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UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR THE BOOK AND UNO PRESSWe seek work that contributes to the rich cultural tradition of New Orleans and the surrounding region, as well as work that enhances the intellectual and aesthetic life of academic and general audiences everywhere.

Cover and front matter photographs appear in On Higher Ground, The University of New Orleans at 50. Photographs courtesy of UNO Archives, Earl K. Long Library, The University of New Orleans.

The Fall/Winter 2015 list at UNO Press honors rarely published voices and purposeful dissent: the most important blog posts during Hurricane Katrina and the early rebuild, once disappearing from internet archives; a drama following the life of a resistor to Nazism, a polarizing figure known as both a coward and a martyr; the portrait of a daughter struggling against government oppression to free her father from unjust imprisonment; and a novel of bureaucratic corruption and the fight to keep a university open for its students after a devastating hurricane.

Please Forward compiles the writing of bloggers, journalists, and aid workers who witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina into a volume that will take its readers through the harrowing experience of grief, confusion, and renewal.

Jägerstätter, a harrowing drama of Nazi Austria, follows the contradictory life of its title character as he grapples with his faith and the political realities of his time, concluding that he cannot be both a Catholic and a National Socialist.

Jewher Ilham writes the second entry into our Broken Silence series, revealing the human cost behind the Chinese government’s arrest and sentencing of Uyghur activist Ilham Tohti, her father.

In The Wake of the Flagship, the newest novel from William Faulkner-prize winner Fredrick Barton, is a caustic satire about the rector of an underfunded university after a Katrina-like storm leaves the students and faculty in his care without resources.

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PLEASE FORWARDHow Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina

ed. CYNTHIA JOYCE

Much of the story of Hurricane Katrina lived on the internet as the city reconnected during its diaspora. When Cynthia Joyce went looking for one vital account for a course she was teaching, she found the site down and the piece forgotten. This inspired her search for the works that became Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina. Some of the writing included is famous and easily obtainable; a good percentage of the work is currently unavailable due to aging servers and broken links. Taken together, these pieces are powerful testament to the New Orleans blogging community who proved the internet could function as a crucial platform in a time of crisis.

9781608011087 • Nonfiction 394 pages • $25.00 • August 2015UNO Press

“This is an essential document of the state of mind of New Orleanians before and during and after Katrina. It’s raw, it’s pained, it’s outraged, it’s heartbroken—all the things it should be. —Dave Eggers

CYNTHIA JOYCE has been a writer, editor, and web producer for more than 15 years and has contributed to several regional and national publications, including The Washington Post, Newsday, NPR.org, Entertainment Weekly, and MSNBC.com, where she was a senior producer from 2007-2011; Nola.com, where she worked briefly as a producer post-Katrina; and Salon, where she was arts and entertainment editor from 1995-2000. She received her BA from Duke University in 1991, and her Masters of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1993. She joined the Ole Miss faculty in 2011. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

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JÄGERSTÄTTERA Play by FELIX MITTERER,Translated by GREGOR THUSWALDNER with ROBERT DASSANOWSKY, Preface by GÜNTHER BISCHOF

Felix Mitterer’s gripping drama Jägerstätter is based on the life and death of the martyr Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943), an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for Hitler because of his Catholic faith. Mitterer depicts Franz, who was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007, as a courageous but struggling and insecure human being—and not at all as a saint.

978-1-60801-063-9 • Drama 144 pages • $13.95 • October 2015UNO Press

FELIX MITTERER has written numerous award-winning plays, radio plays, and TV scripts. Since the publication of his first play, Kein Platz für Idioten (No Place for Idiots) in 1977, Mitterer has been regarded as one of the leading Austrian playwrights. His many literary awards include the Ernst Toller Prize, the Adolf Grimme Prize, and most recently the Ödön von Horvath Prize.

This project is made possible by a generous grant from The Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation

www.botstiber.org

GÜNTER BISCHOF is a native of Austria and graduate of the Universities of Innsbruck, New Orleans, and Harvard (PhD ‘89). He is a University Research Professor of History, the Marshall Plan Professor and Director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans, and he has authored and edited several books.

GREGOR THUSWALDNER is Professor of German and Linguistics at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts and Co-Founder and Academic Director of The Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Arts, an independent non-profit organization.

ROBERT DASSANOWSKY is Professor of German and Film, and director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and works as an independent film producer. He has authored several books.


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JEWHER ILHAMA Ugyhur’s Fight to Free Her Father

Interviewed and edited by ADAM BRAVER and ASHLEY BARTON • Foreword by U.S. SENATOR SHERROD BROWNAfterword by ROBERT QUINN

978-1-60801-105-6 • Nonfiction160 pages • $18.95 • November 2015UNO Press

ADAM BRAVER is writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University, and also teaches at the NY State Summer Writers Institute. He is the author of five novels, most recently Misfit.

ASHLEY BARTON is currently in her first year of law school at Wake Forest University. Her advocacy work, particularly on the Ilham Tohti case, led to her being honored as a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow.

When Jewher Ilham’s father, Ilham Toti, was detained at the Beijing airport in February 2013 on charges of “separatism,” Jewher had two choices: she could stay in China or fly to America alone. Jewher boarded the plane for Indiana and began a new life apart from her family and was half a world away when her father was sentenced to life in prison.

Through a series of interviews with novelist Adam Braver and scholar Ashley Barton, Jewher recounted her father’s nightmare and her own transition from student to eloquent advocate for the Uyghur people. The resulting book, Jewher Ilham: A Uyghur’s Fight to Free Her Father, is an intimate, exclusive portrait that U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown calls “proof that Jewher and her people will not be silenced.”

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IN THE WAKE OF THE FLAGSHIPFREDRICK BARTON

Continuing the story started in The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Barton’s newest novel finds college basketball coach Richard Janus in an unlikely position: he has recently become the interim rector of Urban University, the woefully underfunded public college of Choctaw, Alkansea. When Choctaw is devastated by a major hurricane, Janus must battle with the unscrupulous heads of flagship ASU to keep Urban, the school he loves, from closing its doors forever. Told through the eyes of Metacom, the legendary Indian sachem of King Philip’s War, Flagship is a blistering (and often hilarious) examination of the contradictions implicit in the American experience.

978-1-60801-106-3 • Fiction 592 pages • $18.95 • April 2015UNO Press

FREDRICK BARTON is the author of the novels The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Courting Pandemonium, Black and White on the Rocks, and A House Divided, which won the William Faulkner Prize in fiction. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Barton has a lot of important human business on his mind in this exceptional novel: race, history, the South, hurricanes, laughter, love, and much more. In the Wake of the Flagship is wonderfully inventive, and addictive to read.” — Richard Ford


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978-1-60801-118-6 • Fiction 100 pages • $12.95 • January 20, 2016UNO Press

KING LEOPOLD’S SOLILOQUYMARK TWAININTRODUCTION BY HUNT HAWKINS

In Mark Twain’s satire, a raving King Leopold of Belgium launches an impassioned defense of his gruesome policies in Africa, claiming his divine right to brutalize the Congolese people. A scathing condemnation of imperialism and the violence that it incites, Twain’s words retain all of their vitriol over a century later. For years this remarkable work, which lead the first international campaign for human rights, has only been reproduced in low-quality facsimile. Using the original 1905 release, The University of New Orleans Press has restored the manuscript with new typesetting and archival photographs. In a new introduction, Dr. Hunt Hawkins provides crucial insight into Twain’s mindset as he pushes for social reform. Although Twain likely never knew the impact of his campaign, King Leopold’s Soliloquy remains a hallmark of anti-imperialist rhetoric and a testament to the power of Twain’s words.

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WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BE WITHOUT WOMENWAUKESHA JACKSON

Waukesha Jackson’s book is an examination of loss and recovery. Starting with her relationship to her mother, Ms. Jackson writes about the struggles that have been a part of many of the lives of women in the Ninth Ward. In particular, she examines the frequent role of women as caretakers of the community–in their homes, social clubs, barrooms, and churches. Through interviews, photography and reflection, Ms. Jackson captures the tough times and victories of her family and neighbors.

978-1-60801-119-3 • Nonfiction 88 pages • $15.00 • February 1, 2016UNO Press

PRESENTED BY THE NEIGHBORHOOD STORY PROJECT

The Neighborhood Story Project is a community documentary program based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. In the weeks leading up to Hurricane Katrina, we celebrated the release of five books written by our students at John McDonogh Senior High. The books were the second best sellers in the city and stand as a testament to New Orleans’ community spirit and as a map back from disaster. Through interviews, photography, and story-writing, these New Orleans teenagers explored their families, their neighborhoods, and their city.

Neighborhood Story Project

In 2004, the Neighborhood Story Project was founded by Rachel Breunlin and Abram Himelstein as a book-making project based in the neighborhoods where New Orleanians live and work. NSP works with writers in neighborhoods around New Orleans to create books about their communities.

The NSP started at public school, John McDonogh Senior High, with the idea of students investigating their worlds. For a year, the students wrote, photographed, interviewed, and edited. In June of 2005, the NSP brought out five books—collaborative ethnographies—about New Orleans.

The NSP has expanded their practice of collaborative ethnography outside of schools, producing books and posters that do the work of telling stories of the city. The NSP works with authors and neighborhoods, then celebrate a publication with block parties. The books have gone on to be citywide bestsellers, selling more than 35,000 books.

The NSP is a center at the University of New Orleans, with Rachel Breunlin in the Department of Anthropology and Abram Himelstein in the College of Education and Human Performance.


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BRUCE “SUNPIE” BARNES is a veteran park ranger and photographer at New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park. As a musician, he has traveled the world playing with his band, Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, as well as others, such as Paul Simon and Sting.

TALK THAT MUSIC TALKRACHEL BREUNLIN and BRUCE “SUNPIE” BARNES, EDITORS

In the early 1900s, jazz was created in New Orleans. Soon afterwards the fear began...it’s moving away, it’s going to die out, it needs to be preserved. Yet each generation has put time and energy into making sure the roots of the music stay strong in the city. This book is about the history of that kind of organizing work, and what happened when the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park brought together a new group of young people to learn traditional brass band music from older musicians and the Black Men of Labor Social Aid & Pleasure Club.

