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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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Hundred-Mile Home
(April 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...(Read More) |
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Qorbanot
(April 2021)
Offerings
Alisha Kaplan - Author
Tobi Kahn - Artist
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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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Teardrops of Time
(December 2020)
Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong
Arnika Fuhrmann - Author
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Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.
Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkarn Kallayanapong (1926–2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts...(Read More) |
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José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825
(September 2020)
An Exiled Cuban Poet in the Age of Revolution, Selected Letters and Verse
Frederick Luciani - Editor, translator and introduction by
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An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.
This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), focusing on...(Read More) |
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Forty Two Greens
(August 2020)
Poems of Chonggi Mah
Youngshil Cho - Translator
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The poems in this book, by the way they speak to all parts of our minds, invite us to come alive and experience each movement, each emotion and action, and some statements therein, intuitively and aesthetically.
This is about a Korean man’s everyday life in the milieu of contemporary America; his struggle to find meaning in his immigrant life, in his vocation as a medical doctor, a...(Read More) |
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Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven
(August 2020)
Grant Clauser - Author
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Poems that explore social and ecological struggles, personal and public nostalgia, family and solitude and seek to balance it all with hope.
Winner of the Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award, this collection of poetry explores social and ecological struggles, personal and public nostalgia, family and solitude and seek to balance it all with hope.
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Birth Chart
(May 2020)
Rachel Feder - Author
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A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.
In Birth Chart, a collection of heartfelt, ruthless poetry, Rachel Feder rethinks the relationship between astrology and motherhood. She asks, if astrology constellates the universe around the moment of one’s birth, then how might it serve as shorthand for a vast number of personal experiences and cultural phenomena? How might...(Read More) |
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