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  • THE IN-BETWEEN IN JAVANESE PERFORMING ARTS
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    THE IN-BETWEEN IN JAVANESE PERFORMING ARTS
    SUMARSAM
    Winner of a 2025 Nancy Staub Publications Award from UNIMA-USA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette) Winner of the 2025 ICTMD Book Prize, granted by the International Council for Traditions of Music and DanceThis book is the first comprehensive overview of Javanese performing arts from their origins to their dynamic present. Renowned scholar and musician Sumarsam draws from ...

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  • ROOM SWEPT HOME
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    ROOM SWEPT HOME
    REMICA BINGHAM-RISHER
    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2025)Honor Book for Best Poetry (2025), BCALA Literary Awards / Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationRoom Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all that is held in the line between the private and public, the investigative and generative, the self and those who came before us. In a strange twist o...

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  • IN A FEW MINUTES BEFORE LATER
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    IN A FEW MINUTES BEFORE LATER
    BRENDA HILLMAN
    Finalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering in...

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  • SPOONWOOD
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    SPOONWOOD
    ERNEST HEBERT
    After almost fifteen years, Hebert has returned to this rich literary landscape for a new novel of the changing economic and social character of New England. Hebert's previous Darby book, Live Free or Die, recounted the ill-fated love between Freddie Elman, son of the town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, child of Upper Darby gentility. At its conclusion, Lilith died giving ...

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  • REMAINDERS OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY
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    REMAINDERS OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY
    BRENT RYAN BELLAMY
    This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels imagine human responses to the aftermath of catastrophe. The shape of the future they imagine is defined by "the remainder," when what is left behind expresses itself in storytelling trop...

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  • A HUBERT HARRISON READER
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    A HUBERT HARRISON READER
    HUBERT HARRISON
    The brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist Hubert Harrison (1883 - 1927) is one of the truly important, yet neglected, figures of early twentieth-century America. Known as "the father of Harlem radicalism,' and a leading Socialist party speaker who advocated that socialists champion the cause of the Negro as a revolutionary doctrine, Harrison had an important ...

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  • ASKED WHAT HAS CHANGED
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    ASKED WHAT HAS CHANGED
    ED ROBERSON
    Finalist for Griffin International Poetry Prize, given by The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2022Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poetry's orbit what th...

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  • FORGOTTEN VOICES
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    FORGOTTEN VOICES
    CAROLYN WAKEMAN
    The history inscribed in New England's meetinghouses waits to be told. There, colonists gathered for required worship on the Sabbath, for town meetings, and for court hearings. There, ministers and local officials, many of them slave owners, spoke about salvation, liberty, and justice. There, women before the Civil War found a role and a purpose outside their households. This i...

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  • REEL HISTORY
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    REEL HISTORY
    STEPHEN FARINA
    <P>In this engaging hybrid work—a blend of oral history and graphic novel—Stephen Farina finds "Juma Sultan" in a local phonebook. After an initial meeting at a roadside diner, Juma takes Steve and a fellow researcher to a decrepit barn, which, amazingly, contains a treasure trove of reel-to-reel audio tapes and 16mm films of jam sessions and jazz performances from the 19...

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  • THE GLORY GETS
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    THE GLORY GETS
    HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS
    Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)In her three previous, award-winning collections of blues poetry, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has explored themes of African American history, Southern culture, and intergenerational trauma. Now, in her fourth and most accomplished collection, Jeffers turns to the task of seeking and reconciling the blues and its three movements—identification, ...

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