University Of Akron Press imprint: 70 books
The Akron Story Circle Project
Rethinking Race in Classroom and Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Cultures around the world have long employed storytelling to transmit important values and beliefs and to build community. Further, some research has indicated that individuals retain more from stories than other forms of information transmission like lectures. The pedagogical use of storytelling...
The Indomitable Don Plusquellic
How a Controversial Mayor Quarterbacked Akron’s Comeback
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Until his resignation in May 2015, Don Plusquellic had been the mayor of Akron, Ohio, for twenty-eight years. When he took office in 1987, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the average price for a car was a little over $10,000, and later that year the US stock market would drop over 22 percent...
The Akron Offering
A Ladies' Literary Magazine, 1849–1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
"I am not ambitious, I seek only to please for the present moment, leaving the glory of posthumous fame, to the thousand little celebrities of the day," writes Lizzie, one of the regular contributors to The Akron Offering, a literary magazine of mid-nineteenth century Northeast Ohio. "I...
Mr. Chairman
The Life and Times of Ray C. Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Ray Bliss was a masterful behind-the-scenes force in the Republican Party for more than three decades at the local, state, and national levels. Recognized as a master of the "nuts and bolts" of practical politics, Bliss was among the first to use polling and television in campaigns. When...
Thick Description and Fine Texture
Studies in the History of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
The essays contained in this volume offer a unique and personal perspective on the archival research process in the history of psychology. Celebrating the achievements of John A. Popplestone and Marion White McPherson, founders of the Archives of the History of American Psychology at The University...
by Sandra Simonds
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
"If Coleridge, Plath, Ovid, and Celan started a love commune where they built a manifesto Molotov cocktail out of the pastoral, eros, blank verse, and kitsch: it would be this book. A true original, thrilling in her brash complex feminism and virtuosic in sound and line, Simonds writes of the...
by Aimée Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Doe began as Baker's attempt to understand and process the news coverage of a single unidentified woman whose body was thrown from a car leaving Phoenix, Arizona. It soon grew into a seven-year-long project with the goal to document, mourn, and witness the stories of missing and unidentified women...
The Monkey and the Wrench
Essays into Contemporary Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics takes a snapshot of a moving target: the ever-shifting conversation about today's poetry. The ten essays in this collection offer reflections and insights, practical advice for craft matters, and provocative points of departure for those...
A Childhood in the Milky Way
Becoming a Poet in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
How does a young boy discover his vocation as a poet in what is seemingly the least poetical of environments, the industrial Midwest of the 1950s and 1960s? By turns comic and dramatic, at once down to earth and otherworldly in its homegrown mysticism, A Childhood in the Milky Way answers that question,...
Ohio State Football
The Forgotten Dawn
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In Ohio State Football: The Forgotten Dawn, Bob Roman draws on extensive archival research to tell the untold story of the early days of football at Ohio's flagship public university. The game was different. Fields were rarely level and often rocky. Eleven men played both sides of the ball, quarterbacks...
Time is a Toy
The Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
Michael Benedikt (1935–2007), who has been occasionally grouped with the New York School poets, as well as James Tate and Russell Edson, published five books of poetry in his lifetime, and edited several anthologies, including the influential The Prose Poem (1976) and The Poetry of Surrealism (1974)....
Tropical Mountain Forest
Patterns and Processes in a Biodiversity Hotspot
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Tropical mountain forests are very rich in species and are generally considered as hotspots of biodiversity. They are also of great ecological importance as sources of water and other ecosystem services for millions of people living in the tropics. However, these valuable forest ecosystems are now...
by Jason Bredle
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Jason Bredle's poems approach the world like a haunted cat approaches a glacier, curious and itchy with strangeness. In Carnival, he skates paratactically between states of being: levity, heart-holes, licks of darkness, lovesickness and werewolfishness. Bredle's gift as a poet is to traverse and re-traverse...
by Emilia Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Groundspeed moves and doesn’t stop moving. From pastorals on American highways to self-reckonings after a cancer diagnosis to examinations on grief and transience after the death of a brother, this collection of poems asks readers not only to size up threats but anxieties. Phillips witnesses a small...