Yale university press Fall/Winter 2020 Marcus Carey Batchelor Bate Under the Red White A Little History of The Art of Solitude Radical Wordsworth and Blue Poetry Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover 978-0-300-25093-0 978-0-300-16964-5 978-0-300-22890-8 978-0-300-23222-6 $23.00 $35.00 $26.00 $25.00 Unwin/Tipling Delbanco Leibovitz Campbell Flights of Passage Why Writing Matters Stan Lee Year of Peril Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover 978-0-300-24744-2 978-0-300-24597-4 978-0-300-23034-5 978-0-300-23378-0 $40.00 $26.00 $26.00 $30.00 Van Engen Reynolds Taylor Musonius Rufus City on a Hill Allah Sons of the Waves That One Should Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Disdain Hardships 978-0-300-22975-2 978-0-300-24658-2 978-0-300-24571-4 Hardcover $30.00 $30.00 $30.00 978-0-300-22603-4 $22.00 RECENT GENERAL INTEREST HIGHLIGHTS Yale university press FALL/WINTER 2020 GENERAL INTEREST 01 JEWISH LIVES® 24 MARGELLOS WORLD REPUBLIC OF LETTERS 26 SCHOLARLY AND ACADEMIC 56 PAPERBACK REPRINTS 73 ART + ARCHITECTURE A 1 front cover illustration: Via Roma, Genoa, Italy, ca. 1895. From Stories for the Years, page 28 “This book is superb, utterly FROM TAKE ARMS AGAINST A SEA OF TROUBLES: convincing, and absolutely invigorating. Bloom’s final argument with mortality What you read and how deeply you read matters almost as much as how you ultimately has a rejuvenating love, work, exercise, vote, practice charity, strive for social justice, cultivate effect upon the reader, kindness and courtesy, worship if you are capable of worship. The mind is an activity and will decay into dark inertia if not sustained by the sustenance and is nothing short of a of reading. revelation.”—DAVID MIKICS, AUTHOR OF SLOW READING IN A HURRIED AGE *** The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living, even when submerged under forty fathoms of bother and distress. If you live ninety years HAROLD BLOOM (1930–2019) was you will be a battered survivor. Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at other- Photo: Michael Marsland/Yale University an American literary critic and Sterling ness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon Professor of the Humanities at Yale as you can. University. His books include The Anatomy of Influence, The Shadow of a Great Rock and Poetry and Repression. ADVANCE PRAISE: “I felt reading this book the way Virginia Woolf in her diary describes her feeling about reading Shakespeare: ‘I never yet knew how amazing his stretch and speed is, until I felt it utterly outpace and outrace my own.’”—LAURA QUINNEY, AUTHOR OF WILLIAM BLAKE ON SELF Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles AND SOUL The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death “In our time there has been no greater reader than Harold Bloom—no Harold Bloom one who makes literature more important and more powerful. Bloom helps us grasp what Dickinson calls ‘vaster attitudes,’ The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his allowing us to take a proud flight and to disdain, for a time, our own generation, on the sustaining power of poetry mortality.”—WILLIAM FLESCH, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death—completed weeks before Harold Bloom’s passing—shows how literature renews life amid “This is Bloom at his most capacious and fierce of thought, always what Milton called “a universe of death.“ Bloom reads as a way of taking arms ready to surprise. For all the losses he tallies, a great smile hovers against the sea of life’s troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him through a lifetime of reading. “High literature,” through the book.”—KENNETH GROSS he writes, “is a saving lie against time, loss of individuality, premature death.” In passages of breathtaking intimacy, we see him awake late at night, reciting lines from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. He feels himself “edged by nothingness,” uncomprehending, but still sustained by reading. Generous and clear-eyed, this is among Harold Bloom’s most ambitious and most moving books. October | Literary Studies Hardcover 978-0-300-24728-2 $35.00/£25.00 1 1 656 pp. 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 2 GENERAL INTEREST “This book is superb, utterly FROM TAKE ARMS AGAINST A SEA OF TROUBLES: convincing, and absolutely invigorating. Bloom’s final argument with mortality What you read and how deeply you read matters almost as much as how you ultimately has a rejuvenating love, work, exercise, vote, practice charity, strive for social justice, cultivate effect upon the reader, kindness and courtesy, worship if you are capable of worship. The mind is an activity and will decay into dark inertia if not sustained by the sustenance and is nothing short of a of reading. revelation.”