Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Laura Hershey was a vital, brilliant, and until now lesser-known American poet who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights, queer poetries, and activi...
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Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated by Lawrence Schimel. "Panini's poems have flesh and bones and they sing and mourn with the beauty of a naked lover in front of our eyes. He is much of a beautiful Frankenstein of a poet, a surgeon devilishly using ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Crapsey's selected poetry reads as the lost ligament between the essaying narratives of the nineteenth century and the spare, imagist experiments of the twentieth. Like Rilke, she belonged to neither world, though she mappe...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Essay. In thirty innovative essays, THE POEM'S COUNTRY: PLACE & POETIC PRACTICE considers how the question of place shapes contemporary poetry. Responding from cities and rural communities across the United States, the c...
Poetry. Translated from the Latvian by Leva Lešinska. "The poems of Inga Gaile offer an urgent and at times mythic vision of the self trapped inside the claustrophobic press of history, nature, technology, and conflict. And yet the speaker's tone is...
Poetry. Edited by David Rothman and Jeffrey Villines. Since 2009, The Unsung Masters Series has presented accomplished writers who deserve greater attention. In this, the ninth book in the series, the featured writer is Belle Turnbull (1881-1970), t...
Poetry. Edited by Benjamin Johnson and Erika Jo Brown. "A principal member of the 'dark' avant-garde—the many artists marginalized even from the margins, often because of their social and political extremes—Beatrice Hastings wielded over a dozen nom...
Poetry. Graphic Novel. Young Adult. Poems by Georgianna Smith with artwork by Louise Garb. In May 2011 a devastating tornado hit Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and injuring 1,150 others. Many of the victims were children. How can we make sense...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock. "Catherine Breese Davis fills an important but unsung niche in the tradition of women's poetry in the U.S.—and now unsung no more. The editors of ...
Poetry. In the mountain villages of the remote French Basque Country in the early years of the twentieth century, Francis Jammes was writing poems, plays, and novels. Praised by his French contemporaries, Stéphane Mallarmé, André Gide, and Paul Clau...
Poetry. African American Studies. Literary History & Criticism. For over sixty years, poet, composer, dramatist, editor, and music theorist Russell Atkins has been admired by those who knew him for his brilliant, idiosyncratic poetry and wide-rangin...
Fiction. Literary History & Criticism. Edited by Dan Chaon, Norah Hardin Lind, and Phong Nguyen. This third volume in the Pleiades Unsung Masters Series focuses on 1930s and 40s fiction writer Nancy Hale, whose stories helped shape the early identit...
Poetry. East Asia Studies. Literary History & Criticism. After the end of World War II, Japanese poet Tamura Ryuichi began publishing Arechi (The Wasteland), a literary magazine charting a new course for Japanese poetry. Over the next fifty years, T...