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where great writing begins
. . . Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 Buddhism for Western Children … Kirstin Allio

THE
2 The Water Diviner and Other Stories … Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
WATER DIVINER
AND 3 The Lightning Jar … Christian Felt
OTHER STORIES
4 A Wrestling Life 2 … Dan Gable, with Kyle Klingman
5 Ball Hawks … Tim Harwood
Ruvanee
Pietersz
Vilhauer
6 Transaction Histories … Donna Stonecipher
7 Form from Form … Christopher Bolin
8 The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era … Jonathan Shandell
9 Half a Million Strong … Gina Arnold

THE 10 Squee from the Margins … Rukmini Pande

LIGHTNING 11 Sherlock’s World … Ann K. McClellan
JAR
12 Engaging the Age of Jane Austen … Bridget Draxler & Danielle Spratt
13 Contested City … Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
CHrISTIaN FelT
JOHN SIMMONS SHORT FICTION AWARD
14 Poetics and Praxis ‘After’ Objectivism … W. Scott Howard & Broc Rossell, eds.
15 Figures of Speech … Tim Cassedy
16 Technomodern Poetics … Todd F. Tietchen
17 Translingual Poetics … Sarah Dowling
18 Recently Published
19 General Interest Bestsellers
20 Regional Bestsellers
21 Recent Book Honors and Reviews
A WRESTLING
22–23 Indexes
LIFE 2 More
InspIrIng storIes
of Dan gable 23 Desk and Exam Copy Policies
New York Times bestelling author

Dan Gable
wIth Kyle KlIngMan
24 Contact Information
25 Sales Representation

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 Buddhism for Western Children
by Kirstin Allio
The Iowa Review Series in Fiction
Harilaos Stecopoulos, series editor

“Kirstin Allio has written a novel full of indelible characters, wild

scenes, incidental wisdom, and the best kinds of surprises. I fell en-
tirely under the spell of her wonderful writing and of her outrageous,
shameless guru; I would have followed him anywhere. Buddhism for
Western Children is a sparkling, inventive, and deeply entertaining
novel.”—Margot Livesey, author, Mercury

Set on the coast of Maine and in the high desert of New Mexico
in the late 1970s through the early 80s, Buddhism for Western Children
is a universal and timeless story of a boy who must escape subjuga-
tion, tell his story, and reclaim his soul.
In search of community and transcendence, ten-year-old Dan-
iel’s family is swept into the thrall of a potent and manipulative
guru. To his followers, Avadhoot Master King Ivanovich is a living “An incisive look at what it means to be a
god, a charismatic leader who may reveal enlightenment as he mes- child dragged along in the undercurrent
merizes, and alchemizes, Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. of one’s parents’ fervor for enlightenment
Daniel’s family plunges into a world with different rules and and willful turning away from the outside
rhythms—and with no apparent exit. They join other devotees in world. This is a beautifully written and
shunning the outside world, and fall under the absolutist authority poetic meditation on power, absurdity,
of the guru and his lieutenants. Daniel bears witness to the relent- community, and manipulation, and how
less competition for the guru’s favor, even as he begins to recognize one survives when all things collide in a
the perversion of his spirituality. Soon, Daniel himself is chosen powerful and threatening way.”—Brian
to play a role. As tensions simmer and roil, darkness intrudes. Evenson, author, A Collapse of Horses
Devotees overstep, placing even the children in jeopardy. Daniel
struggles with conflicting desires to resist and to belong, until
finally he must decide who to save and who to abandon.
With spiraling, spellbinding language, Allio reveals a cast of
vivid, often darkly funny characters, and propels us toward a shock-
ing climax where Daniel’s story cracks open like a kaleidoscope,
revealing the costs of submitting to a tyrant and the shimmering
resilience of the human spirit.

Kirstin Allio is the author of Clothed, Female Figure and Garner, which
was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize for first fiction. Her honors
include the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and a
PEN/O. Henry Prize. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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 The Water Diviner and Other Stories
by Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer THE
Iowa Short Fiction Award
Rebecca Lee, judge WATER DIVINER
AND
OTHER STORIES
“Mesmerizing, tranquil, and worldly, these stories kept me trans-
fixed. Each is a long, beautiful excursion into the difficulty and sus-
pense of human relationships. One emerges from the book believing
life to be more peaceful and more intense than before. A wonderful,
masterful work of art.”
—Rebecca Lee, judge, Iowa Short Fiction Award Ruvanee
Pietersz
Vilhauer
In this thought-provoking collection, Sri Lankan immi-
grants grapple with events that challenge perspectives and alter
lives. A volunteer faces memories of wartime violence when she
meets a cantankerous old lady on a Meals on Wheels route. A
lonely widow obsessed with an impending apocalypse meets an
oddly inspiring man. A maidservant challenges class divisions
when she becomes an American professor’s wife. An angry tenant “With a steady hand, soft heart, and sharp
fights suspicion when her landlord is burgled. Hardened inmates insights, Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer mi-
challenge a young jail psychiatrist’s competence. A father wonders raculously balances the precarious beam
whether to expose his young son’s bully at a basketball game. A of identity and cultural displacement. The
student facing poverty courts a benefactor. And in the depths of stories in The Water Diviner speak straight
an isolated Wyoming winter, a woman tries to resist a con artist. to the soul, its universal aches and voids,
These and other tales explore the immigrant experience with a and we are better for getting to know these
piercing authenticity. characters.”—Nancy Zafris, author,
The Home Jar: Stories
Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer’s short fiction has been broadcast on
BBC Radio 4 and has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Re-
view, Notre Dame Review, Summerset Review, Quiddity, Michigan Quarterly
Review, and more. Her first novel, The Mask Collectors, is forthcom-
ing. She is currently a clinical associate professor of psychology at
New York University. She lives in Wayne, New Jersey.

