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A leading critic traces three decades of contemporary dance from Balanchine to breakdancing

The collected works of one of America's most innovative poets.

The first in-depth analysis of state-sponsored, professional dance ensembles.

Studies interconnections between sound production, spirit possession, colonialism and ceremonial remembering in Madagascar.

Analyzes racial prejudice and its impact on white as well as black children, and provides wise counsel and a plan for action that is as fresh--and as necessary--as when the book was first written.

The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning.

An indispensable collection of an avant-garde poet's literary essays.

Poasis, Joris's first major publication in the United States, highlights his work since the mid-1980s.

First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.

Edges & Fray is an embodied meditation that cultivates receptivity and deep listening to the ways we inhabit language and its ethereal resilience. Combining close observation of birds' nests and the writing process, Danielle Vogel brings the reader into communion with language as a mode of presence.

Poems written on the shifting ground of imminent systemic collapse

Poetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poet

David Nelson wrote and compiled Konnakkol Manual to assist teaching an advanced course in the rhythmic compositions of Karnatak (South Indian) music. The main body of the book comprises full tani avartanams (spoken percussion solos) in three taas, together with instructions for practice, and Solkattu notation.

"e;A fascinating, detailed and moving account on the life and work of a truly genius artist. A must read for anyone interested in Art."e; -Joao Leonardo, artistSol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific work-wall drawings and sculpture in dozens of countries-he created the idea and basic plan and then hired young artists to install the pieces. Though typically enormous and intricate, the physical works held no value. The worth was in the pieces of paper that certified and described them. LeWitt championed and financially supported colleagues, including women artists brushed aside by the bullies of a male-dominated profession. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma, as he refused to participate in the culture of celebrity. Lary Bloom's book draws on personal recollections of LeWitt, whom he knew in the last years of the artist's life, as well as LeWitt's letters and papers and over one hundred original interviews with his friends and colleagues, including Chuck Close, Ingrid Sischy, Philip Glass, Adrian Piper, Jan Dibbets, and Carl Andre. This absorbing chronicle brings new information to our understanding of this important artist, linking the extraordinary arc of his life to his iconic work. Includes twenty-eight illustrations."e;An insightful and intimate portrait of the artist, the man and his times."e; -Saul Ostrow, Founder of Critical Practices Inc.

Joy Harjo's play Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light is the centerpiece of this collection that includes essays and interviews concerning the roots and the reaches of contemporary Native Theater.

In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.

Poems about captivity, escape, and the possibility of freedom

This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, "a serial novel for publication in the newspaper" that collapses the distinction between documentary and fiction.

Still a touchstone of contemporary avant-garde poetry today, this 35th anniversary edition of John Ashbery's second book celebrates an American poet who has won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award.

A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century

The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you.

Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story

Critical and performative writings from a well-known dance scholar

The 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent's journey to Tierra del Fuego.

A reflective, eclectic mixture of poetry and prose.

Penetrating look at human relatedness by one of the field's most innovative thinkers.

Beauty and peril abound in new poems from this spirited poet

First book for a general readership to present an overview of the African American experience in Connecticut

How the counterculture changed Vermont and America

Poems that play in the sonic texture of discourses