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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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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, an...(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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Black Irish
(December 2016)
Dennis Doherty - Author
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Lyric and blank verse poetry sifting darkness in the author’s life and in the lives of others, both real and imagined.
“My mother said I had it
my father’s Black Irish.
She loved him powerfully,
as she did me. Still, I
knew that couldn’t be good,
the way she said it, a dis...(Read More) |
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Threnodies
(December 2016)
Poems in Remembrance
Laurence Carr - Author
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Takes the reader on a journey through time and place, with stops along the way to visit Madame Curie, Charlie Parker, Scheherazade, Madame Bovary, Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin, and God, among others.
Threnodies is a collection of poetry and prose poems that takes the reader on a journey through time and place. Some pieces conjure up distant memories; others reflect our shared experience. Along the wa...(Read More) |
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Poetic Fragments
(November 2016)
Karoline von Günderrode - Author
Anna C. Ezekiel - Translated and with introductory essays by
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Bilingual English-German edition of second collection published by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806).
The second collection of writings by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), Poetic Fragments was published in 1805 under the pseudonym “Tian.” Günderrode’s work is an unmined...(Read More) |
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