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Titlesort ascending Author Year Publication type
Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area Kim Shelton 2022 Book
Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis 2022 Book
Untraceable Aya de León 2023 Book
Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland Daena Aki Funahashi 2023 Book
Unlearning Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge Charles L. Briggs 2021 Book

Mouths

2017

Poetry. The poems in MOUTHS attempt the impossible task of speaking outside human language and after the end of human life. That they always already fail to do so is thematized in chafing refrains, syntactic disjunctions, and the accusatory second person pronoun, which addresses at once...Read more about Mouths

In the Volcano's Mouth

2016
Miriam Bird Greenberg’s stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed from railyards and roadsides, evokes the world of myth (“I’d spent my childhood / in a house made of bees; on hot days honey // dripped through cracks in the...Read more about In the Volcano's Mouth

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

2015
Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work was described by his close friend Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." But Planck's story is not well known, especially in the United States. A German physicist working during the first
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