9781608011070 • Nonfiction240 pages • $35.00 • December 2015UNO Center for the Book/Neighborhood Story Project

RACHEL BREUNLIN is co-director of the Neighborhood Story Project. She is currently the ethnographer-in-residence in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans where she teaches courses on public culture and collaborative ethnography.

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THE HOUSE OF DANCE & FEATHERSA Museum by Ronald W. Lewis

Text by RACHEL BREUNLIN and RONALD W. LEWIS

In a backyard on Tupelo Street, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Ronald W. Lewis has assembled a museum of the various worlds he inhabits. Built in 2003, and rebuilt after Katrina, the House of Dance & Feathers represents many New Orleans societies: Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, Bone Gangs, and parade Krewes.

More than just a catalogue of the artifacts in the museum, this book is a map of these worlds as experienced by Ronald W. Lewis. Through stories and conversation, we come to know the wide network of people who create and nurture performance traditions in the city.

The House of Dance & Feathers showcases communities who come together to sew and sing, to vaunt and dance, and to reconstruct the city. Like the cultures represented, the museum mixes the magical and the mundane, and makes explicit the connections between New Orleans, the African diaspora, Native America, and our shared futures.

As well as being House of Dance & Feathers director and curator, RONALD LEWIS is president of the Big Nine Social Aid and Pleasure Club, former Council Chief of the Choctaw Hunters, 2008 King of Krewe de Vieux, a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, survivor of two devastating hurricanes, Betsy in 1965 and Katrina in 2005, and a central character in Dan Baum’s bestseller Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death and Life in New Orleans.

RACHEL BREUNLIN is co-director of the Neighborhood Story Project. She is currently the ethnographer-in-residence in the Anthropology Department at the University of New Orleans where she teaches courses on public culture and collaborative ethnography.

“I want to educate the world about our great culture, how we do this, and why we are so successful at it even though the economics say we ain’t supposed to be.”

—Ronald W. Lewis

9780970619075 • Nonfiction200 pages • $29.00 • June 2009UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project


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FROM MY MOTHER’S HOUSE OF BEAUTYSUSAN STEPHANIE HENRY

From her childhood in Englishtown on the Caribbean coast of Honduras to her life in the Seventh Ward, Susan Stephanie Henry writes of transitions and shifting identities. In From My Mother’s House of Beauty, Susan investigates her many worlds: family homes, beauty salons, public schools and fashion runways.

Part memoir, part ethnography, House of Beauty explores what it means to be a black Honduran woman living in New Orleans.

SUSAN HENRY graduated from John McDonogh Senior High in 2011. She is a fashion designer and hair stylist living in New Orleans.

“Henry seems a young woman with talent to burn...”—Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune

9781608010141 • Nonfiction119 pages • $15.00 • February 2010UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project

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SIGNED, THE PRESIDENTKENNETH PHILLIPS

Signed, the President is a portrait of family life during turbulent times as witnessed by Kenneth Phillips, aka the President.

In a mixture of interviews and personal reflections, Kenneth tells the stories of the St. Bernard Public Housing development—from the beginnings of bounce to memories of the sweet shop and echoes of the church services—while exploring his relationships to the people closest to him.

Signed, the President also emerges as a poignant conversation on gender identity. From an early age, Kenneth deals with pressure to conform from a community that places a high value on traditional masculinity. In spite of the obstacles, Kenneth stays true to himself as he begins to come to terms with his sexual orientation.

KENNETH PHILLIPS graduated from John McDonogh Senior High in 2011. He is a student at Delgado Community College.

9781608010158 • Nonfiction113 pages • $15.00 • February 2010UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project

“...a true profile in courage.” —Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune


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BEYOND THE BRICKSDARON CRAWFORD and PERNELL RUSSELL

More than parallel stories, Beyond the Bricks is a conversation about life in New Orleans as the city’s major public housing projects are torn down. With childhoods spent in the Calliope and St. Bernard projects, Daron and Pernell document what these communities meant, the new struggles of living outside the projects, and their families’ new footholds in the city.

The book describes the many cultures of teenage New Orleans, showing the strengths and tensions of the different scenes the authors call home. Daron and Pernell, both aspiring artists, write about discovering their passions. Daron learns to rap from his uncle, who helps him pen his first lyrics. For Pernell, a love of dance comes from watching other dancers on the floor of a local club.

In Beyond the Bricks, Daron and Pernell examine both where they have been and where they intend their talents to take them. DARON CRAWFORD graduated from John

McDonogh Senior High in 2011. He is a student in culinary arts at Delgado Community College.

PERNELL RUSSELL graduated from John McDonogh Senior High in 2012. He is working as a chef.

9781608010165 • Nonfiction189 pages • $16.00 • February 2010

UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project

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AUNT ALICE VS. BOB MARLEYMy Education in New Orleans

KAREEM KENNEDY

In Aunt Alice vs. Bob Marley, Kareem Kennedy documents his quest for an education in the schools and streets of New Orleans. With his father gone and his mother frequently out of the picture, Kareem looks toward teachers, friends, and extended family for the skills to muster through public schools, Hurricane Katrina, and the “heavy hands and hard shoes” of his life. Kareem’s story serves as a meditation on the New Orleans public education system as he sheds light on the best and worst their public schools have to offer.

Throughout his time in school, Kareem feels pulled in two very different directions. On the one hand, there is his Aunt Alice, an advocate for black empowerment who presses him to discover his creative potential. On the other, there is the “Bob Marley” culture of taking it easy, getting stoned, and not worrying so much about the future.

The two years Kareem spends writing Aunt Alice vs. Bob Marley represent highs and lows: losing friends, surviving violence, and the beginning of his college career.9781608010134 • Nonfiction

101 pages • $15.00 • February 2010UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project

KAREEM KENNEDY is a student at Southern University of New Orleans majoring in social work. He is the editor of the university newspaper.


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BETWEEN PIETY AND DESIREARLET and SAM WYLIE

Between Piety and Desire is both the story of a brother and sister and a conversation about “inside” versus “outside” life in the city of New Orleans.

Arlet and Sam Wylie grew up living above a corner store in the Ninth Ward. In this book, they remember a childhood of parents keeping them inside to avoid the struggles of the neighborhood around them even as domestic abuse sometimes disrupted the safety of their own home. They interview the people who hang out on the block, weaving the history of the street through their own history living upstairs. Unusually candid and self-reflective, the Wylies describe their new “inside life,” including Sam’s fatherhood and Arlet’s new home.

ARLET and SAM WYLIE returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Sam was in the first public school graduating class after Katrina.

9781608010400 • Nonfiction112 pages • $15.00 • September 2010UNO Press/The Neighborhood Story Project

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CORNERSTONESCelebrating the Everyday Monuments & Gathering Places of New Orleans’ Neighborhoods

Cornerstones, a collaboration with the Neighborhood Story Project, is a showcase of the intersections of places and people that make New Orleans great. Readers will experience the history of New Orleans through barrooms as comfortable as living rooms, an empty lot that holds more life than many houses, a barbershop that doubles as an artist studio, and a museum that grew out of one man’s back shed. A testament to the importance of neighborhood spaces, Cornerstones is a reminder of the places that hold our history.

9780970619037 • Nonfiction95 pages • $18.00 • March 2009UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project

ABRAM HIMELSTEIN earned his MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2005. In his work at the Neighborhood Story Project, Abram teaches writing, fundraising, and dealing with the printing and distribution of books.

RACHEL BREUNLIN is co-director of the Neighborhood Story Project. She is currently the ethnographer-in-residence in the Anthropology Department at the University of New Orleans where she teaches courses on public culture and collaborative ethnography.

BETHANY ROGERS received a master’s degree in urban and regional planning with an emphasis in historic preservation and living heritage conservation from the University of New Orleans in 2003. Until recently, she taught at Tulane University‘s School of Architecture where she collaborated with the university as director of the Cornerstones Project. She is currently the Executive Director for the Danville Main Street Program in Danville, KY.


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COMING OUT THE DOOR FOR THE NINTH WARDNINE TIMES SOCIAL AND PLEASURE CLUB

In Coming Out the Door for the Ninth Ward, the members of Nine Times introduce readers to their original stomping grounds. Told in a mixture of interviews, photographs, and reflections, Nines Times immerse us in their world of second lines, brass bands, Magee’s Lounge, and the ties that bind.

Beginning with their own childhoods in the Desire Housing Project, members take readers on a tour of the neighborhood, from Motown Sound at Carver games to sandlot football. They remember the electricity of their first parades and express the devastation they felt when the Housing Authority of New Orleans began to demolish the Desire.

Written just a year after Katrina, Coming Out the Door for the Ninth Ward finds members rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of the storm. In spite of the challenges this represents, Nines Times members reunite to do what they do best: bring their parade to the community they call home.

“The Ninth Ward is where we’re from and that’s where our smoke is coming from.” —Nine Times

9780970619099 • Nonfiction247 pages • $18.00 • April 2009UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project

Photograph from The House of Dance and Feathers.

Photograph by John Tibule Mendes, from Dogs in My Life

At UNO Press, we strive to preserve and promote the collective memory of the New Orleans area by giving local writers and citizens a platform to tell their stories. To this end, we publish work from a diverse field of award-winning authors and poets, beloved artists, and stimulating academics, as well as volumes that exist in remembrance of losses sustained during Hurricane Katrina.

Among our region-focused releases are the novels of Fredrick Barton, the sketchbook of Clem-entine Hunter, Moira Crone’s apocalyptic imagining of the Gulf Coast, collections of interviews from the Katrina Narrative Project, and a study of the vibrant food and musical culture of the West African people enslaved at the Whitney Plantation.


