Infinity for Marxists: Essays on Poetry and Capital

Infinity for Marxists: Essays on Poetry and Capital

Breaking from half a century of postmodernist readings of poetry, and bypassing the false divide between formalist and historicist criticism, these essays chart a path toward a new Marxist poetics. […]


All About You

All About You

Written with keen perception and insatiable curiosity, Chris Nealon’s fifth book of poetry, All About You, is both a study of personhood and a diary of release from it.  “You almost […]


After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century

After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century

After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to […]


The Pedro Gorino

The Pedro Gorino

Captain Harry Foster Dean’s 1929 memoir The Pedro Gorino is the extraordinary story of his time in southern Africa around the turn of the twentieth century. Dean’s narrative describes his thrilling maritime […]


Oliverio Girondo, Decals: Complete Early Poems

Oliverio Girondo, Decals: Complete Early Poems

An important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and others, Oliverio Girondo was at the center of Argentine poetry in the twentieth century. His first two books demonstrate his cosmopolitan wanderlust […]


The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures

The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures

The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of […]


Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition

Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition

This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language novel published by an African writer. Casely Hayford drew material from his eminent […]


The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV

The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV

The story of a new style of art—and a new way of life—in postwar America: confessionalism. What do midcentury “confessional” poets have in common with today’s reality TV stars? They […]


Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange

Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange

Why should the earliest literary encounters between China and the United States—and their critical interpretation—matter now? How can they help us describe cultural exchanges in which nothing substantial is exchanged, […]


Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature

Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature

Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. In this study, Drew Daniel identifies a […]