Literature

Modern and Contemporary Literature

Father, Tell Me I Have Not Aged: Poems

Russell Thornburn

A memoir in poetry drawing upon childhood, love and loss that uses the language of film to explain the human spirit.

The Seed Thieves: Poems

Robert Fanning

A collection from a popular Detroit-area poet that investigates a wide spectrum of themes—death, love, loss, redemption.

The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature

Edited by Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley

The Monstrous Debt traces the diverse influences of the Romantics in twentieth-century literature, examining the ways in which twentieth-century writers have constructed their own versions of Romanticism.

Ashes & Stars

Daniel Hughes

Fifty-five of Daniel Hughes’s final poems, containing distinctly insightful and literate meditations on themes of love, art, and hope.

His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman’s Trilogy

Edited by Millicent Lenz with Carole Scott

The first critical analysis of Philip Pullman’s cross-age fantasy trilogy.

Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale

Edited by Danielle M. Roemer and Cristina Bacchilega

A diverse collection of essays, artwork, interviews and fiction investigating Carter’s approaches to the fairy-tale genre.