Recently Published Spring 2013 Contents General Interest 1 Special Interest 41 Paperbacks 93 The Open Door Bewilderment One Hundred Poems, One Hundred New Poems and Translations Distributed Books 117 Years of Poetry Magazine David Ferry Edited by Don Share and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24488-4 Christian Wiman Paper $18.00/£11.50 Ordering Information 304 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75070-5 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24490-7 Cloth $20.00/£13.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75073-6 Author Index 308 Title Index 310 The Last Walk A World in One Reflections on Our Pets at the Cubic Foot End of Their Lives Portraits of Biodiversity Jessica Pierce David Liittschwager ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66846-8 With a Foreword by E. O. Wilson Cloth $26.00/£17.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48123-4 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92204-1 Cloth $45.00/£29.00 Dangerous Work Cycling Science Diary of an Arctic Adventure How Rider and Machine Work Together Arthur Conan Doyle Max Glaskin Cover image: Swordfish art created by Richard Ellis Edited by Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92413-7 Cover design by Alice Reimann ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00905-6 Cloth $30.00/£19.50 Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan Cloth $35.00/£22.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92187-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5884-2 CUSA KEITH KOENEMAN First Son The Biography of Richard M. Daley “Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. ‘Simply put, it’s time,’ he said.”—New York Times, September 7, 2010 ith those four words, an era ended. After twenty-two years, the longest-serving and most powerful mayor in the his- W tory of Chicago—and, arguably, America—stepped down, leaving behind a city that was utterly transformed, and a complicated legacy we are only beginning to evaluate. “Keith Koeneman captures the arc of Dal- In First Son, Keith Koeneman chronicles the sometimes Shake- ey’s reign perfectly—its early successes spearean, sometimes Machiavellian life of an American political and later failures, its mix of volatility and legend. Making deft use of unprecedented access to key players in the insecurity, and the evolution of an insular Daley administration, as well as Chicago’s business and cultural lead- Democratic-machine prince from Bridge- ers, Koeneman draws on more than one hundred interviews to tell an port into a powerful leader who learned to up-close, insider story of political triumph and personal evolution. coexist with intellectuals, culture buffs, and titans of business to build a world- With Koeneman as our guide, we follow young Daley from his class city. A must-read if you care beginnings as an average Bridgeport kid thought to lack his father’s about Chicago.” talent and charisma to his unlikely transformation into an iron-fisted —Andy Shaw, leader. Daley not only escaped the giant shadow of his father but also retired political reporter and executive director of the Better transformed Chicago from a gritty, postindustrial Midwestern capital Government Association into a beautiful, sophisticated global city. But in spite of his many accomplishments, Richard M. Daley’s APRIL 400 p., 24 halftones, 2 tables 6 x 9 record is far from flawless.First Son sets the dramatic improvement of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44947-0 Cloth $30.00/£19.50 certain parts of the city against the persistent realities of crime, finan- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44949-4 cial stress, failing public housing, and dysfunctional schools. And it BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORY reveals that in many ways Daley was unable to fully escape the machine politics of his father. A nuanced portrait of a complex man, First Son shows Daley to be sensitive yet tough, impatient yet persistent, a street-smart fighter and detail-driven policy expert who not only ran Chicago, but was Chicago. Keith Koeneman is a third-generation Chicagoan. He holds advanced degrees from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern Univer- sity and writes on Chicago politics, history, and culture for the Huffington Post. general interest 1 KEVIN M. BAILEY Billion-Dollar Fish The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock laska pollock is everywhere. If you’re eating fish but you don’t know what kind it is, it’s almost certainly pollock. Prized for A its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald’s. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America— the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in, pollock is in trouble: in the last few years, the pollock population has declined by more than half, and some scientists are predicting the fishery’s eventual collapse. “This book provides an accessible and In Billion-Dollar Fish, Kevin M. Bailey combines his years of first- entertaining description of decades of hand pollock research with a remarkable talent for storytelling to offer hidden financial and scientific battles the first natural history of Alaska pollock. Crucial to understanding over a fish that most of us have eaten, the pollock fishery, he shows, is recognizing what aspects of its natural unaware of this war.” —Tim D. Smith, history make pollock so very desirable to fish, while at the same time author of Scaling Fisheries making it resilient, yet highly vulnerable to overfishing. Bailey delves into the science, politics, and economics surrounding Alaska pollock MAY 280 p., 33 halftones, 7 line drawings in the Bering Sea, detailing the development of the fishery, the various 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02234-5 political machinations that have led to its current management, and, Cloth $25.00/£16.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02248-2 perhaps most important, its impending demise. He approaches his NATURE subject from multiple angles, bringing in the perspectives of fisher- men, politicians, environmentalists, and biologists, and drawing on revealing interviews with players who range from Greenpeace activists to fishing industry lawyers. Seamlessly weaving the biology and ecology of pollock with the history and politics of the fishery, as well as Bailey’s own often raucous tales about life at sea, Billion-Dollar Fish is a book for every person inter- ested in the troubled relationship between fish and humans, from the depths of the sea to the dinner plate. Kevin M. Bailey is a senior scientist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and affiliate professor at the University of Washington. 2 general interest THANE ROSENBAUM Payback The Case for Revenge e call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like WRod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and re- place with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything, distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a vic- tim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosen- “Because it is often regarded as ‘un-Chris- baum in Payback—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice. tian,’ revenge has acquired a bad name. In Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a this incisive analysis, Thane Rosenbaum perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of argues that revenge is a hunger in most lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal injured hearts and the very fundament of systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part our idea of justice. This is a compelling of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged. and provocative book, immensely valu- Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims able both for its close reasoning and its the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on honesty.” a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology —Scott Turow and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to revenge practices from around the world, to the way in which revenge APRIL 320 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72661-8 tales have permeated popular culture—including Hamlet, The Godfa- Cloth $26.00/£17.00 ther, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04369-2 LAW CURRENT EVENTS to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced. Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shake- speare to The Sopranos. Rosenbaum liberates revenge from its social stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human and acceptable response to moral injury. Thane Rosenbaum is the author of The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What’s Right, as well as four novels. His articles, reviews, and essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Huffington Post, among others.