Wesleyan University Pressforeword by martin scorsese The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics Ishiro Honda was arguably

Wesleyan University Press

Fall 2017 / winter 2018

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Inside the Dancer’s Artrose eichenbaum

Elegant photographs of the mysterious and complex world of dance

Acclaimed photographer Rose Eichenbaum captures the spirit, beauty, and commitment of dancers along with the dancers’ own words of wisdom and guidance. More than 250 color and black and white photographs are paired with inspirational quotes from legendary and emerging dancers. Here, words and images explore creativity, art making, the communicative power of the human body, the challenges of balancing everyday life with the physical and practical demands of the dancer’s art, and more. In these intimate portraits, Eichenbaum reveals and celebrates the world of the dancer. Sensual and mesmerizing, these images will entrance dancer and non-dancer alike—as well as anyone who loves fine photography—with their powerful depiction of the human body.

“Rose’s pictures of dancers reveal the most touching thing there is to know about them—their humanity.” Lar Lubovitch, from the foreword

“What a magnificent collection of dance photos! Not only do these photos move, making this a wonderful tribute to the dancers, but they also seem to dance from page to page. Such a moving experience to see so much of Ms. Eichenbaum’s astonishing work in one book.” Dr. Daniel Lewis, author of The Illustrated Dance

Techniques of José Limón

“Spanning three decades, this volume displays a breath-taking range of imagery. From legends like José Greco to rising stars of today such as Cassandra Trenary, Rose has captured the essence of each dancer in portraits, rehearsals and performance!" Rosalie O’Connor, photographer

rose eichenbaum is an award-winning photographer,author of six books, and a respected educator. Her photography has graced more than thirty national magazine covers, and has been the subject of numerous exhibitions.

Available Now258 pp., 260 illus. (229 color), 10 x 8"

Paper, $26.95 • 978-0-8195-7700-9 (CAD 36.00) Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7701-6

dance / photography


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also of interest

The Dancer WithinIntimate Conversations with Great DancersROSE EICH EN BAUM

EDITED BY ARON H I RT-M AN H EIMER

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Ishiro HondaA Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawasteve ryfle and ed godziszewskiwith yuuko honda-yunforeword by martin scorsese

The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics

Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unmatched succession of science fiction films that were commercial hits worldwide. From the atomic allegory of Godzilla and the beguiling charms of Mothra to the tragic mystery of Matango and the disaster and spectacle of Rodan, The Mysterians, King Kong vs. Godzilla, and many others, Honda’s films reflected postwar Japan’s real-life anxieties and incorporated fantastical special effects, a formula that appealed to audiences around the globe and created a popular culture phenomenon that spans generations. Now, in the first full account of this director’s life and career, authors Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski shed new light on Honda’s work and the experiences that shaped it—including his days as a reluctant Japanese soldier, witnessing the aftermath of Hiroshima, and his lifelong friendship with Akira Kurosawa. The authors cover Honda’s non-science fiction films for the first time in any language. Fans of Honda, Godzilla, and tokusatsu (special effects) film, and of Japanese film in general, will welcome this in-depth study of a highly influential director who occupies a uniquely important position in science fiction and fantasy cinema, as well as in world cinema.

“This carefully researched and detailed book gives us a full picture of the man and his life.”

From the foreword by Martin Scorsese

steve ryfle has contributed film journalism and criticismto numerous publications and is the author of a book on the history of the Godzilla film series. ed godziszewski iseditor and publisher of Japanese Giants magazine. He is the author of a Godzilla film encyclopedia.

October336 pp., 116 illus., 7 x 10"

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film / japan


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also of interest

The Cinema of Errol MorrisDAVI D RESHA





September160 pp., 128 illus. (12 color), 7 x 10"

Paper, $24.95 • 978-0-8195-7737-5 (CAD 33.00) Ebook, $19.99 • 978-0-8195-7738-2

railroad history / new england history

Garnet Books

Along the Valley LineThe History of the Connecticut Valley Railroadmax r. miller

The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic steam-powered excursion trains that carry over 30,000 passengers each year on a portion of the line between Essex and Chester. This book, written by railroad historian and former vice president and director of Valley Railroad, Max R. Miller, provides the first comprehensive history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad through maps, ephemera, and archival photographs.

max r. miller is a historian of the ConnecticutValley Railroad. He worked for the Valley Railroad from the 1970s to the 1990s, serving as vice president and director of the line.

Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

The first book on the history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad

September968 pp., 6 x 9"

Cloth, $50.00 x • 978-0-8195-7483-1 (CAD 67.00) Ebook, $39.99 • 978-0-8195-7751-1

poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

The Complete Poetry of Aimé CésaireBilingual Editionaimé césairetranslated by clayton eshleman and a. james arnold

The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all of Cesaire’s celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of Césaire’s poetic œuvre made available in French in 2014, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare the English translations, the translators started afresh from this French edition. These translations the poet’s early work reveal a new understanding of Cesaire’s aesthetic and political trajectory.

aimé césaire (1913–2008) was best known as theco-creator (with Léopold Senghor) of the concept of négritude. clayton eshleman is emeritusprofessor of English at Eastern Michigan University and the foremost American translator of César Vallejo and Aimé Césaire. a. james arnold isemeritus professor of French at the University of Virginia. He edited A History of Literature in the Caribbean and authored Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aimé Césaire.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The definitive edition of the complete work of a master Caribbean poet





October104 pp., 7 x 9V"

Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8195-7743-6 (CAD 33.00) Ebook, $19.99 • 978-0-8195-7745-0

poetryWesleyan Poetry

Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic insists that art can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The volume responds to the twenty-first century’s inescapable evidence of the terms of black life—not so much new as newly visible. The poems trace a whole web of connections between the kinds of violence that affect people across the racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual, national, and linguistic boundaries that do and do not divide us. In poems that span fragment to narrative and quiz to constraint, from procedure to prose and sequence to song, semiautomatic culls past and present for guides to a hoped-for future.

“The poems in semiautomatic are on fire.” Erica Hunt, Long Island University

evie shockley is the author of several collectionsof poetry including a half-red sea and the new black. She has won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. She currently is an associate professor at Rutgers University.


Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence

December128 pp., 6 x 9"

Unjacketed cloth, $35.00 x • 978-0-8195-7766-5 (CAD 47.00) Paper, $15.95 • 978-0-8195-7765-8 (CAD 21.00) Ebook, $12.99 • 978-0-8195-7767-2

poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

Let’s Not Live on Earthsarah blake

Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury. Fear becomes palpable through the classification of monsters and through violences made real. By detailing the dangers we face as humans, as Americans, and especially as women, these poems suggest a way through them. The final section of the book is a science fiction epic poem,

“The Starship.” In these poems Blake looks so closely at herself that she moves through the looking glass, into the larger world.

Praise for Mr. West“Impressive for both its hybridity and its ambition . . . Mr. West is an important entry into the ongoing literary conversation on race.” Chicago Tribune

“Through [Blake’s] poetry, Kanye becomes as sharp and multifaceted as a diamond, with a reflection that changes every time you look.” Flavorwire

sarah blake is the author of the poetry collectionMr. West, founder of the online writing tool Submittrs, and a recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship.

If an alien ship came to Earth, would you get on?






November72 pp., 6 x 8"


poetry / postcolonial literature

Class Warrior—Taoist Styleabdelkébir khatibitranslated by matt reeck

Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the most important writers and thinkers to emerge from North Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. Though not widely known beyond the Francophone world, Khatibi’s critical and creative works speak to the central concerns of postcolonial and postmodern life. Offered here in English for the first time, his long poem from 1976 is a wildly inventive text. Matt Reeck’s compelling translation captures the stylistic and thematic beats of Khatibi’s verse. The introduction provides biographical context and an overview of Khatibi’s poetics of the orphan.

“This elegant, gripping translation of Abdelkébir Khatibi’s evocative text compels readers to contemplate complicated questions of class, language, love, and identity in poetic terms.” Alison Rice, author of Time Signatures

abdelkébir khatibi (1938–2009) is consideredone of the most prominent writers of postcolonial Francophone literature from North Africa. As a translator, matt reeck has published Mirages of theMind from the Urdu of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi and won grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the NEA, and the PEN/Heim Fund.

The first English translation of a seminal North African poem

September168 pp., 10 illus., 6 x 9"


literature

ScalesMelographed by César Vallejocésar vallejoedited and translated by joseph mulligan

First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the exuberance of the author’s early experimentalism. A follow-up to Vallejo’s better-known work, Trilce, this radical collection shattered many aesthetic notions prevailing in Latin America and Europe. Published here in bilingual format, this volume gives unprecedented access to one of the most inventive practitioners of Latin American literature in the twentieth century.

“Scales is key to understanding Vallejo’s work. This extraordinary text is presented here in an excellent translation. The scholarship is impeccable and the documents that comprise the appendix provide in-depth understanding of the historical period in which Vallejo wrote.” Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Boston College

césar vallejo (1892–1938) was one of the mostauthentic creators to write in the Castilian language. joseph mulligan is a translator and scholar whosework has focused primarily on twentieth-century Latin American vanguardismo.