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This sketchbook from 1945 by renowned Louisiana self-taught artist, Clementine Hunter, contains twenty-six previously unseen oil-on-paper sketches. These paintings were the first group of sketches ever made by her, and show a very personal and thoughtful depiction of Creole plantation life in the Cane River area of rural Louisiana. Richard Gasperi purchased the sketchbook from the Henry family of Melrose Plantation in the early 1970s, and instantly felt a deep connection to the work included. He decided to keep the sketchbook for himself, in hopes of one day sharing this uniquely personal side of Clementine Hunter with the world. Clementine Hunter: A Sketchbook is the fulfillment of that hope.

9781608010363 • Louisiana Art 64 pages • $25.00 • November 2014

Ogden Museum/UNO Center for the Book

CLEMENTINE HUNTER: A SKETCHBOOK

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“When Moira Crone’s The Not Yet is read in 2121…its readers will ask of us, ‘If you knew enough about what was coming to have books like this, why didn’t you do something about it?’” —John Biguenet, author

of Oyster

MOIRA CRONE has published three short story collections, including What Gets Into Us, and one other novel, A Period of Confinement. Her work has appeared in twelve anthologies and over forty journals, including Oxford American, The New Yorker, Image, and Mademoiselle. In 2009, she was given the Robert Penn Warren Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers for her entire body of work.

9781608010721 • Fiction 220 pages • $15.95 • April 2012UNO Press

THE NOT YETMOIRA CRONE

It’s 2121. The Heirs live for centuries. Wealthy and ruthless, they control society’s resources behind walled city-states. Outside, the poor barely survive. Malcolm de Lazarus, a “Not Yet,” has toiled from early childhood to join the elite. But his fortune disappears overnight. He sails home to the chaotic New Orleans Islands, just outside the empire, for answers. Along the way he encounters the dark side of the Heirs’ privilege that threatens everything and everyone he loves.

Set in a future where class dictates all, and connections are everything, The Not Yet builds its world on the same tensions that trouble our own times. Never afraid to confront the big questions, this brave novel asks how much of our own humanity we would give up for the ultimate privilege: immortality.

“[Resonates] on many levels, as myth, as high literature, as science fiction, as fantasy…I have not read a more compelling novel in a very long time.”

—Jim Grimsley, author of Dream Boy


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I HOPE IT’S NOT OVER, AND GOOD-BYSelected Poems of Everette Maddox

Edited by RALPH ADAMO

Called the “Christ of New Orleans” by Andrei Codrescu, Everette Maddox was a New Orleans legend, a poet whose mythos made it hard to know who he really was. Broke and often homeless, but with a distinctive taste for style and glamour, Maddox was a character well suited for the contradictions of New Orleans life. As Ralph Adamo remarks in his introduction, “We each have our own Everette, and then we have the poems.”

In this collection, editor Adamo has selected the best from Maddox’s published collections as well as many poems unpublished to date. Adamo’s impeccable selection and thematic ordering provide a frame uniquely appropriate to Maddox’s work; even the most famous of his poems seem to take on new, surprising dimensions.

“[This work] captures so palpably the nuances of Maddox’s speaking voice that to read it is to almost touch the man; the savage-world-cartooning wit, the sense of beauty and civilization, the carnal-cry, the fascination with history, the resigned and stoically self-caricaturing romantic. It is, as Bob Woolf pointed out…jazz…New Orleans jazz…”

—Rodney Jones

During his lifetime, EVERETTE MADDOX (1944 -1989) was considered by his following to be the unofficial poet laureate of New Orleans. He was a founder of the Maple Leaf Poetry Reading series and is the subject of the radio documentary He Was A Mess: The Short Life of New Orleans Poet Everette Maddox by David Kunian.

9781608010004 • Poetry 166 pages • $16.95 • November 2009UNO Press

“In all the thunderous herd of contemporary poetry, I don’t think I know anyone who has so completely captured his own voice, his own being, in his work as Everette Maddox. This book is Everette Maddox.”

—Leon Stokesbury

Photograph above from I hope it’s not over, and good-by.Photograph courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection.

“In New Orleans, Everette Maddox is to poetry what Marie Laveau is to voodoo and Buddy Bolden to jazz. His legend haunts the streets he lived on, the bars where he drank and wrote and read his poems…This long-overdue selection brings together a substantial body of Maddox’s work—much of it long out of print. It presents Maddox as a poet ‘exploding within the memory trace of an older idea of form’—at once tragic and humorous, plain spoken and ‘ca-gily ensconced in his own words.’ I hope it’s not over, and good-by will be treasured by those of us who were already fans of his po-ems and introduce him to the larger audi-ence he deserves.” —Grace Bauer,

Praise for I hope it’s not over, and good-by


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BOUKI FAIT GOMBOA History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860

IBRAHIMA SECK

Through an in-depth study of one of Louisiana’s most important sugar plantations, Bouki Fait Gombo traces the impact of slavery on southern culture. This is a thorough examination of the Whitney’s evolution—from the precise routes slaves crossed to arrive at the plantation’s doors to records of the men, women, and children who were bound to the Whitney over the years. Although Bouki Fait does not shy away from depicting the daily brutalities slaves faced, at the book’s heart are the robust culinary and musical cultures that arose from their shared sense of community and homesickness. The release of this book coincides with the opening of the Whitney Plantation Museum, a “site of memory dedicated to a fuller understanding of the facts of slavery, our national tragedy.”

“As a trial lawyer, John Cummings understood that with much careful research and thought, the Whitney Plantation will engage the wider public in knowledge of slavery and the system of slavery in Louisiana…He has been wise enough to tap into Dr. Ibrahima Seck’s knowledge of the subject. He could not find a better expert.”

—Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Africans in Colonial

Louisiana

IBRAHIMA SECK Ibrahima Seck is a member of the History department of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal. His research is mostly devoted to Louisiana. In 1999, he defended a doctoral dissertation entitled, “African Cultures and Slavery in Lower Mississippi Valley from Iberville to Jim Crow.” He is also the academic director of the Whitney Heritage Plantation Corporation.

In 1992, the Whitney Plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Whitney Plantation is a genuine landmark built by African slaves and their descendants. As a site of memory and consciousness, the Whitney Plantation Museum is meant to pay homage to all the slaves who lived on the plantation itself and to all of those who lived elsewhere in Louisiana and the US South.

9781608010950 • Nonfiction 215 pages • $18.95 • December 2014UNO Press

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DOGS IN MY LIFEThe New Orleans Photographs of John Tibule Mendes

Edited by BILL LAVENDER with an introduction by JOHN H. LAWRENCE

Raised in New Orleans, John Tibule Mendes lived most of his life in a two-room house on Broad Street with his beloved mother and their dogs. Only after his death in 1965 was it discovered that this lonely and socially awkward man had spent much of his free time documenting beautiful and unusual scenes of early 20th century New Orleans.

His glass-plate negatives, discovered after his death in the attic of his house and published here for the first time, capture subjects typically ignored by the photographers of the era. This collection is exceptional from both documentary and aesthetic perspectives, presenting what could accurately be classified as photographic folk art.

The photographs in Dogs in My Life are complemented by excerpts from Mendes’s self-published autobiography of the same name. Mendes’s sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious voice adds another layer to these remarkable images.

Between 1916 and the mid-1930s, JOHN TIBULE MENDES (1888–1965) was a consistent and curious observer of life in New Orleans. His photographs are archived in The Historic New Orleans Collection.

BILL LAVENDER is a poet, editor, and teacher living in New Orleans. He is the publisher of Lavender Ink, a small press devoted to contemporary poetry. His poems have appeared in dozens of print and web journals and anthologies, and his essays and theoretical writings have been published in Contemporary Literature and Poetics Today, among others.

“The day-to-day activities of New Orleanians from nearly a century ago hold our attention because they present familiar things (e.g. Mardi Gras, children at play, street life) in ways that no longer seem familiar. Traditions endure, but surroundings change, and the ensemble of city life changes, too. People as well are different, and those differences may be measured either individually or socially by the yardstick of Mendes’s pictures.”

— John H. Lawrence

9781608010059 • Photography • Nonfiction120 pages • $26.95 • December 2009UNO Press


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BEFORE (DURING) AFTER Louisiana Photographers’ Visual Reactions to Hurricane Katrina

with essays by JOHN BIGUENET, STEVEN MAKLANSKY and DR. TONY LEWIS

Before (During) After is a visual and literary narrative of how Hurricane Katrina transformed the lives and work of twelve photographers from Southeast Louisiana, told through photographs they took before, during, and after the storm. Personal and environmental devastation permeates their work, not only in photographs taken during the storm, but also ones in the years following. Essays written by the artists trace the influence of environmental and community ties on artistic vision, and act as a testimony to the ongoing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

9781608010233 • Photography • Nonfiction120 pages • $24.95 • September 2010UNO Press

Photograph from Before (During) After. Photograph by Thomas Neff.


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VOICES RISING Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project

Edited by REBECA ANTOINEAfterword by FREDRICK BARTON

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and nearly toppled the historic city of New Orleans. As the storm cleared, residents watched water and chaos overtake their city while political and legal systems proved unprepared and insufficient. Starting in October 2005, the University of New Orleans asked students to submit interviews and accounts of citizens’ experiences during Hurricane Katrina, and hundreds of manuscripts, interviews, and transcripts were compiled as part of the Katrina Narrative Project, which is currently housed at the University of New Orleans Library.

Voices Rising is a sampling of this greater collection. Transcending the images and headlines portrayed in the media, these are the true accounts of trauma and survival told by the people who endured them.

9780972814362 • Nonfiction250 pages • $12.95 • May 2009UNO Press

REBECA ANTOINE was born in Connecticut and is a graduate of Yale University and the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. Her fiction has appeared in numerous venues, most recently in The Briar Cliff Review and GulfStream.

“Many books have been written about the tragedy, but the work done by University of New Orleans students to collect these survivors’ narratives in 2005 is groundbreaking…Cutting, caustic, and riveting from start to finish, this collection does not shy away from presenting the agonies that often go unrecorded in the aftermath of a sudden disaster. Miles away from academic analysis, this is American social history from the ground up and staggering in its significance.”

