UIP Fall2012 Hires

fall 2012
where great writing begins
8
[ The Legacy of ]
Recently published by the
University of Iowa Press

Whether he is writing about fatherhood, or marriage, or gardening, or snow geese, readers will be captivated by his honest and funny search for meaning, for belonging, for home. Boston Globe
the new American canon
christopher norment
David Foster Wallace

[ Edited by ]
John T. Price
Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou
a cartographic memoir
1222222w3333334 q r q essayists on the r q r q r q r q r q r q r q r q r q r e s a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f zxxxxxxdccccccv
ESSAY
An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
BIG SHOULDERS
e d i t e d b y r y a n g. v a n c l e a v e
t r e s pa s s e s
a memoir
l a c y m. j o h n s o n
Edited by carl h. kl aus and ned stuckey-french
Montaigne to Our Time
IOWA where great writing begins

The University of Iowa Press is a proud member of the Green Press Initiative and is committed to preserving natural resources. This catalog is printed on fsc-certified paper.
contents
Fall 2012 Titles 119 New in Paper 2021 New Regional & Iowa Titles 1, 912 Bestselling Backlist 2223 Order Form 24 Sales Information 25
index by subject
American History 13 Biography 13 Cooking 1 Crafts 1 Essays 45 Fiction 23 Iowa / Regional 1, 9, 1012 Jewish Studies 19 Literary Criticism 1418, 20 Medicine 5 Memoir 89 Nature 1012, 21 Poetry 67, 15 Theatre 19
www.uiowapress.org | buroakblog.blogspot.com
in the memory of the map
Man Killed by Pheasant

and Other Kinships
CITY OF the
Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowas Best-Known Homemaker
by Evelyn Birkby
A Bur OAk BOOk Holly Carver, series editor
I loved this bookEvelyn Birkby is a National Treasure.Fannie Flagg
In 1949, IOwA fArm wIfe Evelyn Birkby began to write a weekly column entitled Up a Country Lane for the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel, now called the Valley News. Sixty-three years, one Royal typewriter, and five computers later, she is still creating a weekly record of the lives and interests of her family, friends, and neighbors. Her perceptive, closely observed columns provide a multigenerational biography of rural and small-town life in the Midwest over decades of change. Now she has sifted through thousands of columns to give us her favorites, guaranteed to delight her many longtime and newfound fans. I began to smile as soon as I started to read Evelyn begins with her very first column, whose focus on the this collection of columns by Evelyn Birkby, Christmas box prepared by a companionable group of farm wives, gleaned from sixty-three years of publicathe constant hard work of farming, and an encounter with an elderly tion in the same southwestern Iowa newsstranger over a yard of red gingham sets the tone for future columns. paper. The author invites us to share the Optimistic even in the wake of sorrow, generous-spirited but not everyday lives of folks in a rural community smug, humorous but not folksy, wise but not preachy, Evelyn wel- where they all had so much in common, comes the adventures and connections that each new day brings, and from looking after those who were less forshe masterfully shares them with her readers. tunate to exchanging recipessometimes Tales of separating cream on the back porch at Cottonwood Farm, not successfullyand yes, there is a great raising a teddy bear of a puppy in addition to a menagerie of other recipe for fried green tomatoes. Reading animals, surviving an endless procession of Cub and Boy Scouts, ap- these chatty columns is like having a friend preciating a little boys need to take his toy tractor to church, blowing you have known all your life come to visit out eggs to make an Easter egg tree, shopping for bargains on the day you. Indeed, this collection serves as a conbefore Christmas, camping in a converted Model T house car, and duit for bridging the gap that separates us adjusting to the fact of ones tenth decade of existence all merge to one from another. Read it and enjoy! form a world composed of kindness and wisdom with just enough hu- Mildred Armstrong Kalish, author, Little mor to keep it grounded. Recipes for such fare as Evelyns signature Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Hay Hand Rolls prove that the young woman who was daunted by her Iowa Farm during the Great Depression editors advice to put in a recipe every week became a talented cook. Each of the more than eighty columns in this warmhearted collection Evelyn Birkby, famous as a radio homecelebrates not a bygone era tinged with sentimentality but a continu- maker, is also the dean of Iowa newspaper ing tradition of neighborliness, Midwest-nice and Midwest-sensible. columnists, having written lifestyle columns
Always Put in a Recipe d Other Tips for Living J L

f rom Iowas Best K now n Hom e m a k e r
I loved this book Evelyn Birkby is a National Treasure. Fannie Flagg
Evelyn Birkby
In addition to writing a weekly newspaper column since 1949, native Iowan Evelyn Birkby has been a writer and broadcaster for KMA Radio and Kitchen-Klatter, part of the longest-running homemaker program in the history of radio. In 1996 she represented Iowa at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival; in 1998 she was named an Iowa Master Farm Homemaker, and in 2009 Iowa Public Television featured her in a documentary about radio homemakers. She is the author of ten books, including Neighboring on the Air: Cooking with the KMA Radio Homemakers (Iowa, 1991) and Up a Country Lane Cookbook (Iowa, 1993).
for sixty-three years without ever missing a week. This book is like Evelyns Greatest Hits. Its also a highly entertaining folkhistory of the Midwest from 1949 to the present.Iowa writer Chuck Offenburger
september
cooking / crafts
www.uiowapress.org
Mike Whye
224 pages . 12 photos . 6 x 9 inches $19.95 paper original 1-60938-115-7, 978-1-60938-115-8
Safe as Houses
by Marie-Helene Bertino
2012 IOwA ShOrt fIctIOn AwArd
Marie-Helene Bertinos stories are hilarious and heartbreaking and wildly inventive, and her narrators are endlessly appealing and both fiercely proactive and stubbornly self-defeating. Thats more than enough for me.Jim Shepard
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other peoples homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In Free Ham, a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it. Has my ham done anything wrong? she asks when the grocery store manager demands that she claim it. In Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph, a failed commercial writer moves into the basement of a convent and inadvertently discovers the secrets of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. A girl, hoping to When have I last read such highly original talk her brother out of enlisting in the army, brings Bob Dylan home stories? With a surreal edge and a brilfor Thanksgiving dinner in the quiet, dreamy North Of. In The liant dark humor, Safe as Housess tales of Idea of Marcel, Emily, a conservative, elegant girl, has dinner with daughterhood and its mishaps mark a stagthe idea of her ex-boyfriend, Marcel. In a night filled with baffling geringly good debut.Deb Olin Unferth, coincidences, including Marcel having dinner with his idea of Em- author of Revolution ily, she wonders why we tend to be more in love with ideas than with reality. In and out of the rooms of these gritty, whimsical stories roam troubled, funny people struggling to reconcile their circumstances to some kind of American Ideal and failing, over and over. The stories of Safe as Houses are magical and original and help answer such universal and existential questions as: How far will we go to stay loyal to our friends? Can we love a man even though he is inches shorter than our ideal? Why doesnt Bob Dylan ever have his own smokes? And are there patron saints for everything, even lost socks and bad movies? All homes are not shelters. But then again, some are. Welcome to the home of Marie-Helene Bertino. Marie-Helene Bertinos stories have appeared in ThePushcart Prize Anthology XXXIII, North American Review, Mississippi Review, Inkwell, The Indiana Review, American Short Fiction, and West Branch. Bertino received a Pushcart Prize in 2007 and a Pushcart Special Mention in 2011. She was chosen as a Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellow in 2011. She hails from Philadelphia and lives in Brooklyn, where for six years she was theassociate editor of One Story.
october
164 pages . 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches $16.00 paper original 1-60938-114-9, 978-1-60938-114-1
fiction
2
university of iowa press . fall 2012
Tell Everyone I Said Hi

by Chad Simpson
2012 JOhn SImmOnS ShOrt fIctIOn AwArd
Chad Simpson writes with a piercing tenderness and sadness about loss and helplessness and the impossible decisions that we face every day, and the complexity of the compromises we offer the world, and ourselves, in response.Jim Shepard
CHAD SIMPSON
Stories by
the wOrld Of Tell Everyone I Said Hi is geographically small but far from provincial in its portrayal of emotionally complicated lives. With all the heartbreaking earnestness of a Wilco song, these eighteen stories by Chad Simpson roam the small-town playgrounds, bluecollar neighborhoods, and rural highways of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky to find people whove lost someone or something they love and have not yet found ways to move forward. Simpsons remarkable voice masterfully moves between male and female and adolescent and adult characters. He embraces their helplessness and shares their sad, strange, and sometimes creepy slices Chad Simpsons Tell Everyone I Said Hi of life with grace, humor, and mounds of empathy. In Peloma, is my kind of book. James Wright once a steelworker grapples with his preteen daughters feeble suicide beautifully asked, Where is the sea that once attempts while the aftermath of his wifes death and the politics of solved the whole / loneliness of the Midwest? factory life vie to hem him in. The narrator of Fostering struggles The line kept bubbling up in my mind as I to determine the ramifications of his foster childs past now that read these unpretentious and deeply movhe and his wife are expecting their first biological child. In just two ing stories. Were in the Midwest Chad pages, Let x negotiates the yearnings and regrets of childhood Simpsons Midwesta place of broken through mathematical variables and the summertime interactions hearts and missed opportunities, flooded of two fifth-graders. basements and faulty wiring. The real Poignant, fresh, and convincing, these are stories of women who stuff, its all here.Peter Orner, author, smell of hairspray and beer and of landscapers who worry about Love and Shame and Love their livers, of flooded basements and loud trucks, of bad exes and horrible jobs, of people who remain loyal to sports teams that always lose. Displaced by circumstances both in and out of their control, the characters who populate Tell Everyone I Said Hi are lost in their own surroundings, thwarted by misguided aspirations and long-buried disappointments, but fully open to the possibility that they will again find their way.
Tell Everyone I Said Hi
Chad Simpson was raised in Monmouth, Illinois, and Logansport, Indiana. His work has appeared in McSweeneys Quarterly, Esquire, American Short Fiction, The Sun, and many other print and online publications. He is the recipient of a fellowship in prose from the Illinois Arts Council and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers conferences. He teaches at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he received the Philip Green Wright/Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching in 2010.
october
fiction
www.uiowapress.org
Jane Carlson
On the Shoreline of Knowledge

