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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month through Poetry

We honor Hispanic Heritage Month through poems by South American poets from the upcoming THE SERPENT AND THE FIRE, the final poetry anthology from Jerome Rothenberg and co-edited with Javier Taboada.
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A Tribute to Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg at UC Press in 2017, seated beside his collections: “Technicians of the Sacred” and “Symposium of the Whole.”Jerome Rothenberg, who passed away on April 21, was a giant in the poetry community and a longtime author, anthologist, and translator for University of California Press
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Futures of Literary Criticism

Christopher Newfield’s 2023 MLA Presidential address, "Criticism After This Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study," was published in Representations 164 (Fall 2023). As the 2024 MLA conference commences, we thought it an opportune time to revisit Newfield's 2023 address,
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Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial Rome

by Edward William Kelting (Author)
Nov 2024
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Scripting Suicide in Japan

by Kirsten Cather (Author)
Oct 2024
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