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.

Recumbents Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9780819567482
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2005
Description:
Hailed as one of France's most influential living poets, Michel Deguy has remained largely inaccessible to English-language readers. Recumbents is the first English translation of the most critically-acclaimed volume of this poet's work. The word recumbents refers to funereal sculptures (gisants), reclining lovers, and the literal imprint of those and other figures on the page.
The Two of Them Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780819567604
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2005
Description:
Irene, a rebellious product of an American 1950s upbringing, has fled from a repressive and sexist society into a life of apparent equality and adventure as part of the elite Trans-Temporal Authority's cadre of travelers. Under the tutelage of Ernst, a friend/lover and teacher/father, Irene has achieved status and dignity. Irene and Ernst are assigned to a Muslim world where they meet Zubedeyeh, a young girl whose creativity is being transformed into madness by the male chauvinistic society in which she lives.
We Who Are About To... Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780819567598
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2005
Description:
A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an uncharted barren tundra. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end in an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible.
Historiography in the Twentieth Century Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780819567666
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2005
Description:
In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II.
American Science Fiction TV Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780819567383
Pub Date: 09 Feb 2005
Illustrations: 10 illus.
Description:
From "The Next Generation" and "The X-Files" to "Farscape" and "Enterprise," science fiction television shows have millions of devoted fans. American Science Fiction TV is the first full-length study of this popular genre. Writing with the clarity of a scholar and the enthusiasm of a fan, Jan Johnson-Smith shows how science fiction television has displaced the Western in the American cultural imagination.
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9780819566744
Pub Date: 28 Jan 2005
Illustrations: 22 illus.
Description:
Lynn Garafola has written some of the most influential historical studies and criticism in the field of dance. Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance is a selection of her essays and reviews that together document the extraordinary transformation of dance, especially ballet, since the early 20th century. Part I, "The Ballet Russes and Beyond," explores the relatively uncharted landscape of French ballet and European art dance in the early 1900s.
Eyeshot Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9780819566720
Pub Date: 29 Dec 2004
Illustrations: 3 illus.
Description:
Heather McHugh's new book, Eyeshot, is a brooding, visionary work that takes aim at the big questions-those of love and death. The poems suggest that such immensities balance on the smallest details, and that a range of human blindness is inescapable. The power of this new work comes from its delicate yet tenacious fidelity to the ever-unfolding senses of sense.
Butting Out Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780819567338
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2004
Illustrations: 42 illus.
Description:
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha are major choreographers of the 20th century whose work will leave the dance field with a legacy as important and strong as that of Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. Zollar is Artistic Director of the world-renowned company, The Urban Bush Women (based in New York City), and Chandralekha is an Indian choreographer (based in Madras) who has performed internationally and is known for her radical mixing of postmodern and traditional dance forms. In this nuanced and in-depth study, dance scholar Ananya Chatterjea shows how each of these choreographers has positioned herself through performance in terms of gender, race, and nationality.
Wired for Sound Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780819565174
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2004
Illustrations: 20 illus., 3 tables
Description:
Wired for Sound is the first anthology to address the role of sound engineering technologies in the shaping of contemporary global music. Wired sound is at the basis of digital audio editing, multi-track recording, and other studio practices that have powerfully impacted the world's music. Distinctions between musicians and engineers increasingly blur, making it possible for people around the globe to imagine new sounds and construct new musical aesthetics.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 376
ISBN: 9780819567147
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2004
Description:
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues-technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism-have only become more pressing with the passage of time.The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to "point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more"?
Subterranean Worlds Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 242
ISBN: 9780819567239
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2004
Illustrations: 4 illus.
Description:
The bizarre idea that the earth's interior is hollow and, perhaps, even populated has been put to effective literary use by writers ranging from Edgar Allen Poe and Jules Verne to Rudy Rucker and Edgar Rice Burroughs. This notion had respectability as a scientific hypothesis until the early 1800s, and the theory that the earth "is hollow and inhabitable within" continues to find believers as an alternative description of the earth to this day. The hollow earth is one of the most important settings in the literature of the imagination that fed into early science fiction.
Winter Music Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9780819567420
Pub Date: 10 Nov 2004
Illustrations: 11 illus., 15 musical examples, audio CD
Description:
Composer John Luther Adams makes his home in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, where he has created a unique musical world grounded in the elemental landscapes and indigenous cultures of the North. Winter Music, a collection of Adams's essays, journal entries, and other writings is poetic and inspirational and delves into the environmental and cultural awareness that creates his reflective, almost spiritual, approach to music. The accompanying audio CD includes two previously unrecorded works by Adams.
The Last Clear Narrative Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9780819567116
Pub Date: 25 Oct 2004
Description:
In her second collection of poems, Rachel Zucker returns to a more autobiographical stance and writes about the particulars of marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood-experiences that radically surprised her. But this is no simple reportage. With candor, humor, and compassion, Zucker discovers a new poetic territory: a landscape between story and fragment, a way of telling that is neither confessional nor intellectually detached.
Visa for Avalon Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781930464070
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2004
Description:
In this chilling dystopian novel, four men and women attempt an escape to legendary Avalon after the "Movement" threatens the liberty and comforts they have taken for granted. Visa for Avalon takes place in an unnamed country and an unnamed time. In it, Bryher uses her knowledge of history and psychology to examine political crisis in a familiar setting.
H.G. Wells Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 354
ISBN: 9780819567253
Pub Date: 22 Sep 2004
Description:
The English writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) is one of the giants of science fiction. His early novels, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction. But he also wrote mainstream novels, journalism, political tracts, a memoir, and purely didactic fiction designed to support his various causes.
Pleasure Dome Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 468
ISBN: 9780819567390
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2004
Description:
Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others-over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa's work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.