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On the Origin of Superheroes

From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1
by Chris Gavaler

Ive been reading superhero comics my whole life and this book
made me realize Id never known what they were. This is the book
that reveals Supermans strange cultural DNA and the dark prehistory that shadows Action Comics No. 1. Austin Grossman, author,
Soon I Will Be Invincible

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FROM THE
BIG BANG TO
ACTION COMICS
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CHRIS GAVALER

Most readers think that superheroes began with Supermans

appearance in Action Comics No. 1, but that Kryptonian rocket didnt
just drop out of the sky. By the time Supermans creators were
born, the superheros most defining elementssecret identities,
aliases, disguises, signature symbols, traumatic origin stories,
extraordinary powers, self-sacrificing altruismwere already
well-rehearsed standards. Superheroes have a sprawling, actionpacked history that predates the Man of Steel by decades and even Superheroes are everywhere now, but
centuries. On the Origin of Superheroes is a quirky, personal tour of Gavaler shows that thats nothing new.
the mythology, literature, philosophy, history, and grand swirl of From Zeus to Zorro, he looks at why
ideas that have permeated western culture in the centuries lead- we love the superhero, and why maybe
ing up to the first appearance of superheroes (as we know them sometimes we shouldnt. Eclectic, entertaining, and surprisingly personal, On the
today) in 1938.
From the creation of the universe, through mythological heroes Origin of Superheroes will grant new superand gods, to folklore, ancient philosophy, revolutionary manifes- knowledge to scholars, fans, and casual
tos, discarded scientific theories, and gothic monsters, the sweep readers alike.Noah Berlatsky, author,
and scale of the superheros origin story is truly epic. We will travel Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in
from Jane Austens Bath to Edgar Rice Burroughss Mars to Owen the Marston/Peter Comics, 19411948
Wisters Wyoming, with some surprising stops along the way. Well
meet mad scientists, Napoleonic dictators, costumed murderers, Chris Gavaler has permanently changed
diabolical madmen, blackmailers, pirates, Wild West outlaws, the way I think about the emergence of
eugenicists, the KKK, Victorian do-gooders, detectives, aliens, the superhero and bridges the frontier
vampires, and pulp vigilantes (to name just a few). Chris Gavaler that divides proto-superheroes from suis your tour guide through this fascinating, sometimes dark, often perheroes. He innovatively traces the prefunny, but always surprising prehistory of the most popular figure history of the superhero, demonstrating
in pop culture today. In a way, superheroes have always been with that the superheros roots are planted in
us: they are a fossil record of our greatest aspirations and our worst the soil of myth and legend and watered
fears and failings.
by the philosophy of the bermensch
with eugenics as fertilizer. The surprisChris Gavaler is an assistant professor of English at Washington ing connections that emerge throughout
and Lee University, where he has taught a seminar on superheroes kept me constantly wondering what
since 2009. His essays on the topic appear in The Journal of American was going to come next and made the
Culture, PS: Political Science & Politics, ImageTexT, Journal of Graphic book feel like a detective story.Peter
Novels and Comics, and HoodedUtilitarian.com. He is the author of the Coogan, author, Superhero: The Secret
novel-in-stories School for Tricksters and the romantic suspense novel Origin of a Genre
Pretend Im Not Here. He lives with his family in Lexington, Virginia.

november

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In Dylan Town
A Fans Life
by David Gaines

A life within a life.David Gainess portrait of one of our great artists

is at once an appreciation, an assimilation, and a stirring memoir of
a very fine writer so very deeply touched by another.T. C. Boyle,
author, The Harder They Come

IN
DYLAN
TOWN
a fans life

For fifty years, the music, words, story, and fans of Bob Dylan
have fascinated David Gaines. As a son, a husband, a father, a
teacher, and a passionate lover of the literary in all its guises, he has
pursued the poetic fusion of knowledge and emotion all his life.
More often than not, Dylans lyrics and music have expressed that
fusion for him, and so he has encouraged others to acknowledge
DAVID GAINES
the musician or writer or painter or director or actor or athlete
who matters deeply (perhaps a bit mysteriously) to them, and to
deploy that enigmatic passion in service of self-knowledge and For decades of his well-lived life, David
social connection. After all, one of the central reasons to be a fan Gaines has found Bob Dylans music an
is to compare notes, explore mysteries, and riff with fellow fans in excellent companion and a bountiful ina community of exploration.
spiration for study. Hes now a reputable
Gainess personal journey toward creating such communities citizen of that motley place called Dylan
of passionate knowledge encompasses his own coming of age and Town, and he proves a fine guide for us
marriages, fatherhood, and teaching. As a devoted fan who is also fellow villagers and newcomers, too.
a professor of American literature, questions about teaching and Nina Goss, author, Dylan at Play
learning are central to his experience. When asked, Why Dylan?
he says, Hes the writer I care about the most. Hes been the way This engaging book is an intelligent fans
into the best and longest running conversations I have ever had. examination of the object of his fandom
Talking with students, exchanging Dylan trivia with fellow fans, or Bob Dylanof Dylan fandom overall, and
cheering on fan-musicians doing Dylan covers during the Dylan of fandoms nature. It is also a memoir of a
Days festival, Gaines shows that, for many people, being a fan of life of university teaching about American
popular culture couples serious critical and creative engagement culture, and an important scrutiny of
with heartfelt commitment. Here, largely unheralded, the ideal of learning and of modern America.
liberal education is realized every day.
Michael Gray, author, The Bob Dylan
Encyclopedia
David Gaines fancies himself a bit of what Bob Dylan once called
a song and dance man. He grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas; went
to California in the sixties and law school in the seventies; and has
been in the groves of academe ever since. He has taught American
literature, film, and music in Harlem, at The University of Texas
at Austin, and now at Southwestern University. He and his wife,
Norma, have four children. He views In Dylan Town as, among other
things, a series of love notes to all who have traveled with him. He
lives in Georgetown, Texas.

