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New Books Spring/Summer 2014

Presenting our new titles for the Spring 2014 season

Wesleyan University Press

Tempest-Tossed

The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker susan campbell First full-length biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century American culture

Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the fascinating other daughter of the “Fabulous Beecher” family, which included older sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Isabella Beecher Hooker, “a curiously modern nineteenth-century figure,” was a suffragist and could be charming and off-putting. In her latest book, author Susan Campbell brings a unique blend of empathy and humor to the story of Harriet’s half-sister. April 236 pp., 30 illus., 6 x 9" Cloth, $28.95 • 978-0-8195-7340-7 Ebook, $22.99 • 978-0-8195-7388-9 biography / american history

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also of interest Ella Grasso

Connecticut's Pioneering Governor JON E. PU RMONT

Cloth, $28.95 · 978-0-8195-7343-8 Ebook, $22.99 · 978-0-8195-7344-5

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“For Isabella Beecher Hooker it was both a blessing and a curse to be born into of one of the most famous families in America. Just when she discovered her own calling in the women’s rights movement, she found herself embroiled in the biggest sex scandal of the 19th century, the trial of her brother for adultery. Susan Campbell has brought Isabella’s fascinating, forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant, readable prosestyle of a veteran journalist.” Debby Applegate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher “With a journalist’s concision and eye for the vivid quote, Susan Campbell captures Isabella Beecher Hooker’s quirky temperament and her passion for women’s rights. This wry and personal narrative is deeply informed, balanced, and a delight to read.” Joan Hedrick, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

susan campbell is the author of the memoir Dating Jesus: Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl, a 2010 Connecticut Book Award winner. She has appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, the BBC, and WNPR. She lives in East Haven, Connecticut.


The British Raid on Essex

The Forgotten Battle of the War of 1812 jerry roberts The untold story of the burning of American privateers in Connecticut

This is the dynamic account of one of the most destructive maritime actions to take place in Connecticut history: the 1814 British attack on the shipping of Pettipaug Point, known today as the British Raid on Essex. During the height of the War of 1812, 136 Royal marines and sailors made their way up the Connecticut River from warships anchored in Long Island Sound. Guided by a well-paid American traitor, the British navigated the Saybrook shoals and advanced up the river under cover of darkness. By the time it was over, the British had burned twenty-seven American ships, including six newly built privateers. It was the largest single maritime loss of the war. Yet this story has been virtually left out of the history books—the forgotten battle of the forgotten war. This new account from author and historian Jerry Roberts is the definitive overview of this event and includes a wealth of new information drawn from recent research and archaeological finds. Lavish illustrations and detailed maps bring the battle to life. “In this dynamic account of the British attack on American privateers in the Connecticut River, Roberts combines new research on both sides of the Atlantic to at last restore this untold story to its rightful place in history ensuring that the forgotten battle of the War of 1812 will long be remembered.” Roy Manstan, author of Turtle: David Bushnell’s Revolutionary Vessel

jerry roberts is the battlefield historian for a National Parks Service grant project charged with researching the British raid on Essex shipping in 1814. From 2006 to 2013, he was executive director of the Connecticut River Museum. He lives in Essex, Connecticut.

April 220 pp., 50 illus. (30 color plates), 6 x 9" Cloth, $27.95 • 978-0-8195-7476-3 Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7477-0 american history / military history

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also of interest Connecticut in the American Civil War

Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival M ATTH EW WARSHAU ER

Paper, $18.95 · 978-0-8195-7364-3 Ebook, $14.99 · 978-0-8195-7139-7



Blue Ravens

Historical Novel gerald vizenor Two Native American brothers serve as soldiers in World War I

February 296 pp., 6 x 9" Cloth, $27.95 • 978-0-8195-7416-9 Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7417-6 historical fiction