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 The Lightning Jar
by Christian Felt THE
John Simmons Short Fiction Award
Rebecca Lee, judge
LIGHTNING
JAR
“The sentences in this book are small shots of beauty and compres-
sion. The prose has the feel of life, but life seen and experienced
deeply, with great sensitivity and intelligence, carrying the reader
with such grace into the mysterious simplicity of childhood.” CHrISTIaN FelT
—Rebecca Lee, judge, John Simmons Short Fiction Award JOHN SIMMONS SHORT FICTION AWARD

THE LIGHTNING JAR is about lonely children. It may be more about

lonely children than any other book. These children are good at
making imaginary friends but have trouble keeping them. For
instance, there’s the Morra, who plunges the world into eternal
winter. But she also teaches Mons the meaning of love and helps
him burn down his house after some Gypsies turn it into a middle
school.
Then there’s the Gorbel. Amanda invented it to scare the Guest, “Imagine Ray Bradbury’s summer-
but it ended up liking him best. A bit like a cat but more like a drenched Dandelion Wine set in Hans
spider, it turned out a lot cuter than she’d intended. Christian Andersen’s Scandinavia, and
And the Wisps—they’re pretty unhappy about being dead. Karl you’ll have a hint of The Lightning Jar’s
accidentally turned his smallest cousin into a Wisp. They were pleasures: two story sequences that un-
trying to catch some lightning in a jar, but they caught the small- fold with secrets, cousins, and ghosts;
est cousin’s ghost instead. Karl had to drown it for its own good. two pivotal memoir-like stories; and
Something similar happened with his grandma Astrid and a rock Felt’s pocket-sized masterpiece, ‘The
named Melisande. Guest on Summer Island.’ This book
But the loneliest character is probably Christian. He insists dazzles and delights.”—Ted Deppe,
on being from Jämtland, where Karl and Amanda live. When his author, Liminal Blue
cousin Eskild got married, Christian rewrote their past so it’s like
The Little Mermaid, except Eskild drowns and Christian doesn’t “If the film director Wes Anderson wrote
earn a soul. stories. If Isak Dinesen channeled Louisa
In the spirit of Tove Jansson, William Blake, and Calvin & Hobbes, May Alcott and a young Mormon man. If
The Lightning Jar contains a volatile mix of innocence and experi- the Dawn Treader landed in Sweden. No.
ence, faith and doubt, nostalgia and a sense of all there is to gain Christian Felt’s The Lightning Jar, full of
by accepting reality on fresh terms. spark and glow, is charmingly and utterly
his own.”—Natasha Sajé, author, Vivarium
Christian Felt studies math and computer science at the University
of Utah. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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 new in paper!
A Wrestling Life 2
More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable
by Dan Gable, with Kyle Klingman

“This book is a rare thing: a guide to greatness from a man who has
both conquered the world and spent the time to understand how he
got there and what he gained and lost along the way. Here is a blue-
print for being great, as an athlete, as a man, as a father, learning
A WRESTLING
from his successes and failures, from his honesty and devotion and
love.”—Wright Thompson, ESPN magazine
LIFE 2 More
InspIrIng storIes
of Dan gable
In A Wrestling Life 2, famed wrestler and wrestling coach Dan New York Times bestelling author

Gable shares even more gripping stories of his life. Readers will
learn about the start of his wrestling career in Waterloo, important
Dan Gable
wIth Kyle KlIngMan

connections he made with wrestlers at Iowa State, how he went

from being an Iowa State wrestler to a University of Iowa coach,
and about his international and Olympic wrestling and coaching.
Gable tells stories about Hawkeye fan favorite wrestlers of the past;
the stories behind the great Hawkeye wrestling posters of the 80s Praise for the New York Times Bestseller
and 90s; and about some of the greatest failures and mistakes A Wrestling Life:
that made him one of the most successful wrestlers and wrestling
coaches in the sport’s history. “Gable has been a primary inspiration to
When most people think of Dan Gable, they think of an almost me since I was 15, and this book will show
mythic intensity toward wrestling. A Wrestling Life 2 explains what you why. In a modern world of political
have come to be known as the Gable Trained principles that Gable correctness and glad-handing, the art of
follows to keep his life full of “wins,” revelations about how to the fight is highly undervalued. Allow Dan
cultivate success at the highest levels, and the reasons behind to show you another way.”—Tim Ferriss,
these steps for living well. author, The 4-Hour Body
A Wrestling Life has sold more than 30,000 copies to date, spent
two months on the New York Times sports bestseller list, and has “The stories in A Wrestling Life offer keen in-
become an instant classic of sports memoirs. A Wrestling Life 2 sight into how, beginning at a very young
is sure to add to Gable’s ever-growing legacy and entertain and age, Dan Gable was able to use personal
inspire wrestling fans everywhere. achievement, adversity, and even tragedy
as motivation to reach the highest levels
Dan Gable has been named to the USA Wrestling Hall of Fame, of success and to have a profound effect
the United States Olympic Hall of Fame, the National Wrestling on those around him. Gable’s love and
Hall of Fame, and is the namesake of the National Wrestling Hall commitment to his family, teammates,
of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo, Iowa. In 1996, Gable was teams, and friends jump out in story after
named one of the “100 Golden Olympians,” an honor bestowed story. As a high school and college wrestler
to the top 100 US Olympians of all time. During the 2012 Olym- I wanted to wrestle for Dan Gable. Now
pics, he was inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame Legends of the I know why!”—Mike Golic, ESPN broad-
Sport category, becoming one of five people in the world to receive caster, NFL player, Notre Dame football
this honor. He resides in Iowa City, Iowa, with his wife, Kathy. player and wrestler
Kyle Klingman is a regular contributor to Wrestling Insider News-
magazine (WIN) and director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo, Iowa.

