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Bruised Totems: Poems Based on the Bareiss Family Collection of African Art As co-sponsors of the 2004 African Literature Association’s 30th annual conference, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries published a chapbook of African poetry. Kwame Dawes’ Bruised Totems, an original poetry chapbook […] | |
Chevalier John Taylor, England’s Early Oculist: Pretender or Pioneer? Parallel Press is pleased to announce the publication of Chevalier John Taylor, England’s Early Oculist: Pretender or Pioneer?, by UW professor and physician Daniel M. Albert and Sarah L. Atzen. […] | |
This title from Parallel Press is the product of an artistic collaboration between two former UW–Madison professors and administrators. In Echo, the poetry by Blair Mathews and the paintings by […] | |
Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets is an anthology of poetry from Parallel Press poets. The collection is wonderfully representative of the poetry chapbook series that started in 1999. Each […] | |
Family Reunion: Reflections Carved in Sand and Stone Robert G.Toomey was born in 1928 and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended a Catholic high school and (after a stint in the U.S. Army) received bachelor’s and […] | |
Fashioned Pleasures: Twenty-Four Poets Play Bout-Rimés with a Shakespearean Sonnet The idea that would be collectively borrowed to generate the sonnets gathered herein occurred to Stephen Cushman when he came upon a photograph of his young son playing “dress-up”: just […] | |
Forward – Best Young Poets 2005 Forward is a collection of poetry showcasing the work of UW-Madison’s second-year Masters of Fine Arts graduate writing students and the undergraduate winners, honorable mentions, and finalists of the 2005 […] | |
Forward – Best Young Poets 2006 Forward is a collection of poetry showcasing the work of UW–Madison’s first-year Masters of Fine Arts writing students and the undergraduate winners, honorable mentions, and finalists of the 2006 George […] | |
If the Whole Body Dies: Raphael Lemkin and the Treaty Against Genocide If the Whole Body Dies: Raphael Lemkin and the Treaty Against Genocide by Robert Skloot explores the life and career of Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959). Lemkin’s obsession with stopping genocide (a […] | |
Love and Lust: An Anthology features poetry by: Marilyn Annucci, Bridget Brown, Robin Chapman, Rhonda Lee, Andrea Potos, Eve Robillard, Nicky Sund, Katrin Talbot, Marilyn Taylor, and Lauranne Bailey & […] | |
Poems of Dennis Brutus: A Checklist, 1945-2004 Dennis Brutus is a world-renowned South African poet, scholar and activist. In 2004, he turned 80 years old and it seems fitting to honor the occasion by producing Poems of […] | |
The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries: A History of the First Sixty Years The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries: A History of the First Sixty Years was written by Christopher Kleinhenz, former president of the Friends and professor of French & Italian at […] | |
To Sit Beside a Bird is Infinite Enough David Hayman sailed to Paris in 1950, convinced that poetry was his destiny. He told friends of his calling and even submitted “poems” to a fledgling periodical. He wrote his […] | |
Wind Chill Factor: Translations of the Cold The Wind Chill Factor project began as an exhibit created for the UW-Madison Memorial Library. The overarching idea of the project was to have UW-Madison graduate students from around the […] | |
As the title suggests, Wallace revels in playfulness with this collection of sonnets after the classic Japanese haiku masters. For each poem, the last word of each line, read vertically […] |