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Workshops of Empire
Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing
during the Cold War
by Eric Bennett
The New American Canon
The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Samuel Cohen, series editor

During and just after World War II, an influential group of

American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature
that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems,
they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe,
and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold
War began, high-minded and well-intentioned scholars, critics,
and writers from across the political spectrum argued that human
values remained crucial to civilization and that such values stood
in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They believed that Returning to the scene of the emergence
the complexity of literatureof ideas bound to concrete images, of the discipline of creative writing in the
of ideologies leavened with experiencesenshrined such values Cold War, this book makes a valuable
contribution to the ongoing debate about
as no other medium could.
Creative writing emerged as a graduate discipline in the United one of our most consequential contempoStates amid this astonishing swirl of grand conceptions. The early rary literary institutions. While one might
workshops were formed not only at the time of, but in the image want finally to quarrel with or qualify
of, and under the tremendous urgency of, the postwar impera- some of Bennetts conclusions, one cant
tives for the humanities. Vivid renderings of personal experience help but be impressed with the vigor with
would preserve the liberal democratic soula soul menaced by the which they are offered, and applaud his
gathering leftwing totalitarianism of the USSR and the memory of passionate concern for intellectual and
fascism in Italy and Germany.
artistic freedom.Mark McGurl, author,
Workshops of Empire explores this history via the careers of Paul The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise
Engle at the University of Iowa and Wallace Stegner at Stanford. In of Creative Writing
the story of these founding fathers of the discipline, Eric Bennett
discovers the cultural, political, literary, intellectual, and insti- Bennett proves that US creative writing
tutional underpinnings of creative writing programs within the programs were props to Cold War efforts
university. He shows how the model of literary technique cham- to make liberal capitalism dominant. He
pioned by the first writing programsa model that values the shows that their vision of literature as a
interior and private life of the individual, whose experiences are not tribute to the individuals complex private
determined by any community, ideology, or political systemwas life and perspective was inseparable from
born out of this Cold War context and continues to influence the attempts to demonize the Soviet world as
way creative writing is taught, studied, read, and written into the one of conformity and repression. Its an
twenty-first century.
essential and fascinating book.
Sarah Brouillette, author,
Eric Bennett is an associate professor of English at Providence Col- Literature and the Creative Economy
lege in Rhode Island. He is the author of A Big Enough Lie, and his
writing has appeared in A Public Space, New Writing, Modern Fiction
Studies, Blackwell-Wileys Companion to Creative Writing, The Chronicle
of Higher Education, VQR, MFA vs. NYC, and Africana. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

october

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Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories

by Edward Hamlin
2015 Iowa Short Fiction Award

Edward Hamlins fictional worlds are as compelling as they are varied, and his characters intuit how much were allfinallyexiles,
from the American couple who find their visit to Erg Chebbi flyblown
and faintly absurd in its exoticism but shot through with menace, to
the pregnant ecotourism manager transplanted from Belfast to the
Brazilian rainforest, to the newly widowed second wife surprised at
how much her heart seems to have closed to her children and the
world. All of them are suffused with an observational intelligence
and a pained compassion that are heartening.This is a beautifully
written and politically astute collection.Jim Shepard
Night in Erg Chebbi is a stunner. In these nine dispatches from farflung territories,skies detonate, boots are weapons, and people
lieand also tell the truth. Edward Hamlin observes it all with mellow wisdom,showing us the world as it has always been, but as we
have never quite seen it before. A marvelous book about the natural
world and the human landscapes of resilience, grief, and love.
Katherine Hill, author, The Violet Hour

Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories spans the globe, taking us from
Belfast to Brazil, Morocco to Manhattan. The teenaged daughter of
an IRA assassin flees Northern Ireland only to end up in Baby Docs
terrifying Haiti. An American woman whos betrayed her brother
only to lose him to a Taliban bullet comes face to face with her demons during a vacation in Morocco. A famed photojournalist must
find a way to bring her lifes work to closure before she goes blind,
a quest that changes her understanding of the very physics of light.
By turns innocent and canny, the characters of Night in Erg Chebbi
and Other Stories must learn to improvisequicklywhen confronted with stark choices they never dreamed theyd have to make.
Lyrical, immaculately constructed and deeply felt, these nine stories
take us far beyond our comfort zones and deep into the wilds of
the human heart.

Edward Hamlins work has appeared in numerous literary journals and on stage. He was the winner of the 2013 Nelligan Prize
for Short Fiction.A New York native, Hamlin spent his formative
years in Chicago, and now makes his home in Boulder, Colorado.

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Edward Hamlin has been listening hard

to the opaque rustling of the world. And
he is just as adept at describing the crack
a skull makes on tile as the quieter,
thrushier gurgling of a creek after a
drought. The stories in Night in Erg Chebbi
are sweeping and intimate and awesomely confident of their own effects.
They document staggering, cataclysmic
changesforest fire, flash flood, revolution, murderas well as the slow violence
of grief and degenerative disease. In one
story, a photographer is losing her eyesight and her art; in another, a boy leashed
to his house on a good long lead runs
away. This is a collection with both depth
and breadth, a book dedicated to revealing the universal concealed in the weft of
the particular. Hamlin spins the globe,
jumping nimbly from a treetop lodge on a
Brazilian riverbank to the lawn of a governors mansion on the eve of an execution
to Merzouga, Morocco, gateway to the
dune sea of Erg Chebbi. No matter how
wild or unsettling the events of a story,
Hamlin holds the camera steady. As one
character says, What mattered lately was
to observe with precision rather than to
judge for good or ill. Each story here is
a world in miniature, illuminated by the
flashbulb bursts of Hamlins luminous,
controlled prose.Karen Russell, judge,
2015 Iowa Short Fiction Award

Excommunicados
by Charles Haverty

EXCOMMUNICADOS
stories by Charles Haver t y

2015 John Simmons Short Fiction Award

There would be enough pleasure in Excommunicados if Charles

Havertys formally elegant stories were merely perfectly crafted and
observed, plus funny, and also quietly sad, not to mention so various
in subject matter. They are all that in addition to being page-turners,
each one. They made me happy. Jane Hamilton, author, A Map
of the World
Charles Haverty is a beautifully balanced writer with a fine ear for
prose and an intuitive-feeling grasp of the dynamics of human conflict and reconciliation. He gets how the real human dramas unfold
over time and often as not reveal themselves through hairline cracks
becoming fissures. He is both accurate and wise. Sven Birkerts,
author, The Gutenberg Elegies