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 Ball Hawks
The Arrival and Departure of the NBA in Iowa
by Tim Harwood

“Professional basketball has always been a huge part of my life. I’ve

been fortunate to have the opportunity to compete as an NBA player,
work in a front office, and now serve as a head coach. Growing up The R R I VA L
in Ames, Iowa, I’ve always been interested in the history of profes- A and E
RTUR
sional basketball. More of these stories are uncovered in Ball Hawks, D E PAof the
which brings to life the forgotten history of our state’s link to pro NBA
hoops.”—Fred Hoiberg, coach, Chicago Bulls in
I OWA
Believe it or not, Waterloo, Iowa, had an NBA team during the
league’s first season, 1949 to 1950. Broadcaster and independent
sports historian Tim Harwood uncovers the fascinating story of TIM OD
the Waterloo Hawks and the Midwest’s influence on professional
basketball. Beginning with the professional leagues that led up
HARWO
to the creation of the National Basketball Association, Harwood
recounts big games and dramatic buzzer-beaters, and the players “I really enjoyed Ball Hawks. It was interest-
who made them. ing to read about the history of sports in
The first season of the NBA was far from a success. Teams had my hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, and
a hard time attracting fans, with games often played in half-empty learn about both the formation of the NBA
arenas. When Waterloo residents learned that the team was strug- and about what it was like to play profes-
gling financially, they rallied behind the Hawks and purchased sional basketball when it was just begin-
shares of the team in a bid to keep it afloat. Unfortunately, that ning. A book both sports history fans and
community-based effort was not enough; owners of teams in larger Iowans will enjoy.”—Dan Gable, legend-
markets pressured the league to push Waterloo—and other smaller ary wrestler, Olympian, coach, author, 
towns like Anderson, Indiana, and Sheboygan, Wisconsin—out A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan
of the league. Gable and A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring
Though the Hawks disappeared after their lone NBA campaign, Stories of Dan Gable
Waterloo and other midwestern teams were nonetheless integral to
getting the NBA off the ground, and their legacy continues today
through some of the current franchises that relocated to larger
markets. Combining newspaper accounts and personal interviews
with surviving players, Harwood weaves a fascinating story of the
underdog team, in the unlikeliest of places, that helped make pro-
fessional basketball the worldwide success it is today.

Tim Harwood is a broadcaster and writer who has covered sports

in northeast Iowa since 2005. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

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Transaction Histories
poems by Donna Stonecipher t r a n s a c t i o n h i s t o r i e s

Kuhl House Poets

Mark Levine and Emily Wilson, series editors

Reveling in the paradox of the formal prose

poem, Donna Stonecipher’s Transaction Histories gath-
ers together six series of poems that explore the dis-
obedient incongruities of aesthetics and emotions.
Stonecipher’s carefully sculpted forms and exacting
language are held in tension with an unruly imagi-
nation to provoke a vision of experience densely
layered with bodies impinging upon and altering
each other, engaging in transactions that unfold in poems by Donna Stonecipher
poetically complex and emotionally startling ways.
By turns wry and melancholic, playful and acerbic,
erotically charged and politically skeptical, Stonecipher’s poems Previous praise for Donna Stonecipher’s
marry a deeply felt lyricism to a fascination with the mechanisms Model City:
of narrative. The result is akin to Roland Barthes’s notion of “the
novelistic”: writing that flirts with the gestures and spaces of the “[A] highly affecting work of imagination
novel without the trappings of plot, character, or action. Narrative and sensibility . . . one often feels afloat
fragments dart in and out of sight, spectral figures and motifs recur in a world concocted and dreamy, there
in fugal patterns, and habits of ruthless observation are brought and not there.”
to bear on the details of both intimate life and social organization. —Martha Ronk, The Constant Critic
Stonecipher lays claim to a stylistic achievement and vision that
are entirely her own, transparent and elusive, casual in address and “In the same way that architecture must
rigorous in design. Whether training its eye on fetishized polar abide by certain rules and regulations
bears, illegal garbage dumping, or ideological debates around but can still create a thing of beauty,
rose chintz wallpaper, Transaction Histories tracks the fitful and Stonecipher, by constraining herself to en-
tragicomic relationships that exist among objects, landscapes, gineer within her own parameters, forms
texts, and people, and lays bare the ways in which our transactions beautiful language and ideas.”
keep our lives going. —Hamzah M. Hussain, DURA

Excerpt from “Persian Carpet 3” “How many poets are there in the world
that you go looking for online, checking
1.
regularly, even impatiently, to see whether
She walked with her seven-year-old niece over the “skybridge” and when their new books will be out? Not
and then through the business “park.” Suspended in the sky she many. Among the poets whose work I anx-
iously await, Donna Stonecipher has long
looked down at the river, the lake, the freeway and knew what
been near the top of the list.”
perpendicular longing the sky does anything but abridge. Was it —Michael Thurston, Massachusetts Review
the deer or the decoy, bounding silver-footed through the trees?
He admired the reproduction Greek temple set on the hill.

