This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is an excerpt from Aimé Césaire’s long poem Notebook of a Return to a Native Land (2001), edited and translated by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. Wesleyan University Press also published a bilingual edition of Césaire’s original 1939 Notebook in 2013, edited by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman. . . And…
This week’s selection for Throwback Thursday is “Circuit” from James Dickey’s Collection The Eagle’s Mile (1990). The poem was republished in The Selected Poems (1998). Wesleyan also published Buckdancer’s Choice (1965), Poems: 1957–1967 (1967), and The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992 (1992) Circuit Beaches, it is true: they go on on And on, but as they ram and pack, foreseeing Around…
Today’s Throwback Thursday selection is “One Moon in Binoculars,” from Heather McHugh’s 1988 collection Shades. . . One Moon in Binoculars How could this homely instrument have power to pull the whole moon closer, hold ten textures in the intimacy of a glance? The silvers tremble severally splashed and sanded, spine-wise, spidery, in sharp and…
Today’s Throwback Thursday selection is “Early Morning, Left-Handed” by Hilda Raz from her 2001 poetry book Trans.
This morning we woke to the sad news that James Tate has passed on. To honor Tate, this week’s Throwback Thursday selection is “Aunt Edna” from Selected Poems (1991), winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the William Carlos Williams award. In addition to Selected Poems, Wesleyan also published Tate’s 1990 volume, Distance from Loved Ones. Tate was…
Today’s Throwback Thursday selection is from our 2008 book The Old Leather Man. I first learned about the Old Leather Man around 15 years ago, when I worked for Arcadia Publishing. One day, after joining the staff here at Wesleyan, I was pleasantly surprised to see a proposal for an entire book on the subject. That book, The Old…
This week’s Throw Back Thursday selection is “Coal” from The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (2008). It was originally published in her 2002 collection entitled Miniatures and Other Poems. COAL The black curtain has fallen over the moon, yet stars are out tonight. Dust falls through the curtain. We are asleep. Night descends into another…
This week’s selection for Throw Back Thursday is “A Muse” from Don Bogen’s collection The Known World (1997). Another volume, Luster (2003), is also available from Wesleyan University Press.
Interview in Weehawken: The Burr-Hamilton Duel as Told in the Original Documents was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1960. It didn’t end well for Hamilton. Wesleyan continues to publish books of local history today, and distributes books for The Acorn Club of Connecticut, whose mission is to gather and publish significant primary source…
Today’s Throwback Thursday selection is Hilda Raz’s “From Your Mouth to God’s Ear” from her 1997 collection, Divine Honors—the winner of the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry in 2002. . From Your Mouth to God’s Ear Off the cliff, into air, the mother shout blackberry-jam thick, stirred down into a soothing lick on the needle-pricked…
