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Confessions of a Left-Handed Man
An Artist’s Memoir
by Peter Selgin
sightline books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction
Patricia Hampl & Carl H. Klaus, series editors
“Peter Selgin is a born writer, capable of taking any subject and exploring it
from a new angle, with wit, grace, and erudition. He has a keen eye for the
telling detail and a voice that is deeply personal, appealing, and wholly
original. Fans of Selgin’s fiction will know they are in for a treat, and those
who are new to his work would do well to start with this marvelous mem-
oir in essays, his finest writing yet.”—Oliver Sacks
peter selgin was cursed/blessed with an unusual childhood.

The son of Italian immigrants—his father an electronics inventor
and a mother so good looking UPS drivers swerved off their routes
to see her—Selgin spent his formative years scrambling among the
hat factory ruins of a small Connecticut town, visiting doting—and
dotty—relatives in the “old world,” watching mental giants clash “Peter Selgin’s portrait of the artist as a rest-
at Mensa gatherings, enduring Pavlovian training sessions with a less, fretful, left-handed young man in search
grandmother bent on “curing” his left-handedness, and competing of serenity is thoughtful, erudite, and witty.
savagely with his right-handed twin. In the essayistic tradition of Montaigne and
It’s no surprise, then, that Selgin went on from these peculiar Lopate, Selgin digs deep and holds nothing
beginnings to do . . . well, nearly everything. Confessions of a Left- back. A fascinating read.”—Dinty W. Moore,
Handed Man is a bold, unblushing journey down roads less traveled. author, Between Panic & Desire
Whether recounting his work driving a furniture delivery truck, his
years as a caricaturist, his obsession with the Titanic that compelled “In the title essay of Confessions of a Left-Handed
him to complete seventy-five paintings of the ship (in sinking and Man, Peter Selgin displays, as he does time
nonsinking poses), or his daily life as a writer, from start to finish and time again in this finely wrought collec-
readers are treated to a vividly detailed, sometimes hilarious, often tion, wit and charm and disarming honesty.
moving, but always memorable life. However circular these autobiographical
In this modern-day picaresque, Selgin narrates an artist’s jour- narratives might be, they always come back
ney from unconventional roots through gritty experience to artistic to rest smartly and interestingly in the
achievement. With an elegant narrative voice that is, by turns, frank, human heart.”—Helen Schulman, author,
witty, and acid-tongued, Selgin confronts his past while coming to This Beautiful Life
terms with approaching middle age, reaching self-understanding
tempered by reflection, regret, and a sharply self-deprecating sense
of humor.
Peter Selgin is currently the Viebranz Distinguished Writer in Resi-

dence at St. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York. Winner of
the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction for his story collec-
tion Drowning Lessons, Selgin has also published a novel, Life Goes to the
Movies, and two works on the fiction writer’s craft, 179 Ways to Save a
Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers and By Cunning and Craft:
Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers.
october
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memoir
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Pulp and Paper
by Josh Rolnick
2011 john simmons short fiction award
“Josh Rolnick is a wonderful observer and a beautiful storyteller. Each

story in Pulp and Paper is a path to the hearts of Rolnick’s characters, who,
like you and me, strive to be their true, honest selves despite follies and
weaknesses. A truly compassionate collection.”—Yiyun Li
“i glanced out the window as my train pulled into the station and
saw the girl who killed my son.” So begins Josh Rolnick’s power-
ful debut collection of eight stories, which utilizes a richly focused
narrative style accenting the unavoidable tragedies of life while
revealing the grace and dignity with which people learn to deal with
them. The stories—four set in New Jersey and four in New York—
stories by
span the wide geographic tapestry of the area and demonstrate the
Josh Rolnick
interconnectedness of both the neighboring states and the resi-
dents who inhabit them.
In “Funnyboy,” a grief-stricken Levi Stern struggles to come to
terms with the banality of his son’s accidental death at the hands “Josh Rolnick’s extraordinary stories sug-
of Missy Jones, high school cheerleader. In “Pulp and Paper,” two gest the author suffers from a strange
neighbors, Gail Denny and Avery Mayberry, attempt to escape a anatomical condition: he clearly has a
toxic spill resulting from a train derailment when a moment of heart that’s even larger than his oversized,
compassion alters both their futures forever. “Innkeeping” features electrified brain.”—Nic Brown, author,
a teenager’s simmering resentment toward the burgeoning rela- Doubles and Floodmarkers
tionship between his widowed mother and a long-term hotel guest.
“The Herald” introduces us to Dale, a devoted reporter on a small-
town newspaper, desperately striving to break a big-time story to
salvage his career and his ego. A teenager deals with the inconceiv-
able results of his innocent act before an ice hockey game in “Big
Lake.” And in “The Carousel,” a Coney Island carousel operator
confronts the fading memories of a world that once overflowed with
grandeur and promise. Throughout, Rolnick’s characters search for
a firm footing while wrestling with life’s hardships, finding hope
and redemption in the simple yet uncommon willingness to act.
Pulp and Paper captures lightning in a bottle, excavating the
smallest steps people take to move beyond grief, heartbreak, and
failure—conjuring the subtle, fragile moments when people are not
yet whole, but no longer quite as broken.
Josh Rolnick’s short stories have won the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize
and the Florida Review Editor’s Choice Prize. They have also been
published in Harvard Review, Western Humanities Review, Bellingham
Review, and Gulf Coast, and have been nominated for the Pushcart
Prize and Best New American Voices. A reporter, editor, and journal
publisher, he grew up in New Jersey, spent summers camping his
way through Upstate New York, and has lived in Jerusalem, London,
Philadelphia, Iowa City, Washington, D.C., and Menlo Park, Califor-
nia. He currently lives with his wife and three sons in Akron, Ohio.
october
192 pages . 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches
Nancy Williams

1-60938-052-5, 978-1-60938-052-6
fiction
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Power Ballads
by Will Boast
2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award
“Reading the stories in Power Ballads is like getting to know a new band:
the lyrics and the music get to you when you feel the least prepared, and
you laugh and cry and hope to find someone who laughs and cries with
you. Will Boast is an exciting new voice.”—Yiyun Li

“Will Boast ROCKS. Power Ballads sings and grinds and reverbs like only
the truest collections do. Here’s a new young American voice for the
ages.”—Tom Franklin
real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in

private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement
clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs,
and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Bal- will boast
lads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician.
From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka
bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is “I’m familiar with Will Boast’s writing, but I
often simply work but also where it can, in rare moments, become was unprepared for the powerful, cumula-
a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things we tive effect of these related stories. There’s
never seem to say to each other. A skilled but snobby jazz drummer a barebones believability, increased in
joins a costumed heavy metal band to pay his rent. A country singer every direction by the author’s ability to
tries to turn her brutal past into a successful career. A vengeful permeate veneers and to find moments of
rock critic reenters the life of an emerging singer-songwriter, bent harmony among the characters, heard very
on wreaking havoc. The characters in Power Ballads—aging head- unexpectedly. Underneath the calm surface
bangers, jobbers, techno DJs, groupies, and the occasional rock runs an undercurrent of loss and pain, a
star (and those who have to live with them)—need music to survive, subtext never sentimentalized or easily
yet find themselves lost when the last note is played, the lights go summarized. He can really write. What an
up, and it’s time to return to regular life. impressive book.”—Ann Beattie
By turns melancholy and hilarious, Power Ballads is not only a
deeply felt look at the lives of musicians but also an exploration of
the secret music that plays inside us all.
Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wis
consin. His fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2009,
Narrative, Glimmer Train, the Southern Review, Mississippi Review, and
other publications and is forthcoming in the American Scholar. He
holds an mfa from the University of Virginia and is a former Steg-
ner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently, he lives and writes in
San Francisco and moonlights as a performing musician around
the Bay Area. He’s working on both a novel and a memoir.
october
184 pages . 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches
Ryan Bieber

