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New Books

Spring / Summer 2013


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Presenting our

new titles for the

first half of 2013


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Wesleyan University Press

June

424 pp., 76 illus., 6 x 9"

Cloth, $29.95 978-0-8195-6512-9

Ebook, $14.99 978-0-8195-7362-9science fiction / fiction & literature

Early Classics of Science Fiction

Travel Scholarshipsjules verne

translated by teri j. hernndez

edited by arthu r b. evans

introduction by volker dehs

Nine students set sail on what they expect tobe a thrilling voyage to their island homelandsin the Caribbean. But unbeknownst to them,prior to their arrival on the ship, it was hijackedby escaped convicts who murdered its originalcrew. Tis is the only remaining novel by Jules

Verne that has never been available in English.

Ostensibly wrien for young adults, it is anengrossing read for all ages.

An unexpected treat that will fascinate many aVerne fan.

, author of e Sundayof Fiction

jules verne() popularizedthe literary genre of science fiction. terij. hernndez

specializes in African andCaribbean literature, and lives in NorthCarolina. arthur b. evansteaches at DePauwUniversity. volker dehsis a specialist on

Verne, living in Germany.

A suspense-filled

adventure tale

about piracy on

the high seas

March

464 pp., 6B/ix 9W"

Cloth, $35.00 978-0-8195-7349-0

Ebook, $16.99 978-0-8195-7350-6fiction & literature / science fiction

The Story Until NowA Great Big Book of Stories

kit reed

introduction by gary k. wolfe

The best stories

from a master of

speculative fiction

Tis new collection brings together thirty-fiveof Kit Reeds stories, from early classics to sixnever-before-collected ones, introduced byGary K. Wolfe. Reed draws from lifewitha differenceand her characters confront

war in various arenas: mother/daughterbouts, the war of the sexes, the balefield. Her

transgenred fiction is an extraordinary talent(e Financial Times). Her stories shine withthe incisive edginess of brilliant cartoons and

Reed has a prose style thats pure dry ice (eNew York Times Book Review).

kit reeds novels includeEnclaveand Sonof Destruction. Oen anthologized, her shortstories have been nominated for the Nebula,

World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and iptree

Awards. She is the resident writer at WesleyanUniversity. gary k. wolfeis a professor atRoosevelt University, and contributing editorand lead reviewer forLocusmagazine.


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June

200 pp., 6 x 9"

Paper, $19.95 978-0-8195-7355-1Ebook, $9.99 978-0-8195-7356-8

fiction & literature / science fiction

PhallosEnhanced and Revised Edition

samuel r. delany

edited by robert f. reid-pharr

In the reign of the Emperor Hadrian,Neoptolomus blunders upon the murder ofthe emperors favorite, Antinous, and is sooninvolved in the search for the purloined phallusof the nameless god of Hermopolis, wherethe murder took place. Vivid and clever, thisedition has been polished and expanded by

almost a third. Hoax on top of hoax suppliesthe plot for this classic homoerotic novel(from which all the sex has been convenientlyremoved). An editors aerword and threespeculative essays by Steven Shaviro, KennethR. James, and Darieck Sco have beenappended.

An important work of literature by one of themost consequential novelists of our time.

samuel r. delanyis the author, most recently,of rough the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.robert f. reid-pharris DistinguishedProfessor of English and American Studies atthe Graduate Center of the City University ofNew York.

A race for the

stolen phallus

of a nameless god

February

240 pp., 94 illus. (43 color), 7 x 10"

Cloth, $30.00 978-0-8195-7319-3Ebook, $14.99 978-0-8195-7321-6

memoir / african american fiction

Come home Charley Pattonralph lemon

Ralph Lemons research on the African

American experience intertwines personalanecdotes and family remembrances withdiaristic accounts of the making of a dance,as Lemon journeys the mythic roads ofmigrationvisiting the sites of lynchings, thepaths of Civil Rights marches, and meetingdescendants of early blues musicians. Tis isa formidable finale for his Geography trilogy,books connected thematically by racial identityand the related dance projects choreographedby Lemon. Generously illustrated with familyphotos and original art, the book will take itsplace in the canon of great African American

writing.

Critically acclaimed choreographer and dancerRalph Lemons new book is a memoir, anexperimental art installation, and showcaseshis gis as a storyteller and cultural critic.

, Princeton University

ralph lemonis a distinguished dancer,choreographer, writer, and visual artist living inNew York City.

