“Shockley’s work incorporates elements of myth without being patently “mythical” and is personal without being self-indulgent, sentimental without being saccharine. … Highly recommended to readers of cultural studies as well as poetry and for library collections of all types and sizes.”
To read the full review visit Library Journal.
John Haines, former Alaska poet laureate, passed away earlier this week in Fairbanks, at the age of 86. He published four books with Wesleyan: Winter News, The Stone Harp, Cicada, and News from the Glacier: Selected Poems, 1960-1980. This is one of our favorite Haines poems:
INTO THE GLACIER
With the green lamp of the spirit
of sleeping water
taking us by the hand . . .
Deeper and deeper,
a luminous blackness opening
like the wings of a raven—
as though a heavy wind
were rising through all the houses
we ever lived in—
the cold rushing in,
our blankets flying away
into the darkness,
and we, naked and alone,
awakening forever . . .
from Winter News
Ed Roberson’s book, To See the Earth Before the End of the World, is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, in the Poetry category. Read about all the finalists here.
“Armantrout is only getting better: these new poems are among her best, and among the most relevant poems now being written.” -Publishers Weekly, December 20th
Read more here.
Film director Blake Edwards has died at age 88. Read about it in the Los Angeles Times. You can learn more about Edwards and his film in our book Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards.
Sunday, November 7th, 2PM
Powerhouse Arena (Ground Floor), DUMBO
37 Main St.
Brooklyn, NY
“Internet Auteur”
So you may use the Internet just to procrastinate, flirt and google-stalk, but the web remains a frontier where the mores on authorship, ownership and privacy are still being written and can change at any moment. Three innovative writers discuss the way the Internet is rewriting what it means to be both an author and a person. We start with a reading by infant terrible Tao Lin, the harbinger of the Internet generation of Twenty-First Century American letters–he’s been likened to Mayakovsky scribbling via text message. Then, Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu–the theorist of “net neutrality,” the principle that advocates an Internet without restrictions–discusses The Master Switch, his play-by-play about how corporations have controlled American communications media. Arianna Huffington calls the book “A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.” He’ll be joined in conversation with avant-garde poet Tan Lin, whose eleven new collections are available for free download and appropriate online detritus: YouTube, Chinese-English translators, and copied-and-pasted blurbs describing other books.
Tan Lin will be reading for the new Johns Hopkins “Poetry at Hopkins” reading series.
Monday, November 8th, 6PM
Johns Hopkins University Reading Series
Marjorie Fisher Hall, Gilman 50
Baltimore, MD
More details here: http://english.jhu.edu/events
Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance reviewed in Ballet-Dance magazine.
“Soares’s Martha Hill & the Making of American Dance is researched and written in dedicated service to dance history. Martha Hill mentored Janet Soares and clearly passed on a love of spreading the good word about the dance field. Through this lucid and insightful work, Soares passes on this love to all.”
Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction reviewed in Locus magazine.
