This photograpy book was published by Wesleyan University Press in October 2009.
Wesleyan University Press published a photographic book about the Connecticut River Oct. 23. The photographs in The Connecticut River: A Photographic Journey Through the Heart of New England follow this major waterway for 410 miles, from its origin near the Canadian border to its wide mouth on Long Island Sound, giving readers a vivid portrait of a living artery of the New England landscape. Middletown is featured in the book.
Author and photographer Al Braden opens the book with an essay introducing important aspects of the river, and Chelsea Reiff Gwyther, executive director of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, closes with an essay that succinctly highlights the environmental pressures that the river faces.
The book has 136 full-page color photos, ranging from close-ups to dramatic aerials, to reveal the river as few people are privileged to experience it. Readers will see and learn about many facets of the river, including its landscape, history, development, conservation, geologic formations, flora and fauna, and, of course, the moods of the water, sky, and riverbank. Informative captions provide a wealth of information about the images, which depict every¬thing from pristine misted mornings to rich valley farmlands and modern hydroelectric turbines. The Wesleyan University Press book is $35 and available online.
Wesleyan University Press published the award-winning book.
A book published by Wesleyan University Press is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist in the poetry category.
Versed, by Rae Armantrout, offers readers an expanded view of the arc of the author’s writing. The poems in the first section, “Versed,” play with vice and versa, the perversity of human consciousness. They flirt with error and delusion, skating on a thin ice that inevitably cracks. In the second section, “Dark Matter,” the invisible and unknowable are confronted directly as Armantrout’s experience with cancer marks these poems with a new austerity shot through with her signature wit and stark unsentimental thinking.
Together, the poems of Versed part us from our assumptions about reality, revealing the gaps and fissures in our emotional and linguistic constructs, showing us ourselves where we are most exposed.
Rae Armantrout is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Posted in Grants on Oct. 8, 2009 by Olivia Bartlett Drake
Suzanna Tamminen, director of the Wesleyan University Press, received a grant worth $4,000 from the J.M. Kaplan Fund. The award, presented July 24, will fund publication of a book by Ann Cooper Albright titled An Artist Inspired: Abraham Walkowitz on Isadora Duncan.
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, published by the Wesleyan University Press, is one of the winners of the 30th annual American Book Awards for 2009.
The awards are presented by the Before Columbus Foundation and will be formally award on Sunday, Oct. 11 in New York, N.Y.
The Wesleyan University Press edition features original sketches.
Jules Verne’s The Kip Brothers, published in English by Wesleyan University Press in 2007, was mentioned in a May 11 Huffington Post article titled “Jules Verne’s Kip Brothers Translated into English after 100 Years.”
The Wesleyan University Press book features original black and white illustrations.
The article says: “The book, a crime drama, celebrates the fraternal bonds of brotherhood, written shortly after the death of Verne’s brother and best friend, a French sailor. The bond between the two heroes is so close it raised the question in this writer’s mind whether gay relationships could have been written about openly in Victorian France?”
Posted in Grants on Jan. 20, 2009 by Olivia Bartlett Drake
The Wesleyan University Press and the Center for the Arts have received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants in December 2008.
Wesleyan University Press received a $35,000 grant to help publish the work of the following poets: Kazim Ali, Rae Armantrout, Adrian Blevins, Kamau Brathwaite, Brenda Hillman, Ed Roberson, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Roberto Tejada and Tan Lin.
The Center for the Arts received $10,000 grant to help fund the “Breaking Ground Dance Series and DanceMasters Weekend.