Irish Wanderings
by Chris Arthur
SIghtlIne BOOkS: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction Patricia Hampl & Carl H. Klaus, series editorsShoreline of Knowledge On the
On the Shoreline of Knowledge

I r i s h Wa n d e r i n g s
Chris Arthur is among the very best essayists in the English language today. He is ever mindful of the genres long literary tradition and understandsas did his great predecessorsthat the genuine essay is grounded in the imagination, in our quest for art and beauty, as deeply as is poetry or painting. Every young writer who wants to experience the creative possibilities of the essay formmustread Chris Arthurit isnt an option.Robert Atwan, series editor, The Best American Essays
chris arthur
the cArefully crAfted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation of the ordinary unerringly gets to A remarkable demonstration of the kind of the heart of the matter. talented free association that characterizes Bringing a diverse range of material into play, from fifteenth- the personal essay at its most imaginative. century Japanese Zen Buddhism to how we look at paintings, and Vivian Gornick, author, The Men in My Life from the nature of a briefcase to the ancient nest-sites of gyrfalcons, Chris Arthur reveals the extraordinary dimensions woven invisibly Chris Arthur writes the kind of essays you into the ordinary things around us. Compared to Loren Eiseley, rarely see anymore, the deeply meditative George Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Aldo Leopold, V. S. Naipaul, W. G. kind that shine with associative light, that Sebald, W. B. Yeats, and other literary luminaries, he is a master es- humbly approach the vast complexity of the sayist whose work has quietly been gathering an impressive cargo world in hopes of making some small bit of critical acclaim. Arthur speaks with an Irish accent, rooting the of sense. He valiantly carries on the long, book in his own unique vision of the world, but he addresses el- glorious tradition of making art out of thinkemental issues of life and death, love and loss, that circle the world ing with On the Shoreline of Knowledge, a truly and entwine us all. lovely book and a pure joy to read.
Patrick Madden, author, Quotidiana
Chris Arthur has published several books of essays, including Irish Nocturnes, Irish Willow, Irish Haiku, Irish Elegies, and Words of the Grey Wind. He lives in Fife, Scotland.
frOm Chestnuts
Its hard to explain the exact reasons behind the appeal chestnuts exert, but such explanation isnt really necessary. Even if its interesting to speculate about why, their appeal works on a level that makes understanding automatic, if in the end opaque. This is something instinctual, of the blood. It issues in an immediate sense of empathy, so we can feel in ourselves the gravity of their attraction even if we cant spell out the fine detail of its operation. I dont wonder in the least at my daughteror anyonewanting to collect them. I only have to look at my own reaction to know why this is. But Im at a loss to explainand in the absence of any instinctual empathy, I feel the need for reasonswhy this same daughter took such a shine to a tweed coat of my mothers. She was drawn to it, wanted it, in the way were drawn to chestnuts.
august
essays
4
Detailing Trauma
A Poetic Anatomy
by Arianne Zwartjes
SIghtlIne BOOkS: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction Patricia Hampl & Carl H. Klaus, series editors
D E TA I L I N G TRAUMA
With a voice recalling Annie Dillards in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Arianne Zwartjes weaves an intriguing and deft tapestry of the interplay of medicine, trauma, wilderness, and modern life. Finding details and leveraging insights to plumb deeper meanings in what others would simply write off as random acts of individual violence, she conducts a beautiful exploration of how the bodys fragility is the basis of our being human. Dr. N. Stuart Harris, Chief, Division of Wilderness Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
A POETIC A N AT O M Y
Arianne Zwartjes
In A SerIeS Of linked lyric essays, Detailing Trauma explores in vivid, sometimes graphic detail the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may sufferand heal. Mapping the diseases A stunning meditation on the body we live and injuries that can afflict the body, the author asks how we can in, Detailing Trauma wraps love tight to life, continue to live and love in the face of the great potential for suffer- insisting we prepare for the departure of ing and loss. both.Terese Svoboda, author, She names each section of the book for body parts or processes, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent then juxtaposes the functions and failures of human anatomy with experiences in her own life and those of people she knows and loves, meticulously stitching together lifes fractures and ruptures with skillful narrative. Each essay offers glimpses of hope and reasons for living with the likelihood of chaos and pain, reasons for choosing to love despite the risks. Zwartjess beautifully crafted poetic prose humanizes the technical descriptions of medical conditions and illuminates the scientific understanding of emotional states. Far more than a popularization of science, Detailing Trauma explores the wondrous anatomy and physiology of the human body, a geography of our human frailtiesand also our wealth, as humans, of love and hope and the capacity for meditative thought. After doing her mfA in poetry at the University of Arizona and teaching English and creative writing there for six years, Arianne Zwartjes is now in northern New Mexico serving as the director of the wilderness program at the United World College. She continues to teach for the Wilderness Medicine Institute as well as for the National Outdoor Leadership School. Her previous works include Disem(body), The Surfacing of Excess, and (Stitched) A Surface Opens: Essays.
september
essay / medicine
www.uiowapress.org
Must a Violence
poems by Oni Buchanan
kuhl hOuSe POetS Mark Levine, series editor
must a violence
poems by oni buchanan
OnI BuchAnAn exPlOreS the problem of violence against the undefended, elemental self through a variety of emotional and linguistic responses. The violation itself is unspecified but involves the forced transformation from an instinctual, animal self, housed in the body and in the senses, into a socialized, time-based citizen, familiar with death, decay, and systemic injustice. This exploration plays out through the twin challenges of perception and compassion. Perception can bind us to the known world or cut us loose in dangerous, horrific territory. Compassion for other creatures (wild or domesticated, and sometimes both) is born of perception, of the hard limits and surprising insights encountered by attending to the bodies, gestures, and plights of others. In Must a Violence, the tones and personalities vary widely but trust is always placed in the five senses. These poems gather and relay Oni Buchanans startling new collection extraordinary sense data, from inaudible sounds to long-absent stages the sacred, violent, and beautiful ensmells. These deeply musical poems demand the reader attend to counter between the human and the animal, their sounds: to the waveforms, repetitions, durations, and delicate each wild, domesticated, caged, terrified, interrelationships of words. and liberated. These wondrously inflamed In sounding out the problem of how to respond to violence and poems recall the eerie worlds of early Plath, to the betrayal and domestication of that which is wild, this book yet the pleading, enraged, but ultimately counters with aesthetic violence and disruption of its own, opening tender voice is entirely Buchanans. the self to the unexpected powers of the senses and to encounters Thomas Heise, associate professor of between wildness and domestication within the self. Though English, McGill University never easy, this openness creates the possibility for an all-enveloping love that touches and joins all animals, both nonhuman and human. There is a road that winds from Buchanans Oni Buchanan has published two previous books of poetry, Spring and What Animal. She is a concert pianist who actively performs across the U.S. and abroad, and is the founder and director of Ariel Artists, a Boston-based management company that represents a national roster of classical and contemporary-classical musicians pursuing visionary performance projects.
masterful, animal ear to her strange and magnificent heart that is unlike any road ever traveled. It is the road the most fragile creaturesViolence and Mourningtake to bring themselves home. They are the ones who must most be, because it is they who mark our cry to exist and our hide from extinction. Buchanan is my favorite species of poet: the rarest of the real.Sabrina Orah Mark, author, The Babies
frOm Must a Violence

