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Inside the Dancer’s Art rose eichenbaum Elegant photographs of the mysterious and complex world of dance Acclaimed photographer Rose Eichenbaum captures the spirit, beauty, and commitment of dancers along with the dancers’ own words of wisdom and guidance. More than 250 color and black and white photographs are paired with inspirational quotes from legendary and emerging dancers. Available Now Here, words and images explore creativity, art making, the 258 pp., 260 illus. (229 color), 10 x 8" communicative power of the human body, the challenges Paper, $26.95 • 978-0-8195-7700-9 (CAD 36.00) of balancing everyday life with the physical and practical Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7701-6 demands of the dancer’s art, and more. In these intimate dance / photography portraits, Eichenbaum reveals and celebrates the world of the dancer. Sensual and mesmerizing, these images will entrance dancer and non-dancer alike—as well as anyone who loves fine photography—with their powerful depiction of the human body. “Rose’s pictures of dancers reveal the most touching thing there is to know about them—their humanity.” Lar Lubovitch, from the foreword “What a magnificent collection of dance photos! Not only do these photos move, making this a wonderful tribute to the dancers, but they also seem to dance from page to page. Such a moving experience to see so much of Ms. Eichenbaum’s astonishing work in one book.” Dr. Daniel Lewis, author of The Illustrated Dance Techniques of José Limón “Spanning three decades, this volume displays a breath- taking range of imagery. From legends like José Greco to rising stars of today such as Cassandra Trenary, Rose has captured the essence of each dancer in portraits, rehearsals also of interest and performance!" The Dancer Within Rosalie O’Connor, photographer Intimate rose eichenbaum is an award-winning photographer, Conversations with Great Dancers author of six books, and a respected educator. Her photography has graced more than thirty national magazine ROSE EICHENBAUM covers, and has been the subject of numerous exhibitions. EDITED BY ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER

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Ishiro Honda A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa steve ryfle and ed godziszewski with yuuko honda-yun foreword by martin scorsese

The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unmatched succession of science fiction films that were commercial hits worldwide. From the atomic allegory of Godzilla and the beguiling charms of Mothra to the tragic mystery of Matango and the disaster and spectacle of Rodan, The Mysterians, King Kong vs. Godzilla, and many others, Honda’s films reflected postwar Japan’s real-life anxieties and incorporated fantastical special effects, a formula that October appealed to audiences around the globe and created a 336 pp., 116 illus., 7 x 10" popular culture phenomenon that spans generations. Now, Cloth, $32.95 s • 978-0-8195-7087-1 (CAD 48.00) in the first full account of this director’s life and career, Ebook, $26.99 • 978-0-8195-7741-2 authors Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski shed new light film / japan on Honda’s work and the experiences that shaped it— including his days as a reluctant Japanese soldier, witnessing the aftermath of Hiroshima, and his lifelong friendship with Akira Kurosawa. The authors cover Honda’s non-science fiction films for the first time in any language. Fans of Honda, Godzilla, and tokusatsu (special effects) film, and of Japanese film in general, will welcome this in-depth study of a highly influential director who occupies a uniquely important position in science fiction and fantasy cinema, as well as in world cinema. “This carefully researched and detailed book gives us a full picture of the man and his life.” From the foreword by Martin Scorsese also of interest steve ryfle has contributed film journalism and criticism to numerous publications and is the author of a book on The Cinema of the history of the Godzilla film series.ed godziszewski is Errol Morris editor and publisher of Japanese Giants magazine. He is the DAVID RESHA author of a Godzilla film encyclopedia.

Paper, $29.95 · 978-0-8195-7534-0 Ebook, $23.99 · 978-0-8195-7535-7 Along the Valley Line The Complete Poetry The History of the of Aimé Césaire Connecticut Valley Railroad Bilingual Edition max r. miller aimé césaire The first book on translated by clayton eshleman and a. james arnold the history of the Connecticut Valley The definitive edition Railroad of the complete work of a master Caribbean poet