By turns haunting, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Charles Charles Haverty drives right into the
Havertys debut collection charts the journeys of men, women, and heart of the stormstorms of doubt,
children cast out of familiar territory into emotional terra incognita storms of anger, storms of perverse dewhere people and things are rarely what they seem. These twelve sire, storms of regret. Here are stories
stories are populated with ex-nuns and Freedom Riders, Chaucer that ask enormous questions about faith
scholars and strippers, out-of-work comedy writers and presidents, and doubt, love and death, justice and
navigating their way through bedrooms and emergency rooms, forgiveness, questions that are always anbackyard burial parties and airplane crash sites, the Piazza San chored to real human characters in a gorMarco and the post-apocalyptic suburbs of Boston.
geously rendered physical reality. I loved
A sixteen-year-old boy unearths grisly evidence of his genteel the pointillist precision of Havertys degrandfathers racist past. At his sisters booze-soaked destination scriptions: sudsy flowers cover caskets,
wedding, a recovering alcoholic English professor is finagled into telephone receivers smell like cigarettes
ghostwriting their unreliable fathers nuptial toast. A small town and Juicy Fruit, pink salt flies through red
lawyers Edenic existence is jeopardized when his wifes younger taillights. You might hear echoes of Jesus
brother is arrested for a rash of local burglaries. In the wake of her Son and Flannery OConnor and Bruce
daughters brush with disaster in the Haiti earthquake, a mother Springsteen and the Book of Ecclesiastes,
finds herself drawn down a dark neighborhood sidewalk toward but these tales belong to Haverty. His
what might or might not be a dead body. And in the title storythe scenes are charged with emotion and
first of three linked storiesa pious altar boy confronts the twin wonderfully, discomfitingly true to life,
mysteries of sex and death through the auspices of a classmates whether they unfold inside a Catholic
divorced mother.
church or a couples bedroom. Haverty
There are secrets at the center of each of these daring and origi- blurs the sacred and the profane, with
nal storiessecrets that separate these characters from one an- plenty of jokes in between. (A father adother but grow in the mind and the heart, connecting them with mits to his son at a destination wedding:
all of us.
I know Im the last resort at this resort.)
Haverty does a beautiful job of revealCharles Haverty was born in Flushing, Queens, and grew up on ing how the present moment is always
Long Island and in the far west suburbs of Chicago. His stories have haunted by past and future. In every one
appeared in AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, Ecotone, Colorado Review, One of his artful stories, youll hear the ghost
Story, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. He and his wife, Sandra, have of another conversation bleeding through
two children and live in Lexington, Massachusetts.
the wires.Karen Russell, judge, 2015
John Simmons Short Fiction Award

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Millennial Fandom
Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age
by Louisa Ellen Stein

millennial
Fandom

No longer a niche or cult identity, fandom now colors our

notions of an expansive generational constructthe millennial
generation. Like fans, millennials are frequently cast as active
participants in media culture, spectators who expect opportunities
Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age
to intervene, control, and create. At the same time, long-standing
fears about fans cultural unruliness manifest in rampant stories
of millennials technological over-dependence and lack of moral
boundaries.
These conflicting narratives of entrepreneurial creativity and digLOUISA ELLEN STEIN
ital immorality operate to quell the growing threat represented by
millennials media agency. With fan activities becoming ever more
visible on social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook,
LiveJournal, Twitter, Polyvore, and Tumblr, the fan has become the
avatar of our digital hopes and fears.
A distinctive and original take on particiIn an ambitious study encompassing a wide range of media patory culture, Millennial Fandom is an
texts, including popular television series like Kyle XY, Glee, Gossip impressive study of the cultural and genGirl, Veronica Mars, and Pretty Little Liars and online works like The dered ramifications of social media enLizzie Bennet Diaries, as well as fan texts from blog posts and tweets to gagement. It will become essential
remix videos, YouTube posts, and image-sharing streams, author reading for anyone hoping to understand
Louisa Ellen Stein traces the circulation of the contradictory tropes millennials and the impact of their attiof millennial hope and millennial noir. Looking at what millenni- tudes toward gender and media use on
als do with digital technology demonstrates the molding impact contemporary culture.Jennifer Gillan,
of commercial representations, and at the same time reveals how author, Television Brandcasting
millennials are undermining, negotiating, and changing those
narratives.
Steins work traverses the networked
This generationand the fans it representsis actively trans- contours of a rapidly fragmenting media
forming the media landscape into a dynamic, culturally transgres- culture to represent fandom in posisive space of collective authorship. Offering a rich and complex tive, political, and productive ways. She
vision of the relationship between fandom and millennial culture, spotlights a new generation and offers an
Millennial Fandom will interest fans, millennials, students, and important window on contemporary descholars of contemporary media culture alike.
velopments in transmedia storytelling and
net-based fan cultures. Mark Duffett,
Louisa Ellen Stein is an assistant professor at Middlebury College. author, Understanding Fandom
The book review editor for both Cinema Journal and Transformative
Works and Cultures, she also coedited the essay collections Teen Television and Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom. Her research interests
include the media literacies at work in fandom, gender, and generational influences in media culture, and transmedia technology.
She is a proud member of Vatican Cameos, the 2013 winning team
of the transmedia scavenger hunt GISHWHES (Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen). She lives in East
Middlebury, Vermont.

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Mad Men Unzipped

Fans on Sex, Love, and the Sixties on TV
by Karen E. Dill-Shackleford, Cynthia Vinney,
Jerri Lynn Hogg, and Kristin Hopper-Losenicky

This is the story of the Mad Men fan phenomenon: how the
show and its fans distinguished themselves in a market where its
hard to make an impression, not unlike the driven ad execs at the
center of the show. In this book, four media psychologists who
also just happen to be dedicated Mad Men fans explore how the
shows viewers make meaning from fictional drama. The authors
also interviewed several contemporary advertising industry professionals, getting their inside view of the business in its modern
guise and what they make of the shows vision of their past. The
AND THE SIXTIES ON TV
result is cutting-edge psychological research that crunches and
Karen E. Dill-Shackleford, Cynthia Vinney,
Jerri Lynn Hogg, and Kristin Hopper-Losenicky
codes online fan commentary to understand the ways that people
use the show to debate complex social issues, from sex and alcohol to gender roles, parenting, and advertising itself. What do the
1960s mean to us today, and how well does the twenty-first cen- The most fun you can have when youre not
tury measure up against that famously turbulent decade? Which watching Mad Men . . . learning about the
characters do fans identify withand which ones do they love to new world of storytelling where fans arent
hate? How would fans unfurl the Mad Men storylines if they were just spectators anymore.Helen Klein
in charge? What makes a good man, and has it changed over time? Ross, @bettydraper
How should husbands and wives treat each other, and how should
parents treat their children?
A timely and thoughtful exploration of fans
In answering these questions, the authors explore not just the active engagement with the series and how
online commentary but also Mad Men fans fan fiction, cosplay, we, as audience members, make sense out
cocktail making, and vintage furniture collecting. Whether tweet- of the media we consume, often by reshaping as one of the main characters (or just a lowly mail clerk), setting ing that media to reflect our own values
Peggy up with the man wholl treat her right, or figuring out just and desires.Katherine Larsen, coauthor,
which Mad Man they are at heart, fans integrate the show into Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls
their lives and use it to make sense of their own choices in work,
leisure, and love.