1-60938-042-8, 978-1-60938-042-7
fiction
Anthropologies b e t h a lva r a d o
A Family Memoir
by Beth Alvarado
anthropologies
Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction
a family memoir
Patricia Hampl & Carl H. Klaus, series editors
“Anthropologies is an epic effort of personal anthropology rendered in

bright washes of detail-rich, super-lush remembrance.”—Eula Biss,
author, Notes from No Man’s Land and The Balloonists
a vivid archive of memories, Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies layers

scenes, portraits, dreams, and narratives in a dynamic cross-cultural
mosaic. Bringing her lyrical tenor to bear on stories as diverse as
harboring teen runaways, gunfights with federales, and improbable
love, Alvarado unveils the ways in which seemingly separate mo-
ments coalesce to forge a communal truth. Woven from the threads
of distinct family histories and ethnic identities, Anthropologies cre-
ates a heightened understanding of how individual experiences are
part of a larger shared fabric of lives.
Like the opening of a series of doors, each turn of the page reveals “‘Memory is a silent room, a home movie
some new reality and the memories that emerge from it. Open one from an old Brownie camera,’ Beth Alvarado
door and you are transported to a modest Colorado town in 1966, writes. Her memoir, Anthropologies, sug-
appraising animal tracks edged into a crust of snow while listening gests otherwise: there is little silence here.
to stories of Saipan. Open another and you are lounging in a lush Instead everything is sound and light: story
Michoacán hacienda, or in another, the year is 1927 and you are stacked up on story, memory on dream,
standing on a porch in Tucson, watching La Llorona turn a corner. aperture after aperture opening and staying
With vivid imagery and a poetic sensibility, Anthropologies reenacts open, recording past the final page. Anthro-
the process of remembering and so evokes a compelling narrative. pologies offers us the eternal present tense of
Each snapshot provides a glimpse into the past, illuminating the memory: all our lives and our families’ lives
ways in which memory and history are intertwined. Whether the existing at once, like the voice of her father,
experience is of her own drug use or that of a great-great-grand- preserved on her mother’s answering ma-
mother’s trek across the Great Plains with Brigham Young, Alvara- chine and now here with many others in this
do’s insight into the binding nature of memory illuminates a new lovely echo chamber of a book.”
way of understanding our place within families, generations, and —Ander Monson, author, Vanishing Point
cultures.
“Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies will not let
Beth Alvarado is the author of Not a Matter of Love, winner of the you sleep, get to work, distract. Even your
Many Voices Project Award, the fiction editor for CUTTHROAT: dreams get stolen by her indelible images.
A Journal of the Arts, and co-writer of the screenplay In Need of a Heart. And when you wake from reading, you find
Recent short stories and essays have appeared in Sonora Review, yourself wading in tenderness. Alvarado
Third Coast, Nimrod, Western Humanities Review, Cimarron Review, and skillfully interlaces the stories of many gen-
Ploughshares. She teaches at the University of Arizona, where she erations, a life lived across the lines of race
received her mfa in fiction. and class, and a meditation on memory as
memoir. In the end, we are left with love,
grief, loss, and the enduring resiliency of
family.”—Valerie Martínez, author, Absence
Luminescent, World to World and Each and Her
september
202 pages . 3 photos . 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches
1-60938-037-1, 978-1-60938-037-3
memoir

Lincoln in His Own Time Q
A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn a biographical
chronicle of his
from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs life, drawn from

recollections,
by Family, Friends, and Associates interviews, and

memoirs by
edited by Harold K. Bush, Jr. family, friends,

and associates
Writers in Their Own Time Q
Joel Myerson, series editor
more than any other American before or since, Abraham

Lincoln had a way with words that has shaped our national idea of
ourselves. Actively disliked and even vilified by many Americans
for the vast majority of his career, this most studied, most storied,
and most documented leader still stirs up controversy. Showing
LINCOLN
not only the development of a powerful mind but the ways in which in his own time
our sixteenth president was perceived by equally brilliant American
edited by Harold K. Bush
minds of a decidedly literary and political bent, Harold K. Bush’s
Lincoln in His Own Time provides some of the most significant con-
temporary meditations on the Great Emancipator’s legacy and
cultural significance. “A representative and well-chosen selec-
The forty-two entries in this spirited collection present the best tion of biographical testimony that helps
reflections of Lincoln as thinker, reader, writer, and orator by those to demystify the legend and bring the
whose lives intertwined with his or those who had direct contact man alive.”—Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln
with eyewitnesses. Bush focuses on Lincoln’s literary interests, Studies Center
reading, and work as a writer as well as the evolving debate about
his religious views that became central to his memory. Along “Harold Bush’s anthology of the writings
with a star-struck Walt Whitman writing of Lincoln’s “inexpress- of Abraham Lincoln and those who knew
ibly sweet” face and manner, Elizabeth Keckly’s description of a him creates a portrait of a ‘living, breath-
bereaved Lincoln, “genius and greatness weeping over love’s idol ing conscience,’ and not just a historical
lost,” and William Stoddard’s report of the “cheery, hopeful, morn- figure. Viewed from so many different
ing light” on Lincoln’s face after a long night debating the fate of perspectives, Lincoln emerges in multiple
the nation, the volume includes selections from works by famous dimensions, beyond the familiar flatness
contemporary figures such as Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Low- of a Mathew Brady glass negative. A de-
ell, Twain, and Lincoln himself in addition to lesser-known selec- lightful companion for anyone looking to
tions that have been nearly lost to history. Each entry is introduced follow in Lincoln’s paths.”
by a headnote that places the selection in historical and cultural —Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor
context; explanatory endnotes provide information about people of the Civil War Era, Gettysburg College
and places. A comprehensive introduction and a detailed chronol-
ogy of Lincoln’s eventful life round out the volume.
Bush’s thoughtful collection reveals Lincoln as a man of letters
who crafted some of the most memorable lines in our national
vocabulary, explores the striking mythologization of the martyred
president that began immediately upon his death, and then com-
bines these two themes to illuminate Lincoln’s place in public
memory as the absolute embodiment of America’s mythic civil re-
ligion. Beyond providing the standard fare of reminiscences about
the rhetorically brilliant backwoodsman from the “Old Northwest,”
Lincoln in His Own Time also maps a complex genealogy of the cul-
tural work and iconic status of Lincoln as quintessential scribe and
prophet of the American people.
Harold K. Bush, professor of English at Saint Louis University, is

the author of Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age and American
Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History.
november
304 pages . 7 photos . 3 drawings . 6 x 9 inches
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american history / biography
American Idyll
Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique
by Catherine Liu
a trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the

political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a
revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher educa-
tion has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that
has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic
freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring,
privileged students and vocational education is the only option for
economically marginal ones.
Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was
reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy or rapacious
plutocracy, but it has now become a revolt against meritocracy
itself, directed against what insurgents see as a ruling class of cre-
dentialed elites with degrees from exclusive academic institutions.
Catherine Liu reveals that within the academy, and stemming from
the relatively new discipline of cultural studies, animosity against “We are now supposedly in a postracial mo-
expertise has animated much of the Left’s cultural criticism. ment, with an African American president
By unpacking the disciplinary formation and academic ambi- who came of intellectual age in the 1980s,
tions of American cultural studies, Liu uncovers the genealogy yet if we are to fully confront the changing
of the current antielitism, placing the populism that dominates face of education and politics in this era
headlines within a broad historical context. In the process, she of perpetual war, economic decline, and
emphasizes the relevance of the historical origins of populist revolt virulent ‘authoritarian populist’ Tea Party
against finance capital and its political influence. American Idyll dissent, it is crucial to begin unraveling our
reveals the unlikely alliance between American pragmatism and recent history. Catherine Liu offers a compel-
proponents of the Frankfurt School and argues for the importance ling polemic for liberalism—a dirty word for
of broad frames of historical thinking in encouraging robust aca- 1960s New Leftists and 1990s neoconserva-
demic debate within democratic institutions. In a bold thought tives alike—and any book that annoys these
experiment that revives and defends Richard Hofstadter’s theories two poles definitely has much going for it.
of anti-intellectualism in American life, Liu asks, What if cultural Bringing her considerable knowledge of
populism had been the consensus politics of the past three decades? critical theory about film, literature, media,
American Idyll shows that recent antielitism does nothing to and philosophy to bear on this historical
redress the source of its discontent—namely, growing economic problem by linking trends within supposedly
inequality and diminishing social mobility. Instead, pseudopopulist left/liberal humanities scholarship to the
rage, in conservative and countercultural forms alike, has been discourse of conservative punditry, American
transformed into resentment, content merely to take down alleg- Idyll is nothing less than brilliant.”
edly elitist cultural forms without questioning the real political and —Paula Rabinowitz, author, Modernism, Inc.
economic consolidation of powers that has taken place in America
during the past thirty years.
Catherine Liu is the director of the University of California–

