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.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 54

ISBN: 9780819511713

Pub Date: 01 Sep 1989

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Illustrations: 1 illus.

Description:

Michael Collier's poems are like a living film of the image of one's past. In rich detail, they bring to life the geography of childhood-commonplace events that have a unique texture of one's own-a dream of flying, a secret obsession, a school pageant, a jam session in the garage. The memories are folded into the heart, but with an inevitable sense of loss, a sense of capturing "the moment held in the air, the illusion of something whole, something true.

The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 488

ISBN: 9780819562258

Pub Date: 01 Sep 1989

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

An excellent study of American intellectuals in the 40's and 50's.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 87

ISBN: 9780819511584

Pub Date: 01 May 1989

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Illustrations: Frontis.

Description:

According to legend, the Bedouin tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia held poetry competitions during annual fairs near Mecca. The wining poems called Mu'allaqát, or Hanging Odes, were embroidered in gold on banners and suspended from the walls of Arabia's most sacred shrine, Ka'ba. Desert Tracings is a translation of six classical sixth to eighth century odes.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 320

ISBN: 9780819562173

Pub Date: 01 Feb 1989

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

The Arrogance of Race is a significant contribution to the historiography of slavery and racism in America. George Fredrickson, one of the most respected and cogent historians of this complex and troubling subject, maintains that racism is a cultural phenomenon not a mere by-product of class conflict and colonialism. He opts for a "dualistic" rather than a more popular monolithic explanation of the tragedy of racism.

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780819562081

Pub Date: 31 Dec 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Format: Paperback

Pages: 247

ISBN: 9780819562227

Pub Date: 31 Oct 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Format: Paperback

Pages: 79

ISBN: 9780819511515

Pub Date: 05 Oct 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

Mark Irwin's boyhood near the nuclear laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, haunts his poetry. This book of three elegies explores the nature of remembered time and space-personal, historical, geological-against the progression of time-evolution, germination, cell division, nuclear fission, the decay of memory and feeling. This, the poet says, is a kind of "fossil record" of science's impact on the modern world.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 72

ISBN: 9780819511645

Pub Date: 01 Sep 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 64

ISBN: 9780819511560

Pub Date: 01 Sep 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

A collection of poetry from an award-winning poet, playwright and novelist.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 328

ISBN: 9780819561558

Pub Date: 01 Aug 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

Analyzes racial prejudice and its impact on white as well as black children, and provides wise counsel and a plan for action that is as fresh—and as necessary—as when the book was first written.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 191

ISBN: 9780819562050

Pub Date: 01 Aug 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

Saving the Appearances is about the world as we see it and the world as it is; it is about God, human nature, and consciousness. The best known of numerous books by the British sage whom C.S.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 456

ISBN: 9780819562388

Pub Date: 01 Apr 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Illustrations: 65 illus. 8 maps.

Description:

Powerful preacher, political negotiator for New England in the halls of Parliament, president of Harvard, father of Cotton Mather, Increase Mather was the epitome of the American Puritan. He was the most important spokesman of his generation for Congregationalism and became the last American Puritan of consequence as the seventeenth century ended. The story begins in 1639 when Mather was born in the Massachusetts village of Dorchester.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 304

ISBN: 9780819562043

Pub Date: 31 Mar 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

A seminal and original work that delves deeply into what slaveholders thought.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 83

ISBN: 9780819511379

Pub Date: 18 Feb 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

Shades is a book of shadow and light cast between trees and sun, between day and room, between life and death. It acknowledges endings as beginnings; it offers compassion and tenderness, searching for hope in the richness of nature; it seeks the same resources within the human being.Heather McHugh's companion volume to To the Quick (Wesleyan 1987) continues the music and brilliance characteristic of her work but moves more deeply into the metaphysical.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 80

ISBN: 9780819511386

Pub Date: 15 Feb 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Description:

A precise and passionate collection by a brave new voice in poetry.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 264

ISBN: 9780819561947

Pub Date: 01 Feb 1988

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press

Illustrations: 41 illus. 14 tables. 3 figs. 4 graphs.

Description:

Originally issued in 1954 and updated in 1961 and 1987, this pioneering study of "small group" conflict and cooperation has long been out-of-print. It is now available, in cloth and paper, with a new introduction by Donald Campbell, and a new postscript by O.J.