MAD MEN

UNZIPPED
FANS ON SEX, LOVE,

Karen E. Dill-Shackleford is a professor of psychology at Fielding

Graduate University and the author of How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing through Media Influence. She makes her home in Hickory,
North Carolina. Cynthia Vinney is a psychology graduate student
at Fielding Graduate University and has worked as a user experience designer for major advertising agencies and clients including
Mandalay Bay, Acura, and VIZIO. She resides in Los Angeles, California. Jerri Lynn Hogg teaches psychology at Fielding Graduate
University and is a senior research fellow at the Media Psychology Research Center. Kristin Hopper-Losenicky is a psychology
graduate student at Fielding Graduate University and a lecturer in
journalism and womens studies at Iowa State University. She lives
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Teaching Tainted Lit

Popular American Fiction in Todays Classroom
edited by Janet G. Casey

Popular American fiction has now secured a routine posi- Teaching Tainted Lit provides practical
tion in the higher education classroom despite its historic status approaches to teaching popular literaas culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have ture through essays that are concrete,
almost certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching theoretical, and personal.It succeeds
Tainted Lit explores that altered terrain. If the academy has histori- admirably in this aim; the essays are
cally ignored, or even sneered at, the popular, then its new accom- wide-ranging, interesting, and have almodation within the framework of college English is noteworthy: ready given me many ideas to use in my
surely the popular introduces both pleasures and problems that own teaching.Jaime Harker, author,
did not exist when faculty exclusively taught literature from an America the Middlebrow: Womens Novels,
established high canon. How, then, does the assumption that Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship
the popular matters affect teaching strategies, classroom climates, Between the Wars
and both personal and institutional notions about what it means
This is an impressive collection of
to study literature?
The essays in this collection presume that the popular is here to pedagogic strategies on how to teach
stay and that its instructive implications are not merely noteworthy, American popular literature. The essays
but richly nuanced and deeply compelling. They address a broad are master classes in integrated reflecvariety of issues concerning canonicity, literature, genre, and the tive learning, showing how bringing
classroom, as its contributors teach everything from Stephen King noncanonical texts into the classroom
and Lady Gaga to nineteenth-century dime novels and the 1852 enhances student learning by extending and deepening their literary and
best-seller Uncle Toms Cabin.
It is no secret that teaching popular texts fuels controversies cultural awareness. This will become an
about the value of cultural studies, the alleged relaxation of aes- important source for popular culture
thetic standards, and the possible dumbing down of Americans. lesson planning.Kate Macdonald,
By implicitly and explicitly addressing such contentious issues, author,Novelists Against Social Change:
these essays invite a broader conversation about the place of the Conservative Popular Fiction, 19201960
popular not only in higher education but in the reading lives of all
Americans.

CONTRIBUTORS
Alissa Burger, Michael Devine, Melissa Gniadek, Jolene Hubbs,
Lisa Long, Antonia Losano, Derek McGrath, Richard Schur,
Randi Lynn Tanglen, Kathleen M. Therrien
Janet G. Casey is a professor of English and director of the First
Year Experience at Skidmore College, where she also teaches
courses in American Studies. She is the author of Dos Passos and
the Ideology of the Feminine and A New Heartland: Women, Modernity,
and the Agrarian Ideal in America. She is also the editor of The Novel
and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction and has
cocurated a museum exhibition, Classless Society. She resides in
Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Rank
by Aaron McCollough
Kuhl House Poets
Mark Levine and Emily Wilson, series editors

rank

I guess an iceflow came through / to take the road, writes

Aaron McCollough in Rank, a richly strange sequence of poems in
which forces of nature, mind, spirit, and language partake of each
other in vibrant and shifting ways. I can only guess that would / destroy these remains slowly, McCollough continues. Indeed, Rank
seeks to recover sources of imaginative meaning from the unsettled
a a ron m c collou g h
remnants of lyric tradition, seeking out possibilities for belief and
sustenance in the echoes of lapsed poetic speech and song.
In language that is dense, allusive, by turns trancelike and mordantly funny, McCollough descends into the ranks of disintegrating organic life and finds elemental processes of regeneration
underway, ivy suckers climbing / the knock kneed craning bridge Rank has dark fumes, but its rich as
/ to that bright food. This is work that emerges in the aftermath loam, with a propulsive power inside:
of declining systems of hierarchy and order, a site marked by the the thorny terror that ends in a scarlet
overlapping of occult practices and postmodern physics, tense flower. McColloughs tight verses crackle
meditation, and economic anonymity. McCollough gives rise to and chimesonically rich and lexically
a voice that is as much vegetative as human, as deeply embedded wildtheir syllables so deeply cast you
in the loam of cultural memory as it is new, original, and lavishly can almost hear other syllables in them,
worlds within worlds. Bones clacking
daring.
and muscles moaning, their physicality

Aaron McCollough is the author of Underlight, No Grave Can Hold makes meaning audible, and the pain beMy Body Down, Little Ease, Double Venus, and Welkin. He works as comes prayerful, a rendition of, at least,
the editorial director for the University of Michigan Press and is eternity.Aaron Shurin
also the copublisher of SplitLevel Texts. McCollough lives in Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
McColloughs poems inRank, as in most

walnut skull of some brutal fairy

run afoul of my dog
in the juniper mire
what depends
in these binds,
passion strings,
ivy suckers climbing
the knock kneed craning bridge
to that bright food
can freedom even begin to form
in the morning, reforming blossoms
if we mean to tread with ease
may we move at all

of his collections, come from the inner

part of himself that is a cosmic being. He
tunes into the cosmos and receives it,
which is what being alive is: I could kill
for the songs, I could. Poetry comes from
this ongoing inner state of being, between
listening to the cosmos and responding
to it. McColloughs vision of eternity and
our verdant patch of it is at once practical
and mysterious. At some point while reading these poems, youll think of listening
to the song Nothing but Flowers bythe
Talking Heads. Strumming a guitar makes
a flower bloom. The corporeal world is
rank, grows over, around, above, inside,
and without us. Let the universe in and
change you. Arda Collins

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Duffys Iowa Caucus Cartoons

Watch Em Run
by Brian Duffy
foreword by David Yepsen
Iowa and the Midwest Experience
William B. Friedricks, series editor

Brian Duffy has been poking fun at the Iowa caucuses for
just about as long as theyve been a media circus, since the 1970s.
Now, the longtime editorial cartoonist has gathered a selection of
his best images lampooning the politicians on their quadrennial
stampedes through Iowas fields and towns.
Whether youre anticipating or dreading the onset of another
caucus season in 2016, this book will put it all into perspective.
From Jimmy Carters innovative 1976 effort to Barack Obamas
come-from-behind win in 2008, from George H. W. Bushs storming to victory in 1980 to George W. Bushs coasting to his win in
2000, from Gary Harts peccadillos in 1988 to John Edwardss
missteps in 2008, from Elizabeth Doles determination to breach
the White House boys club in 2000 to Hillary Clintons fall from
frontrunner to third place in 2008, here is American presidential
campaigning in all its glory. With pigs.

