Entertaining and informative letters written from 1984 to 1991 In these personal and pointed letters written between 1984 and 1991, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer Samuel Delany comments on literature, art, politics, aging, academia, his family’s history in Harlem, and black and white social life in another century. He details a visit from science fiction…
Exercises and theory for advanced students of Solkaṭṭu “The South Indian rhythmic core, the demystifying strategies, transforming capability of the content and the manner of presentation, the authenticity of the rhythmic repertoire, the learning tips from the wealth of the author’s musical experience in South Indian drumming over half a century, gained from the acclaimed…
In the recently premiered film, Wild Nights with Emily, directed by Madeleine Olnek, starring Molly Shannon (Emily Dickinson) and Susan Ziegler (Susan Huntington Dickinson), the famous nineteenth-century American poet is brought to life in a new sapphic light. Based on Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith’s collection, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to…
An intimate portrait of a renowned conceptual artist “One of the interesting things about living through a period is you know where the recorded history and the happenstance of the moment diverge. Consequently, having known Sol LeWitt since my days as an art student in New York in the 1960s, I appreciate the clear and…
Wesleyan University Press has recreated three enchanting, humorous chapbooks originally produced for friends by the late Kit and Joseph Reed. The books were written by Kit and lavishly illustrated by Joseph. All three books are now available as a set. Thirty Polite Things to Say Amusing guide to social etiquette.…
Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry “[McCrae’s] language remains as stark as the perdurable, terrible history it contains—a history that is not over yet.” —Stephanie Burt, New York Times Book Review Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae’s latest collection, In the Language of My Captor, now available in paper, is a book about freedom told through stories of…
Poetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poet “Just dazzling: how the world, the mind, and emotion are bound into that affecting, meditative, and poignant system of phrases. When I read lines as sharp as these are lexically, semantically, syntactically, and rhythmically, I fall in love with American poetry again.” —Forrest Gander, New York…
Unique perspectives on the roots and reaches of contemporary Native Theater “This play clearly illuminates the collective grief, disconnection, and suffering many indigenous people experience because of the brutalities of colonization. But more importantly, Joy’s voice gives us strength, by reconnecting us to our ancestors, to our guardian spirits, and to each other.” — Victoria…
An exploration of the heart and history of Hartford’s most vibrant neighborhood “With a journalist’s keen eye and nose for storytelling, Campbell indeed peels the layers of the ‘thick historical onion’ (her term) of one gritty New England city neighborhood to reveal the story of America.” — Elizabeth Normen, publisher, Connecticut Explored Frog Hollow:…
Wesleyan is pleased to announce that BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP’s The Work-Shy is now available in paperback! Activating what poet Susan Howe calls “the telepathy of the archive,” these poems of The Work-Shy occupy identities rooted in the demimonde and in places of confinement; they build portraits of individuals at once denied work and subjected to its punishing…