A moving and

imaginative memoir

documenting theCivil Rights Era,

contemporary

southern culture,

and Lemons art

practice


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May

232 pp., 212 illus., 9 x 8"

Paper, $24.95 978-0-8195-7345-2Ebook, $19.99 978-0-8195-7346-9

photography / new england

End of the LineClosing the Last Sardine Cannery

in America

markham starr

Generations of workers in Prospect Harbor,

Maine, packed sardines into billions of cans forAmericas lunch buckets and kitchen cabinets.In , Stinsons Seafood, once home of BeachCliff Sardines, shut down the line that hadmade the name world famous. PhotographerMarkham Starr spent several days at the factory,just before it was dismantled. His remarkableimages capture the resilience of workers faced

with the loss of jobs many had held for decades.Te book includes a short essay, and shows theheartland of Maine at its finest.

Tese photographs exemplify the best ofsocial documentary Tey celebrate therich tapestry of flesh and steel that oncedefined Americas muscular industrial fishingculture and that lives on now in his vibrantmonochromes.

, University of Maine

markham starris a photographer andauthor ofBuilding the Greenland Kayak.Helives in North Stonington, Connecticut.

Striking

photographs of

the final days of

the Stinson Seafood

sardine cannery

in Maine

July

120 pp., 65 illus. (48 color), 10 x 8"

Cloth, $30.00 978-0-8195-7374-2Ebook, $14.99 978-0-8195-7375-9

american art / connecticut

New Havens SentinelsThe Art and Science of

East and West Rock

jelle zeilinga de boer and

john wareham

West Rock and East Rock are geologic featuresnear New Haven, Connecticut, that standlike monumental sentinels. In the earlynineteenth century, the science of geologyevolved rapidly, triggered by the controversybetween proponents and opponents of biblicalexplanations for the origin of rocks. Terocks also aracted the aention of poets andrenowned artists like Frederick Church and John

Weir, who captured them in grand landscape

paintings. Tis lavishly illustrated book is aperfect introduction to the relationship betweenart and geology.

In a fascinating selection of paintings anddiagrams, a master earth scientist documentsthe stages whereby the inhabitants of the regionreshaped not only their natural environmentbut also their fundamental understanding of theforces that had wrought the land in which they

dwelled. . , Yale University

jelle zeilinga de boeris a professor emeritusat Wesleyan University and the author ofStories in Stone. john warehamis the videoproduction manager at Wesleyan University.

Nineteenth century

innovations in

art and geology

inspired by two

classic Connecticut

landmarks


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February

88 pp., 5Vx 8V"

Cloth, $22.95 978-0-8195-7357-5Ebook, $9.99 978-0-8195-7358-2

poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

Sky Wardkazim ali

Drunk on the sun and the sea, Kazim Alisnew poems swoop linguistically but groundthemselves vividly in the daily and real. Bothimprisoned by endlessness and dependent onit for nurturing and care, in Sky WardAli goesfurther than ever before in sounding out thespaces between music and silence, betweensky and ocean, between human and eternal.

Ali once again reinvents possibilities for thepersonal lyric and narrative.

Beautiful, echoing poetry that finds No returnhome but an eternity of transformation. Alihas a delicate touch and these poems leave us(for we are reluctant to leave them), playing inspace.

, author of Rhyme Scheme

kazim aliis a poet, essayist, fiction writer,and translator, and author ofBright Felon.

He teaches at Oberlin College and in theStonecoast MFA program.

New poems

from this poet

of precisionand ardor

February

120 pp., 6 x 9"

Cloth, $22.95 978-0-8195-7299-8Ebook, $9.99 978-0-8195-7300-1

poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

Just Sayingrae armantrout

InJust Saying,improbable and even untenablespeakers are briefly constitutedonly todisappear. Te result is part carnival, partnightmare. A television pundits rhetoricsegues into an unusual succulent with writhingmaroon tongues. When the world suddenlybecomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis?Te poems inJust Sayingmay be imaginedas chimeras, creatures that appear when olddistinctions break down and elements generally

kept separate combine in new ways.

Armantrout has the ability to magnify the merestof words into an essay. rue to the postmoderntradition, she gives no answer to the provocativequestions she raises.

, Rain Taxi

rae armantroutis a professor of writing atthe University of California at San Diego, and

the author of ten books of poetry, includingMoney Shot, Versed,Next Life, and Veil: New andSelected Poems. She is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the NationalBook Critics Circle Award.