—Colleen Mondor, Booklist

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VOICES RISING IIMore Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project

Edited by REBECA ANTOINEIntroduction by BARB JOHNSON

Voices Rising II, the second compilation of stories from The Katrina Narrative Project, gives further witness to one of America’s greatest disasters. Members of the University of New Orleans combed the region and the nation, collecting interviews and oral histories from people of all walks of life. These are stories of loss, injustice, and, at times, triumph as told by the people who endured the storm.

The University of New Orleans reopened online in October 2005, only two months after the storm devastated the city and the campus. Members of the university combed the region and the nation collecting interviews and oral histories from people of all walks of life who were willing to speak about their experiences. These documents, transcripts, and audio recordings are now archived at the University of New Orleans library.

As Barb Johnson says of Voices Rising II in her introduction, “This book contains not just the story of a few people in a specific place and time. It is actually the story of us all. It is the story of how we are bat-tered by being in this world and about how sometimes we sink. But, more importantly, it is the story of how, having been battered, having sunk, we then rise.”

“These narratives cut across age, race and neighborhood, a reminder of what we have shared and lost and struggle to rebuild.”

—Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune9780970619082 • Nonfiction475 pages • $24.95 • June 2012UNO Press

REBECA ANTOINE was born in Connecticut and is a graduate of Yale University and the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. Her fiction has appeared in numerous venues, most recently in The Briar Cliff Review and GulfStream.


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CYNTHIA HOGUE has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Or Consequence in 2010. Among her honors are an NEA in poetry, the H.D. Fellowship at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a residency at the MacDowell Colony, and the Witter Bynner Translation Residency Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute.

REBECCA ROSS has exhibited her photographs in venues such as the Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City; Houston Center for Photography; Eye Gallery, San Francisco; and Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship and Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her work has been collected by Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, and Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas, among others.

WHEN THE WATER CAME Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina

Interview-poems by CYNTHIA HOGUEPhotographs by REBECCA ROSS

When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina gathers the intimate recollections of eleven Louisiana and Mississippi residents recounting their lives during and after Hurricane Katrina. Their words, transformed by a poet’s hand, weave a distinct narrative of Katrina and its aftermath. Black-and-white photographs of the participants and their surroundings create a lyrical conversation between the participants, poet Cynthia Hogue, and photographer Rebecca Ross, allowing us to see how the human spirit confronts and transcends trauma.

“It is good to see Rebecca Ross bringing her visual power to a book of poetry, and especially one that reflects upon the human intensity of Hurricane Katrina. For good poetry can be capable of both challenging and uplifting the soul–just like the vibrant harmonies that soar through Ross’s photography.”

—Roy Flukinger, Senior Research CuratorThe University of Texas at Austin

9781608010127 • Poetry • Photography 120 pages • $24.95 • August 2010UNO Press

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THE KATRINA PAPERSA Journal of Trauma and Recovery

JERRY W. WARD, JR.

Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. fuses autobiography, politics, spirituality, history, and poetry in this highly inventive trip through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. During the hurricane, Ward sees both his home and the university at which he teaches flooded. In the wake of this trauma, he scrambles to find hope and sanity in a city where thousands have been displaced by the whims of nature. Although Ward is filled with anger and grief, his keen observations on life make for an ultimately uplifting read.

“The struggle with form—the search for a medium proper to the complex social, personal, and political ramifications of an event unprecedented in this scholar’s life and in American social history—lies at the very heart of The Katrina Papers. The book depicts an enigmatic and multi-stranded world view which takes the local as its nexus for understanding the global. It resists the temptation to simplify or clarify when simplification and clarification are not possible. Ward’s narrative is, at times, very direct, but he always refuses to simplify the complex emotional and spiritual volatility of the process and the historical moment that he is witnessing. The end result is an honesty that is both pedagogical and inspiring.”

—Hank Lazer

JERRY W. WARD, JR. is a distinguished professor of English and African American World Studies at Dillard University, New Orleans, LA. Ward spent twenty years as the Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College in Jackson.



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ANNIE GIBSON was born in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in Davidson, North Carolina. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College in 2003 and her Ph.D. in 2010 from the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Her areas of specialization include Brazilian and Cuban performance cultures and Brazilian immigration to the United States. She currently teaches at Tulane in both the Departments of Latin American Studies and of Spanish and Portuguese.


POST-KATRINA BRAZUCASBrazilian Immigrants in New Orleans

ANNIE MCNEIL GIBSON

In the time of reconstruction following the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, a number of Brazilian immigrants relocated to New Orleans, establishing their own immigrant network in the city. Post-Katrina Brazucas examines how this network developed from 2005 to the present and how Brazilians “performed” their presence in their new home. While rebuilding a devastated city, Brazilians created a new enclave in New Orleans, developing hybrid forms of Brazilian-New Orleanian cultural expression.

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ROBERT L. DUPONT is Associate Professor of History at UNO. He has also served as Dean of Metropolitan College and Vice-Chancellor of Strategic Planning and Budget. He is co-editor, with Günter Bischof, of The Pacific War Revisited, essays on World War II.

ON HIGHER GROUNDThe University of New Orleans at 50

ROBERT L. DUPONT

Published to coincide with the University of New Orleans’s 50th anniversary, On Higher Ground looks back on the university’s founding and its subsequent contributions to both its students and its community. The book traces the history of UNO’s academic tradition—from its beginnings to its most recent expansions and innovations.

The University of New Orleans was established as a branch campus of LSU in 1956. Although originally envisioned as a small campus, students enrolled in numbers far greater than expected, causing the school to expand rapidly. From its early years, students, faculty, and the administration were united in the desire to build an excellent university from the ground up. In recent history, UNO has expanded its outreach to the New Orleans community through economic development projects, international exchange, and the adoption of charter schools and additional campuses throughout the city.

In spite of major challenges—such as the devastation of Hurricane Katrina—the University of New Orleans has persevered, continuing to foster an innovative academic community for over fifty years.

9780972814355 • Nonfiction188 pages • $39.95 • March 2009UNO Press


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COURTING PANDEMONIUMFREDRICK BARTON

A high school basketball coach finds himself in the middle of cultural warfare in this rollicking novel by prize-winning author Fredrick Barton.

Raised by an outspoken single mother, Mac coaches women’s high school basketball in a New Orleans public school. When Mac encourages a star athlete, Barbara Jeanne Bordelon, to play on the boys’ basketball team, he incurs a flurry of public scrutiny that puts him in the path of radical feminists and evangelical Christians. Set in the 1970s to coincide with the Title IX ruling, Courting Pandemonium looks back on the landmark equal rights case with the singular mix of poignancy and absurdist humor Barton is known for.


“Exciting and surprising.”—Los Angeles Times

“…a farce of the highest order, peopled with radical feminists, right-wing religious sects and kids who just want to play ball. Read it and giggle.” —USA Today

“In this zany new novel with more twists that a centipede has legs, Barton keeps readers mesmerized until the final page and demonstrates once again his skill at depicting our crazy world.” —Library Journal

9781608011018 • Fiction280 pages • $18.95 • January 2014UNO Press

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“A superior, savvy tangle of greed, graft, and sudden violence.” —The Los Angeles Times

9781608011001 • Fiction388 pages • $18.95 • May 2013UNO Press

BLACK AND WHITE ON THE ROCKSFREDRICK BARTON

From William Faulkner Prize winner Fredrick Barton comes Black and White on the Rocks, a genre-bending murder mystery both gritty and observant.

One Sunday night, Michael Barnett returns home, half drunk, to find that someone has sifted through the court documents of his deceased wife, a passionate attorney. Suddenly questioning the circumstances of her death, Mike becomes fascinated with a racially charged case she took to the Supreme Court years earlier.

As he uncovers a history of crooked dealings, the struggling alcoholic loses himself in the pursuit of justice and closure. Clever, jaded, and haunted by loss, Mike navigates us through his own complex New Orleans, a city at once vibrant and aching, marred by racial prejudice and political corruption. A true melding of genres, Black and White on the Rocks explores crime, heartbreak, and the possibility of redemption with rare insight and skill.


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THE EL CHOLO FEELING PASSESFREDRICK BARTON

In a memo to the UCLA History Department, doctoral candidate Richard Janus admits that he will not be turning in his thesis. The El Cholo Feeling Passes is the “digression” he pens instead—an irreverent, large-hearted coming-of-age story.

Chronicling Janus’ youth and his marriage to the fiery Faith Cleaver, the novel depicts a life on the verge of adulthood. As they navigate the Sexual Revolution, the Women’s Movement, and Vietnam, Janus and Faith question the future of their careers and their relationship. Though firmly set in one of the most dynamic periods of American history, their story not only captures the spirit of a generation—it explores the timeless themes of fleeting youth, confused ambition, and the frustrations and rewards of marriage.FREDRICK BARTON is the author

of the novels The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Courting Pandemonium, Black and White on the Rocks, and A House Divided, which won the William Faulkner Prize in fiction. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“As a document of the hysteria following the Sexual Revolution, it is certifiably true. As an absurdist comedy it begs to be compared to Catch-22 or One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

—The Times-Picayune

“Page by page it’s a winner, a great, wide youth swoop at reality that compares to visions of James Jones, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth. The El Cholo Feeling Passes is big—and very beautiful.”

—Los Angeles Times


“This excellent novel is The Way We Were for the Vietnam generation.”

—Brandon Tartikoff

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A HOUSE DIVIDEDFREDRICK BARTON

At a 1968 antiwar rally in a New Orleans church, a white Baptist preacher named Jeff Caldwell introduces his boss and lifelong friend, the prominent black civil rights leader George Washington Brown. As Brown steps to the pulpit to speak, a gunman walks forward and shoots Brown and Caldwell both. A House Divided explores how these two men, united in philosophy and friendship, but divided by race and class, came to stand together on that fateful night.

Told from the perspective of Caldwell’s son, A House Divided traces the path of a dirt-poor white boy from central Louisiana as he survives war, poverty, and turbulences within his own family to make a stand against the evils of a broken South. Spanning across the Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil Rights Era, this unflinching novel examines the inner lives of those deeply flawed heroes who shaped their country in their imperfect pursuit of justice. Winner of the William Faulkner Prize (2000) for fiction, A House Divided is smart, nuanced, and above all, human.


