Poetry
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American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement [Hardback]
Michael Dowdy (Editor); Claudia Rankine (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9780819578297
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: American Poets in the 21st Century
Poetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, gender, and class subjectivities. Rather than consid... .... Learn More -
Trophic Cascade [Paperback]
Camille T. Dungy (Author)
£14.00ISBN: 9780819578563
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of... .... Learn More -
When Angels Sing: Poetry and Prose of Magda Isanos [Hardback]
Magda Isanos (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781592110162
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
Although her death at the tender age of 28 ended her promising literary career prematurely, Magda Isanos (1916-1944) ranks among the greatest poets in the history of Romanian literature. When Angels Sing: Poetry and Prose of Magda Isanos presents,... .... Learn More -
bury it [Paperback]
sam sax (Author)
£14.00ISBN: 9780819577313
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
sam sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly craf... .... Learn More -
American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement [Paperback]
Michael Dowdy (Editor); Claudia Rankine (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9780819578303
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: American Poets in the 21st Century
Poetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, gender, and class subjectivities. Rather than consid... .... Learn More -
The Work-Shy [Paperback]
£14.00ISBN: 9780819578617
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
The Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic “colonies” and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that defy work as we know it. Its poetic assemblages offer direct testimony from the first youth prison... .... Learn More -
Mend: Poems [Paperback]
Kwoya Fagin Maples (Author)
£16.50ISBN: 9780813176277
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: The University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series
The inventor of the speculum, J. Marion Sims, is celebrated as the "father of modern gynecology," and a memorial at his birthplace honors "his service to suffering women, empress and slave alike." These tributes whitewash the fact that Sims achiev... .... Learn More -
BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing [Hardback]
Seth Abramson (Editor); Jesse Damiani (Editor); Myung Mi Kim (Editor)
£38.00ISBN: 9780819578174
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Best American Experimental Writing
Best American Experimental Writing 2018, guest-edited by Myung Mi Kim, is the fifth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling an exciting mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre-defying work. Featuring a diverse roster ... .... Learn More -
BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing [Paperback]
Seth Abramson (Editor); Jesse Damiani (Editor); Myung Mi Kim (Editor)
£19.00ISBN: 9780819578181
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Best American Experimental Writing
Best American Experimental Writing 2018, guest-edited by Myung Mi Kim, is the fifth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling an exciting mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre-defying work. Featuring a diverse roster ... .... Learn More -
Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene [Hardback]
Linda Russo (Editor); Marthe Reed (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9780819578457
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
The Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of humanity in the transformation of earth’s environment globally, has become the subject of scholarshi... .... Learn More