For nearly thirty years, Brian Duffy has been the cartoonist of record for the Iowa caucuses. From his perch in Des Moines, he
has chronicled the winners, the runners-up, the also-rans, and
the ones who never should have run. After twenty-five years as an
award-winning front-page cartoonist for the Des Moines Register, he
now places his cartoons in publications nationwide through King
Features Syndicate, as well as publishing with KCCI TV, CityView,
and The Hightower Report. His cycling cartoons have appeared in
Momentum Magazine. He lives in Des Moines, Iowa.

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s IOWA
Caucus
Cartoons
Watch Em Run

Brian Duffy

Carnival in the Countryside

The History of the Iowa State Fair
by Chris Rasmussen

CA R N I VA L
in the

COU N T RY S I DE

Iowa and the Midwest Experience

William B. Friedricks, series editor

More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa
Y
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State Fair is the states central institution, event, and symbol. New
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humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Great Pyramids
at Giza and the Taj Mahal in the best-selling travel guide 1,000 Places
to See Before You Die. During its annual run each August, the fair attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage
to the fairground to see the iconic butter cow, to ride the Old Mill, to
walk through the livestock barns, and to people-watch. At the same
time that they enjoy fried candy bars and roller coasters, Iowans It is an outstanding study of the Iowa
also compete to raise the best corn and zucchinis, to make the best State Fair, one of the most readable studjams and jellies, to rear the finest sheep and goats, the largest cattle ies of outdoor entertainment that anyand hogs, and the handsomest horses.
one has produced.Robert W. Rydell,
This tension between entertainment and agriculture goes back coauthor, Fair America
all the way to the fairs founding in the mid-1800s, as historian
Chris Rasmussen shows in this thought-provoking history. The Chris Rasmussens Carnival in the
fairs founders had lofty aims: they sought to improve agriculture Countryside offers a fascinating saga of
and foster a distinctively democratic American civilization. But one of the most heralded midwestern
from the start these noble intentions jostled up against peoples institutions of our day: the Iowa State
desire to have fun and make money, honestly or otherwisenot Fair and its famous butter cow. Beyond
least because the fair had to pay for itself. In their effort to uplift Hollywoods image of a young Pat Boone
rural life without going broke, the organizers of the Iowa State playing a strapping country boy adrift
Fair debated the respectability of horse racing and gambling and in Des Moines, beyond a nineteenthstruggled to find qualified livestock judges. Worried about the eco- century history that invites nostalgia for
nomic forces undermining rural families, they ran competitions to the family farm, the author puts the fair
select the best babies and the ideal rural girl and boy while luring at the center of a critical debate over
spectators with massive panoramas of earthquakes and fires, not rural values versus urban ones, scandalto mention staged trainwrecks. In short, the Iowa State Fair has ous entertainments versus learning and
as much to tell us about human nature and American history as it enterprise, and the future of an Iowa that
does about growing corn.
has managed to churn its disagreements
into a proud independence of mind and
Chris Rasmussen is associate professor of history at Fairleigh spirit.Karal Ann Marling, author,
Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. An Iowa native, he Blue Ribbon: A Social and Pictorial History
lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.
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Of Wilderness and Wolves

by Paul L. Errington
edited and with an introduction by Matthew Wynn Sivils
Bur Oak Books
Holly Carver, series editor

PAUL ERRINGTON

Of Wilderness and

WOLVES
I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land. With
these words, Paul L. Errington begins this lost classic. Now in
print for the first time, the book celebrates a key predator: the wolf.
One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century,
Errington melds his expertise in wildlife biology with his love for
natural beauty to create a visionary and often moving re-examination of humanitys relationship with these magnificent and
frequently maligned animals.
Tracing his own relationship with wolves from his rural South
Dakota upbringing through his formative years as a professional
trapper to his landmark work as an internationally renowned wildlife biologist, Errington delves into our irrational fear of wolves. Paul L. Errington had an iconic presence
He forthrightly criticizes what he views as humanitys prejudice in the field of wildlife science. His ideas
against an animal that continues to serve as the very emblem of transformed modern-day thinking and
the wilderness we claim to love, but that too often falls prey to our his touchhoned from time alone in the
greed and ignorance. A friend of Aldo Leopold, Errington was an wildis rare in this day. Together, and
important figure in the conservation efforts in the first half of the with his eloquent writing style, these
twentieth century. During his lifetime, wolves were considered things linger and are still part of our
vicious, wantonly destructive predators; by the mid-1900s, they thinking.Douglas W. Smith, author,
had been almost completely eliminated from the lower forty-eight Wolves on the Hunt
states. Their reintroduction to their historical range today remains
controversial.
Paul Erringtons Of Wilderness and Wolves
Lyrical yet unsentimental, Of Wilderness and Wolves provides a is prescient, eloquent, and still relevant
strong and still-timely dose of ecological realism for the abusive to American wolf politics, despite waiting
mismanagement of our natural resources. It is a testament to our half a century to be published. This
shortsightedness and to Erringtons vision that this book, its pub- book, contextualized in Matthew Wynn
lication so long delayed, still speaks directly to our environmental Sivilss helpful introduction, will appeal
crises.
to lovers of wolves, wilderness, and
Paul L. Errington was listed by Life magazine in 1961 as one of the
top ten naturalists of his day, along with Rachel Carson, Joseph
Wood Krutch, and Roger Tory Peterson, and he won the Wildlife
Societys Aldo Leopold Award in 1962. In addition to Of Men and
Marshes, Muskrats and Marsh Management, and Muskrat Populations,
he was the author of some two hundred scientific articles and three
posthumous books: Of Predation and Life, The Red Gods Call, and A
Question of Values. Editor of Erringtons Of Men and Marshes (Iowa
reprint, 2012), formerly a wildlife biologist, and now a professor of
English at Iowa State University, Matthew Wynn Sivils is the author
of American Environmental Fiction, 17821847. He lives in Ames, Iowa.