The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River. Completed in 1871, today the The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all railroad is known throughout New England for the of Cesaire’s celebrated verse into one bilingual nostalgic steam-powered excursion trains that carry edition. The French portion is comprised of newly over 30,000 passengers each year on a portion of the established first editions of Césaire’s poetic œuvre line between Essex and Chester. This book, written made available in French in 2014, edited by A. J. by railroad historian and former vice president and Arnold and an international team of specialists. To director of Valley Railroad, Max R. Miller, provides prepare the English translations, the translators the first comprehensive history of the Connecticut started afresh from this French edition. These Valley Railroad through maps, ephemera, and translations the poet’s early work reveal a new archival photographs. understanding of Cesaire’s aesthetic and political trajectory. max r. miller is a historian of the Connecticut Valley Railroad. He worked for the Valley Railroad aimé césaire (1913–2008) was best known as the from the 1970s to the 1990s, serving as vice co-creator (with Léopold Senghor) of the concept president and director of the line. of négritude. clayton eshleman is emeritus professor of English at Eastern Michigan University Publication of this book is funded by the and the foremost American translator of César Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund Vallejo and Aimé Césaire. a. james arnold is at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. emeritus professor of French at the University of Virginia. He edited A History of Literature in the Caribbean and authored Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aimé Césaire.

This project is supported in part by an award from the September National Endowment for the Arts. 160 pp., 128 illus. (12 color), 7 x 10" Paper, $24.95 • 978-0-8195-7737-5 (CAD 33.00) September Ebook, $19.99 • 978-0-8195-7738-2 968 pp., 6 x 9" railroad history / new england history Cloth, $50.00 x • 978-0-8195-7483-1 (CAD 67.00) Garnet Books Ebook, $39.99 • 978-0-8195-7751-1 poetry Wesleyan Poetry Wesleyan University Press

Let’s Not Live on Earth sarah blake

Poetry that acts If an alien ship as a fierce and came to Earth, loving resistance would you get on? to violence

Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic insists that art can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, volume responds to the twenty-first century’s Mr. West, with a stunning second collection about inescapable evidence of the terms of black life—not anxieties and injury. Fear becomes palpable through so much new as newly visible. The poems trace the classification of monsters and through violences a whole web of connections between the kinds made real. By detailing the dangers we face as of violence that affect people across the racial, humans, as Americans, and especially as women, ethnic, gender, class, sexual, national, and linguistic these poems suggest a way through them. The final boundaries that do and do not divide us. In section of the book is a science fiction epic poem, poems that span fragment to narrative and quiz to “The Starship.” In these poems Blake looks so closely constraint, from procedure to prose and sequence at herself that she moves through the looking glass, to song, semiautomatic culls past and present for into the larger world. guides to a hoped-for future. Praise for Mr. West “The poems insemiautomatic are on fire.” “Impressive for both its hybridity and its ambition Erica Hunt, Long Island University . . . Mr. West is an important entry into the ongoing literary conversation on race.” evie shockley is the author of several collections Chicago Tribune of poetry including a half-red sea and the new black. “Through [Blake’s] poetry, Kanye becomes as sharp She has won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and multifaceted as a diamond, with a reflection in Poetry, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and that changes every time you look.” fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Flavorwire Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture sarah blake is the author of the poetry collection of the New York Public Library. She currently is an Mr. West, founder of the online writing tool associate professor at Rutgers University. Submittrs, and a recipient of an NEA Literature This project is supported in part by an award from the Fellowship. National Endowment for the Arts.

December October 128 pp., 6 x 9" 104 pp., 7 x 9V" Unjacketed cloth, $35.00 x • 978-0-8195-7766-5 (CAD 47.00) Paper, $15.95 • 978-0-8195-7765-8 (CAD 21.00) Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8195-7743-6 (CAD 33.00) Ebook, $12.99 • 978-0-8195-7767-2 Ebook, $19.99 • 978-0-8195-7745-0 poetry poetry Wesleyan Poetry Wesleyan Poetry Class Warrior—Taoist Style Scales abdelkébir khatibi Melographed by César Vallejo translated by matt reeck césar vallejo edited and translated by joseph mulligan The first English translation of a The first complete seminal North English translation African poem of a Latin American avant-garde masterpiece

Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the most important writers and thinkers to emerge from North Africa in the second half of the twentieth First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo century. Though not widely known beyond the left Peru for France,Scales combines prose poems Francophone world, Khatibi’s critical and creative with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the works speak to the central concerns of postcolonial exuberance of the author’s early experimentalism. and postmodern life. Offered here in English for A follow-up to Vallejo’s better-known work,Trilce , the first time, his long poem from 1976 is a wildly this radical collection shattered many aesthetic inventive text. Matt Reeck’s compelling translation notions prevailing in Latin America and Europe. captures the stylistic and thematic beats of Khatibi’s Published here in bilingual format, this volume verse. The introduction provides biographical gives unprecedented access to one of the most context and an overview of Khatibi’s poetics of the inventive practitioners of Latin American literature orphan. in the twentieth century. “This elegant, gripping translation of Abdelkébir “Scales is key to understanding Vallejo’s work. This Khatibi’s evocative text compels readers to extraordinary text is presented here in an excellent contemplate complicated questions of class, translation. The scholarship is impeccable and the language, love, and identity in poetic terms.” documents that comprise the appendix provide Alison Rice, author of Time Signatures in-depth understanding of the historical period in abdelkébir khatibi (1938–2009) is considered which Vallejo wrote.” one of the most prominent writers of postcolonial Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Boston College Francophone literature from North Africa. As a césar vallejo (1892–1938) was one of the most translator, matt reeck has published Mirages of the authentic creators to write in the Castilian language. Mind from the Urdu of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi joseph mulligan is a translator and scholar whose and won grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the work has focused primarily on twentieth-century NEA, and the PEN/Heim Fund. Latin American vanguardismo.

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Eight Lectures on Experimental Music edited by alvin lucier Public art installations create Brilliant lectures by structures and the most influential performance spaces experimental music out of cast off composers of our time objects

Described as an artist of “prodigious imagination and intelligence” by the New York Times, Jill Sigman makes art at the intersection of dance, visual art, and social practice. With 473 color photographs, In this brilliant collection, path-breaking figures of Ten Huts presents a series of site-specific huts hand American experimental music discuss the meaning built from found and repurposed materials, ranging of their work at the turn of the twenty-first century. from the mundane (e-waste and plastic bottles) to Presented between 1989 and 2002 at Wesleyan the bizarre (circus detritus, moose bones, dental University, these captivating lectures provide rare molds, and mugwort), in landscapes as varied as insights by composers whose work has shaped our industrial Brooklyn and the Norwegian Arctic. Each understanding of what it means to be experimental: of the extraordinary huts in this book is a structure, Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, a sculpture, and an emergency preparedness kit, and more. Together these lectures tell the story of which raises questions about sustainability, shelter, twentieth-century American experimental music. real estate, and our future on this planet. alvin lucier is an American composer of Praise for Jill Sigman: experimental music. He is the author of Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music and was awarded the “Sigman is riveting—an elf with the rebelliousness of Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for the ‘60s avant-garde, the piscine fluidity of a Tharp Electro-Acoustic Music. He taught at Brandeis dancer, and the charisma and athleticism of today’s University and Wesleyan University. virtuosos.” Village Voice jill sigman and her company jill sigman/ thinkdance are based in New York City. Sigman choreographs with bodies and materials.

September October 232 pp., 473 color illus., 8 x 9W 160 pp., 5V x 8V" Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8195-7689-7 (CAD 47.00) Cloth, $24.95 s • 978-0-8195-7763-4 (CAD 37.00) Ebook, $27.99 • 978-0-8195-7690-3 Ebook, $19.99 • 978-0-8195-7764-1 art / performance / environment music / experimental The Kind of Man I Am Lineage of Loss Jazzmasculinity and the Counternarratives of North Indian Music World of Charles Mingus Jr. max katz nichole rustin-paschal Explores the forgotten An exploration of voices and visions of masculinity in jazz a North Indian culture and the work musical tradition of Charles Mingus Jr.

In the middle of the nineteenth century a new Nearly four decades after his death, Charles Mingus family of hereditary musicians emerged in the Jr. remains one of the least understood and most royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to recognized jazz composers and musicians of our the heights of renown throughout North India. time. Mingus’s ideas about music, racial identity, Today this musical lineage, or gharānā, lives on in and masculinity challenged jazz itself as a model the music and memories of only a small handful of of freedom, inclusion, creativity, and emotional decscendants and players of the family instrument, expressivity. Drawing on archival records, published the sarod. Drawing on six years of ethnographic memoirs, and previously conducted interviews, The and archival research, and fifteen years of musical Kind of Man I Am uses Mingus as a lens through apprenticeship, Max Katz explores the oral history which to craft a gendered cultural history of postwar and written record of the Lucknow gharānā, tracing jazz culture. its displacement, loss of prestige, and erasure “An absorbing, timely, and indeed important book, from the collective memory. An interdisciplinary, The Kind of Man I Am introduces a fresh model for postmodern counter-history, Lineage of Loss offers a thinking about jazz and gender.” new and unsettling narrative of Hindustani music’s John Gennari, University of Vermont encounter with modernity. nichole rustin-paschal earned a JD from the “Revealing previously unknown historical treasures, University of Virginia and a PhD from New York this carefully researched study importantly expands University. She is coeditor of Big Ears: Listening for our knowledge of Hindustani music and its various Gender in Jazz Studies. but intersecting pasts.” Daniel M. Neuman, UCLA max katz is associate professor of music at the College of William and Mary.