“A history of lives that strove for political greatness and fell far short on the scale of personal goodness.”

—The Times-Picayune


“A novel about the civil-rights movement and its soldiers that is as complex, tragic, and healing as the era itself.” —Connie May Fowler


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ROWING TO SWEDENEssays on Faith, Love, Politics, and Movies

FREDRICK BARTON

Whether confronting racial politics, a doomed marriage, or an idealist’s loss of innocence, Fredrick Barton never flinches from the truth in this heartfelt collection of award-winning essays. Often funny, always honest, Barton weaves his love of the movies into his recollections of growing up a white liberal Baptist, coming of age in anti-wars rallies, and finding hope in a country torn by racial divides. Rowing to Sweden includes both personal essays and cultural criticism. While their subjects range from the responsibilities filmmakers must accept when telling a war story to the bureaucratic tortures of a visit to the DMV, these essays all contemplate one delicate concern: the bittersweet dilemma of trying to live a good life in a morally complex world.

“A rich, intricately woven tapestry of memoir and criticism, a multi-layered essaying on the very things that make our everyday lives meaningful and maddening.” —Steven Church, author of Theoretical Killings, Essays and Accidents


9781608010011 • Nonfiction 413 Pages • $15.25 • May 2010UNO Press

“Barton continues the very best of the essay tradition: wisdom, grace, a stubborn curiosity, and the urge to follow an idea wherever it leads.”

—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire

From On Higher Ground.

The broken silence serieS

Silence is the most dangerous thing for a political prisoner”—Nadia Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2014.

Understanding that the primary tactic for preventing critical thought is to suppress voices, the Broken Silences Series seeks to allow the writers and scholars who have been imprisoned for their ideas to tell their stories. The books in this series give an intimate dimension to the struggles of those who have defied political oppression to express dissent. In some cases, the men and women who have been imprisoned tell these stories; in others, family members and advocates will covey the heartache and frustration of persecution and the experience of being drawn into the struggle for expressive freedom.

The Broken Silences Series is an outgrowth of the Advocacy Seminars at Roger Williams University where, in conjunction with Scholars at Risk and in close relationships with organizations like PEN American Center, students engage in direct advocacy work on behalf of internationally imprisoned writers. The books in the series reflect the Advocacy Seminars’ main principle: as writers and thinkers who rely on freedom of expression, it is incumbent upon us to support our peers who do no have access to such a basic right.

The books in the Broken Silences Series go beyond transcribing events in their authors’ lives. By seeing nonfiction narrative as an art form in itself, the series’ books will be edited in a manner that transcends the informational, and through their narrative constructions re-creates not just the details of each person’s struggle, but also places the reader inside the moments of time in which the stories are being told.

The most recent entry into this series, Jewher Ilham: A Uyghur Daughter’s Fight to Free Her Father, tells the story of events surrounding the imprisonment of academic Ilham Tohti, who worked to maintain a dialogue between China’s ethnic groups.


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NORMANDO HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ 7 Years in Prison for Writing about BreadInterview by ADAM BRAVER and MOLLY GESSFORDTranslated by CYNTHIA GUARDADO

In March 2003, Normando Hernández González was among seventy-five Cuban journalists who were hunted down and arrested in what became known as the “Black Spring.” For reporting outside the regime-endorsed perspective, the men were tried and sentenced to Cuba’s harshest prisons. Under the most brutal conditions, the journalists remained united, protesting to protect their countrymen’s human rights. After nearly a decade, the Cuban government finally released and exiled the dissenters, Hernández among them. One year later, Adam Braver and Molly Gessford traveled to Madrid to meet Hernández and record his remarkable story.

NORMANDO HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ continues to work as a journalist and serves as Director General of the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Speech and Press, a nonprofit NGO he founded in 2011 to protect the inalienable freedoms of the Cuban people.

9781608010875 • Nonfiction179 Pages • $22.95 • March 2015UNO Press

ADAM BRAVER is the author of five novels. He is on faculty and a writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University.

MOLLY GESSFORD teaches English as a foreign language in Boston. She interned for the PEN American Center while earning her BA at Roger Williams University.

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JEWHER ILHAMA Ugyhur’s Fight to Free Her Father

Interviewed and edited by ADAM BRAVER and ASHLEY BARTON • Foreword by U.S. SENATOR SHERROD BROWNAfterword by ROBERT QUINN

978-1-60801-105-6 • Nonfiction160 pages • $18.95 • November 2015UNO Press

ADAM BRAVER is writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University, and also teaches at the NY State Summer Writers Institute. He is the author of five novels, most recently Misfit.

ASHLEY BARTON is currently in her first year of law school at Wake Forest University. Her advocacy work, particularly on the Ilham Tohti case, led to her being honored as a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow.

When Jewher Ilham’s father, Ilham Toti, was detained at the Beijing airport in February 2013 on charges of “separatism,” Jewher had two choices: she could stay in China or fly to America alone. Jewher boarded the plane for Indiana and began a new life apart from her family and was half a world away when her father was sentenced to life in prison.

Through a series of interviews with novelist Adam Braver and scholar Ashley Barton, Jewher recounted her father’s nightmare and her own transition from student to eloquent advocate for the Uyghur people. The resulting book, Jewher Ilham: A Uyghur’s Fight to Free Her Father, is an intimate, exclusive portrait that U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown calls “proof that Jewher and her people will not be silenced.”

From On Higher Ground.

UNO Press is home to a range of works meant to be at the center of compelling conversations. Among the diverse range of literature and academic texts we release is a collection of wry and heartfelt short fiction from New York’s Garment District, an examination of a murder case that changed the way a memoirist viewed his small community in Tennessee, and the first English translation of a poet from Spain’s famed Generation of ’27.


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“Each story in Leonard Bernstein’s wonderful new collection has a little pain, a little joy, and often a little magic…Read this book, laugh, cry, and become wise.” —Hilda Raz, Editor Emerita, Prairie Schooner

DEATH BY PASTRAMILEONARD S. BERNSTEIN

In these seventeen wry stories, Bernstein introduces us to the unsung residents of NYC’s garment district—proud lace sewers, unscrupulous ragmen, and salesmen with a penchant for stolen pens. Bernstein is a master of brevity—most stories clock in at under ten pages—and he is most concerned with the particulars of human yearning. A man offers a million dollars for a “first-rate” human heart. An engineer chooses the suit he will wear every day for the rest of his life. A funeral salesman discovers the deadly power of the pastrami sandwich. In their breadth, these stories capture a New York that recedes further into memory every year: a garment district populated by people with at least a passing acquaintanceship with the old country and older ways of making things.

LEONARD S. BERNSTEIN, Leonard S. Bernstein, a New York native, is an executive in the apparel industry as well as the author of five books, including How’s Business?—Don’t Ask, Getting Published, and The Official Guide to Wine Snobbery, among others. Born in Brooklyn, Bernstein currently lives in Westbury, Long Island.

9781608010271 • Fiction160 pages • $16.95 • November 2014UNO Press

“Most of Bernstein’s stories end with the literary equivalent of a shrug—a distinctive New York gesture. These stories are both quaint and timeless, a fanciful addition to the literature of place…” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air

“Terse, funny, poignant, honest—like Malamud’s before him, Leonard Bernstein’s stories attempt to sanctify the ordinary, and in the process they provide the reader with an experience as humanizing as it is entertaining.”

—Steve Stern, author of The Frozen Rabbi


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GREEN FIELDS Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between

BOB COWSER

In Green Fields, Bob Cowser presents an eye-opening work of true crime writing in the tradition of Capote, Didion, and Baldwin. In this chilling narrative reconstruction, Cowser examines the 1979 murder in rural Tennessee of his classmate, Cary Ann Medlin, and the sentencing of Robert Glen Coe. Resulting in the first execution to occur in Tennessee in forty years, Coe’s case became a media spectacle, as Cary’s family attempted to cope with the tragedy. Covering both the family’s grief and Coe’s efforts to walk free, Green Fields takes no sides, reporting the events truthfully, in all their horror and complexity.

“Green Fields forces us to consider matters—crime, punishment, poverty, and the relationship between them— our comfortable culture likes to pretend don’t exist, and to consider them in a deeply personal context. This illuminating and thought-provoking personal narrative brings us directly into the story, allowing us to feel the lasting effects of this horrendous crime and its equally horrendous punishment.”

—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

An Academy of American Poets prizewinner and Pushcart Prize nominee, BOB COWSER’S work has appeared in several literary journals, including Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review, and River Teeth. His first book, Dream Season (2004) was a New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” and “Paperback Row” selection. He is currently a professor of English at St. Lawrence University.

9781608010189 • Nonfiction173 Pages • $15.95 • November 2010

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SHEER INDEFINITESelected Poems, 1991-2011

SKIP FOX

The expansive poems in Sheer Indefinite assume many voices—retelling biblical narratives, mining personal histories, and inventing new worlds from whole cloth. Formally inventive, Fox delivers restless, cascading stanzas, connected prose poems, and verse that shifts from one form to another like a snake shedding its skin.

Read these poems to lose your grip on reality, to momentarily find yourself in a cab, in someone else’s memory, in a museum full of sharks. For all their strangeness, these poems express the wonder of being alive. As Fox says in “floating world”: Open the door. You’re a mirror. The world takes you in.

“Prepare to be dazzled; the poet is one of our best” —Rikki Ducornet

SKIP FOX has written several books and chapbooks of poetry and mixed-genre work as well as a lengthy bibliography. He is currently working on a nine volume text: Dream of a Book, four of which have been published: What Of (Potes & Poets), At That (Ahadada), For To (BlazeVox Books), and Delta Blues (Ahadada).

9781608010806 • Poetry204 pages • $22.95 • April 2012UNO Press

“Alchemically, the poems in Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite will make the chocolate in your pocket melt.”

