Press collaborates with the Frye Art Museum
Known
to most Northwesterners as one of our loveliest art treasures, the Frye
Art Museum's innovative programming has expanded to include publication
with the Press. In Spring 2009, the Press and the Frye will publish a
collection of well-known Northwest writers and their reactions -
be it
fiction or non-fiction - to pieces held at the Frye as either part of
the permanent collection or in an exhibition. Writers on tap include
Rebecca Brown, also a co-editor with Mary Jane Knecht, Stacey Levine,
Frances McCue, Jack Nesbit, Ryan Boudinot, Barbara Thomas, and others.
Join us at the Frye on September 27 at 7:00 p.m. for the first
installment with Frances McCue and Stacey Levine. As always, admission
to the Frye is free.
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Alice Shorett
Soul of the City:
The Pike Place Public Market
See our website for more information.
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University Book Store
4326 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105
Monday, September 10
7:00 p.m.
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Nance Van Winckel
No Starling: Poems
Over the years, Nance Van Winckel's extraordinarily precise and
energetic voice has built upon its strengths. Unpredictable, wry,
always provocative, displaying a sure and startling command of
images and ideas, her poems make every gesture of language count. In this,
the newest title in the Press's Pacific Northwest Poetry series edited
by Linda Bierds, Van Winckel accomplishes what has proven to be so
difficult for poets across time: a deeply satisfying balance of the
spiritual and political. Although richly peopled with figures from this
and parallel worlds -- Simone Weil, Verlaine, Nabokov, Eurydice, "the
new boys" working in the morgue, and others -- No Starling moves
beyond a reliance on the dramatic resonance of individual characters.
Its vision is deeper, its focus both singular and communal: the self on
its journey through the world, and our responsibilities as a people for
the precarious state of that world.
For more information, check our website.
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Open Books
2414 N 45th St
Seattle, WA 98103
Thursday, September 13
7:30 p.m.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Friday, September 14
7:00 p.m.
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Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History
Thomas Graham Jr |
Much
has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence to
prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and its
overestimation of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction under Saddam
Hussein. This book focuses instead on the central role that
intelligence-collection systems play in promoting arms control and
disarmament.
For more info on Thomas Graham and Keith Hansen, see our website.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Tuesday, September 25
7:00 p.m.
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Now available
Donald Ellis, Steven Clay Brown, Bill Holm, Allan Hoover, Sarah Milroy, and William White
Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection
In
October 1863, Reverend Robert J. Dundas of Scotland purchased eighty
ceremonial objects that missionary William Duncan had acquired from
Tsimshian Indians living along the coast of British Columbia. The
collection included carved clubs, masks, rattles, bowls, and
headdresses. It remained in the Dundas family until October 2006, when
it was sold at auction for more than seven million dollars, a record
for a private collection of Northwest art.
This stunning book is the permanent record of the collection before
much of it was repatriated to Native communities and the remainder was
disbursed to museums and individuals. Thirty-six masterpieces of
Tsimshian art are displayed in fifty full-color photographs. Essays by
leading scholars of Northwest Coast art describe the history and
importance of this extraordinary collection, including Donald Ellis (of
PBS's Antiques Roadshow fame).
For more information, see our website.
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Looking to October
Edited by
Yukiko Shirahara
Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum
This
extraordinary book features significant works of art from the Kobe City
Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created
between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The publication of Japan Envisions the West will coincide with the opening of Seattle Art Museum's exhibit of the same name on October 11.
For more information, see SAM's website
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