Wesleyan University Press

In the title poem "Fortress", the medieval walled castle is the stronghold in which the family dwells. There are stories here of people in the "fortresses" of the self, the city, or the natural world....

One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them," he attempts in X to create looser structures in...

A splendid re-publication of an indispensable book on German history. "An ambitious attempt to describe and analyze the political, social, and intellectual attitudes of the German academic community...

One of the most gripping fantasies ever written, The Moon Pool embodies all the romanticism and poetic nostalgia characteristic of A. Merritt's writings. Set on the island of Ponape, full of ruins fro...

A compelling second collection of poetry. "Not This Pigs shows [Levine] to be a poet of growing power and strangeness. In most of his poems Levine sketches in an apparently concrete experience, but h...

A haunting and peculiar travelogue, Deeds of the Utmost Kindness employs forms as diverse as haiku and prose poetry in settings that range from Japan to the rural Ozarks to contemporary Moscow. The co...

An inmate on Florida's death row writes piercingly of incarceration, racism and growing up. Stephen Todd Booker, an inmate on Florida's death row, writes piercingly of incarceration. But he also sing...

Joan Retallack offers a book of forms, like the medieval Book of Hours, intended to draw readers into a meditative experience of time, space, language, the many humors of chance and design, as they in...