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In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.

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

The lifework of a preeminent New York School poet

Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983-2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originating in India) in Sri Lanka, and the first on the role of dance in the country's war.

Rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materiality of each dance work she has made.

Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, Facing the Past uncovers a hidden past.

A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century

A darkly humorous look at etiquette

New vocabulary for a world on the brink

An examination of popular Ethiopian music styles in Tel Aviv

Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets

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

The first collection of classic and contemporary German-language science fiction in English

Whether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares.

The only source in print of the key essays of a pioneer of modernist design.

An annual anthology of the best new experimental writing

Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fiction

An annual anthology of the best new experimental writing

"e;A solid, scholarly analysis of the power, meaning, musical structure, and sociopolitical contexts of the most popular examples of heavy metal."e; -Library JournalDismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both musically and socially, and at the same time uses metal to investigate contemporary formations of identity, community, gender, and power. This edition includes a new foreword by Harris M. Berger contextualizing the work and a new afterword by the author.Ebook Edition Note: all photographs (sixteen) have been redacted."e;Walser belongs to a small but influential group of academics trying to reconcile 'high theory' with a streetwise sense of culture . . . an excellent book."e; -Rolling Stone"e;Takes musicology where it has never gone before; I once saw the chapter on metal guitarists and the classical tradition performed live in a lecture hall, but even on paper it smokes."e; -SF Weekly"e;Walser is truly gifted at doing what few critics before him have done: analyzing the music . . . In virtuoso readings of metal music that forge persuasive links between metal and particular classical music traditions, Walser reveals the ways that musical structures themselves are social texts."e; -The Nation"e;Making surprising connections to classical forms and debunking stereotypes of metal's musical crudity, Walser delves enthusiastically into guitar conventions and rituals."e; -The Washington Post

First book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword

Cesaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.

The bird poems of a revered American poet paired with classic bird illustrations

How Aussies came to belong to the hip-hop nation.

Powerful essays on the state and aims of contemporary poetry.

A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.

Critics and writers consider nonfiction film both as document and as creative work with strong artistic, political, and moral implications.

Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.

The first full-length feminist analysis of Frida Kahlo and the myths surrounding her.

A new paperback edition of Kent's first book, often referred to as "Alaska's Walden."