Donna Stonecipher is the author of The Reservoir, Souvenir de Con-

stantinople, The Cosmopolitan, Model City, and Prose Poetry and the City.
She lives in Berlin, Germany.

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 Form from Form
poems by Christopher Bolin Form
Kuhl House Poets
from
Mark Levine and Emily Wilson, series editors
Form

“Was it a crater or a sinkhole?” asks a voice in one of the mys-

terious, wonderstruck poems in Christopher Bolin’s Form from
Form, whose cadences modulate with the energies of form-making,
deformation, and elusive reformation. Natural forms and forms of
human manufacture, forms of absence and those of urgent desire
construct and deconstruct each other in Bolin’s singular music,
which blends unnerving plainness and obliqueness, the childlike
and the alien. christopher
bolin
As their sites drift from workers’ camps to city squares, isolated
coasts to windswept plains, the poems in Form from Form trace a
map of a fragmented ecology, dense with physical detail of altered
landscapes and displaced populations. In tones of austere beauty “Where is the stability in a world that is a
and harsh discordance, these poems provide a “field guide to lu- victim of itself? Thomas Merton came to
minescent things,” a visionary fretwork of the possibilities and mind as I was reading this book, his being
impossibilities of faith in the present moment.  a person whose cold eye can be cast on
everything in sight while his heart is all fire
Excerpt from “Manuscript” and depth. I think these marvelous poems
wrestle with contradiction and so bring
This is where they tore the vellum us to the possibility of change.”
—Fanny Howe, author, The Needle’s Eye
    to illuminate the slaughter of the lamb.
And this is where they kept the pages blank “Chris Bolin has an expert sense of the line
and a very keen feel for the poetic image,
to illuminate the lambs constructing poems that move with a
they did not choose. calm and stately radiance. In its austere
This is where they thinned the vellum to illuminate the shroud:  tableaux and impersonal but poetically
  and this is where pausing authoritative language, Bolin’s work
brings to mind Saint-John Perse’s Anabasis,
illuminates the absence of the body: creating an overall and haunting impres-
which is an illumination of the resurrection sion of mankind’s struggle with the ma-
and of the ascension; terial world as he tries to tame, engineer,
and this is the illumination of the second coming: modify, exploit, find a place in, and save
it. Bolin is a poet’s poet, and I expect I’ll
    of the gold-leafing, smoothing the keep this beautiful book near at hand to
    tufted pages be inspired by its marvels often.”
of the beast. —Geoffrey Nutter, author, Cities at Dawn

Christopher Bolin teaches writing at the College of St. Benedict

and St. John’s University. He is the author of Ascension Theory (Iowa,
2013). Christopher lives in St. Joseph, Minnesota.

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The American Negro Theatre
and the Long Civil Rights Era THE
AMERICAN
by Jonathan Shandell NEGRO THEATRE
Studies in Theatre History and Culture AND THE LONG
Heather S. Nathans, series editor CIVIL RIGHTS
ER A

Jonathan Shandell provides the first in-depth study of the

historic American Negro Theatre (ANT) and its lasting influence
on American popular culture. Founded in 1940 in Harlem, the ANT
successfully balanced expressions of African American conscious-
ness with efforts to gain white support for the burgeoning civil
rights movement. The theatre company featured innovative pro-
ductions with emerging artists—Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte,
Ruby Dee, and many others—who would become giants of stage,
film, and television. In 1944, the ANT made theatrical history by Jonathan Shandell
creating the smash hit Anna Lucasta, the most popular play with an
African American cast ever to perform on Broadway. Starting from
a shoestring budget, the ANT grew into one of the most important
companies in the history of African American theatre. Though “Shandell has delivered a long-overdue
the group folded in 1949, it continued to shape American popular history of the American Negro Theatre. He
culture through the creative work of its many talented artists. provides detailed insight into key produc-
Examining oral histories, playbills, scripts, production stills, tions and individuals both on and offstage.
and journalistic accounts, Shandell gives us the most complete This book fills a major lacuna in the history
picture to date of the theatre company by analyzing well-known of American theatre.”—Kathy A. Perkins,
productions alongside groundbreaking and now-forgotten efforts. editor, Selected Plays: Alice Childress
Shedding light on this often-overlooked chapter of African Ameri-
can history, which fell between the New Negro Renaissance and “This book is both timely and much-
the Black Arts Movement, Shandell reveals how the ANT became needed as it is, by far, the only sustained
a valued community institution for Harlem—an important plat- and focused study of the American Negro
form for African American artists to speak to racial issues—and Theatre. Its value is in its success at sup-
a trailblazer in promoting integration and interracial artistic col- plying a missing link in African American
laboration in the U.S. In doing so, Shandell also demonstrates theatre history and in its painstaking re-
how a small amateur ensemble of the 1940s succeeded in challeng- trieval of ANT’s past and its still-lingering
ing, expanding, and transforming how African Americans were influence. As such, it certainly should
portrayed in the ensuing decades. The result is a fascinating and be assigned reading for undergraduate
entertaining examination that will be of interest to scholars and theatre and performance studies students
students of African American and American studies and theatre enrolled in theatre programs.
history, as well as popular culture enthusiasts. It must be required reading in graduate
level courses.”—Sandra G. Shannon,
Jonathan Shandell is associate professor and codirector of the Howard University
theater arts program at Arcadia University. He is coeditor of the
anthology Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-Cultural Ex-
change in American Theatre, 1912–1945. Jonathan lives in Elkins Park,
Pennsylvania.