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Gerald Vizenor weaves an engrossing historical portrayal of Native American soldiers in World War I. Blue Ravens begins in the days leading up to the Great War and continues in combat scenes at Château-Thierry, Montbréhain, and Bois de Fays. After serving in the American Expeditionary Forces, two brothers from the Anishinaabe culture return to the White Earth Reservation where they grew up, and eventually leave for a second time to live in Paris where they lead successful and creative lives. With a spirited sense of “chance, totemic connections, and the tricky stories of our natural transience in the world,” Vizenor creates an expression of presence commonly denied Native Americans. The novel contains many of Vizenor’s recurrent cultural themes—the power and irony of trickster stories, the privilege of survivance over victimry, natural reason and resistance. Blue Ravens is a story of courage in poverty and war from a recognized master of the postwar American novel and one of the most original and outspoken Native voices writing today. An online reader’s companion will be available. “In all of Vizenor’s extensive oeuvre, I know of no richer, deeper, and more intensely rendered book, ironies notwithstanding, than Blue Ravens. This is powerful work by a master at the very height of his form.” Arnold Krupat, professor emeritus, Sarah Lawrence College

also of interest The Heirs of Columbus

GER ALD VIZENOR

Paper, $17.95 · 978-0-8195-6249-4 Ebook, $13.99 · 978-0-8195-7389-6


gerald vizenor is a prolific novelist, poet, literary critic, and citizen of the White Earth Nation of the Anishinaabeg in Minnesota. He is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His novel Griever: An American Monkey King in China won the American Book Award and the New York Fiction Collective Award.


Producing Country

The Inside Story of the Great Recordings michael jarrett Legendary producers describe the making of country music’s great recordings

Musicians make music. Producers make records. In the early days of recorded music, the producer was the “artistsand-repertoire man.” A powerful figure, the “A&R man” chose both who would record and what would be recorded. Don Law found country bluesman Robert Johnson and honky-tonk crooner Lefty Frizzell. Cowboy Jack Clement took the initiative to record Jerry Lee Lewis. The author’s extensive interviews with music makers offer the fullest account ever of the producer’s role in creating country music. Producing Country tells the story of country music from its early years to the present day through hit records by Bill Monroe, George Jones, Patsy Cline, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett, and others. Includes original interviews with producers Chet Atkins, Pete Anderson, Jimmy Bowen, Bobby Braddock, Harold Bradley, Tony Brown, Blake Chancey, Jack Clement, Scott Hendricks, Bob Johnston, Jerry Kennedy, Blake Mevis, Ken Nelson, Jim Ed Norman, Allen Reynolds, Jim Rooney, James Stroud, Paul Worley, and Buddy Killen, among others. “This is a very readable and informative oral history of the evolution of country music recording. Few books have delved into the role that record producers have played in country music, and fewer still have allowed the record producers themselves to talk about the nuances of their recording processes in such revealing and fascinating detail.” Paul Kingsbury, editor of The Encyclopedia of Country Music

michael jarrett is a professor of English at Penn State University, York. He is the author of Drifting on a Read: Jazz as a Model for Writing and Sound Tracks: A Musical ABC.

July 320 pp., 29 illus., 188 thumbnail illus., 6 x 9" Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7463-3 Paper, $27.95 • 978-0-8195-7464-0 Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7465-7 music / country & bluegrass

Music / Interview

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also of interest Always in Trouble An Oral History of ESP-Disk’, the Most Outrageous Record Label in America JASON WEISS Paper, $24.95 · 978-0-8195-7159-5 Ebook, $19.99 · 978-0-8195-7160-1



Prudence Crandall’s Legacy

The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education donald e. williams jr. Compelling account of the abolitionist’s life, legal battles, and legacy

June 448 pp., 30 illus., 6 x 9" Cloth, $35.00 • 978-0-8195-7470-1 Ebook, $27.99 • 978-0-8195-7471-8 history / legal history / african american studies

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also of interest Making Freedom The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith

C HAN DLER B. SAI NT AN D GEORGE A. KR IMSKY

Cloth, $19.95 · 978-0-8195-6854-0


When Prudence Crandall tried to integrate her Canterbury, Connecticut school in the 1830s she was arrested, jailed, and thrust in the national spotlight. The Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an attempt to close down her school. Crandall’s legal legacy had a lasting impact—Crandall v. State was the first full-throated civil rights case in U.S. history. The arguments by attorneys in Crandall played a role in two of the most fateful Supreme Court decisions, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. In Prudence Crandall’s Legacy, author Donald E. Williams Jr. marshals a wealth of detail concerning the life and work of Prudence Crandall, her unique role in the fight for civil rights, and her influence on legal arguments for equality in America. “A compelling and lively look at the long struggle for black equality in America. Taking readers from Connecticut schoolrooms to the highest court in the land, he gives us heroes and villains, triumph and tragedy, equity and injustice on the rough road to full freedom. Williams reminds readers that abolitionism was America’s first civil rights movement and that race reformers like Prudence Crandall struggled mightily to overcome prejudice in the North as well as South.” Richard S. Newman, author of Freedom’s Prophet “Donald Williams has authored what will become the authoritative history of Prudence Crandall and her controversial academy. Through a carefully researched narrative, Williams richly intertwines Crandall with other key protagonists of the struggle for abolition and black equality to show how Crandall’s courageous stand in Canterbury and her persisting dedication to conscience and human freedom helped shape the struggle for black equality into the Civil War and beyond.” Peter P. Hinks, author of To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren

donald e. williams jr. is an attorney and president pro tempore of the Connecticut State Senate. He lives in Brooklyn, Connecticut.


In Defense of Nothing

Selected Poems, 1987–2011 peter gizzi

A new lyricism for the twenty-first century

Since his celebrated first book of poetry, Peter Gizzi has been hailed as one of the most significant and distinctive voices writing today. Gathered from five collections, and representing close to twenty-five years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth, and otherworldly resonance—in Gizzi’s work, poetry itself becomes a primary ground of human experience. Haunted, vibrant, and saturated with luminous detail, Gizzi’s poetry enlists the American vernacular in a magical and complex music. In Defense of Nothing is an immensely valuable introduction to the work of this extraordinary and singular poet. An online reader’s companion will be available. “Peter Gizzi’s poetry at once captures the deadening, and the standardization of our culture and wakes us up, makes us ‘silly with clarity.’ Through his poetry we become almost painfully attuned to the present. He can name with precision our medicated, mediated insensibility and then startle us out of anesthesia with the beauty of his singing. Gizzi can move from the ghostly, flickering edge of perceptibility to focused intensity at disorienting, Dickinsonian speed. His poetry is an example of how a poet’s total, tonal attention can disclose orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion, and his influences range from Simonides to Schuyler, but those voices, those prosodies, aren’t ever decorative; Gizzi is gathering from the air a live tradition.” Ben Lerner

peter gizzi is the author of Threshold Songs, The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

March 248 pp., 6B/i x 8W Cloth, $26.95 • 978-0-8195-7430-5 Ebook, $20.99 • 978-0-8195-7431-2 poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

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also of interest Collected Poems JOSEPH C ER AVOLO EDITED BY ROSEM ARY C ER AVOLO AN D PAR KER SM ATH ERS

Cloth, $35.00 · 978-0-8195-7341-4 Ebook, $27.99 · 978-0-8195-7342-1



Favor of Crows

The Tatters

brenda coultas A documentary elegy for the end of a pristine natural world

A collection of original haiku from a preeminent Native American poet and novelist

Favor of Crows is a collection of new and previously published original haiku poems, written over the past forty years. Gerald Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry. Vizenor creates a union of vision, perception, and natural motion in concise poems; he creates a sense of presence and at the same time a naturalistic trace of impermanence. An online reader’s companion will be available. “Joining the traditions of Japanese haiku and Chippewa dream songs, Vizenor has created a memorable book of one-breath nature poetry in which ordinary moments come to shimmering life on the page.” David G. Lanoue, president of the Haiku Society of America

February 168 pp., 4 illus., 5V x 8V" Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8195-7432-9 Ebook, $19.99 • 978-0-8195-7433-6 poetry / haiku

Wesleyan Poetry


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gerald vizenor is a prolific writer and literary critic. He is a citizen of the White Earth Nation of the Anishinaabeg in Minnesota, and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