Must a violence be administered Must a violence be enacted upon Must a violence be had to oneself Must a violence be endured Must an unanticipated violence Must a violence beyond ones control Must a modicum of violence Must a dosage or capsule-full of violence Must an irregularly dispensed occasional vaccination of violence Must a violence be inflicted upon Must a violence first be undergone
94 pages . 6 x 8 inches $18.00 paper original 1-60938-129-7, 978-1-60938-129-5
poetry
6
Jon Woodward
october
Meme
poems by Susan Wheeler
kuhl hOuSe POetS Mark Levine, series editor
poems by
Susan Wheeler
In Meme, the traditional elegy dissolves into excited bursts of imitated idiomatic speech interwoven with writing from a different registerthe coolly removed, self-insightful lyric. That the elaborately constructed edifice that is personality can be reconstructed with such fascinating economy and delightful indirection is amazing. These poems are pure poetic genius.Mary Jo Bang, author,The Bride of E
AcclAImed POet Susan Wheeler, whose last individual collection predicted the spiritual losses of the economic collapse, turns her attention to the most intimate of subjects: the absence or loss of love. A meme is a unit of thought replicated by imitation; examples of memes, Richard Dawkins wrote, are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Occupy Wall Street is a meme, as are internet ideas and images that go Meme is a haunted work. We are ushered in viral. What could be more potent memes than those passed down by by the disembodied voice of a mother figure, scolding and teasing in the time-stamped parents to their children? Wheeler reconstructs her mothers voicedown to its cynicism slang of past decades. The anachronism is and its mid twentieth-century midwestern vernacularin The Maud both funny and terribly sad. Dont come Poems, a voice that takes a more aggressive, vituperative turn in the in here all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, second section, The Devilor The Introjects. In the books third the voice says. And it turns out thats fair long sequence, a generational inheritance feeds cultural transmission warning. This cracked Virgil leads us into a in The Split. A set of variations on losses and break-upswildly, consciously Dantean underworld (Had you darkly funny throughout and, in places, devastatingly sadThe entered the thicket in darkness / . . . Had you Split brings Wheelers lauded inventiveness, wit, and insight to been mid-life, not in haze but in crisis?). the profound loss of love. One read, and the meme Should I stay or Wheeler has created a total (and to me terrifying) linguistic environment in which hell should I go? will be altered in your head forever. Susan Wheeleris the author of the poetry collectionsBag o Diamonds, which received the Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America; Smokes, which won the Four Way Books Award; Source Codes; Ledger, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; and Assorted Poems. Her novel, Record Palace, was published in 2005. She teaches at Princeton University, where she also directs the Creative Writing Program.
is the introjected voices of other people, the hungry ghosts of our recent past. Rae Armantrout, author, Money Shot
meme
Canasta
Mind your own beeswax or youll be tarred and feathered right here and now. Ray, the dogs got something in her mouth. While youre up, would you check the ham? You and the beasts belly, its short sleek fur, its odor of a world beyond the curb. The tail rises, the fur fans out No, just see what the temperature is up to. Oh, Ill do it. Thats what I was afraid of. Dan, she skunked me.
october
102 pages . 6 x 8 inches $18.00 paper original 1-60938-127-0, 978-1-60938-127-1
poetry
www.uiowapress.org
Frank Wojciechowski
Gathering Noise from My Life

A Camouflaged Memoir
by Donald Anderson
Donald Andersons wonderful memoir Gathering Noise from My Life comes to us like memory itself, in bits and fragments, a scramble of time and geography.Slowly, the anecdotes and images, the quotations and news stories, accumulate in our minds, and Butte (Montana), Vietnam, and America itself in the 50s, 60s, and 70s re-emerge fresh and vivid. If memoir is where a life and history merge, where memory becomes art and art feeds memory, then this is fine memoir indeed.Elliott Gorn, author, Dillingers Wild Ride: The Year That Made Americas Public Enemy Number One
Gathering Noise from My Life

A Camouflaged Memoir donald anderson
the nOISe gAthered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities that mock reason and the despair that yields laughter. Gathering Noise from My Life offers sonic shards of a tune at once jaunty and pessimistic, hopeful and hopeless, and a model for how we can make sense of the scraps of our lives. We are where weve been and what weve read, the author Donald Andersons Gathering Noise from says, and gives us his youth in Montana, the family tradition of box- My Life is a masterful exploration of the ing, careers in writing and fighting, the words of Mike Tyson, Fred- personal set within the wider landscape of erick the Great, Fran Lebowitz, and Shakespeare. In his camouflaged history. Hard-hitting, tender, humorous, memoir, the award-winning short-story writer cobbles together the erudite, and lyrical all at once, it brilliantly sources of the vision of life he has accrued as a consequence of his extends the possibilities of the modern six decades of living and reading. memoir. It refusesto pull its punches or to
fall victim tothe anesthesia ofnostalgia.
Donald Anderson is a professor of English and Writer in Residence That said, it is a generous book, one that at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The editor of the journal War, Literature invites the reader to participate in conand the Arts, he has published several books, including Fire Road (Iowa, structing thehuman frame from the dis2001), which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, and the parate fragments and disrupted narratives edited collections When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers Accounts from otherwise left to ruin within the warehouse the Civil War to Iraq (Iowa, 2008), Andre Dubus: Tributes, and aftermath: of memory. Highly recommended. an anthology of post-vietnam fiction. At the invitation of the National Brian Turner, author, Here, Bullet Endowment for the Arts, he served on the panel that selected the contributions to Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Donald Andersons Gathering Noise from Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families. My Life functions as a brilliant kaleidoscope, the authors life refracted and reflected through the mirrors of his memory. Composed of vivid moments from Andersons life, as well as snapshots of American history and incisive quotes from literature, the book is an innovative memoir that continually asks the reader the question: Is memory what happened or how you felt about what happened? Siobhan Fallon, author,You Know When the Men Are Gone
frOm Part One

I cant help but see the carport, its paled Fiberglas, except for the nail holes, resisting weather, moths, rust, and time. This manufactured overhead product had outlasted my old man. Id thought his shelf life would have pressed on, like Fiberglas, or gold, or copper, Styrofoam, sealed Twinkies, MoonPies, the sproutable wheat found in the tombs of Pharaohs. ... I knew a heroin addict in college named Sally who owned a health food store named Good. Sally would only drink water-processed decaffeinated coffee. ... I did not buy a hybrid. I bought a full-sized SUV with an engine as efficient as a sumo wrestlers heart.
september
226 pages . 5 3/4 x 9 inches $21.00 paperback original 1-60938-111-4, 978-1-60938-111-0
memoir
8
The Farm at Holstein Dip

An Iowa Boyhood
by Carroll Engelhardt
the FaRM hOLSteIN dIP

AT
An Iowa Boyhood cArrOll engelhArdtS PArentS grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and began farming in the same way. As a farm boy in northeastern Iowa, he thought that history happened only to important people in earlier times and more exotic places. After decades of teaching, he at last perceived that history happens to us all, and he began writing this book. Set within the thoughtfully presented contexts of the technological revolution in American agriculture, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the emerging culture of affluence, The Farm at Holstein Dip is both a loving carRoLl engelhardt coming-of-age memoir and an educational glimpse into rural and small-town life of the 1940s and 1950s. Engelhardt writes about growing up in a spacious farmhouse where life was centered in the kitchen and frugality dictated that A farm boy turned history professor, Carroll every purchase be weighed carefully. His chores grew up with him: he Engelhardt brings authenticity and meticufed chickens and gathered eggs at age six, rode a horse on the hayfork lous detail to his descriptions of 1940s and at nine or ten, milked cows by hand at eleven, and hired out to other 50s rural Iowa. His stories, from swimming farmers to load bales in the field and work in the haymow at fifteen. in the creek to the politics of school reorgaThe simple pleasures and predictable routines of a Saturday night at nization to Saturday nights in town to adothe movies in nearby Elkader, Pioneer Days on the 4th of July, Con- lescents at church camp, will charm anyone firmation Sunday, class picnics, and baseball and basketball games with memories ofor curiosity aboutthat play out against a background of rural decline, alternating economic era. And we share his lament that a world uncertainty and prosperity, and Cold War anxietynext to polio, he has vanished in my lifetime. most feared Communist subversion and atomic blasts. The values Larry A. Stone, author, Gladys Black: and contradictions imparted by this evolving mix of international, The Legacy of Iowas Bird Lady national, and local cultures shaped his coming of age. Engelhardt brings us into the world of his fourth-generation farm This fascinating account of Iowa small-town family, who lived by the family- and faith-based work ethic and con- and farm life merges the traditional memoir cern for respectability they had inherited from their German and with sociological fact-finding. Engelhardts Norwegian ancestors. His writing has a particularly Iowa flavor, a study spans over one hundred years, from style that needs no definition to those who live in the state. Readers the mid nineteenth century to the mid will discover the appeal of his wry, humorous, and kind observations twentieth. He often explores minutia that is and appreciate his well-informed perspective on these transformative easily overlooked as unimportant but that is revealing and memorable. This book is solid American decades.
Professor of history emeritus at Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minnesota, Carroll Engelhardt is the author of Gateway to the Northern Plains: Railroads and the Birth of Fargo and Moorhead and On Firm Foundation Grounded: The First Century of Concordia College (18911991).
Americana and an important contribution to understanding the Midwests large role in forming our nation.Curtis Harnack, author, We Have All Gone Away and The Attic
august
238 pages . 18 photos . 6 x 9 inches $22.00 paper original 1-60938-117-3, 978-1-60938-117-2
iowa / memoir
www.uiowapress.org
Of Men and Marshes