—DAVID MIKICS, AUTHOR OF SLOW READING IN A HURRIED AGE *** The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living, even when submerged under forty fathoms of bother and distress. If you live ninety years HAROLD BLOOM (1930–2019) was you will be a battered survivor. Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at other- Photo: Michael Marsland/Yale University an American literary critic and Sterling ness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon Professor of the Humanities at Yale as you can. University. His books include The Anatomy of Influence, The Shadow of a Great Rock and Poetry and Repression. ADVANCE PRAISE: “I felt reading this book the way Virginia Woolf in her diary describes her feeling about reading Shakespeare: ‘I never yet knew how amazing his stretch and speed is, until I felt it utterly outpace and outrace my own.’”—LAURA QUINNEY, AUTHOR OF WILLIAM BLAKE ON SELF Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles AND SOUL The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death “In our time there has been no greater reader than Harold Bloom—no Harold Bloom one who makes literature more important and more powerful. Bloom helps us grasp what Dickinson calls ‘vaster attitudes,’ The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his allowing us to take a proud flight and to disdain, for a time, our own generation, on the sustaining power of poetry mortality.”—WILLIAM FLESCH, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death—completed weeks before Harold Bloom’s passing—shows how literature renews life amid “This is Bloom at his most capacious and fierce of thought, always what Milton called “a universe of death.“ Bloom reads as a way of taking arms ready to surprise. For all the losses he tallies, a great smile hovers against the sea of life’s troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him through a lifetime of reading. “High literature,” through the book.”—KENNETH GROSS he writes, “is a saving lie against time, loss of individuality, premature death.” In passages of breathtaking intimacy, we see him awake late at night, reciting lines from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. He feels himself “edged by nothingness,” uncomprehending, but still sustained by reading. Generous and clear-eyed, this is among Harold Bloom’s most ambitious and most moving books. October | Literary Studies Hardcover 978-0-300-24728-2 $35.00/£25.00 1 1 656 pp. 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 GENERAL INTEREST 3 AN EXCERPT FROM FOR NOW: EILEEN MYLES is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty works of fiction, poetry, All of it’s an alibi. Because I am aware not so much that my own becoming a nonfiction, and libretto. Their prizes writer is a construction of sorts but more that there’s a kind of aesthetic expe- and awards include a Guggenheim rience I believe that precedes the work so that you kind of fail into it finding Fellowship, a Warhol/Creative Capital your style and content and opportunity all together at last and that’s happened grant, and an award from the American enough times for me to believe that that’s my process and it exists and will Academy of Arts and Letters. occur again no matter how much suffering my work causes me and betrayal is so deeply a part of it because I’ll be sailing along thinking this is incredible ALSO IN THE SERIES: and days later I’ll stop and some version of me that lives at a different pace Devotion reads what I’ve written and pronounces it bad and I return to it later and pick Patti Smith out pieces and surges and rearrange it so ultimately I’m talking about ease and Pb with flaps how it is an utter fiction so I disbelieve all ideas about genre because it’s all 978-0-300-24022-1 $9.95/£6.99 such fabricated stuff, writing, art, music every bit of it is not so much lying but instead is perched in relation to this other thing which is living and however I Inadvertent am about it, doing this thing, in my case writing, makes that thing I think more Karl Ove Knausgaard beautiful. I have time for it. I am in it. Pb with flaps 978-0-300-24851-7 $9.95/£7.99 PRAISE FOR EILEEN MYLES: Evolution: “Myles’s new poems are transformations, and perhaps a culmination of the poet’s previous inquiries into love, gender, poetry, America, For Now and its politics.