Irvine’s Humanities Collective, an associate professor in Film and
Media Studies and Visual Studies. She is the author of Oriental Girls
Desire Romance (a novel) and Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the
Automaton and coeditor of The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down
the Royal Road.
october
288 pages . 6 x 9 inches
$29.95s paper original
1-60938-050-9, 978-1-60938-050-2
cultural studies / education

English after the Fall
From Literature to Textuality
by Robert Scholes
“Robert Scholes’s English after the Fall arrives just in the nick of time to join
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after the FALL
a nationwide debate on the relevance of teaching the humanities. In a from Literature
perceptive, candid, and wide-ranging book, Scholes argues with pas- to Textuality
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sionate insight from a lifetime of experience. Equally comfortable with
poems, fiction, scripture, public documents, film, musicals, and opera,
Robert Scholes
Scholes provides us with a method of reading (and teaching reading)
that is provocative, innovative, important, and very welcome indeed.
—Geoffrey Green, author, Voices in a Mask: Stories
robert scholes’s now classic Rise and Fall of English was a sting-
ing indictment of the discipline of English literature in the United
States. In English after the Fall, Scholes moves from identifying where
the discipline has failed to providing concrete solutions that will
help restore vitality and relevance to the discipline.
With the self-assurance of a master essayist, Scholes explores the “With freshness and cogency, Robert
reasons for the fallen status of English and suggests a way forward. Scholes’s English after the Fall argues that
Arguing that the fall of English as a field of study is due, at least literature departments need to move from
in part, to the narrow view of “literature” that prevails in English the ‘cul-de-sac’ of ‘literature’ and embrace
departments, Scholes charts how the historical rise of English as a a broader study of ‘textuality.’ Scholes pres-
field of study during the early twentieth century led to the domina- ents a set of striking examples of how the
tion of modernist notions of verbal art, ultimately restricting Eng- profession can move from narrow study of
lish studies to a narrow cannon of approved texts. ‘literariness’ to a more all-encompassing
After tracing the various meanings attached to the word “litera- study of texts from all media—from a run-
ture” since the Renaissance, Scholes argues that the concept of it ning commentary on The Man Who Shot
that currently shapes the work of English departments excludes Liberty Valance to lucid analyses of biblical
both powerful sacred documents (from the Declaration of Indepen- texts in the context of debates over right-
dence to the Bible) and pleasurable, profane works that involve the wing fundamentalism and gay marriage.
performance of roles like those of clown and teacher in many media Here Scholes illustrates how foolish and
(including popular musicals, opera, and film)—and that both sorts self-defeating it is to segregate the teaching
of works should be studied in English courses. English after the Fall is of highbrow literature from the wider field
a bold manifesto for the replacement of literature with what Scholes of cultural representation.”—Gerald Graff,
calls textuality—an expansive and ecumenical notion of what we author, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling
read and write—as the primary object of English instruction. This Obscures the Life of the Mind
concise and persuasive work is destined to become required read-
ing for anyone who cares about the future of the humanities.
Robert Scholes is Research Professor of Modern Media and Culture

at Brown University, where he directs the Modernist Journals Proj-
ect. A past president of the mla, he is author or editor of numerous
books, including Semiotics and Interpretation, Textual Power, Protocols
of Reading, The Rise and Fall of English, The Crafty Reader, Paradoxy of
Modernism, Modernism in the Magazines, Fields of Writing, and Fields of
Reading.
november
1-60938-055-x, 978-1-60938-055-7
literary criticism / education
Field Guide to Wildflowers of
Nebraska and the Great Plains
Second Edition
by Jon Farrar
A Bur Oak Guide
Holly Carver, series editor
“The clear, natural photographs in Jon Farrar’s Field Guide to

Wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great Plains show colors and
details seldom seen and set a standard for books of this sort.
Many of the plants illustrated are rarely photographed with
such care, and they grow in a region that’s often neglected by similar “Field Guide to Wildflowers of Nebraska and
manuals. Farrar’s text is accurate and detailed enough to suit a wide the Great Plains set a new standard for
variety of users, without overwhelming them with technical terms. Its field guide photography when it was first
accuracy is assured because many local experts have reviewed it for both published in 1990. The color photographs
editions.”— Robert B. Kaul, curator of botany, University of Nebraska are more than illustrations. Jon Farrar
State Museum, and coauthor, The Flora of Nebraska combines his decades of experience with
photography and his unique ability to
from the mixed-grass prairies of the Panhandle in the west, to use light to create works of art. . . . This
the Sandhills prairie and mixed-grass prairies in central Nebraska, updated book will be a welcome addition
to the tallgrass prairies in the east, the state is home to hundreds to the plant identification tools of wild-
of wildflower species, yet the primary guide to these flowers has flower enthusiasts throughout the Great
been out of print for almost two decades. Now back in a second Plains.”—James Stubbendieck, director,
edition with updated nomenclature, refined plant descriptions, Center for Great Plains Studies, University
better photographs where improvements were called for, and a new of Nebraska
design, Jon Farrar’s Field Guide to Wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great
Plains, originally published by NEBRASKAland magazine and the “What great news that this valuable field
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, is a visual treat and educa- guide is back in print! Jon Farrar is a mas-
tional guide to some of the region’s showiest and most interesting terful photographer, and the beautiful
wildflowers. images that illustrate this book are crisp,
Organizing species by color, Farrar provides scientific, com- accurate, and a great aid to identifica-
mon, and family names; time of flowering; distribution both for tion. The photography alone makes the
Nebraska specifically and for the Great Plains in general; and pre- book worth owning, but the concise and
ferred habitat including soil type and plant community from road- informative text that accompanies each
sides to woodlands to grasslands. Descriptions of each species are species description will be appreciated by
succinct and accessible; Farrar packs a surprising amount of infor- anyone wanting to learn more about the
mation into a compact space. For many species, he includes in- flora of the region.”—Jim Locklear, past
triguing notes about edibility, medicinal uses by Native Americans director, Dyck Arboretum of the Plains and
and early pioneers, similar species and varieties, hybridization, and Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
changes in status as plants become uncommon or endangered.
Superb color photographs allow each of the 274 wildflowers to be
easily identified, and pen-and-ink illustrations provide additional
details for many species.
It is a joy to have this new edition riding along on car seats and
in backpacks helping naturalists at all levels of expertise explore
prairies, woodlands, and wetlands in search of those ever-changing
splashes of color we call wildflowers.
Author of Birding Nebraska: Where to Find Hundreds of Species on the

Great Plains as well as hundreds of articles for NEBRASKAland maga-
zine, Jon Farrar has been a writer, editor, and photographer for the
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for forty years.
january 2012
384 pages . 279 color photos . 83 drawings
2 color maps . 6 x 9 1/8 inches
1-60938-071-1, 978-1-60938-071-7
nature