by Paul L. Errington illustrated by H. Albert Hochbaum introduction by Matthew Wynn Sivils
StAndIng wIth Such environmental classics as Loren Eiseleys The Immense Journey, his friend and mentor Aldo Leopolds A Sand County Almanac, and Joseph Wood Krutchs The Voice of the Desert, Paul Erringtons Of Men and Marshes remains an evocative reminder of the great beauty and intrinsic value of the glacial marshland. Prescient and stirring, steeped in insights from Erringtons biological fieldwork, his experiences as a hunter and trapper, and his days exploring the marshes of his rural South Dakota childhood, this vibrant work of nature writing reveals his deep knowledge of the marshland environments he championed. Examining the marsh from a dynamic range of perspectives, Errington begins by inviting us to consider how immense spans of When Paul Erringtons classic Of Men and time, coupled with profound geological events, shaped the unique Marshes first appeared in 1957, the wetlands marshland ecosystems of the Midwest. He then follows this wetland of the American Midwestand wetlands environment across seasons and over the years, creating a compel- around the worldwere widely seen as ling portrait of a natural place too little appreciated and too often rank wastelands and impediments to destroyed. Reminding us of the intricate relationships between the economic progress. Errington provided a marsh and the animals who call it home, Errington records his ex- revolutionary view of marshes as dynamic periences with hundreds of wetland creatures. He follows minks communities of life whose diversity and and muskrats, snapping turtles and white pelicans, red foxes and well-being reflect our own capacity to live blue-winged tealsall the while underscoring our responsibility to well on the land. This book changed lives preserve this remarkable and fragile environment and challenging us and landscapes. We are fortunate to have it to change the way we think about and value marshlands. available in this new edition!Curt Meine, This classic of twentieth-century nature writing, a landmark work author, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work that is still a joy to read, offers a stirring portrait of the Midwests endangered glacial marshland ecosystems by one of the most influ- [Errington] speaks to us here . . . not as a ential biologists of his day. A cautionary book whose advice has not scientist but as a man and a humanhis been heeded, a must-read of American environmental literature, Of method is to show us a marsh as his home, Men and Marshes should inspire a new generation of conservationists. to escort us through it in the different seasons of the year, and let us see for ourselves
A professor of wildlife biology at Iowa State University, Paul L. the beauty and wonder that are there. A tellErrington (19021962) was listed by Life magazine in 1961 as one of ing and moving experience.New Yorker the top ten naturalists of his day. In addition to Of Men and Marshes, Muskrats and Marsh Management, and Muskrat Populations, he was the Sights he describes from his boyhood will author of some 200 scientific articles and three posthumous books: not be seen again in this cycle of American Of Predation and Life, The Red Gods Call, and A Question of Values. In 1962 he civilizationif ever. . . . Fifty years from now received the Wildlife Societys Aldo Leopold Award for his contribu- the kind of phenomenon he is currently tions to wildlife conservation. Wildlife biologist H. Albert Hochbaum recording may have vanished, also, from (19111988) directed the Delta Waterfowl Research Station from 1938 most of Asia, Africa, and South America. to 1970; he was the author and illustrator of The Canvasback on a Prairie Erringtons book may be at once history and Marsh, Travels and Traditions of Waterfowl, and To Ride the Wind. Formerly prophecy.Journal of Wildlife Management a wildlife biologist, Matthew Wynn Sivils is now an associate professor of English at Iowa State University, where he teaches courses in environmental literature, nineteenth-century American literature, and literature and science.
178 pages . 5 photos . 23 drawings . 6 x 9 inches $22.00 paper 1-60938-118-1, 978-1-60938-118-9
october
nature
10 university of iowa press . fall 2012
Trees in Your Pocket

A Guide to Trees of the Upper Midwest
by Thomas Rosburg
A Bur OAk guIde Holly Carver, series editor
VAlued fOr theIr lumBer, their shade, and the beauty of their flowers and foliage as well as the nuts that nourish wildlife and humans alike, trees play important economic, ecological, and aesthetic roles in our lives. From honey and black locusts to white and chinkapin oaks to yellow and river birches, Trees in Your Pocket gives us identification and natural history information for about forty prominent deciduous species found in the Upper Midwest states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Botanist Tom Rosburg provides diagnostic color photographs of leaves, acorns and other fruits, and bark along with descriptions of leaves, fruits, and measurements of blades. The composition, arrangement, shape, and margin of leaves are most important for tree identification. Fruits can help confirm identification of species with similar leaves. The bark of a tree can be very helpful for identifying some species; as a tree ages, older bark (lower on the tree) can be quite different from younger bark (higher and on branches). In addition to these essential markers, Rosburg gives information about range, habitatsavannas, moist forests, dry slopes, sandy soils, and so onlife-span, and tolerance of shade, fire, drought, and flood. Each state in this region maintains a Big Tree program that honors the largest individual tree of each species. Champion trees are determined by adding together measurements of trunk circumference, height, and canopy spread. Rosburg identifies the trees with the largest diameter and the tallest trees among the champion trees in the Upper Midwest by their county and state. Together his superb photographs and key information make this guide the perfect companion for enjoying the diversity of trees in all kinds of environments. Thomas Rosburg, a professor of biology at Drake University, has received the Prairie Advocate Award from the Iowa Prairie Network, the Governors Iowa Environmental Excellence Award, the Loess Hills Preservation Society Special Recognition Award, and the Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Clubs Environmental Educator Award. He is the photographer for the second editions of both Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest (Iowa, 2009) and Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands (Iowa, forthcoming).
laminated fold-out guide 80 color photos . 4 drawings 16 3/4 x 16 7/8 inches folds to 4 1/8 x 9 inches $9.95 1-60938-123-8, 978-1-60938-123-3
october
nature / midwest
www.uiowapress.org 11
The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory

A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature
by Michael J. Lannoo
ImAgIne A PlAce dedIcAted to the long-term study of nature in nature, a permanent biological field station, a teaching and research laboratory that promotes complete immersion in the natural world. Lakeside Laboratory, founded on the shore of Lake Okoboji in northwestern Iowa in 1909, is just such a place. In this remarkable and insightful book, Michael Lannoo sets the story of Lakeside Lab within the larger story of the primacy of fieldwork, the emergence of conservation biology, and the ability of Biology has changed greatly over the past field stations to address such growing problems as pollution, disease, century, but as author Mike Lannoo exhabitat loss, invasive species, and climate change. plains, field stations still have an important At the intersection of major ecosystems with distinct plant and role to play. Readers will enjoy this engaganimal communities and surrounded by what, ironically, may be the ing account of one long-established station most intensely cultivated landscape on earth, Lakeside has a long his- and the many people who have contributed tory of rubber-boot biologists saturated in the spirit that grounds the to its success. The pages are amply illusnew discipline of conservation biology, and Lannoo brings this his- trated with historic photos that add much tory to life with his descriptions of the people and ideas that shaped to the books appeal. it. Lakesides continuing commitment to bringing the laboratory to Peter J. van der Linden, executive directhe field rather than bringing the field to the lab has supported a focus tor, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory and Regents on mammalogy, ornithology, herpetology, ichthyology, invertebrate Resource Center biology, parasitology, limnology, and algology, subjects rarely taught now on university campuses but crucial to the planets health. This book offers a loving, lyrical, and powerTodays huge array of environmental problems can best be solved ful explanation of the great value of field by people who have learned about nature within nature at a place with laboratories. The message resonates far bea long history of research and observation, people who thoroughly yond the Lakeside Lab as we slowly begin to understand and appreciate natures cogs and wheels. Lakeside Lab understand that solutions to our enormous and biological research stations like it have never been more relevant environmental problems must come from to science and to society at large than they are today. Michael Lannoo people who have learned to generate their convinces us that while Lakesides past is commendable, its future, own knowledge rather than absorb it in grounded in ecological principles, will help shape a more sustain- classrooms, and there is no better place to able society. search for this wisdom than the mix of field
laboratories and nature.Paul Dayton
Michael J. Lannoo is a professor of anatomy and cell biology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the author of Okoboji Wetlands: A Lesson in Natural History (Iowa, 1996), Malformed Frogs: The Collapse of Aquatic Ecosystems, and Leopolds Shack and Rickettss Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism and the editor of Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians (Iowa, 1998) and Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species.
108 pages . 28 photos . 4 maps . 6 x 9 inches $19.00s paper original 1-60938-121-1, 978-1-60938-121-9
november
nature / iowa
Jefferson in His Own Time

A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
edited by Kevin J. Hayes
wrIterS In theIr Own tIme Joel Myerson, series editor
Thomas Jefferson today has many detractors. Kevin Hayes has collected a wealth of contemporary anecdotes to reveal instead the wonderfully human, charming, self-deprecating, and unexpectedly witty side of the third presidents complex personality.Keith Thomson, author, A Passion for Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Natural History In this marvelous compilation of recollections by family members, friends, colleagues, and casual acquaintances, Kevin Hayes introduces us to the Thomas Jefferson contemporaries knew. Modern readers will be disarmedas so many visitors wereby Jeffersons warmth, humor, and capacity for friendship. Well edited and beautifully introduced, Jefferson in His Own Time is a timely and welcome contribution to Jefferson studies. Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History, University of Virginia
Kevin Hayes has done a great service to anyone interested in Jefferson. Thanks to Hayes we can see Jefferson through the eyes of those who knew him, from family members to visiting European aristocrats. The result is a complex, multilayered, and fascinating In thIS VOlume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas portrait. This is a wonderful collection. Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow Francis D. Cogliano, author, Thomas politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy and editor, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences The Blackwell Companion to Jefferson
of those who knew Jefferson personally reveal him to be a warm, funny man, quite unlike the solemn statesman so often limned in The author of the deservedly acclaimed biographies. The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes has To friends and enemies alike he was the model of a republican created an anthology of thirty of the best gentleman, profoundly knowledgeable in philosophy and natural contemporary accounts describing Thomas history, able to converse in several languages, and capable of great Jefferson. These portrayals offer glimpses wit but contemptuous of ceremony and fancy dress. Through these and insights into the character and private excerpts, we can see the nations third president as his family knew world of a man often regarded as the most hima loving husband, father, and grandfatherand as his peers enigmatic and elusive of the Founding did, as a tireless public servant with a fondness for tall tales. Fathers. The reader is able to bypass histoKevin J. Hayes is a professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. His books include An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887; The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson; The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas; and The Library of William Byrd of Westover, for which he received the Virginia Library History Award. In addition, he coedited, with Isabelle Bour, Franklin in His Own Time (Iowa, 2011).
rians to read firsthand eyewitness descriptions of The Sage of Monticello. Andrew Jackson OShaughnessy, Saunders Director, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
september
254 pages . 8 photos . 6 x 9 inches $32.50s paper original 1-60938-120-3, 978-1-60938-120-2
biography / american history

