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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
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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
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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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Typescript of the Second Origin Interview in Weehawken manuel de pedrolo The Burr-Hamilton Duel as Told in the translated by sara martín Original Documents foreword by kim stanley robinson edited by harold c. syrett and The first English jean g. cooke introduction and conclusion by translation of a willard m. wallace Catalan science fiction masterpiece Engaging overview with first-person accounts of America’s most infamous duel
Manuel de Pedrolo’s widely acclaimed post- apocalyptic novel, which includes a foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson, tells the story of two children who survive the brutal destruction of The Broadway sensationHamilton has sparked Earth by alien explorers. A bestseller and required renewed interest in historical figures Alexander reading for secondary school students in Catalonia, Hamilton and Aaron Burr. From the summer of Typescript of the Second Origin is indispensable to 1804, we have the fiery correspondence between understand how a region of Spain was targeted and Hamilton and Burr, notes and accounts from their punished by Francisco Franco. seconds-in-command, and other documents that summarize the events that inspired the hit musical “This is an interesting European SF forerunner text, by Lin-Manuel Miranda. and I’m glad to see it sensitively translated and in print in English.” harold c. syrett (1913−1984) was president of Gwyneth Jones Brooklyn College and executive editor of the Papers of Alexander Hamilton. jean g. cooke is assistant manuel de pedrolo (1918–1990) was a major editor of the multi-volume Papers of Alexander Catalan author who fought during the Spanish Civil Hamilton. willard m. wallace (1911−2000) was War and opposed the repressive Franco regime. an American historian and writer who taught at sara martín is senior lecturer at the Universitat Wesleyan University from 1945 to 1981. Autònoma de Barcelona. kim stanley robinson is an award-winning American writer of science fiction.
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Under the Dark Sky Birding in Connecticut Life in the Thames River Basin frank gallo
steven g. smith A comprehensive foreword by steve grant field guide Photographs tell the story of contemporary rural life in eastern Connecticut and southern Massachusetts
Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Steven G. Smith showcases the picturesque Thames River Birding in Connecticut is the definitive guide basin, which extends from southern Massachusetts to where, when, and how to find birds in the through Connecticut and is considered to be the Constitution State. This guide provides synopsis last place where dark night sky can be viewed of local weather and a host of tips to finding and between Washington, D.C. and Boston. This identifying birds. This is the first guide of its kind full-color documentary photo essay explores this to offer QR code links to continually updated Atlantic gem and includes a foreword by Steve information on the occurrence and abundance Grant. of birds at each location. Includes color photos and maps. steven g. smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning multimedia photojournalist and associate “A consummate environmental educator, Frank professor of visual journalism at the University of Gallo gives everyone a shot at front-row seats to the Connecticut. steve grant is a freelance writer best birding locations the state has to offer!” who wrote extensively on nature for the Hartford Twan Leenders, Roger Tory Peterson Courant. Institute of Natural History frank gallo is a leading expert on where to find birds in Connecticut and has led birding expeditions all over the world. He is the author of two children’s nature books, Bird Calls and Night Sounds.
The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
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Animal Musicalities Resonances of Chindon-ya Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening Sounding Space and Sociality in rachel mundy Contemporary Japan marié abe How conflicts between science An investigation and the humanities of sound, affect, have shaped our and public space in understanding of contemporary Japan the line between art and animal behavior
Animal Musicalities traces music’s taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, song has become the starting point for enduring Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, evaluations of species, races, and cultures. By public space, and sociality in contemporary examining the influential efforts made by a small Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, group of people to define human diversity in are ostentatiously costumed street musicians relation to animal voices, this book raises profound who publicize a business by parading through questions about the creation of modern human neighborhood streets. This book examines how this identity, and the foundations of modern humanism. seemingly outdated means of advertisement has recently gained traction after decades of inactivity. “This imaginative book brings together musicology, Resonances of Chindon-ya challenges Western science and technology studies, and animal studies conceptions of listening that have normalized the in exciting ways that will be of interest to scholars in way we think about the relationship between sound, a variety disciplines.” space, and listening subjects. Jane Desmond, author of Displaying Death and Animating Life “Abe’s central concept of resonance stands to be a major contribution to the discipline.” rachel mundy is an assistant professor of music in the arts, culture, and media program at Rutgers Christine Yano, author of Tears of Longing University. marié abe is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Boston University.