The first complete English translation of a Latin American avant-garde masterpiece

Wesleyan Poetry





September232 pp., 473 color illus., 8 x 9W

Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8195-7689-7 (CAD 47.00) Ebook, $27.99 • 978-0-8195-7690-3

art / performance / environment

Described as an artist of “prodigious imagination and intelligence” by the New York Times, Jill Sigman makes art at the intersection of dance, visual art, and social practice. With 473 color photographs, Ten Huts presents a series of site-specific huts hand built from found and repurposed materials, ranging from the mundane (e-waste and plastic bottles) to the bizarre (circus detritus, moose bones, dental molds, and mugwort), in landscapes as varied as industrial Brooklyn and the Norwegian Arctic. Each of the extraordinary huts in this book is a structure, a sculpture, and an emergency preparedness kit, which raises questions about sustainability, shelter, real estate, and our future on this planet.

Praise for Jill Sigman:

“Sigman is riveting—an elf with the rebelliousness of the ‘60s avant-garde, the piscine fluidity of a Tharp dancer, and the charisma and athleticism of today’s virtuosos.” Village Voice

jill sigman and her company jill sigman/thinkdance are based in New York City. Sigman choreographs with bodies and materials.

Public art installations create structures and performance spaces out of cast off objects

October160 pp., 5V x 8V"

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music / experimental

Eight Lectures on Experimental Musicedited by alvin lucier

In this brilliant collection, path-breaking figures of American experimental music discuss the meaning of their work at the turn of the twenty-first century. Presented between 1989 and 2002 at Wesleyan University, these captivating lectures provide rare insights by composers whose work has shaped our understanding of what it means to be experimental: Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, and more. Together these lectures tell the story of twentieth-century American experimental music.

alvin lucier is an American composer ofexperimental music. He is the author of Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music. He taught at Brandeis University and Wesleyan University.

Brilliant lectures by the most influential experimental music composers of our time






October264 pp., 6 x 9"

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music / african american studies

The Kind of Man I AmJazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr.nichole rustin-paschal

Nearly four decades after his death, Charles Mingus Jr. remains one of the least understood and most recognized jazz composers and musicians of our time. Mingus’s ideas about music, racial identity, and masculinity challenged jazz itself as a model of freedom, inclusion, creativity, and emotional expressivity. Drawing on archival records, published memoirs, and previously conducted interviews, The Kind of Man I Am uses Mingus as a lens through which to craft a gendered cultural history of postwar jazz culture.

“An absorbing, timely, and indeed important book, The Kind of Man I Am introduces a fresh model for thinking about jazz and gender.” John Gennari, University of Vermont

nichole rustin-paschal earned a JD from theUniversity of Virginia and a PhD from New York University. She is coeditor of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies.

November224 pp., 16 illus., 6 x 9"


music / asian studies

Music/Culture

Lineage of LossCounternarratives of North Indian Musicmax katz

In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India. Today this musical lineage, or gharānā, lives on in the music and memories of only a small handful of decscendants and players of the family instrument, the sarod. Drawing on six years of ethnographic and archival research, and fifteen years of musical apprenticeship, Max Katz explores the oral history and written record of the Lucknow gharānā, tracing its displacement, loss of prestige, and erasure from the collective memory. An interdisciplinary, postmodern counter-history, Lineage of Loss offers a new and unsettling narrative of Hindustani music’s encounter with modernity.

“Revealing previously unknown historical treasures, this carefully researched study importantly expands our knowledge of Hindustani music and its various but intersecting pasts.” Daniel M. Neuman, UCLA

max katz is associate professor of music at theCollege of William and Mary.

Music/Culture

Explores the forgotten voices and visions of a North Indian musical tradition

An exploration of masculinity in jazz culture and the work of Charles Mingus Jr.





December288 pp., 6B/i x 9W"


literary criticism / poetry

In the AirEssays on the Poetry of Peter Gizziedited by anthony caleshu

This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi shows how his work extends the traditions of twentieth-century modernism. Gizzi is author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, including Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016. Lauded contributors, including Ben Lerner and Marjorie Perloff, explore Gizzi’s poetry for its embodiment of an American tradition while also exhibiting a twenty-first-century sensibility.

“Peter Gizzi is one of America’s most significant contributors to contemporary poetry. Anyone interested in the current condition of poetry will learn from the wide variety of essays here.” Susan Howe, author of The Birth Mark

anthony caleshu is author of three collections ofpoetry and two books of criticism. He is professor of poetry at Plymouth University in England, and founder and editor of the small press Periplum.

