University Of Iowa Press: 221 books
Writing Not Writing
Poetry, Crisis, and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The poet George Oppen comments, “There are situations which cannot honorably [be] met by art, and surely no one need fiddle precisely at the moment that the house next door is burning.” To write poetry under such circumstances, he continues, “would be a treason to one’s neighbor.” Committing...
by Robert Oldshue
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In each of the stories in Robert Oldshue’s debut collection, the characters want to be decent but find that hard to define.
In the first story, an elderly couple is told that delivery of their Thanksgiving dinner has been canceled due to an impending blizzard. Unwilling to have guests but...
by Christopher Bolin
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
“Was it a crater or a sinkhole?” asks a voice in one of the mysterious, wonderstruck poems in Christopher Bolin’s Form from Form, whose cadences modulate with the energies of form-making, deformation, and elusive reformation. Natural forms and forms of human manufacture, forms of absence and...
by Vanessa Roveto
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Vanessa Roveto’s debut collection, bodys, is a work of stunning strangeness, force, and audacity, generated by—and degenerating toward—the unanswerable question at the heart of poetic speech: What does it mean to be “a person?” A dizzying hybrid of poetry and prose, post-human analytics...
In the Memory of the Map
A Cartographic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerized by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping...
Translingual Poetics
Writing Personhood Under Settler Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Since the 1980s, poets in Canada and the U.S. have increasingly turned away from the use of English, bringing multiple languages into dialogue—and into conflict—in their work. This growing but under-studied body of writing differs from previous forms of multilingual poetry. While modernist poets...
Playing Fans
Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Fans are everywhere: from Fifty Shades of Grey to Veronica Mars, from Comic-Con to sitcom, from niche to Geek Chic, fans are becoming the most visible and important audience of the twenty-first century. For years the media industries ignored fans and fan activities, but now they’re paying attention...
Meat Makes People Powerful
A Global History of the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat— more than any other food—has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, Americans have been among the most avid meat-eaters in the world, but long before that meat was not even considered a key ingredient in most civilizations’...
Reading Project
A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Electronic literature is a rapidly growing area of creative production and scholarly interest. It is inherently multimedial and multimodal, and thus demands multiple critical methods of interpretation. Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless...
Sky Dance of the Woodcock
The Habits and Habitats of a Strange Little Bird
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America. They are a shorebird that got lost and ended up in the scrubby parts of the forest, and look like they were put together with the leftover parts of other birds. Oddities aside, each spring they rise to great beauty with their sky dance at dusk.
Greg...
Service in a Time of Suspicion
Experiences of Muslims Serving in the U.S. Military Post-9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
On September 11, 2001, nineteen members of the Islamist extremist organization al-Qaeda launched four coordinated attacks on the United States, killing 2,977 people. These events and the government’s subsequent “War on Terror” refueled long-standing negative stereotypes about Muslims and Islam...
by Elizabeth Searle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
In the thirteen stories of My Body to You, thirteen women or girls pilot their own bodies through a shifting universe of lovers old and young, parents devoted and destructive, sisters of different sexes, children and adults living in the mysterious world of autism. All these characters share keen...
Sex for Sale
Six Progressive-Era Brothel Dramas
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In early twentieth-century U.S. culture, sex sold. While known mainly for its social reforms, the Progressive Era was also obsessed with prostitution, sexuality, and the staging of women’s changing roles in the modern era. By the 1910s, plays about prostitution (or “brothel dramas”) had inundated...
Millennial Fandom
Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
No longer a niche or cult identity, fandom now colors our notions of an expansive generational construct—the millennial generation. Like fans, millennials are frequently cast as active participants in media culture, spectators who expect opportunities to intervene, control, and create. At the same...