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We Live Here
Publication Date: August 2024
These poems not only evoke a sense of spirit that transcends boundaries but they bear traditional knowledge, notions of the seasons, and conceptions of how the spirit is shaped by nature.
Relief After Hardship
Publication Date: February 2024
This fascinating compilation of tales is being presented for the first time to an English language audience along with a comprehensive survey of its history, as well as detailed summaries and extensive comparative annotations to the tales that will be of interest to literature and folklore scholars.
Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters
Publication Date: August 2023
Beyond the content of these individual stories, Wang ties these narratives together across time using cognitive literary criticism, especially affective narratology, to shed new light on the adaptation of literary and cultural texts and their sociopolitical contexts.
What to Count
Publication Date: August 2023
What to Count is a remarkable collection of contemporary poetry—both a lyrical splendor and a contemplative account of lineage, silenced history, and identity.
The Lyric Essay as Resistance
Publication Date: March 2023
Their work demonstrates the power of the lyric essay to bring about change, both on the page and in our communities.
Divining, a Memoir in Trees
Publication Date: February 2023
While technology, screens, and the stress of the modern world directs our attention elsewhere, Dunphy brings the reader back to the trees right outside our windows.
The Enchanted Boot
Publication Date: November 2022
The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.
Hadha Baladuna
Publication Date: June 2022
This engaged stance is not a byproduct of culture, but a new way of thinking about the US in relation to one's homeland.
Raising Bean
Publication Date: June 2022
Comical and engaging, the essays in Raising Bean will appeal to readers of all backgrounds and interests, especially those with a curiosity in language, perception, humor, and the ways in which Native people guide their families and friends with stories.
Fear and Other Stories
Publication Date: May 2022
Students and scholars of history and culture, women’s literature, and translation studies will wonder how they’ve gone this long without reading Blankshteyn’s work.
You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids
Publication Date: March 2022
A notable work in the landscape of Asian American literature as well as Midwest and Michigan-based literature, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids features a clear and powerful voice that brings all people together in these political and pandemic times.
Women Writing Wonder
Publication Date: October 2021
Duggan, and Adrion Dula hope both to foreground women writers' important contributions to the genre and to challenge common assumptions about what a fairy tale is for scholars, students, and general readers.
Mortality, with Friends
Publication Date: September 2021
Readers with a fondness for memoir and appreciation for art will be dazzled by the beauty of this collection.
Gun/Shy
Publication Date: August 2021
Daniels's accessible language, subtlety, and deftness make this collection one that belongs on every poetry reader's shelf.
That They Lived
Publication Date: February 2021
That They Lived was made possible through a grant provided by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
The Power of a Tale
Publication Date: November 2019
Scholars and students interested in Jewish folklore and literature will appreciate this diverse collection as well as readers interested in Jewish and Israeli culture.
These Are Love(D) Letters
Publication Date: October 2019
As poetic as it is visually enticing, the book offers both an unconventional and queer(ed) understanding of the documentarian form, which will excite both readers and artists across and beyond genres.
The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson
Publication Date: May 2019
Readers will see how Michelson's newspaper work fueled her imagination as a fiction writer and how she adapted narrative techniques from fiction to create a body of journalism that informs, provokes, and entertains, even a century after it was written.
Welcome to Replica Dodge
Publication Date: March 2019
Anybody who has ever felt like they didn’t belong will take comfort in this enchanting memoir.
I Got to Keep Moving
Publication Date: November 2018
Readers of fiction, especially those interested in short fiction and African American fiction, will find this stunning and unique collection a welcome addition to their libraries.
Elemental
Publication Date: November 2018
Fans of nonfiction that reads as beautifully as fiction will love this collection.
White Squall
Publication Date: May 2018
White Squall is a history of the lakes written by those who knew them best in all weather and all eras from the beginning to the present.
Hell on Earth
Publication Date: October 2017
Fans of historical fiction and war memoirs will appreciate the historic value in this piece of literature.
