University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Poetry Los Angeles
Reading the Essential Poems of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about...
by Pamela Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
The school of Greek philosopher Epicurus, which became known as the Garden, famously put great stock in happiness and pleasure. As a philosophical community, and a way of seeing the world, Epicureanism had a centuries-long life in Athens and Rome, as well as across the Mediterranean.
The Invention...
by Robert Gorman, Vanessa Barrett Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for destructive opulence. This volume demonstrates the scarcity of evidence for Sybarite luxury, and examines the vocabulary of luxury used by the Hellenic...
Margaret Webster
A Life in the Theater
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book,...
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition
Toward a 21st Century Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition gathers Rigoberto González’s most important essays and book reviews, many of which consider the work of emerging poets whose identities and political positions are transforming what readers expect from contemporary poetry. A number of these voices represent intersectional...
Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance
Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. As an African American...
American Audacity
Literary Essays North and South
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement, Benfey's writings have helped us reimagine...
Are We Not New Wave?
Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.”
—Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out Pop
New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock’s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated....
Shattering Hamlet's Mirror
Theatre and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Theatrical playing, Hamlet famously averred, holds a mirror up to nature. But unlike the reflections in the mirror, the theater’s images are composed of real objects, most notably bodies, that have an independent existence outside the world of reflection. Throughout Western theater history there...
Playing Underground
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
"Scrupulously researched, critically acute, and written with care, Playing Underground will become a classic account of an era of hard-won free expression."
-William Coco
"At last---a book documenting the beginnings of Off-Off Broadway theater. Playing Underground is an insightful,...
American Poetry in Performance
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains...
The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord
Nabokov and His Father
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), a writer of world renown, grew up in a culturally refined family with diverse interests. Nabokov’s father, Vladimir Dmitrievich (1870–1922), was a distinguished jurist and statesman at the turn of the twentieth century. He was also a great connoisseur and aficionado...
The Governors' Lobbyists
Federal-State Relations Offices and Governors Associations in Washington
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Today, approximately half of all American states have lobbying offices in Washington, DC, where governors are also represented by their own national, partisan, and regional associations. Jennifer M. Jensen’s The Governors’ Lobbyists draws on quantitative data, archival research, and more than...
Someone to Watch Over Me
The Life and Music of Ben Webster
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
For a half century, Ben Webster, one of the "big three" of swing tenors-along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young-was one of the best-known and most popular saxophonists.
Early in his career, Webster worked with many of the greatest orchestras of the time, including those led by...