november

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Aldo Leopold.Scott Slovic,

University of Idaho

Booming from the Mists of Nowhere

The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken
by Greg Hoch
Bur Oak Books
Holly Carver, series editor
Booming from the Mists of Nowhere
For ten months of the year, the prairie-chickens drab colors
allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and
May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds
in North America. Competing with each other for the attention of
females, males gather before dawn in an explosion of sights and
The Story
soundsbooming from the mists of nowhere, as Aldo Leopold
of the Greater
Prairie-Chicken
wrote decades ago. Theres nothing else like it, and it is perilously
Greg Hoch
close to being lost. In this book, ecologist Greg Hoch shows that
we can ensure that this iconic bird flourishes once again.
Skillfully interweaving lyrical accounts from early settlers, hunters, and pioneer naturalists with recent scientific research on the Booming from the Mists reminds us of our
grouse and its favored grasslands, Hoch reveals that the prairie- prairie heritage, how much the prairie
chicken played a key role in the American settlement of the Mid- and its wildlife helped create this counwest. Many hungry pioneers regularly shot and ate the bird, as well try, and how much we owe it. The book is
as trapping hundreds of thousands, shipping them eastward by a reminder that grasslands ecosystems
the trainload for coastal suppers. As a result of both hunting and are the nations most endangered and
habitat loss, the birds numbers plummeted to extinction across that this heritage should not only live
90 percent of its original habitat. Iowa, whose tallgrass prairies in books, but in real life as well. Long live
formed the very center of the greater prairie-chickens range, no the booming of the pinnated grouse!
longer supports a native population of the bird most symbolic of Mark Herwig, editor, Pheasants Forever,
Quails Forever, and Forever Outdoors
prairie habitat.
The steep decline in the prairie-chicken population is one of the
great tragedies of twentieth-century wildlife management and ag- Greater prairie-chickens are one of the
ricultural practices. However, Hoch gives us reason for optimism. most humorous and fascinating birds
These birds can thrive in agriculturally productive grasslands. of the grass. For many, prairie-chickens
Careful grazing, reduced use of pesticides, well-placed wildlife provide the inspiration to protect recorridors, planned burning, higher plant, animal, and insect di- maining grasslands that are so essential
versity: these are the keys. If enough blocks of healthy grasslands for this wonderful species. This book
are scattered over the midwestern landscape, there will be prairie- does a great job bringing information
chickensand many of their fellow creatures of the tall grasses. on chickens together in one good read.
Farmers, ranchers, conservationists, and citizens can reverse the Loved it!Brian Winter, president,
decline of grassland birds and insure that future generations will Minnesota Prairie Chicken Society
hear the booming of the prairie-chicken.

Greg Hoch is the prairie habitat team supervisor for the Minnesota
Department of Natural Resources. A three-time volunteer of the
year for the Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District and the
recipient of two service awards from the Minnesota chapter of the
Wildlife Society, he was named a Friend of the Prairie Chicken by
the Minnesota Prairie Chicken Society in 2013. He lives outside
Lewisville, Minnesota.

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Kitchen Sink Realisms

Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama
in American Theatre
by Dorothy Chansky

Billy Rose Theatre Division, NYPL

Studies in Theatre History and Culture

Heather S. Nathans, series editor

From 1918s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of
Second Avenue to 2005s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured
largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more
than the one often dismissively dubbed kitchen sink realism
to both support and contest the idea that the home is naturally
womens sphere. But there is more to the genre than even its supOne of the fields most talented and meticporters suggest.
In analyzing kitchen sink realisms, Dorothy Chansky reveals ulous scholars, Chansky has written a work
the ways that food preparation, domestic labor, dining, serving, that is successful in both its breadth and
entertaining, and cleanup saturate the lives of dramatic characters depth. This is an outstanding work, certain
and situations even when they do not take center stage. Offering to impress the theatre world and very likely
resistant readings that rely on close attention to the particular cul- to garner a great deal of applause along
tural and semiotic environments in which plays and their audiences with a fair share of awards.
operated, she sheds compelling light on the changing debates William W. Demastes, author,
about womens roles and the importance of their household labor Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition
across lines of class and race in the twentieth century.
The story begins just after World War I, as more households were As an original contribution to American
electrified and fewer middle-class housewives could afford to hire theatre and drama studies, Kitchen Sink
maids. In the 1920s, popular mainstream plays staged the plight Realisms is outstanding.
of women seeking escape from the daily grind; African American Felicia Hardison Londr, author,
playwrights, meanwhile, argued that housework was the least of The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas
womens worries. Plays of the 1930s recognized housework as City at the Crossroads of American Theatre,
work to a greater degree than ever before, while during the war 18701930
years domestic labor was predictably recruited to the war effort
sometimes with gender-bending results. In the famously quiescent
and anxious 1950s, critiques of domestic normalcy became common, and African American maids gained a complexity previously
reserved for white leading ladies. These critiques proliferated with
the re-emergence of feminism as a political movement from the
1960s on. After the turn of the century, the problems and comforts
of domestic labor in black and white took center stage. In highlighting these shifts, Chansky brings the real home.

Associate professor of theatre and director of the Humanities

Center at Texas Tech University, Dorothy Chansky writes about
American theatre, audiences, feminist theatre, and translation.
She is the author of Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement
and the American Audience and many articles, and coeditor of Food and
Theatre on the World Stage. She writes criticism for New York Theatre
Wire. She lives in Lubbock, Texas, and New York City.

november

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Impressions: Studies in the Art, Culture, and Future of Books

Matthew P. Brown, series editor

a m
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by Alexander Starre

M e

American Book Fictions and Literary

Print Culture after Digitization

Metamedia

ta
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Metamedia
Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and
reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex is no
American Book Fictions and
Literary Print Culture after Digitization
longer the default format of fiction. Yet as Alexander Starre shows
in Metamedia, American literature has rediscovered the book as an
Alexander Starre
artistic medium after the first e-book hype in the late 1990s. By
fusing narrative and design, a number of bibliographic writers
have created reflexive fictionsmetamediathat invite us to read
printed formats in new ways. Their work challenges ingrained
theories and beliefs about literary communication and its connections to technology and materiality. Metamedia explores the book as
a medium that matters and introduces innovative critical concepts
to better grasp its narrative significance.
Starres Metamedia is a definitive achieveCombining sustained textual analysis with impulses from the ment: lucid, searching, comprehensive,
fields of book history, media studies, and systemstheory, Starre and repeatedly eye-opening.
explains the aesthetics and the cultural work of complex material Garrett Stewart, author, Bookwork:
fictions, such as Mark Z. Danielewskis House of Leaves (2000), Chip Medium to Object to Concept to Art
Kidds The Cheese Monkeys (2001), Salvador Plascencias The People
of Paper (2005), Reif Larsens The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet (2009), Alexander Starres Metamedia is a detailed,
and Jonathan Safran Foers Tree of Codes (2010). He also broadens carefully argued account of an important
his analysis beyond the genre of the novel in an extensive account new development in contemporary literaof the influential literary magazine McSweeneys Quarterly Concern and ture, an exceptionally generous, patient,
its founder, Dave Eggers.
and at times revelatory study.
For this millennial generation of writers and publishers, the Evan Brier, author, A Novel Marketplace:
computer was never a threat to print culture, but a powerful tool Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar
to make better books. In careful close readings, Starre puts type- American Fiction
faces, layouts, and cover designs on the map of literary criticism.
At the same time, the book steers clear of bibliophile nostalgia and
technological euphoria as it follows writers, designers, and publishers in the process of shaping the surprising history of literary
bookmaking after digitization.
Alexander Starre is an assistant professor of North American
Studies at Freie Universitt Berlin. He has published articles and
book chapters on contemporary American literature, literary theory, graphic narratives, and ecocriticism. He lives in Gttingen,
Germany.