The Forgetting Tree
Publication Date: April 2017
A perfect blend of prose, poetry, and images, The Forgetting Tree is a unique and thought-provoking collection that argues for a deeper understanding of past and present so that we might imagine a more hopeful, sustainable, and loving future.
Hölderlin
Publication Date: January 2017
Hölderlin, "the poet of poets,is presented at work and in his works as the instrument of conviviality binding mortal to mortal and mortal to divine.
Cinderella Across Cultures
Publication Date: June 2016
Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection.
Bob Seger's House and Other Stories
Publication Date: May 2016
Readers of short fiction will enjoy the multitude of voices in this anthology.
Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores
Publication Date: January 2016
Readers and scholars of Jewish, American, and Hebrew literature and cultural history, as well as those interested in poetry, gender, and women's studies will enjoy this unique bilingual edition.
Ascension
Publication Date: January 2016
With a measured, lean, and luminous style, the poet shares her intimate experience of place—home, familiar rituals, sites of historic resonance, and consciousness of the power and beauty of the natural world.
Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws
Publication Date: September 2015
All readers interested in storytelling, fairy-tale history, and translation will treasure this beautiful collection.
The New Diaspora
Publication Date: May 2015
Readers of contemporary American fiction and Jewish cultural history will find The New Diaspora enlightening and deeply engaging.
Garden for the Blind
Publication Date: April 2015
All readers of fiction will enjoy the nimble unfolding of Fordon's narrative in this collection.
Mapping Detroit
Publication Date: March 2015
Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit's history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.
Jewish Women Writers in Britain
Publication Date: December 2014
The extraordinary range of responses to Jewish culture and history in the work of these writers will appeal to literary scholars and readers interested in Jewish women's history.
Making Callaloo in Detroit
Publication Date: May 2014
All readers of fiction will enjoy this lush collection.
Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts
Publication Date: October 2013
Scholars of religious, literary, and cultural history will enjoy this illuminating collection.
Bearing Witness to African American Literature
Publication Date: May 2012
Bearing Witness to African American Literature will be an invaluable introduction to major issues in the African American literary tradition for scholars of American, African American, and cultural studies.
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
Publication Date: March 2011
Readers interested in political and ideological struggles of the twentieth century will find Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook to be fascinating reading.
Star Songs and Water Spirits
Publication Date: January 2011
This collection surveys all the major types and themes of lakes Native literatures, enriched by music, the visual arts, and a detailed timeline of historical events.
An American Map
Publication Date: April 2010
Fans of Oomen’s writing, as well as all readers interested in travel writing, will appreciate the unique insights and diverse landscapes of An American Map.
Roses and Revolutions
Publication Date: August 2009
Students and teachers of African American literature as well as readers of poetry will appreciate this landmark volume.
In Babel's Shadow
Publication Date: August 2008
Cultural and intellectual historians, scholars of German language and literature, and linguists will enjoy this illuminating volume.
Dear Chester, Dear John
Publication Date: February 2008
Students and teachers of African American literature will enjoy this one-of-a-kind volume.
When You Come Home
Publication Date: October 2007
For readers curious about day-to-day life during World War II, When You Come Home will be a fascinating and personal glimpse into the time period.
Brothers and Beasts
Publication Date: October 2007
Students and teachers of fairy-tale and gender studies along with readers of contemporary literature will enjoy this accessible and intriguing volume.
The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective
Publication Date: August 2007
In view of the tremendous impact of the Arabian Nights on Western creative imagination, this collection will appeal to literary scholars of many backgrounds.
Disciplining Germany
Publication Date: June 2007
With these interdisciplinary approaches and timely interventions, Disciplining Germany will find a diverse readership, including upper-division and graduate courses in German studies and German history as well as those general readers interested in Nazi Germany, cultural history, film and literary studies, youth culture, American studies, and post-conflict and occupational situations.
The Arabian Nights Reader
Publication Date: September 2006
The research presented here not only deepens our insight into this great work but heightens our awareness of the powerful communal forces of transnational narrative.
After Images
Publication Date: August 2006
Scholars, students, and teachers of German studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and classical studies will appreciate this insightful volume.
