February is Black History Month. Wesleyan University Press is celebrating by highlighting recent publications by Black authors. Dancing between lyric and narrative, Hafizah Geter’s debut collection Un-American moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes—linguistic, cultural, racial, familial—of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration. The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and…
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“This new poetry, taking such care of tem-perature—the time & details of the world—meaning the space(s) in which we live—defining love in this way. Writing along the edge. What I call MR/everydayMagicalRealism. A way of writing about hope.” —Kamau Brathwaite, author of The Lazarus Poems Now It’s Dark by Peter Gizzi buy from HFS Books…
Congratulations to WUP author Hari Krishnan, whose book Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Bharatanatyam received a special citation from the 2020 de la Torre Bueno© First Book Award Committee. The de la Torre Bueno First Book Award is an annual award offered by the Dance Studies Association for the best…
Happy Samhain and Happy Halloween! Check out some of WUP’s festive publications for the season–Spells by Annie Finch and Food for the Dead by Michael Bell. A feminist and a pagan, Annie Finch writes about love, spirituality, death, nature, and the patterns of time. Spell: New and Selected Poems, ranges from female and earth-centered spirituality to chants and other…
Congratulations to poet Will Harris! His debut poetry collection RENDANG is the recipient of the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. Given by the Forward Arts Foundation, the prize honors excellence in contemporary poetry published in the UK and Ireland, including Best Collection, Best First Collection, and Best Single Poem. Harris is the winner of the…
Today we recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We pause to note our publications by indigenous authors, which include fiction, poetry, theatrical work, and nonfiction prose. Forthcoming from Wesleyan is Gearld Vizenor’s anticipated novel Satie on the Seine. It is a powerful epistolary novel that interweaves history, cultural stories, and irony to reveal a shadow play of…
The coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep through the world with a seemingly unbeatable force. As scientists warn us to stay vigilant against the virus, people struggle to put language to the sorrow of our present moment—especially those who have lost loved ones or who have become ill themselves. How do we describe experiences with infection…
September 19th is National Dance Day. Celebrate by checking out some recent titles from Wesleyan University Press! Our newest dance publication is The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–1976 by Wendy Perron. The book explores the legacy of The Grand Union, a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became…
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