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The first inside story of this Jamaican reggae style

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

An annual anthology of the best new experimental writing

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.

Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats.

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."

The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available-includes online teacher's guide

A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio's Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene.

Encounters with the Gypsy female flamenco dancer throughout history