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  • THE TIME SHIP
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    THE TIME SHIP
    ENRIQUE GASPAR
    H. G. Wells wasn't the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published El anacronópete—"He who flies against time"—eight years before Wells's influential work appeared. The novel begins at the 1878 Paris Exposition, where Dr. Don Sindulfo unveils his new invention—which looks like a giant sailing vessel. Soon the doctor...

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  • LOOSE SUGAR
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    LOOSE SUGAR
    BRENDA HILLMAN
    Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised — love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar — are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold, but into a poet's philosopher's stone, in which language marries life. Structurally vir...

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  • MUSIC, POLITICS, AND VIOLENCE
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    MUSIC, POLITICS, AND VIOLENCE
    SUSAN FAST
    Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together they raise fundamental questions about creativity, discourse, and music's role in society. The essays in this collection investigate a wealth of issues surrounding music and violence—issues that cross political boundaries, time periods, and media—and provide cross-cultural case stu...

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  • CHAMBERS
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    CHAMBERS
    ALVIN LUCIER / DOUGLAS SIMON
    Chambers is a virtually complete collection of composer Alvin Lucier's major works from 1965 to 1977, interspersed with twelve interviews with the composer by Douglas Simon. Each score is written in prose and may be read by musicians as instructions for performance or by general readers as descriptions of imaginary musical activities. In response to Simon's searching questions,...

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  • YIP HARBURG
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    YIP HARBURG
    HARRIET HYMAN ALONSO
    Known as "Broadway's social conscience," E. Y. Harburg (1896–1981) wrote the lyrics to the standards, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," "April in Paris," and "It's Only a Paper Moon," as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow." Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism, poverty, and war. Inter...

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  • CROWBAR GOVERNOR
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    CROWBAR GOVERNOR
    KEVIN MURPHY
    While president of Aetna Life from 1879 to 1922, Morgan Bulkeley served four terms as mayor of Hartford, two terms as Connecticut's governor, and one term as a United States senator. His friends and business and political acquaintances were a who's who of the Gilded Age: Samuel Clemens, J. P. Morgan, Samuel and Elizabeth Colt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leland Stanford, Charles Cro...

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  • STORIES IN STONE
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    STORIES IN STONE
    JELLE ZEILINGA DE BOER
    In a series of entertaining essays, geoscientist Jelle Zeilinga de Boer describes how early settlers discovered and exploited Connecticut's natural resources. Their successes as well as failures form the very basis of the state's history: Chatham's gold played a role in the acquisition of its Charter, and Middletown's lead helped the colony gain its freedom during the Revolutio...

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  • PRACTICAL WATER
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    PRACTICAL WATER
    BRENDA HILLMAN
    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry (2009) Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman's previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental meditation and an ecopoetics; this time her subject is water: Taoist water, baptismal water, water from the muses' fountains, the pr...

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  • THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
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    THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
    JACK SPICER
    The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, wha...

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  • BRIGHT FELON
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    BRIGHT FELON
    KAZIM ALI
    This groundbreaking, transgenre work—part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past—is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and se...

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  • THE MODERN DANCE
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    THE MODERN DANCE
    JOSÉ LIMÓN / ANNA SOKOLOW / ERICK HAWKINS
    CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor. ...

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  • DIVINE HONORS
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    DIVINE HONORS
    HILDA RAZ
    Winner of the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry (2002) This elegant and moving collection documents Hilda Raz's experience with breast cancer. The journey, from diagnosis to chemotherapy to mastectomy, from denial to humor to grief and rage, is ultimately one of courage and creativity. The poems themselves are accessible and finely wrought. They are equally testaments to Raz's ins...

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  • THERE ARE THREE
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    THERE ARE THREE
    DONALD REVELL
    Believing and espousing an American tradition alive in the testimony of Anne Hutchinson, in the prose-poetry of Thoreau, and in the music of Ives, Donald Revell's new poems seek moments of harmony between language and silence. The death of the poet's father and almost concurrent birth of his son form the emotional underpinnings of this meditation on faith. "Every morning, begin...

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  • DEAR YUSEF
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    DEAR YUSEF
    JOHN MURILLO AND NICOLE SEALEY
    This carefully and generously curated mosaic of essays, letters, and poems reveals the profound impact that poet Yusef Komunyakaa has had on poets, educators, and readers worldwide. The anthology brings together creative and critical offerings from fellow poets, former students, literary entities, and other admirers. There are emerging and established voices—from previously unp...

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  • CARRIACOU STRING BAND SERENADE
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    CARRIACOU STRING BAND SERENADE
    REBECCA S. MILLER
    Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic string band competition. Born in the years leading up to Grenada's 1979 Socialist Revolution, the Parang Festival today offers ...

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  • BETWEEN THE NIGHT AND ITS MUSIC
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    BETWEEN THE NIGHT AND ITS MUSIC
    A. B. SPELLMAN
    A. B. Spellman is an acclaimed American poet, music critic, and arts administrator. He is widely recognized as a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a cultural and literary movement that emphasized Black identity, pride, and artistic expression. Between the Night and Its Music brings together A. B. Spellman's early work with a collection of powerfu...

