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Nick Admussen, “Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry” (U Hawaii Press, 2016)

Nick Admussen
Recite and Refuse
Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry
University of Hawaii Press, 2016

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books Network April 11, 2018 Miranda Corcoran

Published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2016, Nick Admussen’s exciting new book Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry explores the development of twentieth-century prose poetry within the unique political and cultural context of Communist China. In this ambitious study, Admussen attempts not only to define prose poetry... Read More

Interview with Australian Poets Leni Shilton and Renee Pettitt-Schipp

New Books Network, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books Network February 23, 2018 Jason Schulman

In this special episode of New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies, we are joined by two fantastic Australian poets. In her new poetic narrative, Walking with Camels: The Story of Bertha Strehlow (UWA Publishing, 2018), poet Leni Shilton takes us back to Central Australia of the 1930s to... Read More

Christopher Grobe, “The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV” (NYU Press, 2017)

Christopher Grobe
The Art of Confession
The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV
New York University Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network February 16, 2018 Petal Samuel

Christopher Grobe’s The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV (New York University Press, 2017) traces the ways the performance of confession permeated and transformed a wide range of media in postwar America. Grobe explores how confession—from the confessional poets of the 1960s to... Read More

Liam Cole Young, “List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)

Liam Cole Young
List Cultures
Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed
Amsterdam University Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Poetry New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 9, 2018 Carl Nellis

The list is the origin of culture. At least, that’s according to Umberto Eco, whose words open Liam Cole Young‘s new book, List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed (Amsterdam University Press, 2017). Young follows shifting functions of the list through history, revealing a form that “mediates boundaries... Read More

Daniel Kane, “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City” (Columbia UP, 2017)

Daniel Kane
Do You Have a Band?
Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City
Columbia University Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network November 2, 2017 Richard Schur

Often, poetry and punk rock are seen as distinct activities that occur in different locations with separate audiences. Many would also ascribe to them varying levels of cultural and political capital. Daniel Kane, the author of Do You Have a Band?: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City (Columbia... Read More