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How women and feminism helped to shape science fiction in America.

A thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism.

From 1988 through 1993, guitarist/vocalist Steven Taylor toured the U.S. and Europe with the alternative rock group False Prophets, keeping a detailed journal with the intent of documenting the role of musicians in the international anarchist youth movement. His fieldnotes form the core of the book, accounting with honesty and aplomb the sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing, always engaging highs and lows of life on the road. False Prophe...

First comprehensive overview of improvisation in dance.

A musical desert elegy on life born from loss.

How writing and motherhood influence one another.

Poems from the indestructible wilderness of American words and silences.

The world that Donald Revell ponders in these poems is replete with contrarieties. In all, Beautiful Shirt searches for the true nature of the self through language unfettered by narrative constraints and conventional conceptual identities.

In Donald Revell's haunting new collection, the momentous political changes of the last few years rumble like aftershocks. Yet through the erasures the old life as we know it, continues to gleam, desperately, winningly.' --John Ashbery

A celebrated poet asks anguished questions about separation and loss.

New Dark Ages, which was a winner of the PEN Center USA West Award is a series of stunning and troubling poems with such names as Wartime, The Judas Nocturne, The Night Orchard, The New World, and The Inns Of Protest.

Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhood-especially of years spent in Asia-experimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of one's own life develops, how "fixed memories move as illusion." Zither opens with a unique narr...

The first comprehensive history of the oldest major opera house in the Americas.

Cultural analysis of the American university system.

Explores the rich relationship between technology, music and culture.

The first in-depth, critical look at figure skating.

Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres. Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyricism and burst from the page into song. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers sees the blues, what she terms the "shared 'blue notes, ''' as an important intersection between the secular and the divine, and between the various African American vernacular traditions, from spirituals to jazz. Part ...

First new unabridged translation since 1876 of one of Verne's best-known novels.

New translations of classic French fables.

A precise and passionate collection by a brave new voice in poetry.