University Of Iowa Press imprint: 216 books

Stories We Tell Ourselves

"Dream Life" and "Seeing Things"

by Michelle Herman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

The two thought-provoking, extended essays that make up Stories We Tell Ourselves draw from the author’s richly diverse experiences and history, taking the reader on a deeply pleasurable walk to several unexpectedly profound destinations. A steady accumulation of fascinating science, psychoanalytic...

Gaming Masculinity

Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture

by Megan Condis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

In 2016, a female videogame programmer and a female journalist were harassed viciously by anonymous male online users in what became known as GamerGate. Male gamers threatened to rape and kill both women, and the news soon made international headlines, exposing the level of abuse that many women and...
by Carl Kurtz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

Thirty-five years and many acres after planting his first patch of prairie flowers, Carl Kurtz is considered one of the deans of the great tallgrass prairie revival. The Prairie Enthusiast called the 2001 edition of his book a “readable and understandable introduction to prairie and the general...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, is now a tiny remnant of its former expanse. As a literary landscape, with much of the American environmental imagination focused on a mainstream notion of more spectacular examples of...
by Chad Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

The world of Tell Everyone I Said Hi is geographically small but far from provincial in its portrayal of emotionally complicated lives. With all the heartbreaking earnestness of a Wilco song, these eighteen stories by Chad Simpson roam the small-town playgrounds, blue-collar neighborhoods, and rural...

Thus I Lived with Words

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Writer's Craft

by Annette R. Federico
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) loved more than anything to talk about the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading good books. His dedication to the creative impulse manifests itself in the extraordinary amount of work he produced in virtually every literary genre—fiction, poetry, travel...
by Chris Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012

The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation of...
by Shane Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop...

The Afterlives of Specimens

Science, Mourning, and Whitman's Civil War

by Lindsay Tuggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

The Afterlives of Specimens explores the space between science and sentiment, the historical moment when the human cadaver became both lost love object and subject of anatomical violence. Walt Whitman witnessed rapid changes in relations between the living and the dead. In the space of a few decades,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019

Bringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary, cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict between U.S. and Soviet forces. Shining a spotlight...

The Mythical Bill

A Neurological Memoir

by Jody McAuliffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

Part medical mystery, part war story, and part social and family history, The Mythical Bill is the story of how one man’s physical and mental pain radiates outward into the life and mind of each member of his family. Weaving together diary entries, correspondence, and scrupulous research, Jody McAuliffe...
by Catherine Hindson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

Today’s celebrity charity work has deep historical roots. In the 1880s and 1890s, the stars of fin-de-siècle London’s fashionable stage culture—particularly the women—transformed theatre’s connection with fundraising. They refreshed, remolded, and reenergized celebrity charity work at a...

Places in the Making

A Cultural Geography of American Poetry

by Jim Cocola
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

Places in the Making maps a range of twentieth- and twenty-first century American poets who have used language to evoke the world at various scales. Distinct from related traditions including landscape poetry, nature poetry, and pastoral poetry—which tend toward more idealized and transcendent lyric...

Among Friends

Engendering the Social Site of Poetry

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

Philosophers and theorists have long recognized both the subversive and the transformative possibilities of friendship, the intimacy of which can transcend the impersonality of such identity categories as race, class, or gender. Unlike familial relations, friendships are chosen, opening a space of...
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