The Guide to
Oklahoma Wildflowers
by Patricia Folley
A Bur Oak Guide
with its Rocky Mountain foothills, hardwood forests,

many rivers and streams, low mountains, sand dunes,
cypress swamps, and wide swaths of rangeland and
pastureland, the Great Plains state of Oklahoma is one
of only four with more than ten ecoregions. Tallgrass, mixed-grass, “Have you ever driven the roads of Oklahoma
and shortgrass prairies are native to large areas; rainfall and temper- or ventured into its prairies and forests and
ature are quite variable; and elevations drop from 5,000 to 300 feet. found a plant you couldn’t identify? The
This diversity ensures that Oklahoma is host to hundreds of species Guide to Oklahoma Wildflowers will help you
of wildflowers, yet no guidebook to these botanical riches has been do just that. Patricia Folley has combined
available in recent years. Patricia Folley’s beautifully photographed beautiful photographs of both common and
and carefully compiled Guide to Oklahoma Wildflowers fills this gap. uncommon plant species with informative
Folley has photographed and described the two hundred wild- comments, thus making this book consider-
flower species that are most commonly seen along roadsides and ably better than most photo field guides.
in parks throughout the state. She provides at least two photos for For anyone interested in identifying wild-
each plant, showing the entire plant as it occurs in the wild, out- flowers, this is definitely one to be carried
side of cultivation, along with a close-up of its flower. Each plant is in the knapsack or glove compartment.”
keyed to a particular geographical location and a particular family, — Ronald J. Tyrl, emeritus professor of
and an index to colors is a further aid to identification. If a species botany, Oklahoma State University
is native—such as big bluestem, the defining grass of Oklahoma’s
tallgrass prairies—Folley presents this information in the text along
with time of blooming, size and color of blooms, preferred habitat,
and common and scientific names for all species.
Oklahoma contains vast plains, elevated rocky plateaus, and
forested mountains. Botanizing one’s way across the Sooner State
reveals celestial lilies in the east, prickly poppies in the west, Dutch-
man’s breeches in the northeast, large-flowered evening primrose in
central and southwest areas, Indian pink in the southeast, walking-
stick cholla in the Panhandle, and purple prairie clover statewide.
Gardeners, teachers, tourists, and naturalists of all levels of expertise
will enjoy this guide’s concise text and vibrant photos.
Oklahoma native Patricia Folley has been identifying wildflowers in

the field for more than thirty years. Formerly a logistics management
instructor at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, she is currently
a herbarium assistant at the University of Oklahoma’s Bebb Herbar-
ium, a member of the Flora of Oklahoma editorial board, and co-
author of this evolving online project. A two-time former president
of the Oklahoma Native Plant Society, she writes a monthly nature
column for the Norman Transcript and is a technical editor for the
Oklahoma Native Plant Record. She has won the Oklahoma Native Plant
Society’s Anne Long and Service awards as well as the Conservation
Award from the Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy.
january 2012
312 pages . 415 color photos . 1 color map . 6 x 9 inches
1-60938-046-0, 978-1-60938-046-5
nature
Turtles in Your Pocket
A Guide to Freshwater and Terrestrial Turtles
of the Upper Midwest
Frogs and Toads in Your Pocket
A Guide to Amphibians of the Upper Midwest
by Terry VanDeWalle
photographs by Suzanne L. Collins
Bur Oak Guides
these two colorful additions to Iowa’s series of laminated guides

inform both amateur and professional herpetologists about all
twenty species of turtles and sixteen species of frogs and eight spe-
cies of toads to be found in the Upper Midwest states of Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, South Dakota, North
Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri.
From the hefty alligator snapping turtle—the largest freshwa- “Frogs and toads worldwide are endangered,
ter turtle in North America and the only turtle in the world with a and their biggest threats are human igno-
predatory lure in its mouth—to the wood turtle, which uses “worm rance and indifference. It is also true—ask
stomping” to catch earthworms, to the lovely ornate box turtle, any kid—that frogs and toads are fascinat-
which closes its shell completely for self-defense, the slow-but-sure ing animals. Terry VanDeWalle’s attractive
turtle is an intriguing reptile. Terry VanDeWalle provides a com- and informative laminated guide to the frogs
plete description of each species, both male and female, along with and toads of the Upper Midwest offers a
distinguishing characteristics for fourteen subspecies, information bridge to a newfound knowing and under-
about range and habitat, and natural history notes about behavior, standing of these fine animals. It says: here
hibernation, diet, and nesting. Two panels devoted to hatchlings are our frogs and toads—they are beautiful
provide short descriptions of the young of each species as well as and valuable. But it also suggests, by exten-
photographs of some commonly seen young turtles. sion, that you should now go out there and
Frogs and toads have become canaries in the coal mine when it look—get a little muddy and rumpled—and
comes to conservation, as the discovery of malformed frogs has discover again what you once knew as a kid.”
brought increased attention to global habitat loss, declining biodi- —Michael J. Lannoo, editor, Amphibian
versity, and environmental pollution. Midwestern species of frogs Declines: The Conservation Status of United
and toads—already declining due to habitat loss from agricul- States Species
ture—have been greatly affected by this worldwide phenomenon.
VanDeWalle includes a complete description of each species along
with distinguishing characteristics for three subspecies, informa-
tion about range and habitat preferences, diet, types of calls, and Terry VanDeWalle has been research-
breeding season. ing reptiles and amphibians in the
For both guides, comparisons of similar species and compre- Midwest for more than twenty years.
hensive keys, as well as superb photographs by Suzanne Collins, Author of Snakes and Lizards in Your
are helpful aids for identifying individual turtles and amphibians in Pocket: A Guide to Reptiles of the Upper
the field. The guides are perfect companions for hiking and fishing Midwest (Iowa, 2010), he is a senior
expeditions in all kinds of environments, whenever a turtle plops biologist with Stantec Consulting in
off a log into the water or lumbers across the trail, a tree frog stares Independence, Iowa. Wildlife photog-
at you from overhead, or a toad hops across your path. rapher Suzanne Collins is an executive
officer of the Center for North Ameri-
can Herpetology.
november
laminated fold-out guides
16 3/4 x 16 7/8 inches folds to 4 1/8 x 9 inches
Turtles in Your Pocket
30 color photos
$9.95 . 1-60938-061-4, 978-1-60938-061-8
Frogs and Toads in Your Pocket
24 color photos . 4 drawings
$9.95 . 1-60938-059-2, 978-1-60938-059-5
nature

Main Street Public Library
Community Places and Reading Spaces
in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956
by Wayne A. Wiegand
Iowa and the Midwest Experience
William Friedricks, series editor
“Any book by America’s leading library historian, Wayne

Wiegand, is welcome at any time. In this era of peril for many
public libraries, especially small and rural ones, it is salutary to be re-
minded of a time when public libraries were seen as an unalloyed good. “A finely-grained study resting on me-
Main Street Public Library documents the establishment and maintenance ticulous research, Main Street Public Library
of these centers of community life, without romanticizing. The story that questions the conventional rhetoric of the
Professor Wiegand tells so well contains much from which we can learn small-town public library as a foundation
and should take heart.”—Michael Gorman, past president, American for an informed citizenry but strongly af-
Library Association firms its continuing role as a harmonizing
community space used by young and old
the united states has more public libraries than it has McDon- alike. This book is essential for anyone seek-
ald’s restaurants. ing to understand the place of reading—
By any measure, the American public library is a heavily used especially reading fiction—in the lives of
and ubiquitous institution. Popular thinking identifies the public ordinary Americans, or the history of the
library as a neutral agency that protects democratic ideals by guard- distribution of power and resources in small
ing against censorship as it makes information available to people towns, particularly in the Midwest.”
from all walks of life. Among librarians this idea is known as the —Christine Pawley, director, Center for
“library faith.” But is the American public library as democratic as it the History of Print and Digital Culture,
appears to be? University of Wisconsin–Madison
In Main Street Public Library, eminent library historian Wayne
Wiegand studies four emblematic small-town libraries in the Mid- “Wiegand challenges conventional interpre-
west from the late nineteenth century through the federal Library tations of the role of public libraries in the
Service Act of 1956, and shows that these institutions served a much community as ‘arsenals of a democratic cul-
different purpose than is so often perceived. Rather than acting as ture,’ asserting instead that libraries served
neutral institutions that are vital to democracy, the libraries of Sauk as ‘uniquely negotiated cultural centers’
Centre, Minnesota; Osage, Iowa; Rhinelander, Wisconsin; and that reinforced social cohesion, values, and
Lexington, Michigan, were actually mediating community literary taste at the local level. Based on exhaus-
values and providing a public space for the construction of social tive research in primary sources, this study
harmony. These libraries, and the librarians who ran them, were sets a high standard of scholarship. It is a
often just as susceptible to the political and social pressures of their significant contribution to the literature of
time as any other public institution. the history of libraries.”—Robert S. Martin,
By analyzing the collections of all four libraries and revealing professor emeritus, School of Library
what was being read and why certain acquisitions were passed over, and Information Studies, Texas Women’s
Wiegand challenges both traditional perceptions and professional University
rhetoric about the role of libraries in our small-town communities.
While the American public library has become essential to its local
community, it is for reasons significantly different than those ar-
ticulated by the “library faith.”
Wayne Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor of Library and

Information Studies Emeritus in the School of Library and Informa-
tion Studies at Florida State University. He is the author of Irrepress-
ible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey, and five other books, three
of which have received the G. K. Hall Award for Outstanding Con-
tribution to Library Literature.
october
284 pages . 4 photos . 6 x 9 inches
1-60938-067-3, 978-1-60938-067-0
american history
new in paper
Pella Dutch
Portrait of a Language in an Iowa Community
An Expanded Edition
by Philip E. Webber
A Bur Oak Book
Marion County Development Commission

founded in 1847 by religious separatists, the town of Pella in

central Iowa is the state’s oldest Dutch American colony, and its
crafts, architecture, and celebrations reflect and perpetuate the
Dutch heritage of its earlier residents. Through his intriguing
blend of sociolinguistic research, regional history, and interviews
with current speakers of Pella Dutch, Philip Webber examines the
town’s rich cultural and linguistic traditions.
Drawing upon formal and informal interviews and conversations praise for the first edition
with more than 150 speakers of Pella Dutch, Webber uses the meth- “An authoritative work . . . enormously en-
ods of language research to trace the vestiges of Dutch heritage left riched by the insights derived from personal
on the English spoken by local residents; to explain attitudes to- involvement with the community. . . . It would
ward language and ethnicity that emerged in the twentieth century; be a loss . . . if this material, caught on the
and to document the vocabulary, linguistic forms, humor, and con- brink of its disappearance, were not to be
versational patterns that characterize contemporary Pella Dutch. preserved. [Pella Dutch is] a work of meticu-
In addition, desiring to let his informants speak for themselves, he lous, informed scholarship . . . to be pounced
includes the playful jokes, proverbial observations, folk wisdom, upon as the rarity it is.”—Nancy C. Dorian,
children’s rhymes, riddles, and puzzles influenced by Pella Dutch. Bryn Mawr College
Webber’s introduction to this expanded paperback edition
provides new photographs, updated information about recent
research and publications, examples of how Dutch continues to
be spoken, and descriptions of the ways in which Pella continues
to commemorate its linguistic and cultural heritage. Linguists,
anthropologists, and historians—as well as all those who enjoy
Pella’s Tulip Time festival, its summertime fair or kermis, the Dutch
letters in its bakeries, and the early winter visit of Sinterklaas—will
appreciate Webber’s informed and engaging study of this unique
Iowa community.
Philip E. Webber is professor emeritus of German and linguistics

at Central College in Pella, Iowa, where he was on the faculty from
1976 to 2010. Specializing in German American ethnicity and socio-
linguistics, medieval studies, and Netherlandic studies, he is also
the author of Kolonie-Deutsch: Life and Language in Amana (expanded
paperback edition, Iowa, 2009) and Zoar in the Civil War.
november
196 pages . 12 photos . 1 drawing
1 map . 5 tables . 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
1-60938-065-7, 978-1-60938-065-6
[cloth isbn: 0-8138-0079-x]
american history / linguistics

new in paper
Iowa Past to Present
The People and the Prairie
Revised Third Edition
by Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen
iowa and the midwest experience
William Friedricks, series editor
in Iowa Past to Present, originally published in 1989, Dorothy

Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen combine their ex-
tensive knowledge of Iowa’s history with years of experience ad-
dressing the educational needs of elementary and middle-school
students. Their skillful and accessible narrative brings alive the
people and events that populate Iowa’s rich heritage. This revised
edition brings the story into the twenty-first century and makes a
paperback edition available for the first time.
Beginning with Iowa’s changing geological landforms, the au-
thors progress to historical, political, and social aspects of life in
Iowa through the present day. The chapters explore such topics as contents
the native peoples of the region; pioneer settlements on the prairie; The Study of History
the building of the railroad; the Civil War; the influence of immi- The Changing Land
grants; the formation of the state government and development American Indians
of the current politic system; education; the Great Depression; Many Flags over Iowa
religion (including a separate chapter on Mennonites and the Old Pioneers on the Prairie
Order Amish); life on the farm; business, industry, and econom- Pioneer Life on the Prairie
ics; and the turmoil caused by World War I, World War II, and the Rivers, Trails, and Train Tracks
Vietnam War. A new chapter written specifically for this edition A Nation Divided
explains the impact of 9/11 on Iowa, discusses the roles played by Settlers from Many Lands
Iowa soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and updates information on Providing a Government
the newest immigrant populations of the state. Schools for a New State
The authors have teamed with Iowa Public Television’s Iowa Keeping the Faith on the Frontier
Pathways project to create a new Iowa Past to Present teacher’s guide Experiments in Community Living
available online at <http://iptv.org/iowapathways>. This guide in- Life on the Farm—Iowa Style
cludes additional articles, videos, links, and curriculum resources New Inventions Bring Change
to support the textbook. Business and Industry in Iowa
Iowa Past to Present, its inviting format enhanced by hundreds of World War I and Hard Times After
illustrations, is informed by three of the state’s most respected his- Depression, Changing Times, and
torians. The latest revision continues to be an important part of the World War II
curriculum for teachers and parents wanting their children to know A Time of Many Changes
all about Iowa history. Iowa in the World
Dorothy Schwieder is university professor emerita of history at

Iowa State University, where she researched and taught courses in
the history of Iowa, American women, and the Midwest. She has
written numerous books and articles on Iowa and midwestern his-
tory. Tom Morain is director of government relations at Graceland
University where he also teaches and assists with the Honors Pro-
gram. He is past director of history at Living History Farms and a
former administrator of the State Historical Society. Lynn Nielsen is
professor of Education at the University of Northern Iowa where he
is a faculty member in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc-
tion. He teaches courses in the area of the social sciences and coor-
dinates the mae program in Elementary Education.
september
352 pages . 138 photos . 19 maps . 7 x 10 inches
$39.95s paper
1-60938-036-3, 978-1-60938-036-6
[cloth isbn: 978-1-58729-551-5]
american history
Hold-Outs
The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, 1948–1992
by Bill Mohr
Contemporary North American Poetry Series
Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, & Adalaide Morris, series editors
in Hold-Outs, Bill Mohr, long a figure on the Los Angeles poetry “Bill Mohr offers a textured, historically
scene, reveals the complicated evolution of the literary landscape variable, and theoretically alert profile
in a city famous for its production of corporate culture. Mohr’s of a literary milieu that is hard to keep in
multigenerational account of the role of the poet-editor-publisher focus in the first place—much like Los
in Los Angeles community formation is nothing less than a radiant Angeles itself. Each chapter has a singular
mosaic of previously little-known details about an important center focus, contributing to the whole from an
of American poetry. While explaining the important role of L.A. in oblique perspective. Mohr’s attention to
contemporary American poetry, Mohr also explores the ideals and the sociopolitical dynamic of L.A. as urban
perils of the small press movement in the twentieth century, provid- landscape provides a welcome and at
ing a new generation of literary activists with the knowledge that is times sagacious backdrop.”—Jed Rasula,
needed to inspire their own redefinitions of the social value of alter- author, The American Poetry Wax Museum:
native artistic practices. Reality Effects, 1940–1990
Drawing on extensive archival research of original documents,
Mohr argues that West Coast poets in general (and Los Angeles po- “Mohr regularly brings clarity to intri-
ets in particular) have been part of what can be called not so much cate and convoluted cultural matters at
a haven of more imaginatively inspired artists but, rather, a site of the same time as he constructs useful
revisionist creativity. Revealed here are the personalities (including frameworks for supporting the work of
Stuart Perkoff, Wanda Coleman, Leland Hickman, Paul Vangelisti, poets whose writing might otherwise go
Don Gordon, Suzanne Lummis, John Thomas, Ron Koertge, and neglected. He continually finds impor-
Charles Bukowski, among others), the institutions, the publica- tance in poems and in situations that he
tions, and the informal poetry groups that together formed a matrix insightfully associates with a time and
that encouraged poetry to be written, performed, published, and a place which he has summoned, with a
acknowledged. sometimes miraculous attention to detail,
Hold-Outs is a stunning roadmap of the interwoven contexts of an from out of dusty pages and obscure doc-
ongoing cultural debate whose most important witnesses are finally uments. His in-depth knowledge of the
being heard. poetry scene in Los Angeles, and the ener-
gy he brings to unearthing the post–World
Bill Mohr is an associate professor in the Department of English War II years in which that scene began to
at California State University, Long Beach. His critical and creative take shape, make his portrayals convinc-
work has appeared in dozens of magazines, including the Antioch ing on numerous levels, though his most
Review, Blue Mesa Review, Chicago Review, Santa Monica Review, Sonora important insight may be to remind us
Review, William Carlos Williams Review, and ZYZZYVA. As editor of of the role poetry can play in galvanizing
Momentum Press from 1974 to 1988, he received four grants from community awareness.”
the National Endowment for the Arts and published two major —Edward Brunner, author, Cold War Poetry
anthologies of Southern California poets. His book and audio re-
cording collections include Hidden Proofs, Vehemence, and a chapbook,
Bittersweet Kaleidoscope.
december
1-60938-073-8, 978-1-60938-073-1
literary criticism