October108 pp., 1 illus., 5V x 7X"

Paper, $15.95 • 978-0-8195-7772-6 (CAD 21.00) Ebook, $12.99 • 978-0-8195-7681-1

poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

Archeophonicspeter gizzi

Named a 2016 National Book Award Finalist, Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in one’s emotional memory. The book takes seriously the opening epigraph by James Schuyler: “poetry, like music, is not just song.”

“In his eighth collection, Gizzi continues his quest to renew lyricism . . . his ear remains as appealing as ever, and his paratactic syntax still surprises line by line . . . At their warmest, Gizzi’s poems offer genuinely moving confrontations with mortality, history, and tradition.”

Publishers Weekly

peter gizzi is the author of six collections ofpoetry. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets, and artist grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Howard Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

This project is sponsored in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

now in paperback

National Book Award Finalist

Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi’s strongest book to date

The first comprehensive exploration of the poetry of Peter Gizzi






September176 pp., 4 color illus., 6 x 9"

Paper, $16.95 • 978-0-8195-6949-3 (CAD 23.00) Ebook, $12.99 • 978-0-8195-7101-4

poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

To See the Earth Before the End of the Worlded roberson

Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the imagination are all among the subjects of these poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a complex picture of our world, ourselves, and the manifold connections tying them together. This collection is composed of five sequences, each developing a particular constellation of images and ideas ranging from galaxies and garbage trucks to teapots and the history of photography.

“To See the Earth Before the End of the World moves in many directions, often all at once, a 360-degree jitterbug waltz of a book.” Nathaniel Mackey, author of Splay Nation

ed roberson is author of eight books of poetry.He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award and his prior books have won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Series.


now in paperback

A new world jazz symphony in poems

October

252 pp., 6 x 9"Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8195-7773-3 (CAD 27.00) Ebook, $15.99 • 978-0-8195-7656-9

poetryWesleyan Poetry

PartlyNew and Selected Poems, 2001–2015rae armantrout

now in paperback

New and selected poetry from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rae Armantrout

Available now52 pp., 4 x 6"Paper, $6.95 • 978-0-8195-7739-9 (CAD 9.00)

poetry

Entanglementsrae armantrout

A chapbook of poems about physics from Rae Armantrout

rae armantrout is professor emerita of writingat the University of California, San Diego, and the author of thirteen previous books of poetry.






September296 pp., 30 illus., 6 x 9"

Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8195-7749-8 (CAD 27.00) Ebook, $15.99 • 978-0-8195-7330-8

american history

The Driftless Connecticut Series Garnet Books

Homegrown TerrorBenedict Arnold and the Burning of New London eric d. lehman

On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,600 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation. In Homegrown Terror, Eric D. Lehman chronicles the events leading up to the attack and highlights this key transformation in Arnold—the point where he went from betraying his comrades to massacring his neighbors and destroying their homes. Homegrown Terror draws upon a variety of perspectives, from the traitor himself to his former Connecticut comrades.

“More than the dramatic story of Benedict Arnold’s betrayal of America. It is a richly textured and lively portrait of revolutionary era Connecticut.” Joel Richard Paul, author of Unlikely Allies

eric d. lehman is a professor of creative writingat the University of Bridgeport. He is the author of twelve books.

The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/driftless.

now in paperback

A new look at the quintessential traitor

Available now152 pp., 7 illus., 6 x 9"

Paper, $14.95 • 978-0-8195-7729-0 (CAD 20.00) Ebook, $9.99 • 978-0-8195-7730-6

art

The Mountains in Art Historyedited by peter mark, peter helman, and penny snyder

The Mountains in Art History is the first English-language work to focus on mountains as subject matter and source of aesthetic and spiritual inspiration for painters. This collection of original essays, written entirely by Wesleyan University students of art history, examine how artistic representation of mountains has varied through the lens of specific depictions in literature. These essays by student authors adeptly ruminate on works by individuals such as William Wordsworth, John Frederick Kensett, and Arnold Fanck. The book includes an introduction by professor Peter Mark, along with an informative appendix of the course description and syllabus.

Cultural historian peter mark is a lifelong hiker,mountain climber, and an avid reader and collector of mountaineering literature. He is a professor of art history at Wesleyan University.

The first English-language study of mountains as subject matter and inspiration for the visual arts







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Wesleyan University Pressforeword by martin scorsese The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics Ishiro Honda was arguably