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  • BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
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    BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
    BENJAMIN BARSON
    Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies,...

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  • SOON AND WHOLLY
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    SOON AND WHOLLY
    IDRA NOVEY
    Idra Novey's first collection in a decade, since Patricia Smith chose Exit, Civilian for the National Poetry Series, brings a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era. The poems juxtapose sweltering days raising children in a city with moments from a rural childhood roaming free in the woods, providing a bridge between those often polarized realities. Novey's spare, contempora...

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  • DEED
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    DEED
    TORRIN A. GREATHOUSE
    DEED, the follow-up to torrin a. greathouse's 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award winning debut, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, is a formally and lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire, and what it can cost. Sprawling across art, eros, survival, myth, etymology, and musical touchstones from Bruce Springsteen to Against Me!, this new book both subverts and pays h...

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  • GO FIGURE
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    GO FIGURE
    RAE ARMANTROUT
    The poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout's new book are concerned with "this ongoing attempt/ to catalog the world" in a time of escalating disasters. From the bird who "check-marks morning/once more//like someone who gets up/to make sure// the door is locked" to bat-faced orchids, raising petals like light sails as if about to take flight, these poems make keen visual...

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  • PRESENCE AND PLEASURE
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    PRESENCE AND PLEASURE
    ANNE DANIELSEN
    Winner of the 2007 Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music Winner of IASPM's 2007 International Book Award In this exploration of the funk groove and its unique sounds, author Anne Danielsen takes an in-depth look at this under-explored genre. Danielsen concentrates on the golden age of funk in the late 1960s and the 1970s, focusing on two of the era's arti...

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  • THE 'HOOD COMES FIRST
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    THE 'HOOD COMES FIRST
    MURRAY FORMAN
    The 'Hood Comes First looks at the increasingly specific emphasis on real neighborhoods and streets in rap music and hip hop culture as an urgent response to the cultural and geographical ghettoization of black urban communities. Examining rap music, along with ancillary hip hop media including radio, music videos, rap press and the cinematic 'hood genre, Murray Forman analyzes...

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  • GLAMOUR ADDICTION
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    GLAMOUR ADDICTION
    JULIET MCMAINS
    In the wake of the blockbuster television success of "Dancing with the Stars," competitive ballroom dance has become a subject of new fascination—and renewed scrutiny. Known by its practitioners as DanceSport, ballroom is a significant dance form and a fascinating cultural phenomenon. In this first in-depth study of the sport, dancer and dance historian Juliet McMains explores ...

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  • COMING TO YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE
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    COMING TO YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE
    KIP PEGLEY
    MTV Networks is the undisputed international music video gatekeeper, with stations from Australia to India, Russia to Brazil. Canada is one of the few countries to resist its global reach. Although the network has launched "MTV Canada" with an affiliate, that station limits its offerings primarily to talk shows and lifestyle programming. Many Canadians regard the Toronto-based ...

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  • SOUNDS OF OTHER SHORES
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    SOUNDS OF OTHER SHORES
    ANDREW J. EISENBERG
    Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast. Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa's first mass-mediated popular music in the 1930s, is a famously cosmopolitan form, rich in audible influences from across the Indian Ocean. But the variants of t...

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  • SIMONE FORTI
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    SIMONE FORTI
    ANN COOPER ALBRIGHT
    Simone Forti, groundbreaking improvisor, has spent a lifetime weaving together the movement of her mind with the movement of her body to create a unique oeuvre situated at the intersection of dancing and art practices. Her seminal Dance Constructions from the 1960s crafted a new approach to dance composition and helped inspire the investigations of Judson Dance Theater. In the ...

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  • SEPTET FOR THE LUMINOUS ONES
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    SEPTET FOR THE LUMINOUS ONES
    FAHIMA IFE
    Continuing her search for a neotropical mythos, in this brilliant second collection poet fahima ife articulates various scenes of subduction. Spoken in quiet recognition and grounded in desire, Septet for the Luminous Ones imagines a lush soundscape textured in oblique spiritual fusion of the Taíno and Yoruba. Or, what it sounded like coming together for the first time, and wha...

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  • ALLEGORICAL MOMENTS
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    ALLEGORICAL MOMENTS
    LYN HEJINIAN
    Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world. Traditionally, allegorical interpretation was intended to express an orthodoxy and support an ideology. Hejinian attempts to liberate allegory from...

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  • THE LAND IS SUNG
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    THE LAND IS SUNG
    THOMAS M. POOLEY
    What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealogies. For those without land tenure in the province of KwaZulu-Nata, performances articulate a sense of place. Migrants express their allegiances through performance and spiritual re...

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  • THE RUINS OF NOSTALGIA
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    THE RUINS OF NOSTALGIA
    DONNA STONECIPHER
    What 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- and twenty-first century experience and its discontents, The Ruins of Nostalgia offers a strikingly original exploration of the misunderstood phenomenon of nostalgia as both...

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