University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books
The Once and Future Muse
The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity...
Picturing the Barrio
Ten Chicano Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of...
The Moment Of Movement
Dance Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Dance improvisation, the intriguing phenomenon of the creative process alive in the moving body, exists powerfully, sublimely - lending insight, solving problems, allowing moments of transcendence, diversion, and delight. Flourishing especially since the postmodern movement of the 1960s, it has...
by Joyce Morgenroth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1987
Dance Improvisations is a book for teachers of dance and acting, choreographers, directors, and dance therapists. Systematically offering a complete range of ways to explore dance, it can be used as a syllabus or as a reference for groups of all ages and all levels of experience.
The first...
Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
Rethinking City-River Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned...
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
In Spirit Boxing, Weaver revisits his working class core. The veteran of fifteen years as a factory worker in his native Baltimore, he mines his own experience to build a wellspring of craft in poems that extend from his life to the lives that inhabit the whole landscape of the American working class....
Roads Not Taken
An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891–1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his former disciples led American...
Love, Order, and Progress
The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on positive or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations associated with the ancien regime. This volume...
by Ramon Dacal Moure, Manuel Rivero De La Calle
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1997
Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba presents a number of works, sixteen reproduced in color, by pre-Columbian artists from the archipelago, covering three millennia of human life in Cuba.
Living under difficult conditions, the first Cubans sculpted their emotions, fears, and hopes on...
Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands
Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
In this innovative study of the aftermath of ethnic cleansing, Eagle Glassheim examines the transformation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland from the end of the Second World War, through the Cold War, and into the twenty-first century.
Prior to their expulsion in 1945, ethnic...
Reimagining Brazilian Television
Luiz Fernando Carvalho's Contemporary Vision
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. At the forefront of this industry is TV Globo and its production of standardized telenovelas, which millions of Brazilians and viewers from over 130 countries watch nightly. Eli Lee Carter examines...
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2005
In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence.
Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea...
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Dean Young is one of the premier surrealist poets writing today. In Skid, his fifth book of poems, social outrage vies with comic excess. He embraces the autobiographical urge with fury and musically lush exclamations. Whether through the dark facts of mortality or the celebratory surprises of the...
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Finalist for ForeWord Magazine 1999 Poetry Book of the Year
With rapid shifts between subject and tone, sometimes within single poems, Dean Young’s latest book explores the kaleidoscopic welter of art and life. Here parody does not exclude the cri de coeur any more than seriousness excludes...