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Wesleyan University Press Spring 2018 Wesleyan University Press wesleyan university press spring 2018 Wesleyan University Press Extra Hidden Life, among the Days brenda hillman Poetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poet Brenda Hillman’s most recent book, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, won the 2014 Griffin Poetry Trust International Poetry Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award. By turns plain and transcendent, Hillman’s new collection meditates on nature, bacteria, buildings, roots, and stars, ending with twinned elegies and poems about forests and seashores. This is poetry as a discipline of love and service to the world, whose lines shepherd us through grief and into an ethics of active resistance. A visionary and critically important work for our time. February “Hillman turns simple concepts into things far more 184 pp., 76 color illus., 6 x 9" revealing. The intimacy she conveys, the disappointment, Unjacketed cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8195-7805-1 the panic even, these are elements of magic I want to revisit.” (CAD 31.00) Ebook, $19.99 • 978-0-8195-7842-6 Camille T. Dungy, author of Trophic Cascade poetry “For Hillman there is an alternative model of sociality that stems from attending to the destructive and creative fire Wesleyan Poetry that simply burns through righteous ideas to concrete objects that elicit our caring. Sociality in [Hillman’s] poetry arises from her radical, eco-centric view. It is the result of being aware that what we love and what engages us in the world will be lost if we fail to find alternatives to what that world is becoming.” Charles Aliteri, Open Humanities Press “Hillman’s devotion to social justice—her unwavering belief in poetry’s capacity to address root causes of our political strife—ultimately purifies our fallen world in the languages of elemental fire.” also of interest Karen An-Hwei Lee, Iowa Review Seasonal Works brenda hillman is an activist, writer, editor, and teacher. with Letters Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in on Fire Moraga, California. BRENDA HILLMAN Paper, $14.95 · 978-0-8195-7522-7 Ebook, $11.99 · 978-0-8195-7415-2 1 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress Wesleyan University Press The Dog and the Fever A Perambulatory Novella pedro espinosa translated by william carlos williams edited and with an introduction by jonathan cohen First full publication of translation and commentary by famed American modernist The legendary modernist poet William Carlos Williams described this seventeenth-century book as “far more ‘modern’ than ever Hemingway or even Gertie ever thought of being” and “hot as hell besides.” Williams translated this Spanish novella, published in 1625, with the help of his mother. This edition includes Williams’s as-yet unpublished running commentary and an illuminating introduction from Jonathan Cohen. February “William Carlos Williams’s vital English version mirrors 88 pp., 4 illus., 5V x 8" Pedro Espinosa’s unsurpassed dog novel related by an Unjacketed cloth, $30.00 x • 978-0-8195-7804-4 (CAD 38.00) eloquently talkative canine.” Paper, $15.95 • 978-0-8195-7803-7 (CAD 20.00) Willis Barnstone, author of ABC of Translation literature / translation “A novella of extraordinary sensuality, humor and lyrical imagination, translated with exquisite delicacy by William Carlos Williams, whose love of the Spanish language is manifested in this work. A book to treasure.” Marjorie Agosín, author of The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas pedro espinosa (1578–1650) was a Golden Age Spanish poet and fiction writer whose works include a famed 1605 anthology of contemporary poets. william carlos williams (1883–1963) is widely recognized as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century and as an influential founder of literary modernism. He published some twenty books of poetry as well as seventeen books also of interest of prose. His Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems won Azure the Pulitzer Prize. jonathan cohen is an award-winning Poems and translator of Latin American poetry and scholar of inter- Selections from American literature. the “Livre” STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ TRANSLATED BY BLAKE BRONSON-BARTLETT AND ROBERT FERNANDEZ Paper, $17.95 · 978-0-8195-7580-7 Ebook, $13.99 · 978-0-8195-7581-4 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress 2 Wesleyan University Press Inquisition The Trailhead kazim ali kerri webster How we answer to Visionary poems lay love beneath the claim to the power lash of history of the female poet Queer, Muslim, American, Kazim Ali has always navigated complex intersections and interstices in The Trailhead sets out through a landscape order to make a life. In this scintillating mixture of populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. lyrics, narrative, fragments, prose poem, and spoken Much of the book takes place in the contemporary word, he answers longstanding questions about American West, and these poems reckon with the the role of the poet or artist in times of political or violence inherent in that history. The collection social upheaval. Ali engages history, politics, and arrives at a firm faith in the power and worth of the dangerous regions of the uncharted heart in this the female voice, and a broader faith in poetry as visceral new collection. bulwark against our frailties and failings. “What a gift Kazim Ali’sInquisition is, what “Kerri Webster has my favorite living ear. You should a generosity, in its sustained and sustaining read this book because the poems buoyed by the ear inhabitation of the mystery. That, without ignoring are wonders, and renew poetry.” heartbreak or rage, it understands that we are always ‘at the end of knowing,’ and shows us how we might Shane McCrae, author of In the Language of reside there. And from which residence, Inquisition My Captor reminds me: love.” kerri webster is the author of the poetry Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed collections We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone and Gratitude Grand & Arsenal, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Poet, editor, and prose writer kazim ali has written fifteen books, includingThe Far Mosque, which won Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award. 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