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Poverty and Charity in Early Modern

Theatre and Performance
by Robert Henke
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Heather S. Nathans, series editor

Bibliothque Nationale de France

Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern

theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue,
Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a
transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes
and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws
and rogue books suggest. Close study of German and Latin beggar
catalogues, popular songs performed in Italian piazzas, the Paduan
actor-playwright Ruzante, the commedia dellarte in both Italy and
France, and Shakespeare demonstrate how early modern theatre
and performance could reveal the gap between official policy and
The argument about poverty and hunactual practices regarding the poor.
The actor-based theatre and performance traditions examined in ger is completely convincing, and the
this study, which persistently explore felt connections between the breadth of knowledge across languages,
itinerant actor and the vagabond beggar, evoke the poor through cultures, and theatrical conditions
complex and variegated forms of imagination, thought, and feel- is breathtaking.Cary M. Mazer,
ing. Early modern theatre does not simply reflect the social ills of University of Pennsylvania
hunger, poverty, and degradation, but works them through the
forms of poverty, involving displacement, condensation, exag- Robert Henkes transnational, interdisgeration, projection, fictionalization, and marginalization. As the ciplinary study offers a perceptive and
critical mass of medieval charity was put into question, the beggar- illuminating counterpoint between texts
almsgiver encounter became more like a performance. But it was and contexts, hunger and gluttony, the
not a performance whose script was prewritten as the inevitable England of Shakespeare and the Italy of
exposure of the dissembling beggar. Just as peoples attitudes to- Ruzante, between a literary approach and
ward the poor could rapidly change from skepticism to sympathy a historical one, and above all between
during famines and times of acute need, fictions of performance actors as beggars, soliciting donations,
such as Edgars dazzling impersonation of a mad beggar in Shake- and beggars as actors, performing their
spearesKing Learcould prompt responses of sympathy and even poverty.Peter Burke, author,
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
radical calls for economic redistribution.
Robert Henke is professor of drama and comparative literature
at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Pastoral
Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeares Late Plays and
Performance and Literature in the Commedia dellArte. He coedited Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater and Transnational Mobilities in
Early Modern Theater. Codirector of the Prison Education Project at
Missouri Eastern Correctional Center and Washington University,
he lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Civil War Nurse Narratives, 18631870

Civil War Nurse Narratives, 18631870, examines the first wave of

autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and
published during the war and shortly thereafter, ranging from the
well-known Louisa May Alcott to lesser-known figures such as Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hospitals of Washington,
DC, and Philadelphia, to the field at Gettysburg in the aftermath of
the battle, to the camps bordering front lines during active combat,
these nurse narrators reported on what they saw and experienced
for an American audience hungry for tales of individual experience
in the war.
As a subgenre of war literature, the Civil War nurse narrative
offered realistic reportage of medical experiences and declined
to engage with military strategies or Congressional politics.
Instead, nurse narrators chronicled the details of attending
wounded soldiers in the hospital, where a kind of microcosm of In Civil War Nurse Narratives, 18631870,
US democracy-in-progress emerged. As the war reshaped the social Daneen Wardrop does what is quite
and political ideologies of the republic, nurses labored in a work- difficult to do: she bridges social and
place that reflected cultural changes in ideas about gender, race, literary history, using each to inform
and class. Through interactions with surgeons and other officials the other.Wardrop uses seven Civil War
they tested womens rights convictions, and through interactions nursing narratives in new and complex
with formerly enslaved workers they wrestled with the need to live ways, teasing out the work that they do
up to their own often abolitionist convictions and support social for womens rights, the complicated
equality.
racial politics they reveal, and the ways
By putting these accounts in conversation with each other, Civil these narratives engaged in nationWar Nurse Narratives productively explores a developing genre of war building through the individual lives of
literature that has rarely been given its due and that offers refresh- women. This is an important addition to
ing insights into womens contributions to the war effort. Taken the field of Civil War womens history,
together, these stories offer an impressive and important addition drawing out new insights from well-loved
to the literary history of the Civil War.
texts, and introducing lesser-known work
that deserves greater attention.
Daneen Wardrop is a professor of English at Western Michigan Lyde Cullen Sizer, author, The Political
University. She is the author of several books, including most re- Work of Northern Women Writers and the
cently Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing, a work of literary American Civil War, 18501872
criticism, and Cyclorama, a collection of poems written in voices
from the Civil War era. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
An important intervention in our understanding of womens participation in
Civil War culture. Wardrops narrative is
richly detailed and argues persuasively
for Northern nurse narratives as a strategically gendered, historically specific
subgenre of war literature during the crucial period 18631870.Vivian Pollak,
Washington University in St. Louis

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Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

by Daneen Wardrop

Ghostly Figures
Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry
by Ann Keniston
Contemporary North American Poetry Series
Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, & Adalaide Morris, series editors

Ghostly Figures
memory and belatedness
in postwar american poetry

ann keniston

Ann Kenistons Ghostly Figuresmakes the bold and convincing claim

that belatedness, coming after some powerful event, is both the
literal, generative condition of postwar poetry and a liberating,
deeply perplexing source of tension central to any writers attempt
to make meaning out of what can never be fully or finally grasped.
Keniston brings writers from quite different parts of the contemporary scene into a single conversation about the uses that can be
made of the fleeting bits of language and memory and witness constantly flowing past us. Her deft readings give us important new ways
of thinking about how poets hold themselves within spaces where
the literal and figurative, presence and absence, blur and speak and
fade.Thomas Gardner, author, A Door Ajar: Emily Dickinson and
Contemporary Writers

From Sylvia Plaths depictions of the Holocaust as a group

of noncohering bits to AIDS elegies assertions that the dead
posthumously persist in ghostly form and Susan Howes insistence
that the past can be conveyed only through juxtaposed scraps,
the condition of being too late is one that haunts post-World War
II American poetry. This is a poetry saturated with temporal delay,
partial recollection of the past, and the revelation that memory
itself is accessible only in obstructed and manipulated ways. These
postwar poems do not merely describe the condition of lateness:
they enact it literally and figuratively by distorting chronology,
boundary, and syntax, by referring to events indirectly, and by binding the condition of lateness to the impossibility of verifying the
past. The speakers of these poems often indicate that they are too
late by repetitively chronicling distorted events, refusing closure
or resolution, and forging ghosts out of what once was tangible.
Ghostly Figures contends that this poetics of belatedness, along
with the way it is bound to questions of poetic making, is a central,
if critically neglected, force in postwar American poetry. Discussing works by Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, Susan
Howe, and a group of poets responding to the AIDS epidemic,
Ann Keniston draws on and critically assesses trauma theory and
psychoanalysis, as well as earlier discussions of witness, elegy,
lyric trope and figure, postmodernism, allusion, and performance,
to define the ghosts that clearly dramatize poetics of belatedness
throughout the diverse poetry of postWorld War II America.