A Broken Thing
Poets on the Line
edited by Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee
“Negotiating segmentivities (a.k.a. line and sentence) defines poetry as a “Whether oral or written, ancient or mod-
mode of practice. This energetic anthology examines the line from many ern, from one hemisphere or another,
poetic formations, assumptions, incarnations, platforms, and positions; most poetry has organized itself in basic
it faces multiple debates with panache and frankness. The range and élan units that English calls lines. In their en-
of the contributors present a strikingly pragmatic sense of contemporary ergetic collection of brief essay-sprints,
poetics.”—Rachel Blau DuPlessis, author, Blue Studios and Drafts Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee offer
us nearly seventy contemporary writers’
in the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea thoughts about poetic lines. The result is
has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no a rich and glorious variety of insights and
aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked for- formulations, lavishly inclusive and reso-
mal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is the line? Emily Rosko lutely uncommitted to any single ortho-
and Anton Vander Zee’s anthology gives seventy original answers to doxy. The editors’ forthright introduction
that question that lead us deeper into the world of poetry, but also is illuminating, judicious, and open-
far out into the world at large: its people, its politics, its ecology. handed. This is a book that anyone drawn
The authors included here, emerging and established alike, write to the study of poetic form and its larg-
from a range of perspectives, in terms of both aesthetics and iden- est meanings should know.”—Stephen
tity. Together, they offer a dynamic hybrid collection that captures a Cushman, author, Riffraff, and editor,
broad spectrum of poetic practice in the twenty-first century. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Rosko and Vander Zee’s introduction offers a generous overview
of conversations about the line from the Romantics forward. We “A Broken Thing is a lovely, useful, and well-
come to see how the line might be an engine for ideals of progress. conceived book. From the introduction’s
For some poets, the line touches upon the most fundamental ques- astute and informative discussions of the
tions of knowledge and existence. The line is the radical against historical embeddedness of tussles over
which even alternate and emerging poetic forms that foreground the poetic line in poetry to the essays
the visual or the auditory, the page or the screen, can be distin- thereafter, readers and writers will be
guished and understood. made aware that there is, as Rosko and
From the start, a singular lesson emerges: lines do not form Vander Zee note, no consensus, an aware-
meaning solely in their brevity or their length, in their becoming ness that can be vital for a young poet.
or their brokenness; lines live in and through the descriptions we A Broken Thing gathers the arguments
give them. Indeed, the history of American poetry in the twentieth and exchanges of the day. It does not of-
century could be told by the compounding, and often confound- fer essays that correct or offer definitive
ing, discussions of its lines. A Broken Thing both reflects upon and approaches to the line; on the contrary,
extends this history, charting a rich diffusion of theory and practice it gathers the hubbub of voices that any
into the twenty-first century with the most diverse, wide-ranging critical approach would need to take
and engaging set of essays to date on the line in poetry, revealing into account.”—Lisa Steinman, author,
how poems work and why poetry continues to matter. Made in America, Masters of Repetition, and
Invitation to Poetry and coeditor, Hubbub
Emily Rosko is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Col-
lege of Charleston. She is the author of Raw Goods Inventory (winner
of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize), the winner of the 2007 Glasgow
Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah, and a recipient of the
Stegner, Ruth Lilly, and Javits fellowships. Anton Vander Zee is a
visiting assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston,
and he holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His articles and
review essays have appeared in Modern Philology, the Wallace Stevens
Journal, Agni, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
october
1-60938-054-1, 978-1-60938-054-0
literary criticism / poetry
Theatre, Community, and Civic
Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino CA

Engagement in Jacobean London
by Mark Bayer
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Thomas Postlewait, series editor
taking to heart Thomas Heywood’s claim that plays

“persuade men to humanity and good life, instruct them
in civility and good manners, showing them the fruits of
honesty, and the end of villainy,” Mark Bayer’s captivat-
ing new study argues that the early modern London theatre was “An important book by a young scholar. . . .
an important community institution whose influence extended Bayer’s methodology is assured, his research
far beyond its economic, religious, educational, and entertain- fully accomplished, and his writing always
ment contributions. Bayer concentrates not on the theatres where lucid and enjoyable. This will rapidly be-
Shakespeare’s plays were performed but on two important amphi- come recognized as a highly significant
theatres, the Fortune and the Red Bull, that offer a more nuanced monograph in early modern theatre history.”
picture of the Jacobean playgoing industry. By looking at these play- —Peter Holland, author, The Ornament
houses, the plays they staged, their audiences, and the communi- of Action: Text and Performance in Restoration
ties they served, he explores the local dimensions of playgoing. Comedy
Focusing primarily on plays and theatres from 1599 to 1625,
Bayer suggests that playhouses became intimately engaged with “In this fascinating study, Mark Bayer gives us
those living and working in their surrounding neighborhoods. good reason to change our minds about the
They contributed to local commerce and charitable endeavors, of- early playhouses. Concentrating on the Red
fered a convivial gathering place where current social and political Bull and Fortune theatres, Bayer shows that,
issues were sifted, and helped to define and articulate the shared far from being a place of crime and marginal
values of their audiences. Bayer uses the concept of social capital, activity, the theatre was instead a site of so-
inherent in the connections formed among individuals in various cial solidarity. This is a book that everyone
communities, to construct a sociology of the theatre from below— interested in the culture of the early com-
from the particular communities it served—rather than from the mercial playhouse will want to read.”
broader perspectives imposed from above by church and state. By —Douglas Bruster, author, Drama and the
transacting social capital, whether progressive or hostile, the large Market in the Age of Shakespeare
public amphitheatres created new and unique groups that, over the
course of millions of visits to the playhouses in the Jacobean era,
contributed to a broad range of social practices integral to the daily
lives of playgoers.
In lively and convincing prose that illuminates the significant
reciprocal relationships between different playhouses and their
playgoers, Bayer shows that theatres could inform and benefit Lon-
don society and the communities geographically closest to them.
Mark Bayer is an assistant professor of English at the University

of Texas at San Antonio. He is the author of numerous articles and
book chapters on early modern literature and culture and on the
reception of Shakespeare’s plays.
november
264 pages . 8 illustrations . 3 maps . 6 x 9 inches
1-60938-039-8, 978-1-60938-039-7
theatre