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In the Air Archeophonics Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi peter gizzi edited by anthony caleshu now in paperback

The first comprehensive National Book exploration of the Award Finalist poetry of Peter Gizzi Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi’s strongest book to date

Named a 2016 National Book Award Finalist, Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. This first critical book of essays on the poetry Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost of Peter Gizzi shows how his work extends the sound, is one way of understanding the role and traditions of twentieth-century modernism. Gizzi the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds is author of seven critically acclaimed books of and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, poetry, including Archeophonics, a finalist for the and the multitude of private connections that lie National Book Award in 2016. Lauded contributors, undisclosed in one’s emotional memory. The book including Ben Lerner and Marjorie Perloff, explore takes seriously the opening epigraph by James Gizzi’s poetry for its embodiment of an American Schuyler: “poetry, like music, is not just song.” tradition while also exhibiting a twenty-first- century sensibility. “In his eighth collection, Gizzi continues his quest to renew lyricism . . . his ear remains as appealing “Peter Gizzi is one of America’s most significant as ever, and his paratactic syntax still surprises line contributors to contemporary poetry. Anyone by line . . . At their warmest, Gizzi’s poems offer interested in the current condition of poetry will genuinely moving confrontations with mortality, learn from the wide variety of essays here.” history, and tradition.” Susan Howe, author of The Birth Mark Publishers Weekly anthony caleshu is author of three collections of is the author of six collections of poetry and two books of criticism. He is professor peter gizzi poetry. His honors include the Lavan Younger of poetry at Plymouth University in England, and Poet Award from the Academy of American founder and editor of the small press Periplum. Poets, and artist grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Howard Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

This project is sponsored in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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New and selected A new world jazz poetry from Pulitzer symphony in poems Prize–winning author Rae Armantrout

rae armantrout is professor emerita of writing Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient at the University of California, San Diego, and the myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the author of thirteen previous books of poetry. imagination are all among the subjects of these October poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a 252 pp., 6 x 9" complex picture of our world, ourselves, and the Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8195-7773-3 (CAD 27.00) manifold connections tying them together. This Ebook, $15.99 • 978-0-8195-7656-9 collection is composed of five sequences, each poetry developing a particular constellation of images and Wesleyan Poetry ideas ranging from galaxies and garbage trucks to teapots and the history of photography. “To See the Earth Before the End of the World moves Entanglements in many directions, often all at once, a 360-degree jitterbug waltz of a book.” rae armantrout Nathaniel Mackey, author of Splay Nation A chapbook of ed roberson is author of eight books of poetry. poems about He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of physics from Rae America’s Shelley Memorial Award and his prior Armantrout books have won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Series.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Homegrown Terror The Mountains in Art History Benedict Arnold and the edited by peter mark, Burning of New London peter helman, and penny snyder

eric d. lehman The first English- now in language study of paperback mountains as subject matter and inspiration A new look at the for the visual arts quintessential traitor

The Mountains in Art History is the first English- On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict language work to focus on mountains as subject Arnold and a force of 1,600 British soldiers and matter and source of aesthetic and spiritual loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New inspiration for painters. This collection of original London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion essays, written entirely by Wesleyan University galvanized the new nation. In Homegrown Terror, students of art history, examine how artistic Eric D. Lehman chronicles the events leading up to representation of mountains has varied through the the attack and highlights this key transformation in lens of specific depictions in literature. These essays Arnold—the point where he went from betraying by student authors adeptly ruminate on works by his comrades to massacring his neighbors and individuals such as William Wordsworth, John destroying their homes. Homegrown Terror draws Frederick Kensett, and Arnold Fanck. The book upon a variety of perspectives, from the traitor includes an introduction by professor Peter Mark, himself to his former Connecticut comrades. along with an informative appendix of the course description and syllabus. “More than the dramatic story of Benedict Arnold’s Cultural historian is a lifelong hiker, betrayal of America. It is a richly textured and lively peter mark mountain climber, and an avid reader and collector portrait of revolutionary era Connecticut.” of mountaineering literature. He is a professor of art Joel Richard Paul, author of Unlikely Allies history at Wesleyan University. eric d. lehman is a professor of creative writing at the University of Bridgeport. He is the author of twelve books.

The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/driftless.

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