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... 0819562785), Silent Interviews on Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, & Some Comics ($17.95 tp, 0819562807), Tales of Neveryon ($13.95 tp, 081956270X), and Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia ($14.95 tp, 081956298X).

A profound and uplifting meditation on the meanings of race and belonging in America

These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is "e;a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs"e; (The Boston Globe).For nineteenth-century New Englanders, "e;vampires"e; lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, lasted well into the twentieth century. With humor, insight, and sympathy, he uncovers story upon story of dying men, women, and children who believed they were food for the dead."e;A marvelous book."e; -Providence JournalIncludes an updated preface covering newly discovered cases.

How three men brought clean water to Hartford, on a massive scale

A modular, easy-to-read relaxation device

Groundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialism

Fascinating documentation of a mysterious figure

A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.

A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.

The untold story of acoustic effects in popular music.

First study of disaster movies through reception theory and queer theory.

Selected poems from a visionary feminist poet.

Rediscovery of a stunning achievement in modern Italian poetry.

An informative account of the social meaning of poetry in the 20th century US.

Newly collected letters between two masters of American poetry.

A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.

A reissue of a controversial analysis of the literature profession.

Critics and writers consider nonfiction film both as document and as creative work with strong artistic, political, and moral implications.

An intriguing memoir by the legendary bandleader.

The best writing we've had from the long war in Vietnam has been prose so far. Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau changes that.

Erotic, calculated, witty poems in this first book.

An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.

Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats.

A detailed and hilarious look at the art and life of a legendary Hollywood filmmaker

A classic of behavioral science.

Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.

New English translation of this "demise of the human race" story.

Leading psychotherapist offers compelling insights into the vital force of ecstasy.

Illuminates Jack Spicer's provocative lectures on radical poetics.

Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.