About today’s guest writer: W. Jason Miller is professor of English at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture, a book that investigates the nearly three dozen poems written by Hughes on the subject of lynching to explore its varying effects on survivors, victims, and accomplices. His newest … Continue reading How the Poetry of Langston Hughes Inspired Martin Luther King’s First Dream
Within the Walls and What Do I Love?
Within the Walls and What Do I Love? by H.D., edited by Annette Debo This volume presents two rare works by the modernist writer H.D.: Within the Walls, a collection of fourteen short stories, and What Do I Love?, a set of three long poems. Written during World War II in London, where H.D. chose … Continue reading Within the Walls and What Do I Love?
By Avon River
New! By Avon River by H.D., edited by Lara Vetter Near the end of World War II, after staying in London throughout the Blitz, H.D. made a pilgrimage to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace. This experience resulted in a hybrid volume of poetry about The Tempest and prose about Shakespeare and his contemporaries—a major turning point to … Continue reading By Avon River
Autoepitaph
Now available! Autoepitaph: Selected Poems by Reinaldo Arenas, Edited by Camelly Cruz-Martes, Translated by Kelly Washbourne Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), one of the most famous expatriate Cuban writers, is widely known for his novels and his autobiography, Before Night Falls—chosen as one of the ten best books of 1993 by the New York Times and made into … Continue reading Autoepitaph
On Valentine’s Day, Our Marketing Department Shows the Love for UPF Books
And now, it’s time for some silliness. For Valentine’s Day 2014, we’re introducing what could possibly be the world’s FIRST EVER book acrostic love poems. What, you ask, is a book acrostic love poem? Rule 1: It must be written with (and only with) the first words of book titles. Rule 2: It must be a … Continue reading On Valentine’s Day, Our Marketing Department Shows the Love for UPF Books
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