powerful translations of a seminal figure in modern poetry Gladly the boatman turns home to the river's calm From his harvest on faraway isles; If only I too were homeward bound; Yet what harvest...

New and selected poetry from Pulitzer prize-winning author Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout's poetry comprises one of the most refined and visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years...

Poetry by Evie Shockley, critiquing daily life as well as responding to race- and gender-based violence--Author: Evie ShockleyPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Jun 05, 2018Number...

Author: Rainer Maria RilkePublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Jun 24, 1987Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0819561657ISBN-13: 9780819561657

Poems wrestling with the pursuit of a meaningful life, both rural and urban, on a swiftly heating earth--Author: Idra NoveyPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Sep 03, 2024Number of...

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream?and work?toward a more capacious "we" In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes...

Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis Wheatley NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work for Poetry 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, Longlist 2020 LA Times Book Award Finalist...

The Alphabet In The Park: Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry In Translation)Author: Adã©Lia Prado, Ellen WatsonPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Aug 24, 1990Number of Pages: 80...

Poems that play in the sonic texture of discoursesAuthor: Fred MotenPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Jul 05, 2016Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The first English-language study of mountains as subject matter and inspiration for the visual artsAuthor: Peter Mark, Peter Helman, Penny SnyderPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date:...

The first bilingual edition of this radically original work AimE CEsaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem...

The Past (Wesleyan Poetry Series)Author: Wendy XuPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: 7-Sep-21Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0819580465ISBN-13:...

New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem What is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of...

Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and powerAuthor: Camille T. DungyPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2018Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage:...

Un-American (Wesleyan Poetry Series)Author: Hafizah GeterPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublication Date: Sep 08, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...