Poetry
Cathay
Ezra Pound
Edited by Timothy Billings
An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resituates Cathay as a project of poetry in circulation and a work of World Literature.
ISBN: 9780823281060
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Xamissa
Henk Rossouw
Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. Xamissa adapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running...
ISBN: 9780823281107
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Midden
Julia Bouwsma
SELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS!In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island, a small island off the...
ISBN: 9780823280988
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Pure Act
Michael N. McGregor
A biography of experimental poet and spiritual seeker Robert Lax, who inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac and many others. Using information and stories drawn from journal entries, letters, interviews and the author’s personal recollections, the book chronicles the development of Lax’s distinctive poetic style and a spontaneous, spiritual approach to life he called pure act.
ISBN: 9780823276820
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The New York Editions
Michael D. Snediker
The New York Editions is a Lycidan Dichterliebe to a distant Beloved, opening onto and out of a submerged, decades-long experimental translation of The New York Edition—Henry James's late-in-life reissue of his own novels and short stories—into poems, queerly calibrated to an optic of otherworldly contiguities.
ISBN: 9780823278152
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Rotary Devotion
Gary Keenan
Rotary Devotion examines the endangered imagination and the will to sing in chaos. It’s titular motif of ceremonial disorientation moves through individual poems with relentless precision and exhilarating, transformative impact. The poems discover a difficult and necessary beauty in crisis by being themselves as plainly and directly as possible.
ISBN: 9780823278107
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Persistent Forms
Edited by Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov
Drawing inspiration from the Russian and Soviet tradition of historical poetics, the contributors to the volume seek to challenge and complement the historicism that stresses proximate socio-political contexts as well as the more recent and salutary concern with understanding literary production and reception on a global scale with the perspective of the longue durée of literary forms and institutions.
ISBN: 9780823264858
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A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent
Gregory Mahrer
A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent charts a territory built of speculative histories, indeterminate landscapes, and mock narratives, all of them at the threshold linking exterior and interior worlds. Their logic is highly grammatical and slyly confounding, perfectly clear and drawn from dream. It is here, "between / what is occluded and what has elapsed," that Mahrer's ambiguous, disordered subjects begin their journeys.
ISBN: 9780823271153
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The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone
Nancy K. Pearson
A collection of lyric and prose poetry about identity, fragmentation, depression and addiction.
ISBN: 9780823271177
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Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol
Adam Frank
This book uses theories of affect (especially Silvan Tomkins's and Melanie Klein's) to offer new interpretations of the poetics of Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol. It analyzes the peculiar theatricality of the work of these artists in relation to technologies of graphic reproduction, especially television
ISBN: 9780823262472
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Sophistical Practice
Barbara Cassin
Sophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato wants us to believe, but it provides an alternative to the philosophical mainstream. A sophistic...
ISBN: 9780823256396
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Cyclorama
Daneen Wardrop
Cyclorama is a book of poems named after the theatre-sized, in-the-round oil paintings popular after the American Civil War. It features the voices of people often overlooked in representations of the war, such as nurse, child, draftee, prostitute, enslaved person, Native American soldier, and woman soldier.
ISBN: 9780823265763
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On Generation & Corruption
Terrence Chiusano
Explores the use of procedural constraints in the production of poetry, prose and prose poetry. Examines issues of realism, narrative and narrativity, and confronts the problem of how place is constructed on the page. Follows Aristotle’s original On Generation and Corruption (or, On Coming to Be and Passing Away) in considering the question of permanence and change.
ISBN: 9780823265787
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A Common Strangeness
Jacob Edmond
Examines poetic responses to the transition from the late Cold War period to the post-Cold War era of globalization, focusing on the work of Bei Dao and Yang Lian from China, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Dmitrii Prigov from Russia, and Charles Bernstein and Lyn Hejinian from the United States.
ISBN: 9780823242603
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Gray Matter
Sara Michas-Martin
Gray Matter: 1. the material of the brain. 2. an expression naming an idea or situation held in shadow. This book tangles with the unknown, but also celebrates the seductive curiosity its mystery provokes—A love letter from the imagination to the scientists and philosophers who, despite remarkable attempts, still cannot locate its source.
ISBN: 9780823257799
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Errings
Peter Streckfus
Spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent—a lost leader, a remote love, a protégé not yet born—and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next.
ISBN: 9780823257768
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Poetics of Emptiness
Jonathan Stalling
The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed...
ISBN: 9780823231454
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American Metempsychosis
John Michael Corrigan
American Metempsychosis explores the ancient concept of metempsychosis as a precursor to the idea of history. In the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, metempsychosis serves as a form of American self-knowing – the effort to reshape identity through a self’s heightened awareness of its own cognitive succession.
ISBN: 9780823242344
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Fannie + Freddie
Amy Sara Carroll
In Fannie + Freddie / The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, Amy Sara Carroll ‘undocuments’ the quotidian’s shades of gray/grey, the contingencies of post-Fordist relationality in the pre-Occupy window of time between September 11, 2001 and the 2008 Great Recession.
ISBN: 9780823250912
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The Revolver in the Hive
Nicolas Hundley
Chronicles the emotional journey through loss and grief by using a variety of poetic forms and literary traditions including the gothic and the surreal.
ISBN: 9780823250882
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Things That No Longer Delight Me
Leslie C. Chang
Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes:I like objects for company,to decorate the plainest...
ISBN: 9780823232000
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The Hello Delay
Julie Choffel
Afterword by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
This text explores themes of familiarity and strangeness, asking the reader to consider the differences between them and where they overlap. Sampling from all forms of communication, the author implores us to greet the unknown and to listen in turn.
ISBN: 9780823242306
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Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse
Darcie Dennigan
Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse simultaneously celebrates and laments that “we are but decaying.” Betraying a love of old poems and symbols and new words and forms, these are poems where “the...
ISBN: 9780823228577
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Continuous Frieze Bordering Red
Michelle Naka Pierce
Continuous Frieze Bordering [Red] documents the migratory patterns of an Other as she travels between countries, languages, and shades of Rothko’s red. A narrative on hybridity, the text navigates the instability of cultural border identities and functions as an ekphrasis of Rothko’s bricked-in, water-damaged windows in his Seagram murals.
ISBN: 9780823243051
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Multiversal
Amy Catanzano
Multiversal, the second book by Amy Catanzano proposing a theory of quantum poetics, invites readers to explore the intersections between language, nature, science, and consciousness. Multiversal...
ISBN: 9780823230075
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