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TICKETS FOR A PRAYER WHEEL by DILLARD ANNIE
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Celebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the ...Show more
TIMES ALONE SELECTED POEMS OF ANTONIO MACHADO by BLY ROBERT (TRANS)
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry in Translation Ser.
A new book of poetry translation that enhances the ordinary Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland clearly and without narcissism: "Just as before, I'm ...Show more
The Little Edges by Fred Moten
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Poems that play in the sonic texture of discourses Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"--a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of ...Show more
The Ruins of Nostalgia by Donna Stonecipher
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poemWhat is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeling and thought? In a series of 64 gorgeous, ramifying, unsettling prose poems addressing late-twentieth- ...Show more
Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip; Setaey Adamu Boateng (Other)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert--the only extant public document related to the massacre of these ...Show more
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