Library of Congress
American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War

A Critical Reassessment
edited by Steven Belletto and Daniel Grausam
A watershed moment in the current revitalization of Cold War studies. The editors have brought together a strong group of cultural critics to revise and extend the insights of the foundational containment culture work of Thomas Schaub, Alan Nadel, and Ellen Schrecker. From its rereadings of figures we thought we knew, to its reconsiderations of concepts we thought wed mastered, to Nadels own revisitation and extension of his work, this book will help those of us in English, American studies, cultural studies, history, and sociology who thought we knew the Cold War to think again.Samuel Cohen, author, After the End of History
American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War helps explain not only the Cold War, but also our present nostalgia for it. Belletto and Grausam collected rich and far-ranging essays representing the best contemporary work on a key moment of American political and literary culture, contributing significantly to a global understanding of the Cold War and enriching the contemporary discussion of the relationthe tIme IS rIght for a critical reassessment of Cold War cul- ship between politics and cultural producture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and tion.Priscilla Wald, author, Contagious: because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
confuse rather than clarify. A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that American cultural production from the late 1940s to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War. Critically engaging the reigning paradigms that equate postwar U.S. culture with containment culture, the authors present suggestive revisionist claims. Their essays draw on a literary archiveincluding the works of John Updike, Joan Didion, Richard E. Kim, Allen Ginsberg, Edwin Denby, Alice Childress, Frank Herbert, and othersstrikingly different from the one typically presented in accounts of the period. Likewise, the authors describe phenomenasuch as the FBIs surveillance of writers (especially African Americans), biopolitics, development theory, struggles over the centralization and decentralization of government, and the cultural work of Reaganismthat open up new contexts for discussing postwar culture. Extending the timeline and expanding the geographic scope of Cold War culture, this book reveals both the literature and the culture of the time to be more dynamic and complex than has been generally supposed. An assistant professor of English and chair of the American Studies program at Lafayette College, Steven Belletto is the author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (Oxford, 2012) and has published essays on postwar literature and culture in such journals as ELH, American Quarterly, Clio, Criticism, and Genre. He is an associate editor of the journal Contemporary Literature. Daniel Grausam is the author of On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War (Virginia, 2011) and is currently completing Half Lives: The Legacies of the First Nuclear Age, an interdisciplinary study of postCold War American nuclear culture.
cOntrIButOrS
Daniel Belgrad Andrew Hoberek Christine Hong Catherine Gunther Kodat William J. Maxwell Leerom Medovoi Alan Nadel Karen Steigman
october
256 pages . 5 illustrations . 6 x 9 inches $49.95s paper original 1-60938-113-0, 978-1-60938-113-4
literary criticism
Redstart
An Ecological Poetics
by Forrest Gander and John Kinsella
cOntemPOrAry nOrth AmerIcAn POetry SerIeS Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, & Adalaide Morris, series editors
Reading this book is enormously exciting amidst current explorations of language and other natural phenomena within ecopoetics and ecocriticism. It should and does raise important questions about poets ventures into textual and extra-textual ecologies. The kind of work that Gander and Kinsella do in Redstart is particularly important at this dire, edgy, near-catastrophic moment in the history of humanv.everything else on the planet. It is an evocative investigation of our limitations and our possibilities as the poetic species.Joan Retallack, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities, Bard College, and author, The Poethical Wager
Redstart
An Ecological Poetics
forrest gander
Contemporary North American Poetry Series
and john kinsella the dAmAge humAnS hAVe perpetrated on our environment has certainly affected a poets means and material. But can poetry be ecological? Can it display or be invested with values that acknowledge the economy of interrelationship between the human and the nonhu- PrAISe fOr PreVIOuS BOOkS man realms? Aside from issues of theme and reference, how might A poet with a geology degree (as well as a syntax, line break, or the shape of the poem on the page express an translator and Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and NEA fellow), Gander is an envoy ecological ethics? To answer these questions, poets Forrest Gander and John Kin- between art and science, nature and sella offer an experiment, a collaborative volume of prose and poetry politics.Booklist that investigatesboth thematically and formallythe relationship between nature and culture, language and perception. They John Kinsellas poetry is vivid, energetic ask whether, in an age of globalization, industrialization, and rapid and stormy (Washington Post), displaying human population growth, an ethnocentric view of human beings a glorious plenitude of word and world as a species independent from others underpins our exploitation of (The Guardian) like an Australian storm at natural resources. Does the disease of Western subjectivity constitute full blow (The Observer). an element of the aesthetics that undermine poetic resistance to the killing of the land? Why does the land have to give something back to the writer? This innovative volume speaks to all people wanting to understand how artistic and critical endeavors can enrich, rather than impoverish, the imperiled world around us.
The author of numerous books of poetry, including Core Samples from the World and Science & Steepleflower, novels, and essays, Forrest Gander is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and recipient of the Witter Bynner fellowship from the Library of Congress, he has also won fellowships from the neA and the Guggenheim, Whiting, and Howard Foundations. John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books and has won many prizes, including the Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry from the Adelaide Festival, and the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award. He has also published novels, collections of stories, verse plays, criticism, and autobiography. He is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and also a 2011/2012 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University, where he is also a Fellow of Churchill College.
october
84 pages . 1 illustration . 6 x 9 inches $25.00s paper original 1-60938-119-x, 978-1-60938-119-6
poetry / literary criticism
The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Stoddard

edited by Jennifer Putzi and Elizabeth Stockton
The Selected Letters certainly deepens our understanding of Elizabeth Stoddard. More broadly, it provides insight into the challenges faced by early American women writers and adds texture to our perception of nineteenth-century literary culture and society. The beautifully annotated letters are chock-a-block with allusions, quotations, and references to fellow writers, family members, and current events. This inherently interesting book will appeal to anyone interested in nineteenthcentury life and culture.Ellen Weinauer, coeditor, American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard
In reSPOnSe tO the resurgence of interest in American novelist, poet, short-story writer, and newspaper correspondent Elizabeth Stoddard (18231902), whose best-known work is The Morgesons (1862), Jennifer Putzi and Elizabeth Stockton spent years locating, This well-chosen selection of Elizabeth reading, and sorting through more than 700 letters scattered across Stoddards letters, scrupulously edited eighteen different archives, finally choosing eighty-four letters to with a searching, well-informed introducannotate and include in this collection. By presenting complete, an- tion, demonstrates her artistry as a letter notated transcripts, The Selected Letters provides a fascinating introduc- writer and sheds much light on her life and tion to this compelling writer, while at the same time complicating career, especially her extensive network earlier representations of her as either a literary handmaiden to her among the writers, artists, critics, and pubat-the-time more famous husband, the poet Richard Henry Stoddard, lishers of her day. This book is sure to make or worse, as the Pythoness whose difficult personality made her a a valuable contribution to the Stoddard fickle and unreasonable friend. revival now in progress.Lawrence Buell, The Stoddards belonged to New Yorks vibrant, close-knit literary Harvard University and artistic circles. Among their correspondents were both family members and friends, including writers and editors such as Julia Finally! Access to the life, thoughts, and Caroline Ripley Dorr, Rufus Griswold, James Russell Lowell, Caroline feelings of one of the most original writHealey Dall, Julian Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Helen Hunt ers of the late nineteenth century, in her Jackson, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and Margaret Sweat. own words. Kudos to professors Putzi An innovative and unique writer, Stoddard eschewed the popu- and Stockton for this beautifully selected lar sentimentality of her time even while exploring the emotional and annotated edition. The complex, outterritory of relations between the sexes. Her writingin both her spoken Elizabeth Stoddard comes alive as published fiction and her personal lettersis surprisingly modern she conducts friendships with many of the and psychologically dense. The letters are highly readable, lively, literary men and women of her day, asand revealing, even to readers who know little of her literary output tutely assesses her own writing and that of or her life. her contemporaries, makes observations As scholars of epistolarity have recently argued, letters provide that spare neither herself nor anyone else, more than just a biographical narrative; they also should be under- and reflects frankly on her long marriage to stood as aesthetic performances themselves. The correspondence poet Richard Henry Stoddard. A must-read provides a sense of Stoddard as someone who understood letter for everyone interested in Stoddard and her writing as a distinct and important literary genre, making this col- era.Sandra A. Zagarell, senior editor, lection particularly well suited for new conceptualizations of the Heath Anthology of American Literature epistolary genre. Jennifer Putzi is an associate professor of English and Womens Studies at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America (2006) and the editor of Elizabeth Stoddards second novel, Two Men (2008), originally published in 1865. Elizabeth Stockton is an assistant professor of English at Southwestern University. Her work, which primarily focuses on law and literature in antebellum America, has appeared in The New England Quarterly and African American Review.
november
300 pages . 8 photos . 6 x 9 inches $42.00s paper original 1-60938-122-x, 978-1-60938-122-6
literary criticism
The Contemporary Narrative Poem

