Wesleyan University Press
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Moving Between Worlds: A Guide to Embodied Living and Communicating
$29.95 Read moreDaily explorations to enhance embodied communication
Communication is a fundamental human activity, and as much as 90% of all communication is non-verbal. Yet awareness of embodied intelligence in comm
- Author: Olsen, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0819580899
- Language: English
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Fierce Elegy
$27.00 Read morePeter Gizzi’s powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also–as it has been for centuries–a work of love
Peter Gizzi has said that “the elegy is a mode that can transform a brok
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Gizzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500674
- Language: English
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The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
$29.95 Read moreAn essential guide to embodied awareness
The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for t
- Author: Olsen, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0819574058
- Language: English
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Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English
$17.95 Read moreA star-studded anthology infuses English poetry with the rigor and wit of a foreign form.
In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced “ghuzzle”), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular amo
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Ali, Agha Shahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0819564370
- Language: English
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The New Black
$15.95 Read moreA profound and uplifting meditation on the meanings of race and belonging in America
Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012)
Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley’s the new black integrat
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 081957287X
- Language: English
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Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty
$16.95 Read moreNative puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World’s Fair
In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Ear
- Author: Vizenor, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500437
- Language: English
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Sex and Race, Volume 3: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands — Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition
$17.95 Read moreClassic work of black study provides detailed historico-biographical surveys of black history
In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the con
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575097
- Language: English
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Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration
$24.95 Read moreQueer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history
The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger, and pianist Bil
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Barg, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 081950064X
- Language: English
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Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
$17.95 Add to cartA new book of poetry translation that enhances the ordinary
Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain’s foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the sk
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry in Translation
- Author: Machado, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 187
- Publish Date: July 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0819560812
- Language: English
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Sukun: New and Selected Poems
$40.00 Read moreNew and selected poems from celebrated poet Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual trad
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500704
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton
$24.95 Read moreThe definitive guide to a major African American poet
This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton’s unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in Ameri
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hernton, Calvin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500364
- Language: English
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Dance Works: Stories of Creative Collaboration
$22.00 Read moreRide along with choreographer Allison Orr and her civic collaborators as they reflect on their dances together
In 2001, Allison Orr made a dance with 13 City of Austin firefighters. Over the next 20 ye
- Author: Orr, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500240
- Language: English
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Magnified
$14.95 Add to cartOnce in a blue moon, a love like this comes along
This collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. With her beloved gravely ill, poet and activist Minnie Bruce
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Pratt, Minnie Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0819580066
- Language: English
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Kazuo Ohno’s World: From Without & Within
$34.95 Add to cartPhotographs and words illuminate Butoh dance.
Kazuo Ohno is one of the founders of the Japanese modern dance form, Butoh, which had a large influence on contemporary American modern and postmodern danc
- Author: Ohno, Kazuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 343
- Publish Date: July 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0819566942
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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In a Few Minutes Before Later
$26.00 Read more“[Hillman’s] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful.” –Harvard Review
Finalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023
An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led t- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hillman, Brenda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0819500151
- Language: English
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Kazuo Ohno’s World: From Without & Within
$34.95 Add to cartPhotographs and words illuminate Butoh dance.
Kazuo Ohno is one of the founders of the Japanese modern dance form, Butoh, which had a large influence on contemporary American modern and postmodern danc
- Author: Ohno, Kazuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 343
- Publish Date: July 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0819566942
- Language: English
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Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital
$28.00 Add to cartExamines John Coltrane’s “late period” and Miles Davis’s “Lost Quintet” through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography
Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz,
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Veal, Michael E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0819569208
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
$27.95 Add to cartThe lifework of a preeminent New York School poet
Winner of the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award (2010)
One of the most notable members of the New York School–and its best-known woman–Barbara Guest began
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Guest, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0819567779
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
