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Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn

The Collected Letters

University of New Mexico Press
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The Shoshoneans

The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press
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Loose Cannons

Selected Prose

University of New Mexico Press

Like his poetry, Middleton’s prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions.

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How Long Is the Present

Selected Talk Poems of David Antin

University of New Mexico Press

In this book editor Stephen Fredman provides critical introductions to a selection of talk poems from Antin’s now out-of-print collections in conjunction with a new interview with the author.

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The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies

Spies, Noirs, and Trust

University of New Mexico Press

Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy films propose.

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The Oppens Remembered

Poetry, Politics, and Friendship

University of New Mexico Press

In this book the poets, editors, writers, composers, and teachers who knew the couple consider their encounters and relationships with George and Mary Oppen.

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The Birth of the Imagination

William Carlos Williams on Form

University of New Mexico Press
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The Collected Letters of Charles Olson and J. H. Prynne

Edited by Ryan Dobran
University of New Mexico Press

Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century transatlantic literary culture.

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The Olson Codex

Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs

University of New Mexico Press

In The Olson Codex, Tedlock describes and examines Olson’s efforts to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, giving Olson’s work in Mexico the place it deserves within twentieth-century poetry and poetics.

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An Open Map

The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson

University of New Mexico Press

The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after Robert Duncan and Charles Olson first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's death in January 1970.

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Imagining Persons

Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson

University of New Mexico Press

These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan's vision of modernist writing.

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Curious Disciplines

Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood

University of New Mexico Press

Foregrounding Loy’s critical interrogation of Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, and "Degenerate" artisthood, and exploring her poetic legacies today, Curious Disciplines reveals Loy’s importance in an entirely novel way.

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Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime

University of New Mexico Press

This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics.

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Presences

A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition

University of New Mexico Press

Now in a new edition, this beautiful, interactive collaboration is a unique work of book art in which Marisol’s monumental pop-art sculptures face the blocks of Creeley’s prose poems.

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Why Should I Write a Poem Now

The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958

Edited by Graziano Krätli; Foreword by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; Afterword by Paul Mariani
University of New Mexico Press

Their intense epistolary relationship between Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters.

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The Language Letters

Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman

University of New Mexico Press

Written between 1970 and 1978, these letters detail the development of the concepts and styles that came to define one of the most influential movements in post-1960s writing.

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Inciting Poetics

Thinking and Writing Poetry

University of New Mexico Press

The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book’s opening question, "What are poetics now?"

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Circling the Canon, Volume I

The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969-1994

University of New Mexico Press

Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff’s career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht’s The Hard Hours.

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Circling the Canon, Volume II

The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1995-2017

University of New Mexico Press

Circling the Canon, Volume II focuses on the second half of Marjorie Perloff’s prolific career, showcasing reviews from 1995 through her 2017 reconsiderations of Jonathan Culler’s theory of the lyric and William Empson’s classic Seven Types of Ambiguity.

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Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

The Complete Facsimile

University of New Mexico Press

Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein’sL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter’s original issues along with three supplementary issues.

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