Critical Crosscurrents
edited by Steven P. Schneider
Steven Schneiders ambitious new collection fills an important gap in critical studies. Although the return of narrative poetry has been one of the most significant trends in contemporary American letters, it has received little critical or theoretical commentary. Schneider and his contributors examine this hugely influential trend from diverse perspectives. This is an original and irreplaceable collection.Dana Gioia, University of Southern California, and former chair, National Endowment for the Arts
The Contemporary Narrative Poem Critical Crosscurrents
edited by Steven P. Schneider OVer the PASt thIrty yeArS, narrative poems have made a comeback against the lyric approach to poetry that has dominated the past century. Drawing on a decade of conferences and critical seminars on the topic, The Contemporary Narrative Poem examines this resurgence of narrative and the cultural and literary forces motivating it. Gathering ten essays from poet-critics who write from a wide range of perspectives and address a wide range of works, the col- A first-rate piece of work by a range of imlection transcends narrow conceptions of narrative, antinarrative, portant poet-critics on an important and and metanarrative. The authors ask several questions: What formal woefully neglected aspect of contemporary strategies do recent narrative poems take? What social, cultural, and poetry.Jay Parini, Middlebury College epistemological issues are raised in such poems? How do contemporary narrative poems differ from modernist narrative poems? In what cOntrIButOrS ways has history been incorporated into the recent narrative poetry? Jacqueline Vaught Brogan How have poets used the lyric within narrative poems? How do experi- Christine Casson mental poets redefine narrative itself through their work? And what Gregory Dowling Elisabeth A. Frost role does consciousness play in the contemporary narrative poem? The answers they supply will engage every poet and student of Roger Gilbert April Lindner poetry. Stephen Paul Miller Steven P. Schneider is a professor of English at the University of Robert Miltner Texas-Pan American and director of new programs and special proj- Robert B. Shaw ects in the College of Arts and Humanities. He is the author of A. R. Daniel Tobin Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope and the editor of Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A. R. Ammonss Long Poems. The winner of an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poetry and a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship, he has published poems and essays in national and international journals, including Critical Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tikkun, The Literary Review, and The Iowa Review.
december
260 pages . 6 x 9 inches $42.50s paper original 1-60938-125-4, 978-1-60938-125-7
literary criticism
Reading Duncan Reading

Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation
edited by Stephen Collis and Graham Lyons
cOntemPOrAry nOrth AmerIcAn POetry SerIeS Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, & Adalaide Morris, series editors
Editors Stephen Collis and Graham Lyons have pitched their gathering Reading Duncan Reading makes a significant perfectly by focusing on Duncans concept of derivation, the very stuff of and indeed important contribution to its Duncans rhetoric and the origin of his immense lyric power. Not only will field; no other book currently considers the this book be a major contribution to the scholarship on a very important topic at any length or in any sustained way. (post)modern poet, but it will also shed light on the consuming question It should be of interest to students at any of what happens to poets when they read the work of their precursors university in North America and abroad, and contemporaries.Norman Finkelstein, Xavier University and will appeal to anyone else interested in modern American poetry and the work of In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, Robert Duncan. what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, Peter Quartermain, professor emeritus, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of University of British Columbia
influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors. Part one emphasizes Duncans acts of reading, tracing a variety of his derivationsincluding Sarah Ehlerss demonstration of how Milton shaped Duncans early poetic aspirations, Siobhn Scarrys unveiling of the many sources (including translation and correspondence) drawn into a single Duncan poem, and Clment Oudarts exploration of Duncans use of foreign words to fashion a language to which no one is native. In part two, the volume turns to examinations of poets who can be seen to in some way derive from Duncanand so in turn reveals another angle of Duncans derivative poetics. J. P. Craig traces Nathaniel MacKeys use of Duncans would-be shaman, Catherine Martin sees Duncans influence in Susan Howes development of a poetics where the twin concepts of trespass and permission hold comparable sway, and Ross Hair explores poet Ronald Johnsons reading to steal. These and other essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncans own inexhaustible work. Stephen Collis is an associate professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the author of Phyllis Webb and the Common Good and Through Words of Others. His most recent book of poetry, On the Material, won the BC Book Prize for poetry. Graham Lyons is a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University. His research traverses the twentieth century, with a particular focus on cultural theory, historiography, autobiography, and the Frankfurt school of Marxism. He has published on Walter Benjamin, Louis Zukofsky, and the Star Warsfilms.
cOntrIButOrS
J. P. Craig Sarah E. Ehlers George Fragopoulos Stephen Fredman Ross Hair Catherine Martin Peter OLeary Clemnt Oudart Siobhn Scarry Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas Andy Weaver
december
262 pages . 6 x 9 inches $45.00s paper original 1-60938-116-5, 978-1-60938-116-5
literary criticism
The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

by Rebecca Rovit
StudIeS In theAtre hIStOry And culture Thomas Postlewait, series editor
This impressive, thoroughly researched account of the Kulturbund Theatre in Berlin documents these artists attempts to come up with a theatrical repertoire that would meet the Nazis contradictory and arbitrary notions of appropriate subject matter for Jewish theatre. Matthew Wikander, University of Toledo
REBECCA ROVIT
new lAwS enActed in the wake of Hitlers ascent to power removed all Jews from their professional workplaces and banned Jewish artists from any collaboration with their fellow citizens. In the summer of 1933, Goebbelss Prussian Theatre Commission approved an all-Jewish theatre as part of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, the Cultural Association of German Jewry. This network of Jewish cultural leagues and theatre ensembles across Germany coexisted with Nazi The cultural and artistic life of German policies against Jews until the Gestapo dissolved the theatre in 1941. Jews during the Nazi era has only reRevealing the complex interplay between history and human lives cently begun to attract the attention that under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year it deserves. Rebecca Rovits book on the odyssey of the Berlin Kulturbund and its theatre. Berlin branch of the Jewish Kulturbund is Rovit draws upon a wealth of primary documentscorrespon- a major contribution to the scholarship dence between the theatre and the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and in this area. It is the most thorough study Enlightenment, actual playscripts and rolebooks, production reviews of the Kulturbund in any language. The and photographs, letters and memoirs, and interviews with artists book very successfully integrates multiple who survived the warto show how the increasingly restrictive Ger- levels of analysis, examining aesthetics, man reality forced Jewish artists to define and redefine their identity performance, the personal biographies and culture under wrenching conditions of censorship, compromise, of German Jews, Nazi policy, and the ordanger, and deception. Integrating play analysis with cultural history, ganizational challenges that confronted she considers first the playscript itself, then the playscript adapted by the leaders of the Kulturbund. Based on the Kulturbund, then the best reconstruction possible of the actual research in a wide range of archival collecperformance against its backdrop of the Third Reich. Proceeding tions, it makes excellent use of information chronologically through the playing seasons, she focuses on the garnered from interviews with some of actual repertoire performed (and forbidden) over the life of the Berlin the Kulturbunds members. Written with Kulturbund theatre, covering the theatres beginnings and its first two precision and empathy, it should be read playing seasons, then on the playing seasons that led to the Reichs- by anyone with an interest in Jewish life in kristallnacht, and finally on the ways that emigration and increased Nazi Germany.Alan E. Steinweis, censorship affected the wartime theatres final days. author, Art, Ideology, and Economics in The Kulturbunds directors were repeatedly caught between esca- Nazi Germany lating demands from their Nazi overseers and from their own Jewish constituents. By examining why and how an all-Jewish repertory theatre could coexist with the Nazi regime, Rovit raises broader questions about the nature of art in an environment of coercion and isolation, artistic integrity and adaptability, and community and identity.
S T U D I E S I N T H E AT R E H I S T O RY A N D C U LT U R E
The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin
Rebecca Rovit is an assistant professor of theatre at the University of Kansas. The author of numerous articles on theatre and performance in such journals as American Theatre, PAJ, TDR, Theatre Survey, Contemporary Theatre Review, The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and The Enzyklopdie jdischer Geschichte und Kultur, edited by Dan Diner, she is the coeditor of Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
september
290 pages . 22 photos . 6 x 9 inches $41.00s paper original 1-60938-124-6, 978-1-60938-124-0
theatre / jewish studies
new In PAPer
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions

by Maggie Nelson
Nelsons revision of the New York School makes it not only more diverse but also more resistant of defining tropes. By showing how a motley collection of poets and artists defied the gendered conventions of both the aesthetic status quo and the so-called experimental, Nelson restores the avant-garde to its raison detre: to lead us past orthodoxy to discovery.Modern Painters
In thIS whIP-SmArt study, Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to the present, and offers unprecedented analyses of the work of Barbara Guest, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, and abstract painter Joan Mitchell, as well as a reconsideration of the work of many male New York School writers and artists from a feminist perspective. So many times over the years Ive been With contagious enthusiasm, Women, the New York School, and Other asked, Whats it like to be a woman in rock True Abstractions ranges widely and covers collaborations between po- music? Its always been sort of a paralyzing ets and painters in the 1950s and 1960s; the complex role played by the questionto answer it is to give the questrue abstraction of the feminine in the work of John Ashbery, Frank tion itself meaning. Maggie Nelson here OHara, and James Schuyler; the intricate weave of verbal and visual opens it all up for examination with this arts throughout the postwar period, from Abstract Expressionism to incredibly timely and astute book. Pop to Conceptualism to feminist and queer performance art; and the Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth unfolding, diverse careers of Mayer, Notley, and Myles from the 1970s to the present. Along the way, Nelson considers provocative quesThis is a terrific and necessary book. . . . tions of anonymity and publicity, the solitary and the communal, the Maggie Nelson charts new paths for work enduring and the ephemeral, domesticity, boredom, sex, and politics. on the New York School and on postwar By asking us to rethink the ways in which we conceptualize experimental writing, and her book will be schools and avant-gardes and eventually drawing our attention necessary reading for anyone working in the to larger, compelling questions about how and why we readand areait will reach poets and other writers, how gender and sexuality inform that reading in the first placeMagvisual artists, and scholars interested in the gie Nelson not only fills an important gap in the history of American New York School and in avant-garde or expoetry and art but also gives an inspired performance of the kind of perimental work; it will reach readers interlively, audacious, and personally committed criticism that befits her ested in womens contributions to the arts, subject. Maggie Nelson is most recently the author of an acclaimed work of art and cultural criticism, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), and a book about the color blue, Bluets (2009). She is also the author of The Red Parts: A Memoir (2007), Something Bright, Then Holes (2007), Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for theArt of the Memoir), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001; finalist, the Poetry Society of Americas Norma Farber FirstBook Award). She currently teaches on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Valencia,California, and lives in Los Angeles.
urban culture, and the history of New York City.Susan Rosenbaum, University of Georgia, author,Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading
available
316 pages . 9 photos . 6 x 9 inches $27.50s paper 1-60938-109-2, 978-1-60938-109-7
literary criticism
new In PAPer
Stories from under the Sky