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 Half a Million Strong
Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella
by Gina Arnold
The New American Canon
The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Samuel Cohen, series editor

Lance Mercer
“At a moment when music festivals proliferate as both music and
marketing phenomena, Gina Arnold deftly explores their fascinating
history in this compulsively readable book. Arnold, as always, writes “From audience reactions to Dylan going
conversationally, as if she’s actively thinking on the page—generat- electric at Newport in 1965 to Wattstax
ing fresh ideas as they occur to her and following them in previously in Los Angeles in 1972 to the lost U.S.
unexplored directions. That excites the reader’s own thinking—and Festival in the 1980s and beyond, Gina
makes this book inspiring and a great, welcome pleasure.” Arnold’s wonderful individual take on
—Anthony DeCurtis, author, Lou Reed: A Life what being at a rock festival means
offers new insights by focusing not on
“Half a Million Strong tracks the rapid rise of the festivalization of mu- the stage, but on us, the festival-going
sic, and outlines what it means to truly love and live through music crowd.”—George McKay, University of
and to be in community with other people who do too. With this East Anglia
book, Arnold offers a very necessary examination of just how we got
here, as well as a rich, accessible history that is mandatory reading“A much-needed, well-observed reevalu-
for anyone who has ever spent a day in a muddy field screaming ation of rock-and-roll audiences from
along with their favorite band.”—Jessica Hopper, author, The First a writer with decades in the trenches.
Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic An illuminating, historically informed
conversation-starter for anyone with a
From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music fes- stake in a live music community.”
tival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In —Jesse Jarnow, author, Heads: A Biogra-
Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores phy of Psychedelic America
the history of large music festivals in America and examines their
impact on American culture. Studying literature, films, journalism,
and other archival detritus of the countercultural era, Arnold looks
closely at a number of large and well-known festivals, including the
Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, Wattstax, the New
Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and
others to map their cultural significance in the American experi-
ence. She finds that—far from being the utopian and communal
spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves—
these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market
to consumers in its very best light. 

Gina Arnold is a former rock journalist and the author of Liz Phair’s
Exile in Guyville, Kiss This: Punk in the Present Tense, and Route 666: On
the Road to Nirvana. She is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Punk
Rock. Arnold teaches rhetoric and media studies at the University
of San Francisco.

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 Squee from the Margins
Fandom and Race
by Rukmini Pande
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors

“Rukmini Pande’s work is a crucial and timely intervention in the field “Rukmini Pande’s Squee from the Margins is
of fan studies that calls for a re-examination of how the field con- a groundbreaking book on race and fan-
structs fans and the spaces fans inhabit. This work will enable current dom. Well-written and accessibly erudite,
and future generations of fan scholars to reflect more critically on our it is a crucial work that moves fan studies
relationship with race and postcolonialism, and how whiteness frames forward as a field. I’m immediately adding
our understanding of fan culture in an increasingly globalized network it to my syllabus as required reading.”
of fandom.”—Bertha Chin, Swinburne University of Technology —Paul Booth, editor, Companion to Media
Fandom and Fan Studies
Rukmini Pande’s examination of race in fan studies is sure to
make an immediate contribution to the growing field. Until now,
virtually no sustained examination of race and racism in transna-
tional fan cultures has taken place, a lack that is especially concern-
ing given that current fan spaces have never been more vocal about
debating issues of privilege and discrimination.
Pande’s study challenges dominant ideas of who fans are and
how these complex transnational and cultural spaces function,
expanding the scope of the field significantly. Along with inter-
viewing thirty-nine fans from nine different countries about their
fan practices, she also positions media fandom as a postcolonial
cyberspace, enabling scholars to take a more inclusive view of fan
identity. With analysis that spans from historical to contemporary,
Pande builds a case for the ways in which non-white fans have
always been present in such spaces, though consistently ignored.

Rukmini Pande is an assistant professor at O. P. Jindal Global

University, New Delhi. She is on the editorial board of the Journal
of Fandom Studies and has been published in multiple edited col-
lections, including The Wiley Companion to Fan Studies, Seeing Fans,
and Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, as well as the journals
Transformative Works and Cultures and the Journal of Feminist Scholarship.

december
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 Sherlock’s World
Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of BBC’s Sherlock
by Ann K. McClellan
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors

“Sherlock’s World offers a nuanced look into Sherlock fan authorship,

considering fan fiction as art, literature, story world, and cultural
fabric. This book will serve as a rich resource to fans and scholars of
the great detective, and to anyone interested in the study of fandom
and fan fiction.”—Louisa Ellen Stein, author, Millennial Fandom
Sherlock Holmes remains more popular than ever some 130
years after the detective first appeared in print. These days, the
iconic character’s staying power is due in large part to the success
of the recent BBC series Sherlock, which brings the famous sleuth
into the twenty-first century.
One of the most-watched television series in BBC history, Sherlock
is set in contemporary London, where thirtysomething Sherlock
and John (no longer fussy old Holmes and Watson), alongside
New Scotland Yard, solve crimes with the help of smartphones,
texting, online forums, and the internet. In their modernization
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s nineteenth-century world, Sherlock
creators Stephen Moffatt and Mark Gatiss make London as much
a character of their show as the actors themselves. The highly
stylized series has inspired an impassioned fan community in
Britain, the U.S., and beyond. Fans create and share their writings,
which reimagine the characters in even more dramatic ways than
the series can.
Interweaving fan fiction studies, world-building, and genre
studies, Ann McClellan examines the hit series and the fan fiction
it inspires. Using Sherlock to trace the changing face of fan fiction
studies, McClellan’s book explores how far fans are willing to go
to change the Sherlockian canon while still reinforcing its power
and status as the source text. What makes Sherlock fanfic Sherlock-
ian? How does it stay within the canon even while engaging in
the wildest reimaginings? Sherlock’s World explores the boundaries
between canon, genre, character, and reality through the lenses of
fan fiction and world-building. This book promises to be a valuable
resource for fan studies scholars, those who write fan fiction, and
Sherlock fans alike.
“Sherlock’s World is groundbreaking in its
treatment of fan fiction as literary texts
rather than sociological phenomena, and
offers a comprehensive survey of the (of-
ten startling) range of fan engagements
with the BBC’s Sherlock. With echoes of
D. A. Miller’s argument that the experi-
ence of the Victorian novel was constituted
as much by breaks in the reading as by
textual content, McClellan suggestively
argues that the increasing temporal gaps
between seasons of Sherlock had a vital
role in promoting fan creativity and expe-
rience. McClellan persuasively sees fan
fictions as sophisticated reflections on the
relationship between actor and character,
postmodernism and Victorianism, and
author and reader. The book’s theoretically
informed treatment of Sherlock’s alternative
worlds and parallel universes will make it a
valuable resource for future fan culture and
Holmesian studies.”—Christopher Pittard,
University of Portsmouth

Ann K. McClellan is professor of English and department chair at

Plymouth State University. She is the author of How British Women
Writers Transformed the Campus Novel. She lives in Thornton, New
Hampshire.

november
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Engaging the Age of Jane Austen
Public Humanities in Practice
by Bridget Draxler and Danielle Spratt
Humanities and Public Life
Teresa Mangum and Anne Valk, series editors

Humanities scholars, in general, often have a difficult time

explaining to others why their work matters, and eighteenth-
century literary scholars are certainly no exception. To help remedy
this problem, literary scholars Bridget Draxler and Danielle Spratt
offer this collection of essays to defend the field’s relevance and
demonstrate its ability to help us better understand current events,
from the proliferation of media to ongoing social justice battles.
The result is a book that offers a range of approaches to engag-
ing with undergraduates, non-professionals, and broader publics
into an appreciation of eighteenth-century literature. Essays draw
on innovative projects ranging from a Jane Austen reading group
held at the public library to students working with an archive to
digitize an overlooked writer’s novel. “Engaging the Age of Jane Austen is a valu-
Reminding us that the eighteenth century was an exhilarating able compilation of case studies on how
age of lively political culture—marked by the rise of libraries and to combine the study of eighteenth-
museums, the explosion of the press, and other platforms for century texts with public engagement.
public intellectual debates—Draxler and Spratt provide a book that Its conversational tone and wide array of
will not only be useful to eighteenth-century scholars, but can also topics and contributors will help readers
serve as a model for other periods as well. This book will appeal take away tips on how to expand their
to librarians, archivists, museum directors, scholars, and others pedagogy and research to include wider
interested in digital humanities in the public life. audiences—a must for any contem-
porary scholar.”—Amy Hildreth Chen,
Bridget Draxler teaches writing at St. Olaf College. She lives in University of Iowa
Northfield, Minnesota. Danielle Spratt is associate professor of
English and director of faculty engaged practices and service learn- “The work is important and timely, the
ing at California State University, Northridge. She lives in Los scholarship is up to date and com-
Angeles, California. prehensive, and the book has a good
balance of theory, history, textual expli-
Contributors cation, and individual testimony about
Gabriela Almendarez, Jessica Bybee, Nora Chatchoomsai, praxis that is truly engaging.”
Gillian Dow, Bridget Draxler, Joan Gillespie, Larisa Good, —Deborah Denenholz Morse, William &
Elizabeth K. Goodhue, Susan Celia Greenfield, Liz Grumbach, Mary College
Kellen Hinrichsen, Ellen Jarosz, Hannah Jorgenson, John C.
Keller, Naz Keynejad, Stephen Kutay, Chuck Lewis, Nicole
Linton, Devoney Looser, Whitney Mannies, Ai Miller, Tiffany
Ouellette, Carol Parrish, Paul Schuytema, David Spadafora,
Danielle Spratt, Anne McKee Stapleton, Jessica Stewart,
Colleen Tripp, Susan Twomey, Nikki JD White, Amy Weldon

january 2019
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Contested City
Art and Public History as Mediation at New York’s
Seward Park Urban Renewal Area
by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Humanities and Public Life
Teresa Mangum and Anne Valk, series editors

