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Avant-Gardes in Crisis
(October 2021)
Art and Politics in the Long 1970s
Jean-Thomas Tremblay - Editor
Andrew Strombeck - Editor
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Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.
Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and social crises and reveals a crisis of confidence regarding resistance’s very possibi...(Read More) |
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Sole Impression
(September 2021)
Barry Sternlieb - Author
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New poems by the author of Winter Crows.
It takes shape
as flocks
rising up
stop us cold to watch
their dark bond
with dawn
become grounds
for going, a presence
born again
in every sense
when winds spread
the word
and brown fields bristle like
dense fur
down the back
of the earth.
— from "November"
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Unruly Catholic Feminists
(September 2021)
Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith
Jeana DelRosso - Editor
Leigh Eicke - Editor
Ana Kothe - Editor
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Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.
A collection of creative pieces, Unruly Catholic Feminists explores how women are coming to terms with their feminism and Catholicism in the twenty-first century. Through short stories, poems, and personal essays, third- and fourth-wave fem...(Read More) |
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Poetics of Breathing
(May 2021)
Modern Literature's Syncope
Stefanie Heine - Author
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A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.
Breathing and its rhythms—liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous—have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath’s punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, ...(Read More) |
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Fried Goldfinch
(April 2021)
Sarah Mead Wyman - Author
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A volume of lyric poetry including ekphrastic works, animal poems, life studies, and found objects.
A rough-sketched line, a tin's sharp edge
delineates the domain
of a lonely sardine who misses her erstwhile mates.
As oil soothes the rounded corners,
she awaits the cracker or cat's crunch.
— Excerpt from "Sardine"
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Qorbanot
(April 2021)
Offerings
Alisha Kaplan - Author
Tobi Aaron Kahn - Artist
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A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.
A collaboration between poet Alisha Kaplan and artist Tobi Aaron Kahn, Qorbanot—the Hebrew word for "sacrificial offerings"—explores the concept of sacrifice, offering a new vision of an ancient practice. A dynamic dialogue of text and image, the book is a poetic and visual exege...(Read More) |
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Hundred-Mile Home
(March 2021)
A Story Map of Albany, Troy, and the Hudson River
Susan Petrie - Author
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A creative travelogue of landscape and memory.
We live in a future-facing world, consumed by a sense of urgency. Responsibilities press upon us and, inevitably, the stories of where we live scatter down unnamed streets and recede into the past. Hundred-Mile Home is an intimate portrait—a story map—of Albany, Troy, and the Hudson River that slows time and challenges us to rec...(Read More) |
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The Play of Light
(February 2021)
Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Friends
Ann Smock - Author
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Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.
Drawing from five contemporary French poets—Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet—Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflectio...(Read More) |
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The World of Agha Shahid Ali
(February 2021)
Tapan Kumar Ghosh - Editor
Sisir Kumar Chatterjee - Editor
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Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
Featuring essays by American, Indian, and British scholars, this collection offers critical appraisals and personal reflections on the life and work of the transnational poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001). Though sometimes identified as an “Indian writer in English,” Shahid came to designate himself as a Kashmiri-American ...(Read More) |
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