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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.

Walking in Stone Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 63
ISBN: 9780819511768
Pub Date: 01 Sep 1989
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 5 figs.
Description:
Colonists and Native Americans alternate in these poems of encounter between the intruding culture and the culture the colonist found. Walking in Stone refers to spiritual sources powerful enough to sink their footsteps into rock.Against such a background, John Spaulding finds voices of encounter (in a way he speaks for them by inheritance-his ancestors came to New England in 1750 and one married a Native American).
The Folded Heart Cover
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.
Desert Tracings Cover
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.
The Arrogance of Race Cover
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.
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SLAVERY Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780819562081
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1988
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
The Kingdom of God in America Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 247
ISBN: 9780819562227
Pub Date: 31 Oct 1988
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Against the Meanwhile Cover
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.
Dien Cai Dau Cover
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.
Here on Earth Cover
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.
Prejudice and Your Child Cover
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.
Saving the Appearances Cover
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.
The Last American Puritan Cover
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.
The World the Slaveholders Made Cover
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.
Shades Cover
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.
Of Gravity & Angels Cover
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.
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