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Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartRoot-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.
Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)
Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyri
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0819565849
- Language: English
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By: Spicer, Jack
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
$27.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn essential collection of a highly original American poet
Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009)
Winner of the American Book Award (2009)In 1965, when the poe
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Spicer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: August 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0819570907
- Language: English
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By: Rogers, J. a.
100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
$7.95PaperbackRead moreClassic collection of black history and trivia
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper featur
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0960229477
- Language: English
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By: Samuel R. Delany
Tales of Nevèrÿon
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartA novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 1
In his four-volume series Return to Nev?rÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the
- Series: Return to Neveryon Series
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 29 1993
- ISBN10: 081956270X
- Language: English
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiv
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: December 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0819567140
- Language: English
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Typescript of the Second Origin
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe first English translation of a Catalan science fiction masterpiece
Manuel de Pedrolo’s widely acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel, which includes a foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson, tells the story of
- Author: Pedrolo, Manuel De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0819577421
- Language: English
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By: Elizabeth Bishop
An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry
$22.95PaperbackRead moreIn Portuguese and English.
A 25th anniversary edition of a book cited by Modern Language Journal as “notable for the original and interesting choice of poems and for the accuracy and poetic quality of
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry in Translation
- Author: Bishop, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0819560235
- Language: English
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By: Daley, Yvonne
Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartHow the counterculture movement changed Vermont–and America
Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena colle
- Author: Daley, Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0819579718
- Language: English
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By: Liz Lerman
Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process(r) in Theory and Action
$26.95PaperbackRead moreA thorough introduction and lively exploration of a widely recognized method for giving and getting useful feedback
Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, Critical Response Process(R) (CRP) is an
- Author: Lerman, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0819577189
- Language: English
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By: Lewis, Erica
Mahogany
$16.95PaperbackRead moremahogany is about the passing of time and unimaginable loss, strength, humor, and love
mahogany takes its name from the dark wood prized for its durability, workability, and elegant look, and from the
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Lewis, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500771
- Language: English
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By: Roberson, Ed
To See the Earth Before the End of the World
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartGenerous, visionary new work by this major American poet
Winner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016)
In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, eac
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Roberson, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0819569496
- Language: English
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By: Samuel R. Delany
Einstein Intersection
$14.95PaperbackRead moreA nonhuman race reimagines human mythology.
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 149
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0819563366
- Language: English
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By: Samuel R. Delany
Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartInterplanetary war, capture and escape, diplomatic intrigues that topple worlds.
In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany’s 1976 SF novel, originally published
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: July 19 1996
- ISBN10: 081956298X
- Language: English
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By: Arthur B. Evans
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
$42.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe best single-volume anthology of science fiction available–includes online teacher’s guide
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction eve
- Author: Evans, Arthur B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: August 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0819569550
- Language: English
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The Ruins of Nostalgia
$16.95PaperbackRead moreNew work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem
What is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeli
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Stonecipher, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500844
- Language: English
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By: Peter Gizzi
Fierce Elegy
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartPeter 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500682
- Language: English
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Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartA flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.
- Author: Richards, Mary Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 187
- Publish Date: May 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0819562009
- Language: English
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By: Aimé Césaire
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartC?saire’s masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.
Aim? C?saire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: C?saire, Aim?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0819564524
- Language: English
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By: Evie Shockley
Suddenly We
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartEvie Shockley’s new poems invite us to dream–and work–toward a more capacious “we”
In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes t
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500453
- Language: English