Ann Keniston is an associate professor of English at the University
of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Overheard Voices: Subjectivity
and Address in Postmodern American Poetry and the coeditor of The New
American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st-Century Anthology and Literature
after 9/11.

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Bringing together a group of poets

rarely considered in conjunction or relation, Ann Keniston draws our attention
to patterns of belatedness in postwar
American poetry, finding in diverse forms
of figuration a complex relation of trauma
and witness to poetic form. Taking up
poetry by Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath,
Jorie Graham, Susan Howe, and poets
writing about AIDS, Kenistons nimble,
incisive formal readings closely attend to
challenging poetic structures and unsettling topics with theoretical sophistication, offering fresh readings of even the
most canonized poems. Kenistons keen
focus on the poems work at the level
of figuration richly expandsour thinking about the work of poetic form in the
postwar response to social and personal
trauma.Linda Kinnahan, author, Lyric
Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry,
and Contemporary Discourse

Networks of Modernism
Reorganizing American Narrative
by Wesley Beal

Networks of Modernism offers a new understanding of American Networks of Modernismpresents a new

modernist aesthetics and introduces the idea that networks were paradigmfor literary study, one in
central to how American moderns thought about their culture in which a keyword, networks, compels
their dramatically changing milieu. While conventional wisdom oversightacross the sociocultural,comholds that the network rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s mercial, and technological realms within
in the context of information technologies, digitization is only which thewriters under discussion lived
the most recent manifestation of networks in intellectual history. and worked. Wesley Beal convincingly
Crucial developments in modern America provide another archive makes the case thatnetworks were an imof network discourses well before the advent of the digital age. The portant part of this, and were an overridrise of the railroad recast the American landscape as an assortment ing and governingliterary paradigm from
of interconnected hubs. The advent of broadcast radio created a the 1910s through the 1930s.Cecelia
decentralized audience that was at once the mediums strength and Tichi, author, Shifting Gears: Technology,
its weakness. The steady and intertwined advances of urbanization Literature, Culture in Modernist America
and immigration demanded the reconceptualization of community
and ethnic identity to replace the failing melting pot metaphor Wesley Beals exciting book brings a welfor the nation. Indeed, the signal developments of the modern era come theoretical richness to the study
eroded social stratification and reorganized American society in a of American modernism, and his overall
nodal, decentralized, and interpenetrating formwhat today we approach, at once formally rigorous
would label a distributed network that is fully flattened and holds and socially grounded, invigorates and
no clustered centers of power.
extends longstanding debates on the conIn this ferment of social upheaval and technological change, the nections between aesthetics and politics,
moderns found what we would today term the network, though and between modernism and postmodthey did not have the vocabulary for it that we do now, to be a ver- ernism. Writers like Toomer, Loos, and
satile model for their aesthetic experiments in representing social Dos Passos emerge in a fresh and striking
space and social relations. Whether they used the figuration of the light, newly urgent figures for our radinetwork as a kind of formal experiment to negotiate the tensions cally interconnected and unsettled world.
between dispersal and unity, fragment and totality, or took the An inventive and highly readable work
network as a subject in itself, as seen when dealing with crowds of criticism.Robert Seguin, author,
or public spaces, the network was a way for writers and artists to Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class
conceptualize and explore their rapidly changing society. Through Fantasy in American Fiction
readings of the works of Randolph Bourne, Jean Toomer, Anita
Loos, John Dos Passos, and Nathanael West, Networks of Modernism
positions the network as the defining figure of American modernist
aesthetics and explores its use as a conceptual tool used to think
through the rapid changes in American society.

Wesley Beal is an assistant professor of English at Lyon College.

He has published widely in American Literary History, College Literature, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Genre. He lives in Batesville,
Arkansas.

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Dickinson in Her Own Time

edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein, Stephanie Farrar,

and Cristanne Miller
Writers in Their Own Time
Joel Myerson, series editor
Even before the first books of her poems were published in
the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew
Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both
well-known documents and material printed or collected here
for the first time, this book offers a broad range of writings that
convey impressions of Dickinson in her own time and for the first
decades following the publication of her poems. It all begins with
her school days and continues to the centennial of her birth in 1930.
In addition, promotional items, reviews, and correspondence
relating to early publications are included, as well as some later
documents that reveal the changing assessments of Dickinsons
poetry in response to evolving critical standards. These documents
provide evidence that counters many popular conceptions of her
life and reception, such as the belief that the writer best known
for poems focused on loss, death, and immortality was herself a
morose soul. In fact, those who knew her found her humorous,
playful, and interested in other people.
Dickinson maintained literary and personal correspondence
with major representatives of the national literary scene, developing a reputation as a remarkable writer even as she maintained extreme levels of privacy. Evidence compiled here also demonstrates
that she herself made considerable provision for the survival of her
poems and laid the groundwork for their eventual publication.
Dickinson in Her Own Time reveals the poet as her contemporaries
knew her, before her legend took hold.

Jane Donahue Eberwein of Birmingham, Michigan, is distinguished professor of English,emerita, at Oakland University. She
is the author of Dickinson: Strategies of Limitationand editor ofAn
Emily Dickinson EncyclopediaandReading Emily Dickinsons Letters: Critical Essays. Stephanie Farrar is assistant professor of English at the
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she is working on a
monograph titled Maternity, Masculinity, and the Rhetoric of
Rights in American Civil War Poetry. She makes her home in Eau
Claire, Wisconsin. Cristanne Miller is SUNY distinguished professor and Edward H. Butler professor of literature at the University
at Buffalo SUNY. Her books on Dickinson include Emily Dickinson:
A Poets Grammar, Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson and the Nineteenth
Century. She lives in Buffalo, New York.

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Robert Frost Library, Amherst College

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from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs
by Family, Friends, and Associates

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Haverty, Charles 5
Henke, Robert 16
Hoch, Greg 13
Hogg, Jerri Lynn 7
Hopper-Losenicky, Kristin 7
Keniston, Ann 18

McCollough, Aaron 9
Miller, Cristanne 20
Rasmussen, Chris 11
Sivils, Matthew Wynn 12
Starre, Alexander 15
Stein, Louisa Ellen 6
Vinney, Cynthia 7
Wardrop, Daneen 17

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Carnival in the Countryside 11
Civil War Nurse Narratives, 18631870 17
Dickinson in Her Own Time 20
Duffys Iowa Caucus Cartoons 10
Excommunicados 5
Ghostly Figures 18
In Dylan Town 2
Kitchen Sink Realisms 14
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