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Queer Expectations
(December 2018)
A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry
Zohar Weiman-Kelman - Author
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Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.
Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing “queer expectancy&rdq...(Read More) |
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The Poetry of Georges Bataille
(December 2018)
Georges Bataille - Author
Stuart Kendall - Translated and with an introduction by
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Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.
Despite its relative rarity, and the condensed brevity of the poems themselves, poetry occupies a striking place in the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For Bataille, poetry had no meaning “except in the violence of revolt,” which it could attain “only by evoking the impos...(Read More) |
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Years I Walked at Your Side
(October 2018)
Selected Poems
Mordechai Geldman - Author
Tsipi Keller - Selected, translated, and with an introduction by
Ruth Kartun-Blum - Introduction
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The first book-length collection in English of this major Israeli poet.
from “At Your Side”
Years I walked at your side
like our prophet Isaiah
barefoot naked and bare
I will put on no cover
until you see me
until you recognize an other
one person
at least
and so know yourself as well
Mordechai Geldman came of age as a poet in the seventies, an auspicious and transformative time in...(Read More) |
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The Room Is on Fire
(June 2018)
The History, Pedagogy, and Practice of Youth Spoken Word Poetry
Susan Weinstein - Author
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Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events.
The Room Is on Fire offers an overview of youth spoken word poetry’s history, its practitioners, participants, and practices. Susan Weinstein explores its grounding in earlier literary/performance/educational traditions and discusses its particular challenges. In order to analyze these iss...(Read More) |
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Poetics and Precarity
(May 2018)
Myung Mi Kim - Editor
Cristanne Miller - Editor
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Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century.
At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue t...(Read More) |
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Figures of Time
(February 2018)
Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry
David Ben-Merre - Author
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Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.
Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of...(Read More) |
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Multicultural Poetics
(January 2018)
Re-visioning the American Canon
Nissa Parmar - Author
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Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.
Multicultural Poetics provides a new perspective on American poetry that will contribute to the evolution of contemporary critical practice. Nissa Parmar combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to what Marilyn Chin deemed America&rsqu...(Read More) |
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Unruly Catholic Nuns
(October 2017)
Sisters' Stories
Jeana DelRosso - Editor
Leigh Eicke - Editor
Ana Kothe - Editor
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Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church.
Unruly Catholic Nuns explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns and, by doing so, contributes to the global conversation about the role of women in the Catholic Church today. Through autobiography, fiction, poetry, and prose, Sister...(Read More) |
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Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth
(July 2017)
Reading Gary Snyder and Dogen in an Age of Ecological Crisis
Jason M. Wirth - Author
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Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.
Meditating on the work of American poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dōgen, Jason M. Wirth draws out insights for understanding our relation to the planet’s ongoing ecological crisis. He discusses what Dōgen calls “the Great Earth” and what...(Read More) |
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In the Gorge
(June 2017)
Poems
Brandon Krieg - Author
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Poems that contemplate the fraught interdependence of the human and more-than-human in an era of extreme environmental degradation.
In the Gorge aspires to full emotional and intellectual recognition of our fraught interdependence with more-than-human ecosystems. The collection also examines the impact of environmental degradation on human relationships, particularly on those of people attempting to create shared meaning...(Read More) |
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