This beautiful new book gathers the debris of our living, sifting through the midden piles to uncover the made world at the center of a hornets’ nest or a human anatomy book. Coultas’s seamless weave of sentences shows us the tatters at the heart of living, and the full glory of our assemblages. These poems enable us to be present with the sorrow and horror of our destructive nature, and to honor the natural world while acknowledging that this world no longer exists in any pure form. An online reader’s companion will be available. “In this ethical testimony, occurring at the boundary between the remains and the living, Coultas shows us the only thing that will keep us going: how to share this world.” Eleni Sikelianos, author of The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead

brenda coultas is author of The Marvelous Bones of Time. She teaches at Touro College and has served as faculty in Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, and she lives in New York City. March 68 pp., 6 x 8" Cloth, $22.95 • 978-0-8195-7419-0 Ebook, $17.99 • 978-0-8195-7440-4 poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

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New and Collected Haiku gerald vizenor


Green Planets

Vintage Visions

Essays on Early Science Fiction edited by arthur b. evans Top scholars investigate the nature and variety of early science fiction

Essays exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism

In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, visions of the future have become increasingly catastrophic—even apocalyptic. Green Planets considers how science fiction writers have been working through this crisis. From H. G. Wells and Ursula K. Le Guin to Stanislaw Lem, Margaret Atwood, and China Miéville—as well as recent blockbuster films—the essays in Green Planets consider the serious role that science fiction has to play in urgent environmental debates of the twenty-first century.” “Green Planets is solid gold.” Patrick D. Murphy, author of Transversal Ecocritical Praxis

April 280 pp., 2 illus., 6 x 9" Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7426-8 Paper, $27.95 • 978-0-8195-7427-5 Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7428-2 literary criticism / science fiction & fantasy

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gerry canavan is an assistant professor of English at Marquette University and coeditor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. kim stanley robinson is the author of myriad novels and stories, including most recently 2312 and Shaman. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for science fiction.

An important anthology of seminal essays on early science fiction by recognized specialists in the field, Vintage Visions covers an unusually broad range of authors, works, and historical periods. The book features an extensive bibliography of criticism on early science fiction—the first of its kind—and a chronological listing of 150 key early works. “Vintage Visions is a treasure house of eyeopening classic essays on science fiction’s early history and prehistory. Collectively, the sixteen essayists offer richer, more varied perspectives on the evolving and experimental relationship between fiction and science than any singleauthor study could provide.” Robert Crossley, author of Imagining Mars: A Literary History

arthur b. evans is a professor of French at DePauw University, coeditor of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, and managing editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies. June 350 pp., 10 illus., 6W x 9W" Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7437-4 Paper, $29.95 • 978-0-8195-7438-1 Ebook, $23.99 • 978-0-8195-7439-8 literary criticism / science fiction & fantasy

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Ecology and Science Fiction edited by gerry canavan and kim stanley robinson

Early Classics of Science Fiction



Antiphonal Histories

The Begum’s Millions jules verne

Echoes of the Past in the Toba Batak Musical Present julia byl

translated by stanford l. luce edited by arthur b. evans introduction by peter schulman

An in-depth ethnography and history of musical performance in North Sumatra

now in paperback Verne’s first cautionary tale about the dangers of science

“Well-written, smart, and honest, Antiphonal Histories is an innovative juxtaposition of historiography, ethnography, musical analysis, and reflexive autobiography.” Jeremy Wallach, author of Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997–2001

July 320 pp., 31 illus., 8 musical examples, 6 x 9" Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7478-7 Paper, $29.95 • 978-0-8195-7479-4 Ebook, $23.99 • 978-0-8195-7480-0 ethnomusicology

Music / Culture

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julia byl is a postdoctoral research associate at King’s College London.

When two scientists unexpectedly inherit fortunes, each builds an experimental city of his dreams. Both prescient and cautionary, The Begum’s Millions is a masterpiece of scientific and political speculation and constitutes one of the earliest technological utopia/dystopias in Western literature. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices, a critical introduction, and all the original edition illustrations. “This edition of The Begum’s Millions is a significant work of scholarship and an important contribution to the ongoing project of reclaiming and redefining Verne’s reputation in the Englishspeaking world.” Gary K. Wolfe, professor of humanities and English, Roosevelt University

jules verne (1828–1905) was the first author to popularize science fiction. stanford l. luce was a professor emeritus of French at Miami University in Ohio. arthur b. evans is a professor of French at DePauw University. peter schulman is an associate professor of French and international studies at Old Dominion University. June 308 pp., 45 illus., 5V x 8V" Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8195-7469-5 science fiction / fiction classics / literary criticism - french

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Combining vivid narrative, wide-ranging historical research, and personal reflections, Antiphonal Histories explores the music of the Toba Batak people of Sumatra to explore their pasts. Now ethnic and religious minorities within modern Indonesia, Tobas manifest multiple historical legacies through their “local music”—Lutheran brass band hymns, gong-chime music sacred to Shiva, and Jimmy Rodgers yodeling. This vibrant ethnographic account is both informative and moving.


