Wesleyan University Press
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Go Figure
$16.95 Read moreKeen, pithy meditations on a world that continues to surprise us
The poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout’s new book are concerned with “this ongoing attempt/ to catalog the world” in a time o
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Armantrout, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0819500801
- Language: English
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
$24.95 Add to cartA comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music.
Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1995)
From its beginnings in hip hop culture,
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Rose, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: April 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0819562750
- Language: English
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
$26.95 Add to cartSilence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, “to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not abo
- Author: Cage, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0819573655
- Language: English
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Deed
$16.95 Add to cartA lyrically and formally innovative exploration of desire and its cost
DEED, the follow-up to torrin a. greathouse’s 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award winning debut, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, is
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Greathouse, Torrin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0819501328
- Language: English
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
$27.95 Read moreAn indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded
Samuel R. Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 081956883X
- Language: English
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Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
$24.95 Read moreThe first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics
Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, w
- Author: Ryfle, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500410
- Language: English
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In Mad Love and War
$16.95 Read moreSacred and secular poems of the Creek Tribe.
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1990)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1991)
2019 United States Poet LaureateJoy H
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 79
- Publish Date: May 21 1990
- ISBN10: 081951182X
- Language: English
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The Little Edges
$15.95 Read morePoems that play in the sonic texture of discourses
Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016)
The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten’s experiments in what he calls “shape
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Moten, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0819576700
- Language: English
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Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005
$29.95 Add to cartSelected poems from a visionary feminist poet
Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experi
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: August 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0819567736
- Language: English
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Finalists
$16.95 Read moreA double book by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout
What will we call the last generation before the looming end times? With Finalists Rae Armantrout suggests one option. Brilliant and irascibl
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Armantrout, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0819580686
- Language: English
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Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
$21.95 Add to cartAn engaging inside view of experimental music
Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking mus
- Author: Lucier, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0819574929
- Language: English
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Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska–Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal
$19.95 Add to cartA new paperback edition of Kent’s first book, often referred to as “Alaska’s Walden.”
In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: July 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0819552933
- Language: English
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Glottal Stop: 101 Poems
$16.95 Add to cartPaul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This s… [more below]
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0819567205
- Language: English
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N by E
$22.95 Add to cartA classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press’s 1978 facsimile of the original.
When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first pub
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: July 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0819552925
- Language: English
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From Superman to Man
$14.95 Add to cartA classic work of fiction from the Harlem Renaissance
Joel Augustus Roger’s seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revol
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0960229442
- Language: English
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Altazor
$19.95 Add to cartRevised edition of a Latin American classic in a tour-de-force translation.
Often compared with Apollinaire as the first and liveliest avant-garde poet in his language, Vicente Huidobro was a one-man m
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Huidobro, Vicente
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0819566780
- Language: English
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Semiautomatic
$15.95 Read morePoetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence
Art can’t shield our bodies or stabilize the earth’s climate, but Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and re
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0819577448
- Language: English
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Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan
$19.95 Read moreThe 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent’s journey to Tierra del Fuego.
Rockwell Kent is one of America’s most famous graphic artists. He was also an avid traveler. Kent was espec
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0819564095
- Language: English
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Magic City
$15.95 Add to cartAn award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.
Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He po
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: October 09 1992
- ISBN10: 0819512087
- Language: English
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Sex and Race, Volume 1: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands — The Old World
$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: 314
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575070
- Language: English