Courtesy of Beatriz Rodrigues Fernandes Pereira

For forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from dis-
invested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of
the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward
Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the
fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing
thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that
they would soon return to new housing—housing that never came.
Over decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sparked
deep-rooted enmity and stalled development, making SPURA a
dramatic study of failed urban renewal, as well as a microcosm
epitomizing the greatest challenges faced by American cities since
World War II. “Displacement is one of the most critical
Artist and urban scholar Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani was invited to issues of our time. Bendiner-Viani brings
enter this tense community to support a new approach to planning, her expertise in environmental psychology
which she accepted using collaboration, community organizing, and urban history to this highly accessible
public history, and public art. Having engaged her students at and provocative book that explores art,
The New School in a multi-year collaboration with community community, and student engagement.
activists, the exhibitions and guided tours of her Layered SPURA Focused on New York City, the issues and
project provided crucial new opportunities for dialogue about the practices described in this book are widely
past, present, and future of the neighborhood. applicable in cities across the globe.”
Simultaneously revealing the incredible stories of community —Yolanda Chávez Leyva, director of the
and activism at SPURA, and shedding light on the importance Institute of Oral History & Borderlands
of collaborative creative public projects, Contested City bridges art, Public History Lab, University of Texas at
design, community activism, and urban history. This is a book El Paso 
for artists, planners, scholars, teachers, cultural institutions, and
all those who seek to collaborate in new ways with communities. “This book demonstrates the power of
creative community-engaged practice to
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is an artist, urban scholar, and curator pio- understand complex problems like af-
neering public arts and urban research for community engagement. fordable housing in the Lower East Side of
She is principal of the design and research studio Buscada, and teaches Manhattan. It serves as an indispensable
urban studies and public art at The New School. Gabrielle lives in guide to those contemplating community-
New York City. engaged work that weaves together public
history, visual analysis, mapping, and oral
history.”—Mallika Bose, Pennsylvania
State University

january 2019
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Poetics and Praxis ‘After’ Objectivism
edited by W. Scott Howard and Broc Rossell
Contemporary North American Poetry Series
Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, and Adalaide Morris, series editors

Poetics and Praxis ‘After’ Objectivism examines late twentieth- “Poetics and Praxis ‘After’ Objectivism is an
and early twenty-first-century poetics and praxis within and against important contribution to our under-
the dynamic, disparate legacy of Objectivism and the Objectivists. standing of a movement that refused to
This is the first volume in the field to investigate the continuing be labeled a movement. It will be useful
relevance of the Objectivist ethos to poetic praxis in our time. The for students of modernist and postmod-
book argues for a reconfiguration of Objectivism, adding contin- ern poetics interested in the evolution of
gency to its historical values of sincerity and objectification, within issues first addressed in Zukofsky’s foun-
the context of the movement’s development and disjunctions from dational essays, ‘Program: Objectivists
1931 to the present. 1931’ and ‘Sincerity and Objectification,’
Essays and conversations from emerging and established poets and in the various formal innovations
and scholars engage a network of communities in the U.S., Canada, launched by the practitioners. This is a
and the U.K., shaped by contemporaneous oppositions as well new look at Objectivism’s influence and,
as genealogical (albeit discontinuous) historicisms. This book equally, a look at the problematic nature
articulates Objectivism as an inclusively local, international, and of influence in general.”
interdisciplinary ethos, and reclaims Objectivist poetics and praxis —Michael Davidson, author, On the
as modalities for contemporary writers concerned with radical in- Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics
tegrations of aesthetics, lyric subjectivities, contingent disruption,
historical materialism, and social activism. The chapter authors
and roundtable contributors reexamine foundational notions about
Objectivism—who the Objectivists were and are, what Objectivism
has been, now is, and what it might become—delivering critiques
of aesthetics and politics; of race, class, and gender; and of the
literary and cultural history of the movement’s development and
disjunctions from 1931 to the present.

W. Scott Howard is associate professor of English and literary

arts at the University of Denver. His books include SPINNAKERS:
poems and Susan Howe’s factual telepathy. He is founding editor of the
poetics journal, Reconfigurations, and lives in Englewood, Colorado.
Broc Rossell is lecturer in critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr
University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. The
author of Unpublished Poems and Festival, he is publisher of the small
press Elephants.

Contributors
Rae Armantrout, Julie Carr, Amy De’Ath, Jeff Derksen, Rachel
Blau DuPlessis, Graham Foust, Alan Golding, Jeanne Heuving,
Ruth Jennison, David Lau, Steve McCaffery, Mark McMorris,
Chris Nealon, Jenny Penberthy, Robert Sheppard

august
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 Figures of Speech
Six Histories of Language and Identity
in the Age of Revolutions
by Tim Cassedy
Impressions: Studies in the Art, Culture, and Future of Books
Matthew P. Brown, series editor

Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society

“Tim Cassedy has one of the most nimble, creative, and curious
minds among early Americanists today. The case studies in Figures of
Speech are unexpected, fascinating, and brought strikingly (and often
hilariously) to life in his writing. This book is a remarkable and rare
achievement.”—Hester Blum, Penn State University

Tim Cassedy’s fascinating study examines the role that language

played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one’s
identity. During this time of revolution (U.S., French, and Haitian)
and globalization, language served as a way to categorize people
within a world that appeared more diverse than ever. Linguistic “In showcasing how figures like Duncan
differences, especially among English-speakers, seemed to validate Mackintosh, Noah Webster, and Mary
the emerging national, racial, local, and regional identity categories Willcocks experimented with linguistic
that took shape in this new world order. innovations, Cassedy reveals how lan-
Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time—from the guage can serve to preserve ties to a lost
woman known as “Princess Caraboo” to wordsmith Noah Web- country or to fashion a new self in a for-
ster—Cassedy shows how each put language at the center of their eign setting. I admire the strong narrative
identities and lived out the possibilities of their era’s linguistic arc of each of the book’s chapters and
ideas. The result is a highly entertaining and equally informative also Cassedy’s sparkling prose style.”
look at how perceptions about who spoke what language—and —Judith Pascoe, On the Bullet Train with
how they spoke it—determined the shape of communities in the Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan
British American colonies and beyond.
This engagingly written story is sure to appeal to historians
of literature, culture, and communication; to linguists and book
historians; and to general readers interested in how ideas about
English developed in the early United States and throughout the
English-speaking world.