by John Madson
stories from under the sky

John Madson
Reading Madson is like reading some of his more illustrious and heady predecessors in the American experience . . . namely Emerson and Thoreau.Kansas City Star
In Stories from under the Sky, John Madson salutes the outdoor life. These thirty-six essays display his healthy respect for the forces of nature, without diminishing his wry awareness of the foibles of beast, bird, fish, and human. In sections on mammals, the river, and birds, Madson acquaints readers with some real charactersnot all of them four-footed! Some are old favorites: the raccoon, the otter, the fawn, and the badger. Others are less familiarthe demonic shrew, the indomitable dogfish, and the graceful blue heron. Even the unloved come in for their share of attention: toads, waterbugs, wasps, and turkey buzzards. Madson has a yarn to spin about each one. Where else would you find an essay on Snake Liars? Whatever the topic, be it coon hunting or an explanation of the incredible bird machine, Madsons love of nature shines through. His obvious affection is tempered with the recognition that not everything natural is a pretty sight. All of which leaves readers with a better understanding of life under the sky. Iowa nativeJohn Madson(19231995) is considered the father of the modern prairie restoration movement; his books includeWhere the Sky Began(Iowa reprint, 2004),Up on the River (Iowa reprint, 2011), andTallgrass Prairie. He wrote extensively on natural history and resource conservation forAudubon,Smithsonian, andNational Geographic, among many others.
208 pages . 14 drawings . 36 photos . 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches $19.95 paper 1-58729-562-8, 978-1-58729-562-1
august
nature
8BeStSellIng BAcklISt
Field Guide to Wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great Plains
Second Edition by Jon Farrar $39.95 pb 1-60938-071-1 978-1-60938-071-7
A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet

by Claudia McGehee $17.95 cl 0-87745-897-9 978-0-87745-897-5
Where Do Birds Live?

Claudia McGehee
The Guide to Oklahoma Wildflowers Brave New Words

How Literature Will Save the Planet by Elizabeth Ammons $20.00 pb 1-58729-861-9 978-1-58729-861-5 by Patricia Folley $39.95 pb 1-60938-046-0 978-1-60938-046-5
Where Do Birds Live?
When War Becomes Personal
Soldiers Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq edited by Donald Anderson $22.00s pb 1-58729-680-2 978-1-58729-680-2
pr airies
the ecology and management of in the central united states
chris helzer
A Woodland Counting Book

Midnight Assassin
A Murder in Americas Heartland by Patricia L. Bryan & Thomas Wolf $19.95 pb 1-58729-605-5 978-1-58729-605-5
The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States

by Chris Helzer $29.95 pb 1-58729-865-1 978-1-58729-865-3
The Emerald Horizon
The History of Nature in Iowa by Cornelia F. Mutel $27.50 pb 1-58729-632-2 978-1-58729-632-1
Between the Heartbeats

Poetry and Prose by Nurses edited by Cortney Davis & Judy Schaefer $20.00s pb 0-87745-517-1 978-0-87745-517-2
A Potters Workbook
A Watershed Year
by Clary Illian $26.00 pb 0-87745-671-2 978-0-87745-671-1
Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008 edited by Cornelia F. Mutel $19.00 pb 1-58729-854-6 978-1-58729-854-7
The Made-Up Self
Sarahs Seasons
An Amish Diary and Conversation by Martha Moore Davis $14.50 pb 0-87745-742-5 978-0-87745-742-8
Impersonation in the Personal Essay by Carl H. Klaus $19.95s pb 1-58729-913-5 978-1-58729-913-1
First We Read, Then We Write

Emerson on the Creative Process by Robert D. Richardson $19.95 cl 1-58729-793-0 978-1-58729-793-9
Oneota Flow
The Upper Iowa River and Its People by David S. Faldet $27.50 pb 1-58729-780-9 978-1-58729-780-9
A Practical Guide to Prairie Reconstruction

by Carl Kurtz $14.00 pb 0-87745-745-x 978-0-87745-745-9
Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie
A Bountiful Harvest
The Upper Midwest Second Edition by Sylvan T. Runkel & Dean M. Roosa $29.95 pb 1-58729-796-5 978-1-58729-796-0
Poems from Guantnamo

The Detainees Speak edited by Marc Falkoff $16.95 cl 1-58729-606-3 978-1-58729-606-2
The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 19251965 by Leslie A. Loveless $36.00 cl 0-87745-813-8 978-0-87745-813-5
A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names
by Tom Savage $19.95 pb 1-58729-531-8 978-1-58729-531-7
Where the Sky Began
Land of the Tallgrass Prairie by John Madson $19.95 pb 0-87745-861-8 978-0-87745-861-6
8lAmInAted fOld-Out guIdeS

Iowa Past to Present
The People and the Prairie Revised Third Edition by Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, & Lynn Nielsen $39.95s pb 1-60938-036-3 978-1-60938-036-6
Birds at Your Feeder
A Guide to Winter Birds of the Great Plains by Dana Gardner & Nancy Overcott $9.95 0-87745-866-9 978-0-87745-866-1
A Guide to Projectile Points of Iowa
Waterfowl in Your Pocket

A Guide to Water Birds of the Midwest by Dana Gardner $9.95 1-58729-683-7 978-1-58729-683-3
Part 2: Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Woodland, and Late Prehistoric Points by Joseph A. Tiffany $9.95 1-58729-828-7 978-1-58729-828-8
a bur oak guide
Restoring the Tallgrass Prairie
An Illustrated Manual for Iowa and the Upper Midwest by Shirley Shirley $20.00s pb 0-87745-469-8 978-0-87745-469-4
Frogs and Toads
in your pocket
A Guide to Amphibians of the Upper Midwest By Terry VanDeWalle Photographs by Suzanne L. Collins
Butterflies in Your Pocket
The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper Midwest
by Daryl Smith, Dave Williams, Greg Houseal, & Kirk Henderson $27.50 pb 1-58729-916-x 978-1-58729-916-2
Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa
P e t e r J. va n d e r L i n d e n a n d D o n a l d R. Fa r r a r
A Guide to the Butterflies of the Upper Midwest by Steve Hendrix & Diane Debinski $9.95 0-87745-843-x 978-0-87745-843-2
Mushrooms in Your Pocket

A Guide to the Mushrooms of Iowa by Donald M. Huffman & Lois H. Tiffany $9.95 0-87745-887-1 978-0-87745-887-6 A Guide to Plants of the Tallgrass Prairie by Mark Mller $9.95 0-87745-683-6 978-0-87745-683-4
Frogs and Toads in Your Pocket
de
A Guide to Amphibians of the Upper Midwest by Terry VanDeWalle $9.95 1-60938-059-2 978-1-60938-059-5
a bur oak guide
s in our rably in Peter talents, ence. rces
been the tion, the mented with c as well as to Iowas elongs on n Iowa.
Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa
Thir d Edition
Prairie in Your Pocket

Snakes and Lizards in your pocket
A Guide to Reptiles of the Upper Midwest
By Terry VanDeWalle Photographs by Suzanne L. Collins
Pet e r J. va n de r L i n de n a n d Dona l d R. Fa r r a r
n Iowa, Lakeside of Evoluin the
$34.95
iowa
Wetlands in Your Pocket Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa
Third Edition by Peter J. van der Linden & Donald R. Farrar $34.95 pb 1-58729-994-1 978-1-58729-994-0
A Guide to Common Plants and Animals of Midwestern Wetlands by Mark Mller $9.95 0-87745-935-5 978-0-87745-935-4
Woodland in Your Pocket
Snakes and Lizards in Your Pocket

A Guide to Reptiles of the Upper Midwest by Terry VanDeWalle $9.95 1-58729-872-4 978-1-58729-872-1
Leaves of Grass, 1860
The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition by Walt Whitman edited by Jason Stacy $24.95 pb 1-58729-825-2 978-1-58729-825-7
A Guide to Common Woodland Plants of the Midwest by Mark Mller $9.95 0-87745-793-x 978-0-87745-793-0
Iowa Farm in Your Pocket

A Beginners Guide by Kirk Murray $9.95 1-58729-876-7 978-1-58729-876-9
Turtles in Your Pocket

A Guide to Freshwater and Terrestrial Turtles of the Upper Midwest by Terry VandeWalle $9.95 1-60938-061-4 978-1-60938-061-8
Poets on Teaching
A Sourcebook edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson $29.95s pb 1-58729-904-6 978-1-58729-904-9
A Guide to Projectile Points of Iowa
Nothing to Do but Stay