Against the Gallows
Antebellum American Writers and the Movement
to Abolish Capital Punishment
by Paul Christian Jones
Library of Congress
in Against the Gallows, Paul Christian Jones explores the intriguing
cooperation of America’s writers—including major figures such as
Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E. D. E. N. Southworth,
and Herman Melville—with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and
periodical editors who attempted to end the practice of capital pun-
ishment in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. In an age “This is an unusually original, interesting,
of passionate reform efforts, the antigallows movement enjoyed and valuable exploration of important
broad popularity, waging its campaign in legislatures, pulpits, areas of nineteenth-century American
newspapers, and literary journals. literature and culture. Jones convincingly
Although it failed in its ultimate goal of ending hangings across demonstrates that the movement against
the United States, the movement did achieve various improve- the death penalty in antebellum America
ments in the practices of the justice system, including reducing the was far more pervasive and culturally
number of capital crimes, eliminating public executions in most influential than previous scholars (includ-
northern states, and abolishing capital punishment completely in ing myself) have imagined and that this
three states. cultural influence played out in various
Although a few historians have studied the antebellum move- forms of literature in ways that are largely
ment against capital punishment, until now very little attention has unrecognized today.”—H. Bruce Franklin,
been paid to the role of America’s writers in these efforts. Jones’s author, Prison Writing in Twentieth-Century
study recovers the relationship between the nation’s literary figures America and The Important Fish in the Sea:
and the movement against the death penalty, illustrating that the Menhaden and America
editors of literary journals actively encouraged and published anti-
gallows writing, that popular crime novelists created a sympathy “In Against the Gallows, Jones demonstrates
toward criminals that led readers to question the state’s justifica- the vitality and variety of anti–death pen-
tions for capital punishment, that poets crafted verse that advo- alty sentiment in antebellum literature.
cated strongly for Christian sympathy for criminals that coincided Jones discusses well-known and lesser
with an antipathy to the death penalty, and that female sentimental known literary works, illustrating the
writers fashioned melodramatic narratives that illustrated the in- determined involvement of writers and
justice of the hanging and reimagined the justice system itself as a editors in the other abolitionist struggle.
sympathetic subject capable of incorporating compassion into its Against the Gallows is an eminently read-
workings and seeing reform rather than revenge as its ends. able and important work.”—Katy Ryan,
West Virginia University
Paul Christian Jones is an associate professor in the Department
of English at Ohio University. He is the author of Unwelcome Voices:
Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South, which won the Nancy Dasher
Prize for Literary Scholarship by the College English Association
of Ohio, and editor, with Dorothy Scura, of Evelyn Scott: Recovering a
Lost Modernist.
september
1-60938-048-7, 978-1-60938-048-9
literary criticism / american history
Walt Whitman’s Reconstruction
Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History
by Martin T. Buinicki
The Iowa Whitman Series
Ed Folsom, series editor
“Martin T. Buinicki shines new and penetrating light on Whitman’s recon-

struction of his memories of the war as well as their reflection in the
postwar editions of Leaves of Grass, which the poet saw as an almost end-
less series of ‘extras!’ to his earlier vision.”—Jerome Loving, author,
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
for Walt Whitman, living and working in Washington, D.C.,

after the Civil War, Reconstruction meant not only navigating these
tumultuous years alongside his fellow citizens but also coming to
terms with his own memories of the war. Just as the work of na-
tional reconstruction would continue long past its official end in “Martin Buinicki’s revelatory account of
1877, Whitman’s own reconstruction would continue throughout Whitman’s postwar writings shows how
the remainder of his life as he worked to revise his poetic proj- Whitman reconstructed history to ground
ect—and his public image—to incorporate the disasters that had his career in a tragic but triumphant Civil
befallen the Union. In this innovative and insightful analysis of the War, even as national Reconstruction un-
considerable poetic and personal reimagining that is the hallmark raveled. Buinicki illuminates Whitman’s
of these postwar years, Martin Buinicki reveals the ways that Whit- cunning as he announces and defies his
man reconstructed and read the war. claim that the ‘real war’ would never get
The Reconstruction years would see Whitman transformed from into the books.”—Kenneth M. Price,
newspaper editor and staff journalist to celebrity contributor and author, To Walt Whitman, America
nationally recognized public lecturer, a transformation driven as
much by material developments in the nation as by his own profes- “A ruminative, thoughtful, and compre-
sional and poetic ambitions while he expanded and cemented his hensive analysis of Whitman’s reconstruc-
place in the American literary landscape. Buinicki places Whit- tion project. Martin Buinicki has forged
man’s postwar periodical publications and business interests in new insights, in a blessedly jargon-free
context, closely examining his “By the Roadside” cluster as well manner, about the intersections between
as Memoranda During the War and Specimen Days as part of his larger Whitman’s relation to cultural narratives,
project of personal and artistic reintegration. He traces Whitman’s his personal traumatic memories of those
shifting views of Ulysses S. Grant as yet another way to understand events, and his publishing relations with
the poet’s postwar life and profession and reveals the emergence of the editions and texts in the rapidly ex-
Whitman the public historian at the end of Reconstruction. panding publication venues after the Civil
Whitman’s personal reconstruction was political, poetic, and War. This book does more than any other
public, and his prose writings, like his poetry, formed a major part book I know to explicate Whitman’s role as
of the postwar figure that he presented to the nation. Looking at the an increasingly national commentator/poet
poet’s efforts to absorb the war into his own reconstruction narra- in the Reconstruction period. It will likely
tive, Martin Buinicki provides striking new insights into the evolu- cause a new transfusion of Reconstruction
tion of Whitman’s views and writings. studies to spring up fresh in Whitman
studies and beyond, as we think our way
Martin T. Buinicki is the Walter G. Friedrich Professor of American through the thicket of national memory
Literature at Valparaiso University and the author of Negotiating and its costs and benefits to contemporary
Copyright: Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in America.”—Luke Mancuso, author,
Nineteenth-Century America. The Strange Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman,
Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black
Citizenship, 1865–1876
january 2012
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literary criticism