June February 264 pp., 26 illus., 6 x 9" 296 pp., 48 illus. (12 color), 6 x 9" Cloth, $29.95 • 978-0-8195-7806-8 (CAD 38.00) Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7778-8 (CAD 107.00) Ebook, $23.99 • 978-0-8195-7808-2 Paper, $27.95 s • 978-0-8195-7779-5 (CAD 39.00) Ebook, $22.99 • 978-0-8195-7780-1 music / animal studies / history of science Music/Culture music / asian studies Music/Culture
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Music & Camp American Music Documentary edited by christopher moore and Five Case Studies of philip purvis Ciné-Ethnomusicology Illuminates the benjamin j. harbert expressive, social, A critical companion and political stakes to the most of style celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century
Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology, this collection of essays provides American Music Documentary looks at five key films new research into camp’s presence, techniques, to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, discourses, and potential meanings across a broad and watch films from an ethnomusicological point spectrum of musical genres. This significant of view. Reconsidering Albert and David Maysles’s contribution to the field of camp studies Gimme Shelter, Jill Godmilow’s Antonia: A Portrait investigates how music has served as an expressive of the Woman, Shirley Clarke’s Ornette: Made in and political vehicle throughout twentieth and America, D.A. Pennebaker’s and Chris Hegedus’s twenty-first-century culture. Depeche Mode: 101, and Jem Cohen’s and Fugazi’s “This welcome anthology opens the field through a Instrument, Harbert lays the foundations for rich variety of contexts, methods and perspectives, “ciné-ethnomusicology.” with a number of essays destined to become ‘camp “Forging new ground in the study—and making— classics.’” of music films, it is an utterly compelling read.” Caryl Flinn, University of Michigan Marina Peterson, author of Sound, Space, christopher moore is associate professor of and the City musicology at the University of Ottawa. philip benjamin j. harbert is associate professor at purvis is the director of music at d’Overbroeck’s Georgetown University and co-editor of The Arab in Oxford. Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity.
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The Sentient Archive In the Grand Tradition Bodies, Performance, and Memory The Enduring Art of Elbert Weinberg edited by bill bissell and hartford history center, linda caruso haviland hartford public library
Top scholars and Retrospective artists theorize the of versatile body as a crucible sculptor of knowledge Elbert Weinberg
Elbert Weinberg was regarded as one of the most promising young artists of the 1950s and 1960s and is best known for his two Holocaust The Sentient Archive gathers together the work of memorials. In 2014, the Weinberg Trust donated scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, Weinberg’s sculptures, prints and drawings, and science, and the visual arts. These twenty-eight rich a large collection of documents to the Hartford and challenging essays cross boundaries within and Public Library. This analysis includes a biography, between disciplines, and illustrate how the body two essays, and more than fifty illustrations. An serves as a repository for knowledge. ontributors exhibit retrospective opens May 2018 in Hartford, include Nancy Goldner, Alain Platel, Catherine Connecticut. Stevens, Meg Stuart, Andre Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists. nancy finlay is Curator of Graphics at the Connecticut Historical Society. She has curated “This volume presents a marvelous and diverse seventeen exhibitions, published a variety of essays, group of thinkers who are reckoning with the and edited several books. dancing body as a site of knowing, remembering, and performing.” Susan Leigh Foster, UCLA bill bissell is the director of Performance at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. linda caruso haviland is an associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and the founder and director of the dance program.
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Wesleyan University Press Welcomes Paris Press Paris Press publishes groundbreaking yet overlooked literature by women. The Press values work in all genres that is daring in style and in its courage to speak truthfully about society, culture, history, and the human heart. Paris Press was founded in 1995 to bring Muriel Rukeyser’s collection of essays, The Life of Poetry, back into print. This essential text argues for the integration of poetry, literature, and the arts in American life. With books by Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Bryher, Ruth Stone, Zdena Berger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others, Paris Press presents a selective list for readers to treasure.
The Life of Poetry On Being Ill muriel rukeyser with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen Our century's virginia woolf and julia stephen lost classic about With magnificent American culture, language, Virginia the essential saving Woolf explores the force of poetry, and ways that illness how it can improve transforms our the quality of life in perceptions the United States
Observing that poetry is a natural part of our pastimes and rituals, Muriel Rukeyser explores This new publication ofOn Being Ill with Notes from the vital force of poetry and the arts in American Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mother culture. She opposes elitist attitudes and addresses Julia Stephen in textual conversation for the first Americans’ fear of feeling, which contribute to time in literary history. a devaluation of poetry and the arts in the U.S. In the poignant and humorous essay On Being Multicultural and interdisciplinary, this collection Ill, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is of essays makes an irrefutable case for the centrality a part of every human being’s experience, it is not of poetry in American life. celebrated as a subject of great literature in the muriel rukeyser (1913–1980) is one of our way that love and war are embraced by writers and country’s most influential yet neglected writers. readers. Notes from Sick Rooms addresses illness She published fifteen collections of poetry, plays, from the caregiver’s perspective. With clarity, translations, children’s books, and several works of humor, and pathos, Julia Stephen offers concrete nonfiction. and useful information to caregivers today. virginia woolf (1882–1941) is one of the great literary geniuses of the twentieth century. julia stephen (1846–1895), Virginia Woolf’s mother, worked as a vocational nurse throughout her adult life.
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