A Deep Traveler Explores Connecticut david k. leff

Field Notes from a Choreographer liz lerman

now in paperback

now in paperback

The art of discovering cultural and natural treasures in everyday landscapes

Award-winning choreographer shares insights and methods for making real art in the real world

Warm and informative essays teach us to be “deep travelers” and to see the magic in the mundane, revealing the rich stories behind many of Connecticut’s overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall’s Cathedral Pines to centuries-old milestones. “After reading this book, you will explore the state differently. Everything from roadside rock art to old growth forests takes on new meaning. My recommendation: Hop onboard and take the journey!” Nicholas F. Bellantoni, Connecticut State Archaeologist

July 264 pp., 20 illus., 6W x 9W" Paper, $17.95 • 978-0-8195-7466-4 Ebook, $13.99 • 978-0-8195-7282-0 travel & tourism / connecticut

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david k. leff is the author of The Last Undiscovered Place, Deep Travel, and two volumes of poetry. His essays have appeared in the Hartford Courant, Appalachia, Yankee, Canoe & Kayak, and the Encyclopedia of New England. He lives in Collinsville, Connecticut.

Garnet Books

Hiking the Horizontal

The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Offering readers a gentle manifesto describing methods that bring a horizontal focus to bear on a hierarchical world, this is the perfect book for anyone curious about the possible role for art in politics, science, community, motherhood, and the media. This paperback edition includes an afterword with updates and additions to each section of the book.

liz lerman founded the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, a dance company featuring a multigenerational ensemble that creates, performs, teaches, and engages people in making art. In 2002 she was recognized with a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship.

May 344 pp., 47 illus., 6 x 9" Paper, $24.95 • 978-0-8195-7436-7 Ebook, $19.99 • 978-0-8195-7148-9 dance

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Hidden in Plain Sight



Things Come On

Live from the Homesick Jamboree

An amneoir joseph harrington

adrian blevins

now in paperback

now in paperback

National and family disasters converge in this radically new kind of memoir

Molten and musical poetry from an acclaimed Southern writer

Things Come On combines poetry and other elements to weave a narrative around the concurrence of the Watergate scandal and the dates of the poet’s mother’s illness and death from breast cancer. The language of illness and of political cover-up powerfully resonate with one another; this haunting experimental biography challenges our assumptions about the distance between individual experience and history. “Proves once again the inseparability of the personal from the political. . . . Cognitive disarray becomes cognitive dismay—this is the political truth of grief. And with discovery of this truth, Harrington restores dignity and beauty to the personal.” Lyn Hejinian, author of My Life and My Life in the Nineties

This is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, moving from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with a headlong perceptiveness and brio. Whether listening to Emmylou Harris while thinking she should be memorizing Tolstoy, reflecting on her “full-to-bursting motherliness,” the tensions and lurchings of a relationship, or “the cockamamie lovingness” of it all, the language flies fast and furious. “Cracklingly vernacular, the poems of Adrian Blevins coo and whine…awash in adverbs and adjectives and ands, lending itself to lists that seem to unspool quickly and endlessly, and to include everything. . . . A nutty, nervy poetics of pissed.” Abigail Deutsch, Poetry

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

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

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108 pp., 20 illus., 6 x 9" Paper, $15.95 • 978-0-8195-7434-3 Ebook, $12.99 • 978-0-8195-7136-6 poetry / biography / memoir

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66 pp., 6 x 9" Paper, $15.95 • 978-0-8195-7461-9 Ebook, $12.99 • 978-0-8195-7051-2 poetry

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adrian blevins won the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her first book, The Brass Girl Brouhaha. She teaches at Colby College.

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joseph harrington is a professor of English at the University of Kansas and the author of Poetry and the Public.

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