Tim Cassedy is assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist

University. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

january 2019
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 Technomodern Poetics
The American Literary Avant-Garde at
the Start of the Information Age
by Todd F. Tietchen
The New American Canon
The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Samuel Cohen, series editor

“Technomodern Poetics is a deeply engaging study of the relationship “Todd Tietchen’s powerfully transformative
between Cold War experimental artists—with an emphasis on liter- account of the post–World War II avant-
ary artists, but also film makers, visual artists, and musicians—and garde lets us understand and appreciate
the development of information science and computational media.” the technological imagination of some
—Priscilla Wald, author, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the of the period’s most provocative writ-
Outbreak Narrative ers and artists. By reading the Beats and
other figures for their surprisingly canny
After the second World War, the term “technology” came to sig- engagements with a culture of informa-
nify both the anxieties of possible annihilation in a rapidly chang- tion—across material practices, historical
ing world and the exhilaration of accelerating cultural change. contexts, and aesthetic innovations—
Technomodern Poetics examines how some of the most well-known Tietchen reminds us that we still have a
writers of the era described the tensions between technical, literary, lot to learn about how Jack Kerouac, Allen
and media cultures at the dawn of the Digital Age. Poets and writers Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery,
such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, and Frank and more made art from the emergence
O’Hara, among others, anthologized in Donald Allen’s iconic The of our digital age.”—Mark Goble,
New American Poetry, 1945–1960, provided a canon of work that has author, Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and
proven increasingly relevant to our technological present. Elabo- the Mediated Life
rating on the theories of contemporaneous technologists such as
Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, J. C. R. Licklider, and a host of
noteworthy others, these artists express the anxieties and avant-
garde impulses they wrestled with as they came to terms with a
complex array of issues raised by the dawning of the nuclear age,
computer-based automation, and the expansive reach of electronic
media. As author Todd Tietchen reveals, even as these writers
were generating novel forms and concerns, they often continued
to question whether such technological changes were inherently
progressive or destructive.
With an undeniable timeliness, Tietchen’s book is sure to appeal
to courses in modern English literature and American studies, as
well as among fans of Beat writers and early Cold War culture.

Todd F. Tietchen is associate professor of English at the Uni-

versity of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of The Cuba-
logues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. He lives in Shutesbury,
Massachusetts.

october
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 Translingual Poetics
Writing Personhood Under Settler Colonialism
by Sarah Dowling
Contemporary North American Poetry Series
Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, and Adalaide Morris, series editors

“This lively, enlightening, and politically engaged study challenges “A sharply written study of an under-
the English-language nativism that undergirds liberal multicultural- examined issue in American literature,
ism. The book explores multilingual poetry beginning with women and one that deserves the careful atten-
of color feminists’ poems written in the 1980s and ending with tion that this study offers. The book is full
twenty-first-century experimental writing as they develop a multi- of excellent readings that often lead into
lingual poetics of (dis)location.”—Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of provocative engagements with the crucial
California, Los Angeles social and political issues of our time.”
—Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, University of
Since the 1980s, poets in Canada and the U.S. have increasingly California, Irvine
turned away from the use of English, bringing multiple languages
into dialogue—and into conflict—in their work. This growing “Sarah Dowling has made a vital interven-
but under-studied body of writing differs from previous forms of tion in American letters with Translingual
multilingual poetry. While modernist poets offered multilingual Poetics. Dowling articulates the myriad
displays of literary refinement, contemporary translingual poet- ways the settler colonial state legitimates
ries speak to and are informed by feminist, anti-racist, immigrant its continual violence. Simultaneously,
rights, and Indigenous sovereignty movements. Although some she guides the reader toward horizons
translingual poems have entered Chicanx, Latinx, Asian American, of trenchant poetic resistance, contesta-
and Indigenous literary canons, translingual poetry has not yet tion, and subversion. This work opens a
been studied as a cohesive body of writing. space for presence in the face of erasure,
The first book-length study on the subject, Translingual Poetics memory in place of forgetting, and voice
argues for an urgent rethinking of Canada and the U.S.’s multicul- that cuts through silence.”—José Orduña,
turalist myths. Dowling demonstrates that rising multilingualism author, The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of
in both countries is understood as new and as an effect of cultural Immigration and Displacement
shifts toward multiculturalism and globalization. This view con-
ceals the continent’s original Indigenous multilingualism and the
ongoing violence of its dismantling. It also naturalizes English as
traditional, proper, and, ironically, native.
Reading a range of poets whose work contests this “settler
monolingualism”—Jordan Abel, Layli Long Soldier, Myung Mi
Kim, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, M. NourbeSe Philip, Rachel Zolf,
Cecilia Vicuña, and others—Dowling argues that translingual
poetry documents the flexible forms of racialization innovated
by North American settler colonialisms. Combining deft close
readings of poetry with innovative analyses of media, film, and
government documents, Dowling shows that translingual poetry’s
avoidance of authentic, personal speech reveals the differential
forms of personhood and non-personhood imposed upon the
settler, the native, and the alien.

Sarah Dowling is the author of two books of poetry, DOWN and

Security Posture. Dowling is assistant professor at the Centre for
Comparative Literature and Victoria College at the University of
Toronto.

december
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1 Buddhism for Western Children
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Jonathan Shandell 12 Engaging the Age of Jane Austen
15 Figures of Speech
7 Form from Form
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THE 3 The Lightning Jar
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AND
OTHER STORIES
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10 Squee from the Margins
16 Technomodern Poetics
Ruvanee
6 Transaction Histories
Pietersz
Vilhauer
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