—Bernadette Mayer


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BLACK TULIPSThe Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa

Translated by MARK STATMAN

In Black Tulips, Mark Statman gives us the first English translation of the poetry of José María Hinojosa, a well-known poet of Spain’s famed Generation of ’27, which included Lorca, Dalí, Buñuel, Alberti, Aleixandre, and Hernandez. Although his right-wing politics caused him to break with this group during the Spanish Republic, Hinojosa continued to write surrealist poetry until his assassination by Republic sympathizers in 1936. After his death, his work disappeared from Spanish culture until the end of the 20th century.

Black Tulips contains a selection from Hinojosa’s entire body of work—starting with his first book Poema del Campo through his final collection Blood in Freedom. In his introduction, Statman calls Hinojosa “a poet who examines the world to find in the ordinary the mysterious.” In Black Tulips, we find a poet of deep imagination who glimpses another world, both shimmering and violent, beyond the curtain of everyday existence.

MARK STATMAN’s recent books are the poetry collection, Tourist at a Miracle (Hanging Loose, 2010), and, with Pablo Medina, Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York (Grove, 2008). His work has been published in numerous publications and anthologies. He is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.

“Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa, translated by Mark Statman, is a major literary achievement. Mark Statman has unearthed the poetry of a long-forgotten member of the Generation of ’27—that gathering of poets that included Pedro Salinas, Rafael Alberti, and Federico Garcia Lorca, among others. Thanks to Statman, Hinojosa’s work can now be accorded its proper place among that august group. Statman’s acumen as both poet and translator is evident in every page. The results are translations that are faithful to Hinojosa’s originals while standing as fine English poems in their own right.”

—Pablo Medina9781608010882 • Poetry192 pages • $18.95 • October 2012UNO Press

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GRAVESTONES (LÁPIDAS)ANTONIO GAMONEDATranslated by DONALD WELLMAN

This translation of Lápidas makes available in English for the first time the poetry of Antonio Gamoneda, the recipient of the Cervantes Prize in 2006. Despite years of repression under the Franco regime, Gamoneda has now become one of the most respected voices in Spain. With their dark surrealism, these poems, immediate and haunting, depict moments of pain and loss with striking clarity. Presented in both the original Spanish and Donald Wellman’s skillful English translation, Gravestones captures the bitter emotions of Franco-era Spain and the fortitude of the Spanish people in their struggle.

ANTONIO GAMONEDA was born in Oveido, Spain, in 1931. Active in the intellectual resistance to the Franco regime, Gamoneda published his first book of poetry in 1960. His work has received several major awards, including the National Prize for Literature in Spain, the Reina Sofia Award, and the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor in Spanish-language literature.

DONALD WELLMAN is a poet, essayist, and editor. Recent books of poetry include Prolog Pages. He currently teaches writing and cultural studies at Daniel Webster College.

“Language transparent and yet complex...One should be glad for Gamoneda’s belated recognition and simply shrug one’s shoulders over the timing, since that seems to be the lot of great poets.”

—José Kozer

9781608010028 • Poetry153 Pages • $18.95 • October 2009UNO Press

“We have no other poetry among us so thoroughly cold yet so conscious of suffering”

—Carlos Piera


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TERESA DOVALPAGE was born in Havana and presently lives in Taos, New Mexico. She has a Ph. D. in Latin American literature and is a professor at UNM-Taos. She is the author of five novels, three in Spanish and two in English, a collection of stories in Spanish, and two plays.

THE ASTRAL PLANEStories of Cuba, the Southwest and Beyond

TERESA DOVALPAGE

Funny and insightful, this series of interconnected stories takes the reader from the streets of Communist Havana, to San Diego through the eyes of a recent Cuban immigrant, to a close-knit New Mexico town.

In the title story, a New Age group must care for their ailing guru while dealing with uncomfortable truths that come about as a result of his accident. In “Poe, the Professor, and the Papichullo,” an English professor finds the perfect revenge for a cheating husband in Poe’s “The Cask of Amotillado.” Blending magical realism with unlikely protagonists—false prophets, serial killers, and prostitutes—The Astral Plane explores questions of identity in diaspora and the myriad ways we fail to understand each other.

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“At once painful and perceptive, humorous and heartbreaking, The Astral Plane: Stories of Cuba, the Southwest and Beyond captures the complex ambivalence of life in the diaspora and life on the island. In rhythmic, straightforward prose, Dovalpage evokes the anguish of rupture and displacement; the seemingly untenable compromises that those living both on the island and in the diaspora must make in order to survive; and the superficial manner in which Cuba continues to be perceived by those outside the experience.”

—Andrea Herrera, poet and writer, author of ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora and The

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A GALLERY OF GHOSTSJOHN GERY

In A Gallery of Ghosts, John Gery once again shows himself to be a master of poetic forms. In this collection, Gery’s distinctive poetic voice lends seemingly orderly poems a sharpness that cuts close to the bone. These poems convey both the bliss and pain of our existence, never shying away from life’s uncomfortable truths.

While each of the five sections in this book offers distinctive pleasures, Gery’s self-portraits are particularly honest and perceptive. In “The Wrong, Tormented Sea,” Gery writes: “I’ve never learned to live within my means.” In A Gallery of Ghosts, we see the exquisite work of an insatiable mind, a poet always reaching for the highest fruit on the tree.

JOHN GERY, Research Professor at the University of New Orleans, directs the Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Brunnenburg, Italy. His seven books of poetry include Enemies of Leisure (1995), Davenport’s Version (2003), A Gallery of Ghosts (2008), and Have at You Now! (forthcoming 2014). He has recently co-edited two anthologies of poetry, Poets of the Sala Capizucchi (with Caterina Ricciardi and Massimo Bacigalupo, 2011), and In Place of Love and Country (with Richard Parker, 2013), as well as Ezra Pound, Ends and Beginnings: Essays and Poems (with William Pratt, 2011).

“John Gery picks up the implicit challenge, pursuing unflinchingly the mysteries of human identity, of the self and its place in the world…Finally, though, what arrests attention here is the provisional quality of Gery’s poems—not that they are unfinished, indeed he writes with high polish—but that they arrive with the breath of a life about them, an intensely personal quality marked by such generous vulnerability and openness to the future that his work can burn the reader used to a literature not so determined to play for keeps.” —Philip Dacey

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“Metaphysical wit, emotional complexity, and surreal comedy infuse these crackling reports from a world not unlike our own, but seen with a wonderful freshness and a complete absence of can’t that makes it very much John Gery’s. A Gallery of Ghosts is a collection not to be missed.”

—Charles Martin


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WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY:Art & Family

J. RICHARD GRUBER

William Christenberry’s art, reflecting on the transitional years of the mid-twentieth century, draws heavily from his childhood in rural Alabama. The abandoned farmhouses, tenant worker housing, barns and cotton gins that dot the kudzu-covered landscape become Christenberry’s subjects. This book details the story of the artist’s family, weaving together history and critical art analysis, family photos, and beautiful photographic rendering’s of Christenberry’s art.

0970619006 • Photography • Nonfiction97 pages • $ 34.95 • September 2000UNO Press

J. RICHARD GRUBER, Ph.D., is director emeritus of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and an independent curator, art historian, and writer. He was director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Director of the Wichita Art Museum, and deputy director of the Morris Museum of Art. Gruber has written books on other artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Benny Andrews, William Dunlap, Thomas Hart Benton, and Elliott Daingerfield.

“I think that family and art began to merge in my work when I discovered Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, in 1960. And, as I started the painting, Tenant House I, when I was teaching at the university, this became quite evident. I felt then that I was really on to something special.”

— William Christenberry

“I have fond memories of when I was a boy, a little boy, and we would leave Tuscaloosa...and we’d drive down to my grandparents’ to see them—about an eight-, ten-, fifteen-mile stretch just full of country stores, signage on fence posts, barns, and signs on them. And when I close my eyes I can still see that.” —Excerpt from William Christenberry: Art & Family

Photographs from William Christenberry: Art & Family.Photograph right courtesy of J. Richard GruberPhotograph left courtesy of William A. Christenberry, Jr


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UNDERSTANDING THE MUSIC BUSINESSA Comprehensive View 5th edition

Produced and edited by IRWIN STEINBERG and HARMON GREENBLATT

Whether you’re starting your own label or looking to sign to one, Understanding the Music Business: A Comprehensive View is the definitive guide to the music industry. While other manuals limit their focus to the legal factors that can affect the business, this unique text goes beyond and covers every aspect of the system, making it possible for anyone to understand the many opportunities and threats that are a part of everyday life in the music world. There are few industries that have changed as rapidly in recent years as the music business. This updated edition covers every development, breaking down the recording industry into its component parts and explaining in clear terms how it all works.

IRWIN STEINBERG is president of HIS Corporation and Domilin Films and vice-chairman of the Music Connection. He is also a long-time director of the Record Industry Association of America. A founder and President of Mercury Records, Steinberg was Polygram’s First U.S. Chairman and C.E.O. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and California State University.DePaul University.

9781608010042 • Nonfiction199 Pages • $24.95 • December 2009

UNO Press

HARMON GREENBLATT is the Director of the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at the University of New Orleans. He was formerly Director of the Cultural Arts Division and the Arts Council of the city of Evanston, Illinois. He holds degrees from Northwestern University and DePaul University.

Contemporary Austrian Studies

The mission of Center Austria is to direct international student and faculty mobility between the University of New Orleans and universities in Austria. Center Austria promotes the communication and extension of Austrian and Central European culture through scholarly and artistic activities and academic partnerships. Furthermore, the Center is based on more than three decades of cooperation with the University of Innsbruck and a Sister-City Agreement between the Cities of Innsbruck, Austria and New Orleans, as well as a new partnership agreement with the University of Graz, Austria. The Center was launched in the fall of 1997, and it functions as a research and discourse hub for Austrian and European Studies at the University of New Orleans and throughout the city. Its origin was the Institute for the Study of Comparative Public Policy.

In 1992, Anton Pelinka, a political scientist at the University of Innsbruck, and Günter Bischof, a historian at UNO, started Contemporary Austrian Studies (CAS) as an annual publication. Contemporary Austrian Studies is an interdisciplinary social studies journal that covers Austria since 1918 and is designed to complement the older Austrian History Yearbook, which concentrates more on Habsburg history. CAS was published for seventeen years by Transaction of New Brunswick, NJ, and for the past three years jointly by UNO Press and Innsbruck University Press. Volumes are dedicated to a specific theme chosen annually, with essays, forums, historiography, roundtables, book reviews and an annual review of Austrian politics complementing each volume.


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JÄGERSTÄTTERA Play by FELIX MITTERER,Translated by GREGOR THUSWALDNER with ROBERT DASSANOWSKY, Preface by GÜNTHER BISCHOF

Felix Mitterer’s gripping drama Jägerstätter is based on the life and death of the martyr Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943), an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for Hitler because of his Catholic faith. Mitterer depicts Franz, who was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007, as a courageous but struggling and insecure human being—and not at all as a saint.

978-1-60801-063-9 • Drama 144 pages • $13.95 • October 2015UNO Press

FELIX MITTERER has written numerous award-winning plays, radio plays, and TV scripts. Since the publication of his first play, Kein Platz für Idioten (No Place for Idiots) in 1977, Mitterer has been regarded as one of the leading Austrian playwrights. His many literary awards include the Ernst Toller Prize, the Adolf Grimme Prize, and most recently the Ödön von Horvath Prize.

This project is made possible by a generous grant from The Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation

www.botstiber.org

GÜNTER BISCHOF is a native of Austria and graduate of the Universities of Innsbruck, New Orleans, and Harvard (PhD ‘89). He is a University Research Professor of History, the Marshall Plan Professor and Director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans, and he has authored and edited several books.

GREGOR THUSWALDNER is Professor of German and Linguistics at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts and Co-Founder and Academic Director of The Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Arts, an independent non-profit organization.

ROBERT DASSANOWSKY is Professor of German and Film, and director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and works as an independent film producer. He has authored several books.

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1914: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, THE ORIGINS, AND THE FIRST YEAR OF WORLD WAR IContemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 23

GÜNTER BISCHOF and FRITZ PLASSER, EDITORS with SAMUEL R. WILLIAMSON, JR., GUEST EDITOR

For the past 100 years, some of the greatest historians and political scientists of the twentieth century have picked apart the sequence of events following the June 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the proceeding war that led to the dissolution of the great old empires of Europe. Contemporary Austrian Studies offers this volume of essays engaging these scholarly discourses by reassessing the Dual Monarchy’s critical role in the outbreak and the first year of the war, the military experience in the trenches, and the chaos on the homefront.

GÜNTER BISCHOF is the Marshall Plan Professor of History and the director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans.

FRITZ PLASSER is professor of political science and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

SAMUEL R. WILLIAMSON, JR. is President Emeritus of the University of the South.

9781608010264• Nonfiction394 pages • $40.00 • July 2014UNO Press • Innsbrook University Press


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THE SCHÜSSEL ERA IN AUSTRIAContemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 18

GÜNTER BISCHOF and FRITZ PLASSER, EDITORS

The first volume published as a joint venture by University of New Orleans Publishing and Innsbruck University Press, Volume 18 in Contemporary Austrian Studies focuses on the lasting impact of Wolfgang Schüssel, who was a dominant political figure in Austrian politics for 20 years.

This volume gives readers an understanding of what makes Schüssel’s imprint on Austrian politics so undeniably significant. Holding several government positions during his career, Schüssel is best known for his two terms as Chancellor of Austria (2000-2007). While he was responsible for large-scale reforms such as trimming the hidebound pension system and giving more autonomy to higher education, in the process he under-mined Austria’s consensual social partnership. His record of supporting the European Union agenda is ambivalent, and Austrian public opinion in support of the EU declined precipitously during his time in office. In spite of his superb tactical and negotiating skills, he failed to achieve broad popular acceptance for his ambitious reforms.

Volume 18 features essays by Peter Gerlich, Fritz Plasser/Peter Ulram, Heinrich Neisser, Reinhard Heinisch, Heinrich Niesser, Johannes Ditz, Josef Leidenfrost, Anton Pelinka et al., as well as a forum on the “disturbing creativity” of Austrian artists, book reviews and the review of Austrian politics.


FRITZ PLASSER is professor of political science and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

“Contemporary Austrian Studies marks almost two decades of important scholarship with a study of the turbulent era...”

—Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University

9781608010097 • Nonfiction382 pages • $40.00 • December 2009

UNO Press • Innsbrook University Press

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FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC: POST-WORLD WAR I AUSTRIAContemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 19

GÜNTER BISCHOF, FRITZ PLASSER, and PETER BERGER, EDITORS

The 18 essays in this volume offer innovative scholarship on the dif-ficult transition from empire to republic for the small state of Austria, newly created by the Allied peacemakers in Paris in 1919. They also deal with the complex challenges posed by nation building after a major war, including the ambiguity inherent in the creation of new institutions in politics, economics, social life, and culture.

In 1919 the government of the fledgling Republic of Austria was confronting revolutionary turmoil in the streets of Vienna, a near-total collapse of the agricultural and industrial economies, and the fallout of a crushing military defeat. In addition, the government was over-burdened by the sheer number of new veterans, including the over 100,000 wounded soldiers returning from the frontlines.

The redrawn Austrian borders produced a loss of German ethnics and major demographic shifts. Austrians—no longer dominant in a vast empire—were uncertain of their standing. In spite of ideologi-cal conflict between the major political camps, Austria experienced a cultural and educational revival—one that proved essential to forging a new national identity.


FRITZ PLASSER is professor of political science and Dean of the faculty of Political Science and Sociology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

PETER BERGER is chair and professor economic and social history at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. 9781608010257 • Nonfiction

443 pages • $40.00 • October 2010UNO Press • Innsbrook University Press



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GLOBAL AUSTRIA: AUSTRIA’S PLACE IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD Contemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 20

GÜNTER BISCHOF, FRITZ PLASSER, ANTON PELINKA, and ALEXANDER SMITH, EDITORS

After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. Austria’s post-Hasburg state suffered from enormous losses of territory and population. However, these losses did not hamper the country’s innovative spirit.

The essays in this twentieth anniversary volume of Contemporary Austrian Studies argue that Austria found its place in the global arena of the twentieth century, making its mark on both Europe and the world. From Freudian psychoanalysis to Auto-Marxist thought and the Austrian School of Economics, Austrian ideas continued to be vital to the intellectual community at large. Vienna remained the Austrian capital and reasserted its strong position in Central European and international business and finance.

This volume also examines how increasing globalization in the 20th cen-tury impacted Austrian demography, society, and political life. Specifically, the essays discuss how Austria’s place in the contemporary world became increasingly determined by the European integration process.



ANTON PELINKA is a Professor of Political Science and Nationalism Studies at the Central European University in Budapest.

ALEXANDER SMITH is a doctoral candidate in economic history and political science at the University of Innsbruck and currently works as a risk manager at RLB Tirol AG in Innsbruck.

9781608010622 • Nonfiction352 pages • $40.00 • August 2011

UNO Press • Innsbrook University Press

“CAS shows contemporary scholarship at its best...”—William Johnston, Professor of History Emeritus,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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AUSTRIAN LIVESContemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 21

GÜNTER BISCHOF and FRITZ PLASSER, EDITORS

The writing of lives is always situated between fact and fiction, ascertainable data and the imagination of the biographer. Using a variety of biographical techniques, Austrian Lives offers a fascinating cross-section of recent Austrian experience.

A major focus of this collection is Austrian intellectual and political figures through the twentieth century. Volume 21 presents an array of political lives, including portraits of Ignaz Seipel and Therese Schlesinger-Eckstein. The essay “Lives of the Mind” offers perspectives of intellectuals in pre- and post-World War II Vienna such as Viktor Frankl and Eugenie Schwarzwald.

These more traditional biographies are complemented by studies of ordinary Austrians in wartime Vienna. Accounts of the lives of soldiers, prisoners of war, and farming families provide insight into often overlooked perspectives, while creating a more complete picture of recent Austrian history.



9781608010929 • Nonfiction490 pages • $40.00 • November 2012UNO Press • Innsbruck University Press

EVA MALTSCHNIG is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Social and Economic History at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In 2011-2012, she was the Austrian Ministry of Science fellow at Center Austria at the University of New Orleans.


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AUSTRIA’S INTERNATIONAL POSITION AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WARContemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 22

GÜNTER BISCHOF and FERDINAND KARLHOFER, EDITORS

In the past quarter century, we have moved from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era in Austria, Europe, and the world at large. Yet relatively little assessment is available to gauge what the change from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era signaled for Austria and Europe’s positions in the world.

Volume 22 of Contemporary Austrian Studies aims to fill in these gaps by providing a detailed picture of the sea changes Austrian foreign policy went through after the Cold War.

After the war, Austria emerged from the Cold War’s division of Europe and was able to once again take advantage of its central location in Europe, rebuilding long-standing relations with neighboring countries to the East and South. These essays look at the evolution of these relationships, including Austria’s accession into the European Union in 1995. In addition, Volume 22 touches upon the erosion of Austria’s policy of neutrality during the Post-Cold War era.


FERDINAND KARLHOFER is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck.

978160811162 • Nonfiction303 pages • $40.00 • September 2013UNO Press • Innsbruck University Press

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CHANGING ADDRESSESA Collection of Contemporary Austrian Writing

Edited by JOHANN HOLZNER and ALOIS HOTSCHNIG

Changing Addresses: A Collection of Contemporary Austrian Writing, is the product of a unique partnership between the University of Innsbruck and the University of New Orleans that fosters the exchange of intellectual and artistic ideas. The first title of a new series, “Studies in Central European History, Literature, and Culture,” this volume of English translations compiles the work of writers from Austria and South Tyrol affiliated with the University of Innsbruck.

Focused on the ways writers use language to question our sense of reality, Changing Addresses presents a mixture of established and emerging Austrian writers, including some whose work has never been translated into English before.JOHANN HOLZNER taught modern

German and Austrian Literature at the University of Innsbruck before his recent retirement. He is the author of many books and articles on 19th and 20th century Austrian literature and also directed the Research Institute „Brenner-Archives“ of the University of Innsbruck from 2001-2013.

ALOIS HOTSCHNIG is a professional writer with a number of novellas and novels, including: Aus. Erzählung (1989); Eine Art Glück. Erzählung (1990); Leonardos Hände (1992); Ludwigs Zimmer (2000); Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht (2006); Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon. Erzählungen (2009). He lives in Innsbruck.

9783902811431 • Fiction • Poetry170 pages • $22.95 • July 2012

UNO Press

“If this new collection, Changing Addresses, is any indication of the state of contemporary Austrian writing, one thing is certain: the Austrians are dripping with ideas...The editors and translators of Changing Addresses have done a very smart job, especially in the organization of the book, which pits poem against prose, cleverly alternating the two, heightening the dramatic effect of each and creating a potentially stimulating dialogue between two often divided genres.” —Carl E. Findley III, Mercer University

Photographs on this page from Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vols. 19 and 22.Photographs courtesy of Picture Archives of the Austrian National Library, Vienna (upper) and Austrian Press Agency (lower).

Photographs on this page from Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vols. 19 and 21.Photographs courtesy of Picture Archives of the Technical Museum, Vienna (right), Huber private collection, Plenkenstein (left).

Photograph on opposite page from On Higher Ground, The University of New Orleans at 50.Photograph courtesy of the UNO Division of International Education.

Photograph above: Presentation of Austrian Lives, Volume 21 of CAS, at the Economics University in Vienna in Oct. 2012.

The Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book Series is a project dedicated to publishing a variety of scholarly and literary works relevant to Ezra Pound and modernism, including new critical monographs on Pound and/or other modernists, scholarly studies related to Pound and his legacy, edited collections of essays, volumes of original poetry, reissued books of importance to Pound scholarship, translations, and other works.


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THE IMAGIST POEMModern Poetry in MiniatureThird Edition

Edited by WILLIAM PRATT

William Pratt’s The Imagist Poem has been hailed as the most important anthology of Imagist poetry ever published.

This third edition features an expanded selection of poems and an updated introduction by the editor, making it an indispensable tool for any student of twentieth century poetry or Modernism.

Poets represented include: T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, F. S. Flint, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, H. D., Richard Aldington, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Herbert Read, Adelaide Crapsey, Max Michelson, e.e. cummings, and Archibald MacLeish.

WILLIAM PRATT is Professor Emeritus of English at Miami University. He is also editor of The Fugitive Poets, reissued in 1992 as part of the Southern Classics Series produced by J. S. Sanders in Nashville, Tennessee.

“I have discovered your anthology The Imagist Poem, and as one of the few survivors of the group, I would like to send you a few words of congratulation. Both in your choice of poems and in your Introduction you have very faithfully represented the ideals and the achievements of the movement. I believe you are the only critic of a younger generation who has really entered into the spirit and purpose of our enterprise, and appreciated the fundamental significance of its brief efflorescence. I am most grateful, and I only regret that my friends Flint and Aldington are not still alive to receive your just tribute.”

—Herbert Read

9780972814386 • Poetry184 pages • $16.95 • May 2009UNO Press

“William Pratt’s The Imagist Poem is an anthology with a full and extremely useful introduction to the movement and its participants.”

—William Pritchard

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I POETI DI SALA CAPIZUCCHIThe poets of the Sala Capizucchi

Edited by MASSIMO BACIGALUPO, JOHN GERY, and CATERINA RICCIARDI

This unique bilingual anthology of poetry gathers the work of well-known and new contemporary poets from around the world to pay tribute to the legacy of Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge. Inspired by a momentous cross-cultural poetry reading on July 2, 2009, at the Sala Capizucchi in the epicenter of Rome—the same theatre where Olga Rudge had performed with the composter George Antheil in February 1927—this collection bears testimony not only to the rich variety of new verse coming from both sides of the Atlantic, but to the wide sweep of Pound’s influence into the twenty-first century.

Collected here are both Italian poems translated into English and English poems translated into Italian, making for a comprehensive, international gathering of poetry available for readers in each language.

MASSIMO BACIGALUPO is a scholar and a translator, chiefly of verse (Wordsworth, Dickinson, Wallace Stevens). He edited and translated Ezra Pound’s Canti postumi (2002) and co-edited Ezra Pound, Language and Persona (2008). He is a professor of American Literature at the University of Genoa and lives in Rapallo. “Ten for Terry” was written as an homage to Carroll F. Terrell.

JOHN GERY, Research Professor at the University of New Orleans, directs the Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Brunnenburg, Italy. A prolific poet, he has co-edited two recent anthologies of poetry, The Poets of the Sala Capizucchi (with Caterina Ricciardi and Massimo Bacigalupo, UNO Press, 2011), and In Place of Love and Country (with Richard Parker, Crater, 2013), as well as Ezra Pound: Ends and Beginnings: Essays and Poems (with William Pratt, AMS, 2011).

CATERINA RICCIARDI, a professor of American Literature at the University of Roma Tre, has written extensively on American Modernism. She is the author of EIKONEΣ. Ezra Pound e il Rinascimento (1991), Ezra Pound. Ghiande di Luce (2006), and Ezra Pound and Roma: Roma/Amor (2009). She edited: Ezra Pound, Idee fondamentali. Meridiano di Roma (1939-1943) (1991), and the Italian translations of Indiscretions; or, Une Revue de deux Mondes (2004) and of Horace (2009). She has lately contributed to Ezra Pound in Context (2010), edited by Ira B. Nadel.

9781608010684 • Poetry192 pages • $18.95 • September 2011

UNO Press


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TRESPASSING PATRIZIA de RACHEWILTZ

The poems of Patrizia de Rachewiltz’s Trespassing invite us directly into the world of dreams. The tangible becomes ethereal, and the stuff of our psyche finds expression in the outer world. Trespassing reminds us of that very elemental truth about dreaming—we dream alone. The poems suggest that in the fragmented, often dangerous worlds of our unconscious, we become trespassers in our own minds.

PATRIZIA de RACHEWILTZ grew up in the Tyrolean mountains of northern Italy. Born to a Russian-Italian father and an American mother, she is a multilingual poet, writer, and translator.

“When Patrizia reflects on the inner self and the outer world—the bruised wing, the battered heart, the wealth of nature, the warmth of love—she does so with a clear eye that is both intense and incisive. Trespassing, the first major collection of this international poet’s work in English, will send you away deeply moved by her words—and then will bring you back to them.” —Craig Smith, publisher, Palisade Press

9781608010608 • Poetry88 pages • $14.95 • July 2011UNO Press

“These delicate, passionate love poems to a difficult world will make you want to fall in love yourself all over again!”

—Biljana D. Obradovi, Frozen Embraces and Little Disruptions

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MODERNISM AND THE ORIENTEdited by ZHAOMING QIAN

Scholars have long acknowledged the impact that traditional aesthetics of the global East had on Western modernism. The twelve essays in Zhaoming Qian’s Modernism and the Orient delve into the relationships major twentieth century modernists such as Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust had with Chinese and Japanese culture, as well as examining Asia’s influence on precursors like Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde.

In the book’s introduction, Qian writes, “Modernism’s dialogue with the Orient constantly challenges scholars with its variations, contradictions, and ambivalences. These contributions not only reflect this but hope to advance ongoing research and debate on this critical topic.”

ZHAOMING QIAN is Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Hangzhou Normal University. He has published several books.

“With this gathering, Zhaoming Qian continues his work as a our foremost interpreter of modernist literature’s relation to Asia.”

—George Bornstein, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

9781608010745 • Nonfiction298 pages • $24.95 • February 2013UNO Press

“In its readiness to trust the spirit in all its searching, flickering, glowing radiance Modernism and the Orient explores the permeable, ever changing boundaries of East and West in modern poetic practice. The scrupulous research, wide range of documentation and personal fervor which I delight in finding in Zhaoming Qian’s work bode especially well for the future of his enterprise.”

—Anne Luyat, Professor of English, Université d’Avignon


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IMAGISM Essays on Its Initiation, Impact, and Influence

Edited by JOHN GERY, DANIEL KEMPTON, and H.R. STONEBACK

This collection of new essays explores the well-known yet rarely investigated movement of Imagist poets and poetics. Launched in the British Museum tearoom by Ezra Pound with H.D. and Richard Aldington in April 1912, Imagism was rooted in earlier movements, yet its influence has reached across the literary world. Framed by an introduction on Imagism’s embattled cultural heritage and an afterword recording its echoes as far off as China, this book offers a blueprint of the historical, theoretical, and literary prevalence of Imagism from its inception until now.

JOHN GERY, Research Professor at the University of New Orleans, directs the Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Brunnenburg, Italy. A prolific poet, he has co-edited two recent anthologies of poetry, The Poets of the Sala Capizucchi (with Caterina Ricciardi and Massimo Bacigalupo, UNO Press, 2011), and In Place of Love and Country (with Richard Parker, Crater, 2013), as well as Ezra Pound: Ends and Beginnings: Essays and Poems (with William Pratt, AMS, 2011).

DANIEL KEMPTON, Associate Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz, is a founding member of the International Richard Aldington Society and co-editor (with H. R. Stoneback) of four volumes of proceedings from that society’s biennial conference. He has published articles on the medievalism of Aldington and Ezra Pound.

H. R. STONEBACK, a poet and editor, is Distinguished Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. He has published hundreds of essays on American, British, Chinese, and French literature and is the author or editor of 30 books of literary criticism and poetry. Recent volumes include Reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (Kent State University Press, 2007) and Voices of Women Singing (Codhill Press, 2011).

9781608011131 • Nonfiction218 pages • $24.95 • August 2013

UNO Press

“Not much in the annals of literature has been SO NEW as Imagism. These essays—lively, learned, concise, and wide-ranging—take us in two directions: back a hundred years to those heady days when Ezra Pound and his colleagues shook the world with their wild ideas, and forward to our own day when the legacy of Imagism is still very much with us.”

—Jane Eblen Keller, University of Baltimore, Aldington and Durrell scholar, biographer

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