The Trouble with Sauling Around
Conversion in Ethnic American
Autobiography, 1965–2002
by Madeline Ruth Walker
“When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit “Starting with Madeline Walker’s writ-
and you starts to trying to be Paul—though you still Sauls around ing—which is clear and persuasive and
on the side.”—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man characterized by a compelling personal
voice—The Trouble with Sauling Around has
in The Trouble with Sauling Around, Madeline Walker probes the much strength. Walker’s writing sounds
complex and troubled relationship between ethnicity, society, and like a real person expressing opinions,
religious conversion in late twentieth-century African American struggling with contradictions, while rea-
and Mexican American autobiography. Religious conversion—the soning and thinking through complex is-
turning away from an old, sinful life toward a new life of salva- sues. She’s smart, and her main argument
tion—manifests as an intensely personal experience, yet it calls into is original, based on impressive research,
play a wide variety of social, cultural, economic, racial, political, and devoid of cant. Walker’s ability to an-
and psychological forces. Thus, constant change and the negotia- swer questions rather than just raise them,
tion of resistance to and assimilation within the dominant culture the clear structure of the work, the overall
have been seminal topics for ethnic Americans, just as the conver- sense of fairness that emanates from the
sion narrative is often a central genre in ethnic writing, particularly manuscript, and the courage she demon-
autobiographical writing. strates in writing so openly about delicate
Examining autobiographical texts by Malcolm X (The Autobiog- and politically charged subjects are exactly
raphy of Malcolm X), Oscar Zeta Acosta (The Autobiography of a Brown what make this book so original and valu-
Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People), Amiri Baraka (The Autobiog- able.”—Timothy Dow Adams, author,
raphy of LeRoi Jones), and Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory, Days Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography
of Obligation, and Brown), Walker questions the often rosy views and
simplistic binary conceptions of religious conversion. Her reading “Madeline Walker’s The Trouble with Sauling
of these texts takes into account the conflict and serial changes the Around is compelling and edifying from
authors experience in a society that marginalizes them, the manner start to finish. Building her arguments
in which religious conversion offers ethnic Americans “salvation” carefully, drawing on concepts and terms
through cultural assimilation or cultural nationalism, and what of art from the various fields that intersect
conversion, anticonversion, and deconversion narratives tell us around her subject, Walker also writes with
about the problematic effects of religion that often go unremarked a rare fluency and a quiet flair so that, as
because of a code of “special respect” and political correctness. her study unfolds, we not only understand
Walker asserts that critics have been too willing to praise religion but also feel ‘the trouble with conversion.’
in America as salutary or beyond the ken of criticism because re- The scholarship she draws on is prodi-
ligious belief is seen as belonging to an untouchable arena of cul- gious, including studies in autobiography,
tural identity. The Trouble with Sauling Around goes beyond traditional conversion narratives, the intellectual
literary criticism to pay close attention to the social phenomena that history of religion, and popular religious
underlie religious conversion narratives and considers the poten- history in America, as well as the extensive
tially negative effects of religious conversion, something that has critical archive on her four major figures
been likewise neglected by scholars. and the literary communities they inhabit.
This is an engaging, original, and timely
Madeline Walker is the writing scholar in the School of Nursing work that will be read across a range of
at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, where she teaches fields.”—John McClure, author,
online writing courses for graduate and undergraduate students Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in
and offers an array of writing coach services to students and faculty the Age of Pynchon and Morrison
members. She has published articles in the Journal of Multi-Ethnic
Literature of the United States and English Studies in Canada, poetry in
A Room of One’s Own, and fiction in the University of Toronto Quarterly
Review.
september
204 pages . 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches
1-60938-063-0, 978-1-60938-063-2
literary criticism
Poetry after Cultural Studies
edited by Heidi R. Bean and Mike Chasar
unlike fiction studies—which has embraced its genre’s variety

in the form of literary novels, romance novels, dime novels, graphic
novels, science fiction novels, and best-sellers—poetry studies has
at times lagged behind the actual diversity of poetries in its historical
archive. Starting with the struggle to locate scholarship that not
only engages this diversity but is also attentive to the social lives of
the work, Poetry after Cultural Studies elucidates the potential of poetry
scholarship when joined with cultural studies.
In eight searching essays covering an astonishing range of poetic
practices, geographical regions, and methodological approaches,
this volume reflects on what poetry can accomplish in the broad-
est social and cultural contexts. From Depression-era Iowa to the
postcolonial landscape of French-speaking Martinique, whether
appearing in newspapers, correspondences, birders’ field guides,
cross-stitches, or television and the internet, the poetry under “Why did American poems, a hundred years
consideration here is rarely a private, lyrical endeavor. For a great ago, seem so important to people who
number of people writing, reading, publishing, and using poetry wanted to halt the trade in feathers and
over the past 150 years, verse has not been a retreat from modern preserve American birds? Why, from time to
life, but a way of engaging with, and even changing, it. time, do Americans want to read poems by
Whether the subject is post cards, talk shows, or verse from very young children? What does the poetry
places as different as academia and MySpace, as cultural production of Sylvia Plath have to do with popular
and as literary trickery, the material examined in this volume dem- ideas about electricity? How do poets turn
onstrates the central role of poetry as an active cultural presence. By apparent nonsense into aggressive political
bringing together cultural studies, poetics, and formalist reading signs? Poetry after Cultural Studies will an-
without antagonism, Poetry after Cultural Studies looks toward a po- swer those questions and others; it should
etry criticism that does not merely “do” cultural studies but, rather, become an important part of debates
employs the resources of that discipline to examine an increasingly about what poets do, what their poems are
legible and audible record of poetic practice. good for.”—Stephen Burt, author, Close
Exploring a wide range of poetry from the nineteenth century Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
to the present, Poetry after Cultural Studies showcases the unexpect-
edly rich intersection of cultural studies theory and current poetry
scholarship. These essays show forcefully that cultural studies and
poetics—once thought incommensurable—in fact are mutually
informative and richer for the effort.
Heidi R. Bean is an assistant professor of English at Bridgewater

State University. Mike Chasar is an assistant professor of English at
Willamette University.
contributors
Edward Brunner on James Norman Hall
Alan Ramon Clinton on Sylvia Plath
Maria Damon on the pleasures of mourning
Margaret A. Loose on Chartism
Cary Nelson on postcards of WWI
Carrie Noland on Édouard Glissant
Angela Sorby on birding in America
Barrett Watten on poetry, music, and political culture
december
236 pages . 10 images . 6 x 9 inches
1-60938-041-x, 978-1-60938-041-0
literary criticism

Renegade Poetics
Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation
in African American Poetry
by Evie Shockley
Contemporary North American Poetry Series
Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, & Adalaide Morris, series editors
“Renegade Poetics would be a valuable work even if it only added substan- “Evie Shockley answers the So what? question
tially to the now, finally, bourgeoning discourse reconsidering the Black fundamental to the success of any scholarly
Arts Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Evie Shockley, however, project, while at the same time viewing her
does far more than that. She considerably broadens our considerations subjects through the author’s critically col-
of black aesthetics and brings the discussion forward through the subse- ored lenses and refracting the outworn and
quent stages of criticism to a meditation upon what black aesthetics and misguided paradigms for race, aesthetics,
poetics can mean for us in the twenty-first century. This is one of the best form, and politics in African American let-
first books of criticism I’ve ever read, a book easily the equal of work done ters into new vistas of human, natural, and
by much more experienced and celebrated scholars.”—Aldon Nielsen, poetic expression. The genius of Renegade
author, Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation Poetics lies in its seamless and productive
paradox of runaway and return—one might
beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we say its foundational fugitivity. Shockley
mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression takes creative and critical risks by depart-
as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s Renegade Poetics separates what we ing from conventions of African American
think we know about black aesthetics from the more complex and literary theory (the vernacular, the blues
nuanced possibilities the concept has long encompassed. The study as the embodiment of conventional and
reminds us, first, that even among the radicalized young poets and accessible forms) while remaining solidly
theorists who associated themselves with the Black Arts Movement based within traditions of not just African
that began in the mid-1960s, the contours of black aesthetics were American verse, but also American and
deeply contested and, second, that debates about the relationship transnational letters (the tools of prosody;
between aesthetics and politics for African American artists con- the techniques of close reading). No other
tinue into the twenty-first century. critical study of African American poetry
Shockley argues that a rigid notion of black aesthetics commonly and poetics, black aesthetics and the Black
circulates that is little more than a caricature of the concept. She Arts/Black Power era, or the New Negro
sees the Black Aesthetic as influencing not only African American Renaissance movement has combined such
poets and their poetic production, but also, through its shaping of rigorous analysis of formal innovation and
criteria and values, the reception of their work. Taking as its starting prosodic experimentation with a historical,
point the young BAM artists’ and activists’ insistence upon the in- cultural, and ecological emphasis that in-
terconnectedness of culture and politics, this study delineates how cludes such a welcome balance of canonical
African American poets—in particular, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia and marginalized writers, male and female
Sanchez, Harryette Mullen, Anne Spencer, Ed Roberson, and Will authors, race and gender studies.”
Alexander—generate formally innovative responses to their various —Meta DuEwa Jones, author, The Muse Is
historical and cultural contexts. Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance
Out of her readings, Shockley eloquently builds a case for rede- to Spoken Word
fining black aesthetics descriptively, to account for nearly a century
of efforts by African American poets and critics to name and tackle
issues of racial identity and self-determination. In the process, she
resituates innovative poetry that has been dismissed, marginalized,
or misread because its experiments were not “recognizably black”—
or, in relation to the avant-garde tradition, because they were.
Evie Shockley is a poet and an assistant professor of English at Rut-

gers University. She is the author of two books of poetry, the new black
and a half-red sea, and two chapbooks, 31 words * prose poems and The
Gorgon Goddess.
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