My Pioneer Mother by Carrie Young $16.00 pb 0-87745-329-2 978-0-87745-329-1
Part 1: Paleoindian, Late Paleoindian, Early Archaic, and Middle Archaic Points by Joseph A. Tiffany $9.95 1-58729-826-0 978-1-58729-826-4
8Index By AuthOr
Anderson, Donald 8 Arthur, Chris 4 Belletto, Steven 14 Bertino, Marie-Helene 2 Birkby, Evelyn 1 Buchanan, Oni 6 Collis, Stephen 18 Engelhardt, Carroll 9 Errington, Paul 10 Gander, Forrest 15 Grausam, Daniel 14 Hayes, Kevin J. 13 Kinsella, John 15 Lannoo, Michael J. 12 Lyons, Graham 18 Madson, John 21 Nelson, Maggie 20 Putzi, Jennifer 16 Rosburg, Thomas 11 Rovit, Rebecca 19 Schneider, Steven P. 17 Simpson, Chad 3 Stockton, Elizabeth 16 Wheeler, Susan 7 Zwartjes, Arianne 5
8Index By tItle
Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowas Best-Known Homemaker 1 American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War 14 The Contemporary Narrative Poem 17 Detailing Trauma 5 The Farm at Holstein Dip 9 Gathering Noise from My Life 8 The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory 12 Jefferson in His Own Time 13 The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin 19 Meme 7 Must a Violence 6 Of Men and Marshes 10 On the Shoreline of Knowledge 4 Reading Duncan Reading 18 Redstart 15 Safe as Houses 2 The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Stoddard 16 Stories from under the Sky 21 Tell Everyone I Said Hi 3 Trees in Your Pocket 11 Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions 20
ORDER FORM
Name __________________________ Address ______________________________
Enclosed is my Please charge my
check
money order VISA
MasterCard
Discover Card
American Express
_____________________________________ Account no. ____________________________ _____________________________________ Expiration date _________________________

Telephone ____________________________ individual orders must be prepaid. prices are subject to change without notice. Charge to our account (bookstores and libraries onlyplease note PO number below) Purchase order no. ______________________
Qty
ISBN
Title
Price
Amount
Subtotal Illinois residents add 9.75% sales tax Shipping & handling (add $5.00 for first book, $1.00 each additional book) Total payment enclosed
order toll-free 800/621-2736 fax toll-free 800/621-8476 university of iowa press . www.uiowapress.org . fall 2012
Sales Information
This catalog describes new and recently published books from the University of Iowa Press. Publication dates, prices, and discounts are based on information available as this catalog goes to press and are subject to change without notice. Booksellers: Books marked s are subject to our short discount; all other books are trade discount. Books may be ordered from wholesalers or directly from the Press. Inquiries regarding discounts, co-op availability, and author appearances should be directed to Jim McCoy. phone 319/335-2013 . fax 319/335-2055 e-mail james-mccoy@uiowa.edu Libraries: We make every attempt to insure that our books are printed on acid-free paper. The University of Iowa Press is a cip publisher. Examination & desk copies, media requests: We offer physical or digital copies for exam, desk, and media requests for most titles. To learn more, visit www.uiowapress.org, Contact Us, or contact Allison Means. phone 319/335-3440 . fax 319/335-2055 e-mail allison-means@uiowa.edu SaleS RepReSentation Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin Bruce Miller, Miller Trade Book Marketing phone 866/829-0824 fax 312/276-8109 e-mail bruce@millertrade.com, orders@millertrade.com Pacific Northwest: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington John Murray, John Murray Associates phone 503/612-0458 fax 503/612-1723 e-mail murrayone@mymailstation.com South & south central: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia The Morrison Sales Group, Inc. phone 336/775-0226 fax 336/775-0239 e-mail msgbooks@aol.com West Coast & New York City: Arizona, California, Nevada, New York City, Texas Gary Hart, University of Chicago Press phone 818/956-0527 fax 818/243-4676 e-mail ghart@press.uchicago.edu Hawaii, Asia, & the Pacific, including Australia & New Zealand: Royden Muranaka, East-West Export Books (eweb), c/o University of Hawaii Press phone 808/956-8830 fax 808/988-6052 e-mail eweb@hawaii.edu
United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, & Africa: Eurospan Group, c/o Turpin Distribution phone +44 (0) 1767 604972 fax +44 (0) 1767 601640 e-mail (orders and customer service) eurospan@ turpin-distribution.com e-mail (all other information) New England & Mid-Atlantic: Connecticut, Delaware, info@eurospan.co.uk Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Alternatively, individuals and institutions may New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, order from Eurospans online bookstore: Vermont, Washington, D.C. www.eurospanbookstore.com Blake Delodder, University of Chicago Press phone 301/322-4509 Western states, Canada, & other territories not fax 301/583-0376 listed above: Alaska, Colorado, New Mexico, e-mail bdelodder@press.uchicago.edu Utah, Wyoming Jim McCoy, University of Iowa Press New York state & western Pennsylvania phone 319/335-3440 Bailey Walsh, University of Chicago Press fax 319/335-2055 phone 608/218-1669 e-mail james-mccoy@uiowa.edu fax 608/218-1670 e-mail bwalsh@press.uchicago.edu Please mail your order to: University of Iowa Press c/o Chicago Distribution Center 11030 South Langley Avenue Chicago IL 60628 Or by phone, fax, or e-mail: toll-free 800/621-2736 toll-free fax 800/621-8476 pubnet @ 202-5280 e-mail orders @ press.uchicago.edu For further information regarding University of Iowa Press books, contact: Marketing Department University of Iowa Press 119 West Park Road 100 Kuhl House Iowa City IA 52242-1000 phone 319/335-2000 fax 319/335-2055 www.uiowapress.org
Cover background designed by Mary Austin Speaker
University of Iowa Press 119 West Park Road 100 Kuhl House Iowa City IA 52242-1000

UIP Fall2012 Hires

Încărcat de

Informații document

Descriere originală:

Drepturi de autor

Formate disponibile

Partajați acest document

Partajați sau inserați document

Opțiuni de partajare

Vi se pare util acest document?

Este necorespunzător acest conținut?

Drepturi de autor:

Formate disponibile

UIP Fall2012 Hires

Încărcat de

Drepturi de autor:

Formate disponibile

fall 2012

where great writing begins

Recently published by the

University of Iowa Press

the new American canon

David Foster Wallace

Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou

1222222w3333334 q r q essayists on the r q r q r q r q r q r q r q r q r q r e s a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f a f zxxxxxxdccccccv

An Anthology of Chicago Poetry

Edited by carl h. kl aus and ned stuckey-french

Montaigne to Our Time

IOWA where great writing begins

in the memory of the map

Man Killed by Pheasant

I loved this bookEvelyn Birkby is a National Treasure.Fannie Flagg

Always Put in a Recipe d Other Tips for Living J L

I loved this book Evelyn Birkby is a National Treasure. Fannie Flagg

224 pages . 12 photos . 6 x 9 inches $19.95 paper original 1-60938-115-7, 978-1-60938-115-8

university of iowa press . fall 2012

Tell Everyone I Said Hi

Tell Everyone I Said Hi

On the Shoreline of Knowledge

On the Shoreline of Knowledge

university of iowa press . fall 2012

frOm Must a Violence

94 pages . 6 x 8 inches $18.00 paper original 1-60938-129-7, 978-1-60938-129-5

university of iowa press . fall 2012

102 pages . 6 x 8 inches $18.00 paper original 1-60938-127-0, 978-1-60938-127-1

Gathering Noise from My Life

Gathering Noise from My Life

frOm Part One

226 pages . 5 3/4 x 9 inches $21.00 paperback original 1-60938-111-4, 978-1-60938-111-0

university of iowa press . fall 2012

The Farm at Holstein Dip

the FaRM hOLSteIN dIP

238 pages . 18 photos . 6 x 9 inches $22.00 paper original 1-60938-117-3, 978-1-60938-117-2

Of Men and Marshes

178 pages . 5 photos . 23 drawings . 6 x 9 inches $22.00 paper 1-60938-118-1, 978-1-60938-118-9

10 university of iowa press . fall 2012

Trees in Your Pocket

The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory

12 university of iowa press . fall 2012

Jefferson in His Own Time

254 pages . 8 photos . 6 x 9 inches $32.50s paper original 1-60938-120-3, 978-1-60938-120-2

biography / american history

American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War

256 pages . 5 illustrations . 6 x 9 inches $49.95s paper original 1-60938-113-0, 978-1-60938-113-4

14 university of iowa press . fall 2012

84 pages . 1 illustration . 6 x 9 inches $25.00s paper original 1-60938-119-x, 978-1-60938-119-6

poetry / literary criticism

The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Stoddard

300 pages . 8 photos . 6 x 9 inches $42.00s paper original 1-60938-122-x, 978-1-60938-122-6

16 university of iowa press . fall 2012

The Contemporary Narrative Poem

The Contemporary Narrative Poem Critical Crosscurrents

260 pages . 6 x 9 inches $42.50s paper original 1-60938-125-4, 978-1-60938-125-7

Reading Duncan Reading

262 pages . 6 x 9 inches $45.00s paper original 1-60938-116-5, 978-1-60938-116-5

18 university of iowa press . fall 2012

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

290 pages . 22 photos . 6 x 9 inches $41.00s paper original 1-60938-124-6, 978-1-60938-124-0

theatre / jewish studies

___________________ Account no. _ Expiration date _______