Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work...  Read More >>

Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser,...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video...  Read More >>

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Award-winning writer Mark Russell (Batman: Dark Age, Superman: Space Age, Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles)...  Read More >>

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Crush, the passionate and influential poetry collection by Richard Siken  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to...  Read More >>

Animal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science confronts a deep paradox: humanity's greatest achievements...  Read More >>

Using tanka prose and haibun, this collection explores the self and the world through the senses. It is a quest...  Read More >>

""Like someone looking for a lost key, Matthew Murrey searches the world around him-an el platform in Chicago above...  Read More >>

""Steeped in early-aughts pop-culture, experimental poetics, and the absurdities of collegiate and political bureaucracy,...  Read More >>

If it is possible to make a guitar amp for the soul, to hear what moon, river, barn, and paramour all desire of...  Read More >>

As her title implies, Kate Deimling offers us meditations formal and informal on the vicissitudes of time. More...  Read More >>

Reader, the book you hold is made of poems which make a novel constantly unmaking itself; an (unfinished) essay...  Read More >>

""I can't imagine a better Georgic for our age than Chad Parmenter's When I Was Baptized in Missouri Dirt. On one...  Read More >>

The poems in Susan Suntree's This Time This Place are offered as contemplations of our current moment. Inspired...  Read More >>

Whether through medical encyclopedias, daily-use almanacs, or novels and anecdotes, readers pursued knowledge of...  Read More >>

SYNECDOCHE is a fierce and intimate collection of poetry and prose-poems drawn from the backroads of memory, addiction,...  Read More >>

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa. Printed books did not reach West Africa...  Read More >>

Award-winning anthologists Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan have put together another outstanding selection of stories....  Read More >>

67 volumes. Infinite lives. One unforgettable town.  Read More >>