University of Wisconsin Press
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Correctional
$26.95 Add to cartThe first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his promot… [more below]
- Author: Shankar, Ravi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0299335305
- Language: English
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The Jewish Women of Ravensbr?k Concentration Camp
$24.95 Add to cartRavensbr?k was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal inject… [more below]
- Author: Saidel, Rochelle G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: March 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0299198642
- Language: English
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The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home
$28.95 Add to cartWhen Alison Townsend purchased her first house, in south-central Wisconsin, she put down roots where she never imagined settling. To understand how she came to live in the Midwest, she takes a journey… [more below]
- Author: Townsend, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0299334600
- Language: English
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Djinns
$17.95 Add to cartAfter laboring in Germany for thirty years, H?seyin uses his hard-earned savings to purchase a sunny and spacious flat in Istanbul, envisioning the joys of retirement in his home country with his wife… [more below]
- Author: Aydemir, Fatma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0299349241
- Language: English
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The River of the Mother of God: And Other Essays by Aldo Leopold
$29.95 Add to cartHis name is inextricably linked with a single work, A Sand County Almanac, a classic of natural history literature and the conservationist’s bible. This book brings together the best of Leopold’s ess
- Author: Leopold, Aldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0299127648
- Language: English
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The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People
$19.95 Add to cartThis beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, … [more below]
- Author: Logan, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0299309045
- Language: English
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Host
$16.95 Read moreIn raw, lyrical poems, Host explores parasitic relationships–between men and women, sons and mothers, and humans and the earth–and considers their consequences. How much control do we have over our … [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Coutley, Lisa Fay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0299347141
- Language: English
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Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartMaureen Seaton traces the emergence of her identity in quick, droll, often surprising sketches. She finds herself alternately in the company of winos, swingers, and drag kings; in love with Jesus H. C… [more below]
- Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog
- Author: Seaton, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0299228843
- Language: English
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Eclogues and Georgics
$29.95 Add to cartJames Bradley Wells combines creative practice and intimate knowledge of contemporary poetry and classical antiquity in this thought-provoking new translation of two early works by ancient Rome’s most… [more below]
- Author: Vergil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0299337405
- Language: English
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My Favorite Tyrants
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
The word “tyrant” carries negative connotations, but in this new collection, Joanne Diaz tries to understand what makes tyr… [more below]- Series: Brittingham Prize in Poetry
- Author: Diaz, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0299297845
- Language: English
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And Her Soul Out Of Nothing
$14.95 Add to cartBoth contemporary and other-worldly, Davis’s lyrical poetry is a fearless expression of the spirit which defines the very essence of our beings.
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Davis, Olena Kalytiak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0299157148
- Language: English
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Farm Girl: A Wisconsin Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartWhen Bunny Coburn was growing up, neighbors came together in times of hardship. No matter the trouble, they faced it with determination, camaraderie, and resourcefulness. In the midst of the Great Dep… [more below]
- Author: Carlson, Beuna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 029932754X
- Language: English
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Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood
$26.95 Add to cartPlain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter’s journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Although endowed with a personality “prone toward ques… [more below]
- Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog
- Author: Hostetter, Mary Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0299340406
- Language: English
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Afterlife
$17.95 Add to cartGrief fractures and scars. In Afterlife Michael Dhyne picks up the shattered remains, examining each shard in the light, attempting to find meaning–or at least understanding–in the death of his fath… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Dhyne, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0299346846
- Language: English
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The Toni Morrison Book Club
$17.95 Add to cartIn this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about t… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Juda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 029932494X
- Language: English
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Sor Juana’s Love Poems
$12.95 Add to cartThese exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana In駸 de la Cruz. In
- Author: Ines De La Cruz, Sor Juana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0299187047
- Language: English
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Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$17.95 Add to cartThe Upper Peninsula of Michigan–known as “the U P”–is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language during the last 150 years have shaped the variet… [more below]
- Series: Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest
- Author: Remlinger, Kathryn A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0299312542
- Language: English
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Vegetation of Wisconsin: An Ordination of Plant Communities
$49.95 Add to cartOne of the most important contributions in the field of plant ecology during the twentieth century, this definitive survey established the geographical limits, species compositions, and as much as pos… [more below]
- Author: Curtis, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 15 1959
- ISBN10: 0299019403
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region: A Comprehensive Field Guide
$29.95 Read moreDescribing more than 1,100 species, this is a comprehensive guide to wildflowers in Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Ontario. A new introduction to this second … [more below]
- Author: Black, Merel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0299230546
- Language: English
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(At) Wrist
$17.95 Read moreTacey M. Atsitty melds inherited forms such as the sonnet with her Diné and religious experiences to boldly and beautifully reveal a love that can last for eternity. Celebrating and examining the dep… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Atsitty, Tacey M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0299346544
- Language: English