Deft and deeply

intelligent poems

on the natureof language


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April

280 pp., 3 illus., 6 x 9"

Cloth, $30.00 978-0-8195-7269-1Ebook, $16.99 978-0-8195-7363-6

poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

SpellsNew and Selected Poems

annie finch

A spellbinding

collection from

one of Americas

most original and

magical poets

Spellsbrings together Annie Finchs mostmemorable and important poems wrien overforty years. A uniquely mysterious voice movesthrough the book, revealing insights on theclassic themes of love, spirituality, death, nature,and the paerns of time. Finch is celebratedfor her extraordinary love and knowledge ofpoetic cra; Spellsdisplays her virtuosity ina broad range of genres and forms. Te bookalso includes new and previously unpublishedpoems. Giving voice to the female andearth-centered spirituality of our era, Finchspowerful work will echo long aer the book isclosed.

Annie Finch is a major poet, one of very fewwho understand how lyric lives in part becauseit can speak for something larger than the ego.

annie finchdirects the Stonecoast MFAProgram at the University of Southern Maine.She is the author of five books of poetry,including Calendars.

April

120 pp., 5 illus., 6 x 9"

Cloth, $24.95 978-0-8195-7370-4Ebook, $11.99 978-0-8195-7371-1

poetry / postcolonial literature /

french literature

The Original 1939 Notebook ofa Return to the Native LandBilingual Edition

aim csaire

edited and translated bya. james arnold and clayton eshleman

Tis masterpiece by Aim Csaire is awork of immense cultural significance andbeauty. o date, commentary on it has oenfocused on its Cold War and anticolonialistrhetoricmaterial that Csaire only added

in . Te original version of thepoemhere in French and in its first Englishtranslationreveals a work that is charged

with redemption. Tis new edition includesthe original illustrations, an introduction, notes,and chronology.

aim csaire() was best knownas the cocreator of the concept of ngritude.clayton eshlemanis the foremost American

translator of Aim Csaire. a. james arnoldis the lead editor of Csaires complete literary

works in French (in progress).

The first bilingual

edition of this

radically original

work


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March

152 pp., 6 x 8"

Paper, $16.95 978-0-8195-7351-3Ebook, $12.99 978-0-8195-7352-0

poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

My Life andMy Life in the Ninetieslyn hejinian

New edition of

one of the

founding works of

Language writing

First published in , Lyn HejiniansMy Lifeis now firmly established in the postmoderncanon. An experimental intervention into theautobiographical genre,My Lifeexplores themany ways in which languagethe thingspeople say and the ways they say themshapes not only their identity, but also the very

world around them. Tis edition includes thecomplete -part prose poem sequence along

with a closely related work titledMy Life in the

Nineties.

Hejinian has for some time been noted for herlove of rich textual surface effects, but neverbefore has she found a method of constructionso suited to its development.

, San Francisco Reviewof Books

lyn hejinianis the author ofA Border

Comedyand e Book of a ousand Eyes,among many other books. She is a professor atthe University of California, Berkeley.

May

264 pp., 46 illus., 7 x 10"

Cloth, $45.00 978-0-8195-7353-7Ebook, $35.99 978-0-8195-7354-4

dance

Carmen, a Gypsy Geographyninotchka devorah bennahum

Encounters with

the Gypsy female

flamenco dancer

throughout history

Te figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipherfor the unfeered female artist. In her newbook, Ninotchka Bennahum traces the danceicons genealogy through her origins in theancient Mediterranean world, her emergenceas flamenco artist in the architectural spacesof Islamic Spain, her persistent manifestationin Picasso, and her contemporary relevanceon stage. Tis many-layered geography of the

Gypsy dancer opens new pathways to readingperformance and writing history.

A significant study of the intersections betweenhistoriography, musicology, art history, literarytheory, religious, cultural and dance studies,consolidated in the moving figure of Carmen.

, author ofFlamenco: Conflicting Histories of the Dance

ninotchka devorah bennahum

is anassociate professor of theater and dance atthe University of California, Santa Barbara,and dance history faculty for American BalletTeater.


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July

328 pp., 6B/ix 9W"

Unjacketed cloth, $80.00 x 978-0-8195-7366-7Paper, $28.95 978-0-8195-7367-4

Ebook, $21.99 978-0-8195-7368-1literary criticism / science fiction

Parabolas of Science Fictionedited by brian attebery and

veronica hollinger

Essays explore the

complex nature ofa unique genre

Te collaborative nature of science fiction haslong been the source of critical commentary,but a coherent analysis of what makes it uniquecompared to other genres has proved elusive.

As the editors of this volume suggest, thegeometric term parabola provides an evocativemetaphor and handy tool for analyzing sciencefiction in all its multiple incarnations acrossmedia, nations, and time periods. Te fourteen

essays in this collection offer fascinatinginsights into what Brooks Landon has called

the grand megatextual archive of science fictionitself. Contributors include Jane Donawerth,erry Dowling, L. immel Duchamp, RachelHaywood Ferreira, Pawe Frelik, DavidM. Higgins, Amy J. Ransom, John Rieder,Nicholas Ruddick, Graham Sleight, Gary K.

Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.

brian atteberyis a professor of English atIdaho State University. veronica hollingeris a professor of cultural studies at rentUniversity, Ontario.

July

312 pp., 7 x 8W"

Paper, $24.95 978-0-8195-7365-0Ebook, $14.99 978-0-8195-7177-9

music / literary criticism / art

north american sales only

SilenceLectures and Writings,

50th Anniversary Edition

john cage

new foreword by kyle gann

now in

paperback

Special edition

of the book that

revolutionized our

understanding of

how we make and

experience art

Silence, John Cages first book, is an epicmasterpiece comprised of lectures, scores,and writings. A landmark in American artsand culture, Silencehas been translated intomore than forty languages and has sold overhalf a million copies worldwide. Tis fiieth-anniversary edition includes an illuminating

foreword by Kyle Gann.

Much of the critical discourse by artists of thes now seems dated: Cages Silenceis thegreat exception, its formulations, aphorisms,spatial forms, and Zen stories more aproposthan ever. It is one of the very few books thatliterally changed my life.

john cage() was an Americancomposer, philosopher, poet, music theorist,

and artist. kyle gannis one of the nationsleading music critics and the author of Silence:

John Cages '".


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March

80 pp., 6 x 9"

Paper, $14.95 978-0-8195-7369-8

Ebook, $9.99 978-0-8195-7278-3poetry

W l P t

What Is Amazingheather christle

now in

paperback

Poems stunned by

the world and their

presence in it

Available now

328 pp., 48 illus., 6B/ix 9W"

Paper, $18.95 978-0-8195-7364-3Ebook, $14.99 978-0-8195-7139-7

civil war / connecticut / american history

Connecticut in theAmerican Civil WarSlavery, Sacrifice, and Survival

matthew warshauer

Offering readers a remarkable window intoConnecticuts involvement in a conflict thatchallenged and defined the unity of a nation,Mahew Warshauer provides an amazingaccount of the complex and troubling warthrough the many facets and stories of balefield,home front, and factory. Tis new paperback

edition includes a reading guide.Warshauers account puts political parties andquestions about racial policy at the heart ofConnecticuts wartime history. I hope that everystates commemoration of the sesquicentennialof the Civil War produces a study as good as thisone.

. , ., author of e Fateof Liberty

matthew warshauerteaches history atCentral Connecticut State University and is theauthor ofAndrew Jackson in Context.

The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by

the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund

at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

now in

paperback

A riveting account

of Connecticuts

involvement in the

Civil War

Possessed of a voracious curiosity abouthumans and other subjects, the poemsin What Is Amazinginvent and navigate

worlds in an aempt to understand throughparticipation. Te book draws upon the

wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee.Speakers socialize incorrigibly with lakes,lovers, fire, and readers, reasoning their way tounreasonable conclusions. What Is Amazingdelights in fully inhabiting its varied forms and

voices, singing worlds that coincide and collidewith our own.

Christle is a kind of psychic seismograph,recording the major and minor tremors thatripple through her awareness, and her poemsare wide awake.

heather christlehas taught at Emory

University and the University of MassachusesAmherst. She lives in Northampton,Massachuses and is the author of e DifficultFarmand e Trees e Trees.

This project is supported in part by an award from

the National Endowment for the Arts.


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Wesleyan University Press215 Long LaneMiddletown, CT 06459USA

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____ The Story Until Now, by Kit Reed

____ Travel Scholarships, by Jules Verne, translated by Teri J.

Hernndez, edited by Arthur B. Evans, introduction by Volker Deh

____ Phallos, by Samuel R. Delany, edited by Robert F. Reid-Pharr

____ Come home Charley Patton, by Ralph Lemon

____ End of the Line, by Markham Starr

____ New Havens Sentinels, by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and

John Wareham

____ Just Saying, by Rae Armantrout

____ Sky Ward, by Kazim Ali

____ Spells, by Annie Finch

____ The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the NativeLand, by Aim Csaire, edited and translated by A. James Arnold

and Clayton Eshleman

____ My Life and My Life in the Nineties, by Lyn Hejinian

____ Carmen, A Gypsy Geography, by Ninochka Devorah Bennahum

____ Parabolas of Science Fiction, edited by Brian Attebery and

Veronica Hollinger

____ Silence, by John Cage (new in paper)

____ What is Amazing, by Heather Christle (new in paper)

____ Connecticut in the American Civil War, by Matthew

Warshauer (new in paper)

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