"Genius—brilliant, polished and of considerable depth." —Ishmael ReedAn experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles—from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play an...

Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratves’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculativefic=on to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. In “Rivers,” a free Jim meets up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s fate in the American Revolution;“On Brazil, or Dénouement”...

The Kitchen Table Translation issue of Aster(ix) Journal explores connections between translation and migration.Featuring the work of immigrant and diasporic translators, it brings personal, cultural, and political dimensions of translation together with literary and aesthetic aspects of the work, and compiles writing and translation from languages including Ahmaric, Arabic, French, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Mandarin, Ojibwe, Portuguese, Spanish, Telugu,...

Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. 'An Outtake' chronicles an escaped slave's take on liberty and the American Revolution; 'The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows' presents a bizarre series of events that ...

Discover the timeless wisdom of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" in this comprehensive audiobook. This unabridged recording features the public domain translation by Lionel Giles, first published in 1910. With its profound insights on leadership, strategy, and conflict, this classic treatise remains an invaluable resource for business leaders, historians, and anyone seeking a competitive edge.This audiobook includes:- A short history of Chinese warfare by Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Phi...

In Letters from a Seducer, Hilst describes the everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex.Karl writes and sends twenty provocative letters to Cordelia, his chaste sister. The letters' text becomes intertwined with the life of the poet Stamatius, who finds Karl's letters in the trash, as Hilst constructs an ingenious mirror play between the two that casts strange light on questions of amorality, s...

This fast-moving, tightly-wound, and gleefully dark novella contains an entire universe in miniatureConversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents—the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But are they really three distinct individuals? Why do their lives blend in...

A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo’s poems combine elements of history and mythology.Guébo considers the Medite...

The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selectionFor three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill's poems unflinchingly explore the complex, overlapping identities of sexuality, gender, and race, the American political landscape, and h...

Topics in this international symposium on mining in the arctic included arctic mining in Raglan; analysis and prediction of water infiltration in underground, frozen placer mines; red dog mine-operations update and design of paste tailings disposal in the Russian Sub-Arctic.

In the wake of the brutal massacre of Waldensian Protestants in the Piedmont region of Italy, John Milton penned a powerful and impassioned treatise, "On the Late Massacre in the Piedmont." This seminal work, written in 1655, is a scathing indictment of the Catholic Church's persecution of religious minorities. Milton's eloquent prose and unwavering defense of religious freedom have made this book a timeless classic, inspiring generations of readers to fight against tyranny and oppression....

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection ...