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a little history

Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, A Little History explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm for American Studies. With preface by editor Fred Dewey, Alcalay’s book places the work of major figures like Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn, Diane di Prima, and Amiri Baraka, in the realm of resistance and global decolonization to assert the power of poetry as a unique form of knowledge. Recognized by Edward Said as “that rare thing, a gifted prose writer and poet, and an accomplished intellectual,” Alcalay brings his blend of autobiographical and investigative scholarship to bear on this timely and important book of essays.

a little history by Ammiel Alcalay

“His books are a tool for liberation.”

—Peter Lamborn Wilson

“There is no one better qualified to explore the meaning of today’s ‘culture wars’, locally and globally.”

—Amitav Ghosh

“Alcalay brings to any subject an acute sensitivity to writing and a sophisticated understanding of the way politics works to produce and maintain literature… Ammiel Alcalay is a unique and important figure in contemporary world literature.”

—Lynne Tillman

“It is Ammiel Alcalay’s consistent curiosity, his care concerning the world in which he lives, his determined, capable mind, that I value so much. Simply put, he is an indefatigable worker, and a brilliant one.”

—Robert Creeley

Vocalises – Poems by Jenny Husk

“In the poems of Jenny Husk the world is a membrane words bounce against and poke into, skating on the scrim then delving below in quick sharp digs of fragment, image, and gut-punch. This work is “river dialogue” and “glare on the surface”

all at once, achieving experiment, a sustained rhetoric, intimacy and political weight in one go. If Van Gogh graffitied “The Starry Night” on an urban wall then broke it apart with a mallet, you might get at something resembling the rough and precious texture of a Husk

poem. Her register is horizon-wide & she jumps its length in a blink: the same stanza holds “rooms of dust” and “harmony,” then enjoins us to “hack the map” and “tag it city-wide.” This is a skateboard train anyone wishing to journey the sidewalk, desert, star, and cerebellum should hop on, presto. I am still traveling.”
-Ana Božicevic, author of “Stars of the Night Commute” (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010)

Vocalises Poems by Jenny Husk

Author Bio:
Jenny Husk received an MFA in poetry from the City University of New York, Brooklyn College in 2003. She currently teaches in the English department at Southern Connecticut State University and lives in New Haven with her husband and two children.

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“In the poems of Jenny Husk the world is a membrane words bounce against and poke into, skating on the scrim then delving below in quick sharp digs of fragment, image, and gut-punch. This work is “river dialogue” and “glare on the surface” all at once, achieving experiment, a sustained rhetoric, intimacy and political weight in one go. If Van Gogh graffitied “The Starry Night” on an urban wall then broke it apart with a mallet, you might get at something resembling the rough and precious texture of a Husk poem. Her register is horizon-wide & she jumps its length in a blink: the same stanza holds “rooms of dust” and “harmony,” then enjoins us to “hack the map” and “tag it city-wide.” This is a skateboard train anyone buy cialis online without a prescription wishing to journey the sidewalk, desert, star, and cerebellum should hop on, presto. I am still traveling.”
-Ana Božicevic, author of “Stars of the Night Commute” (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010)

Author Bio:
Jenny Husk received an MFA in poetry from the City University of New York, Brooklyn College in 2003. She currently teaches in the English department at Southern Connecticut State University and lives in New Haven with her husband and two children.
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Halal Pork & Other Stories, Get your early review copy

UpSet Press is glad to announce that Cihan Kaan’s Halal Pork & Other Stories is now available for early birds. Slated for a Spring 2011 buying viagra release we can offer the book for reviews. Review copies of HP are now available through the UpSet C

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UpSet Press is glad to announce that Cihan Kaan’s Halal Pork & Other Stories is now available for early birds. Slated for a Spring 2011 release we can offer the book for reviews. Review copies of HP are now available through the UpSet Catalog, to obtain your copy use the links below.
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Halal Pork & Other Stories By Cihan Kaan


In Halal Pork and Other Stories, Kaan projects an avant garde, post 9/11 world, from

the perspective of a young Muslim New Yorker.

It’s a place where Coney Island meets Mars; where hijabi girls are punk rock dervishes; where identity salesmen count pigeons at insane asylums as a cream cheese conspiracy brews in gitmo; where rich boys pay to be Muslim for a day; where the transgendered are holy; and where the bacon is halal. Kaan offers up five urban Sufi tales in the swirling graffiti of Brooklyn.

Authors Website: cihankaan.com
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Read the official interview with the author at the UpSet Press Blog: Interview with Featured Author of 2011, Cihan Kaan

Born Palestinian, Born Black: The Gaza Suite

UpSet Press has restored to print Suheir Hammad’s first book of poems, Born Palestinian, Born Black, originally published by Harlem River Press in 1996. The new edition is augmented with a new author’s preface, and new poems, under the heading,

The Gaza Suite, as well as a new publisher’s note by Zohra Saed, an introduction by buy cialis Marco Villalobos, and an afterword by Kazim Ali.

“It’s lucky for us to have this new edition of Born Palestinian, Born Black, Suheir’s first book, published more than ten years ago. In the decade since, Hammad has achieved an international reputation as a poet. These poems are the groundswell from which her future work and political commitment springs. Like June

Jordan, like Mahmoud Darwish, it is the passion and penchant for lyricism that is the true engine of these poems…” – Kazim Ali, The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions)

Authors Website: suheirhammad.com

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The Comeback’s Exoskeleton, by Matthew Rotando

“Incorporating the density of Spanish

surrealism and a sprawling Whitmanesque line, this amazing first book finds Rotando engaged in a poetic biathlon which draws equally from maximal and minimal traditions. There are tight, economical poems, f

ree verse forms derived from the sonnet, poems leaping about the page, but my favorites are the wonderful prose poems tumbling over and under themselves toward gnomish statements that feel both didactic and self-parodying.”
Tim Peterson, Since I Moved In (Chax Press)

Theater of War: The Plot Against the American Mind, by Nicholas Powers

“In this detournement of political statements like the U.S. National Security Strategy Report, a reader will inquire when is “the truth” blurred;

conversely, when does Powers’ alternative reading come painfully close to the real? The author’s har

d-hitting, farcical longer-form poems might have constituted a part one, dissolving into the more empathetic, injured fragments. But his

choreographed admixture embodies how emotions come. Anger interspersed with hurt; a loudly reinterpreted official voice, broken by still louder whispers.”
Bruna Mori, Derive (Meritage Press)