University of Washington Press
September E-Newsletter
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Alice Shorett
Nance Van Winckel
Thomas Graham
Now available and Looking to October
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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Soul of the CityAlice Shorett

Soul of the City:
The Pike Place Public Market

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University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Monday, September 10
7:00 p.m.




No StarlingNance 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.

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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.




GraSpySpy 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.
Tsimshian TreasuresNow 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.



Japan Envisions the WestLooking 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