Wesleyan University Press
Since its inception in 1957, Wesleyan University Press has published more than 250 titles within its internationally renowned poetry series, collecting four Pulitzer prizes, a Bollingen, and two National Book Awards in that one series alone. Wesleyan University Press also aspire to maintain and develop their rigorous and multifaceted publishing program that serves the academic and intellectual life of the University; an editorial program that focuses on the publication of poetry, music, dance, science fiction, film-TV, and Connecticut history and culture.
Animals Erased Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780819572325
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2012
Illustrations: 12 illus. 6 tables.
Description:
Animals are disappearing, vanishing, and dying out-not just in the physical sense of becoming extinct, but in the sense of being erased from our consciousness. Increasingly, interactions with animals happen at a remove: mediated by nature programs, books, and cartoons; framed by the enclosures of zoos and aquariums; distanced by the museum cases that display lifeless bodies. In this thought-provoking book, Arran Stibbe takes us on a journey of discovery, revealing the many ways in which language affects our relationships with animals and the natural world.
Fly Fishing in Connecticut Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9780819572837
Pub Date: 02 Apr 2012
Illustrations: 30 illus.
Description:
In this book, a long-time resident and devoted fly fisherman imparts a wealth of knowledge about fly fishing in Connecticut. Kevin Murphy teaches novice anglers about the state's trout hatcheries and stocking programs, the differences between brook, brown, and rainbow trout, and offers easy-to-follow instructions on the basics of fly fishing. In this concise text, the reader finds the essentials in fly fishing gear, stream tactics, casting, and a host of related topics.
When Magoo Flew Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 332
ISBN: 9780819569141
Pub Date: 09 Mar 2012
Illustrations: 72 illus. (20 colour).
Description:
What do Franklin Roosevelt, Dr. Seuss, the U.S.
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Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780819572400
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2012
Illustrations: 53 illus.
Description:
Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) was a supremely gifted satirist and visual stylist who made an indelible mark on 1950s Hollywood and American popular culture-first as a talented animator working on Looney Tunes cartoons, then as muse to film stars Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, and Jayne Mansfield. Yet his name is not especially well known today. Long regarded as an anomaly or curiosity, Tashlin is finally given his due in this career-spanning survey.
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century Cover Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century Cover
Format: 
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9780819572349
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2012
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9780819572356
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2012
Description:
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century is an exciting sequel to its predecessors in the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools.
What Is Amazing Cover What Is Amazing Cover
Format: 
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780819572776
Pub Date: 14 Feb 2012
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780819573698
Pub Date: 04 Mar 2013
Description:
Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness. Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment and desire.
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Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780819571182
Pub Date: 08 Feb 2012
Description:
In her most recent book, Watchword-the winner of the Villaurrutia, Mexico's most esteemed literary prize-acclaimed poet Pura López Colomé writes of life at its brink with fierce honesty and an unblinking eye. This work shares the darkness, intensity, and skeptical hope of Thomas Hardy's great poems. Like them, López Colomé's poems have flashes of secular mysticism, sparked from language itself, which generate unforgettable passages and give voice to a world familiar and odd, wounded and buoyant.
Sex and Race, Volume 2 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 420
ISBN: 9780819575081
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2012
Illustrations: 73 illus.
Description:
In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the "color problem." Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called "the bran of history"—the uncollected, unexamined history of black people—in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions.

Alvin Lucier

A Celebration
Format: Paperback
Pages: 48
ISBN: 9780819572790
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2012
Illustrations: 8 illus.
Description:
This small, striking book commemorates the career of experimental music composer Alvin Lucier, and features an interview with Lucier and curator Andrea Miller-Keller, essays by Nicolas Collins, Ronald Kuivila, Michael Roth and Pamela Tatge, and details of a symposium, exhibit and special performances of Lucier's work held at Wesleyan University, November 4-6, 2011. Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. From 1970 to 2011 he taught at Wesleyan University where he was John Spencer Camp Professor of Music.

Gervase Wheeler

Format: Hardback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9780819571458
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2012
Illustrations: 62 illus.
Description:
Gervase Wheeler was an English-born architect who designed such important American works as the Henry Boody House in Brunswick, Maine; the Patrick Barry House in Rochester, New York; and the chapels at Bowdoin and Williams colleges. But he was perhaps best known as the author of two influential architecture books, Rural Homes (1851) and Homes for the People (1855). Yet Wheeler has remained a little known, enigmatic figure.

Three Science Fiction Novellas

Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780819569455
Pub Date: 10 Jan 2012
Description:
To the short list that includes Jules Verne and H.G. Wells as founding fathers of science fiction, the name of the Belgian writer J.

Listening and Longing

Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780819571625
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2011
Illustrations: 11 illus.
Description:
Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era, when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of hearing musical performance, to the Gilded Age, when genteel critics began to successfully redefine the cultural value of listening to music. In a series of interconnected stories, American studies scholar Daniel Cavicchi focuses on the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and commercialization in shaping practices of music audiences in America. Grounding our contemporary culture of listening in its seminal historical moment-before the iPod, stereo system, or phonograph-Cavicchi offers a fresh understanding of the role of listening in the history of music.
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Format: Hardback
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9780819568564
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2011
Illustrations: 47 illus., 7 maps.
Description:
Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England.

On the Outskirts of Form

Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9780819569585
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2011
Illustrations: 19 illus.
Description:
This new book by eminent scholar Michael Davidson gathers his essays concerning formally innovative poetry from modernists such as Mina Loy, George Oppen, and Wallace Stevens to current practitioners such as Cristina Rivera-Garza, Heriberto Yépez, Lisa Robertson, and Mark Nowak. The book considers poems that challenge traditional poetic forms and in doing so trouble normative boundaries of sexuality, subjectivity, gender, and citizenship. At the heart of each essay is a concern with the "politics of form," the ways that poetry has been enlisted in the constitution-and critique-of community.

Songs and Stories of the Ghouls

Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780819569561
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2011
Description:
Left dead after our cultures were broken by triumphant enemies, our stories changed to suit others. We now change them again to suit ourselves. Songs and Stories of the Ghouls purports to give power to the dead-voices to the victims of genocide both ancient and contemporary-and presence to women.

Food for the Dead

Format: Paperback
Pages: 390
ISBN: 9780819571700
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2011
Illustrations: 16 illus. 1 map. 2 tables.
Description:
For nineteenth-century New Englanders, "vampires" lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Author and folklorist Michael E.