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Apocalypse Poems
C. Russell Price
“C. Russell Price has written an explicit tour guide, a turquoise spill, an embrace of the flyover. Has forged a towering self. An icon. Has named names. Has seeded the land with toxic honeysuckle. It smells so sweet.” —Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets
AVAILABLE JUNE 2022
Back Stages
Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life
Shannon Jackson
“No one who reads this book will be able to dismiss ‘mere performance’ as if it were fluff, because Jackson shows us it is the moving substance of life itself.” —Judith Butler, author of The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind
Secondhand China
Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation
Carles Prado-Fonts
“Carles Prado-Fonts’s ingenious book twists the ‘East-West’ topic formidably out of shape.” —Haun Saussy, author of Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out
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Incidental Noyes
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2022 Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture: Women and the Making of Jewish Modernity
May 1 @ 1:00 pm - May 1 @ 2:00 pm
Andrea A Davis In Person Book Launch "Horizon, Sea, Sound"
April 21 @ 5:00 pm - April 21 @ 8:00 pm
Monday Night Poetry: Victoria Redel + Vievee Francis + Carl Phillips
April 18 @ 6:00 pm - April 18 @ 8:00 pm
