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Anthony Barbieri-Low
Artisans in Early Imperial China, by Anthony Barbieri-Low, has completed an impressive awards sweep, winning the 2009 Levenson Prize for pre-1900 China from the Association for Asian Studies, the 2009 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association, the 2008 James Henry Breasted Award from the American Historical Association, and has been longlisted for an International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Award. |
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Greetings!
As April and poetry month come to a close, we'd like to remind you that we've brought together a full listing of our distinguished poetry titles, from the traditional to the contemporary. These are showcased on our website and all are 20% off if you use the order code WWEP in your checkout cart.
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch!
All the best,
Rachael
(206) 221.4995 / [email protected]
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Looking Together: Writers on Art
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Edited by Rebecca Brown and Mary Jane Knecht
The relationship between writers and artists has long been a
collaborative one. Plato used the word ekphrasis to describe what
happens when a writer writes creatively, as opposed to critically,
about art. Gertrude Stein claimed that her innovative writing style was
inspired by the paintings of C�zanne - and then went on to tell
Hemingway to study C�zanne if he wanted to learn to write.
In
Looking Together, a dozen writers working in a range of styles and
forms respond to works of art held in the permanent collection of
Seattle's Frye Art Museum or exhibited there. Romantic and ironic,
meticulously researched and fanciful, these poems, stories, monologues,
and tales are invitations to any curious reader or lover of art to look
again at what we see.
Various pairings of writers from the collaboration will be appearing around Seattle. Catch them here
Tuesday, May 5, at 7 p.m. Ryan Boudinot (author of The Littlest Hitler) and Lesley Hazelton (author of Jezebel) at Ravenna Third Place BooksWednesday, May 13, at 7 p.m. Stacey Levine (author of Girl with Brown Fur) and Melinda Mueller (author of What the Ice Gets) at University Book Store
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Robert B. Heilman: His Life in Letters
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Edited by Edward Alexander, Richard Dunn, and Paul Jaussen
Robert Bechtold Heilman was a great literary figure of the twentieth
century. This collection of his correspondence includes over 600
exchanges with more than 100 correspondents, among them Saul Bellow,
Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Eberhart, Charles Johnson,
Bernard Malamud, and William Carlos Williams. The letters follow
Heilman's career from the time he was a thirty-six-year-old member of
Louisiana State University's English Department, through his tenure at
the University of Washington from 1948 to 1975, until a few years
before his death in 2004. Two of his appointees who spent their entire
careers at the University of Washington, Edward Alexander and Richard
Dunn, have edited the letters with Paul Jaussen.
The rich
representation of letters to as well as from Heilman gives the reader
access to decades-long conversations between him and Robert Penn
Warren, Cleanth Brooks, Joseph Epstein, Theodore Roethke, and many
others. They provide a sense of Heilman's character, personality, and
achievements in the context of American letters. They also afford an
inside history of the changes that took place over sixty years, for
better and worse, in American universities, literary criticism, and the
politics of literature.
Edward Alexander is
professor emeritus of English and author of numerous books on Victorian
literature and Jewish subjects. Richard J. Dunn is professor emeritus
of English and author or editor of eleven books about Victorian
novelists. Paul Jaussen is completing his Ph.D. in English. All are at
the University of Washington.
Join the editors for a lecture
Thursday, May 7, at 5 p.m. at Allen Auditorium, University of Washington campus, with Gary Lundell of the UW Library's Special Collections
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Cliff Mass
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The Weather of the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest experiences the most varied and fascinating
weather in the United States, including world-record winter snows, the
strongest nontropical storms in the nation, and shifts from desert to
rain forest in a matter of miles. This book is
the first comprehensive and authoritative guide to Northwest weather
that is directed to the general reader; helpful to boaters, hikers, and
skiers; and valuable to expert meteorologists.
In
The Weather of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington
atmospheric scientist and popular radio commentator Cliff Mass unravels
the intricacies of Northwest weather, from the mundane to the
mystifying. By examining our legendary floods, snowstorms, and
windstorms, and a wide variety of local weather features, Mass answers
such interesting questions as:
o Why does the Northwest have localized rain shadows?
o What is the origin of the hurricane-force winds that often buffet the region?
o Why does the Northwest have so few thunderstorms?
o What is the origin of the Pineapple Express?
o Why do ferryboats sometimes seem to float above the water's surface?
o Why is it so hard to predict Northwest weather?
Mass
also
considers possible local effects of global warming. The final chapters
guide readers in interpreting the Northwest sky and in securing weather
information on their own.
Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric
sciences at the University of Washington and weekly guest on KUOW
radio, is the preeminent authority on Northwest weather. He has
published dozens of articles on Northwest weather and leads the
regional development of advanced weather prediction tools.
Catch Cliff Mass on
Sunday, May 10, at 1 p.m. at Rose Theater, Port Townsend
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Friday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, University Village
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Lynda Mapes
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Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on
the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon
learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the
largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet
the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and
unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit-zen village, the
heart of the long-buried homeland of the Klallam people.
Excitement
at the archaeological find of a generation gave way to anguish as
tribal members working alongside state construction workers encountered
more and more human remains, including many intact burials. Finally,
tribal members said the words that stopped the project: "Enough is
enough."
Soon after, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe chairwoman
Frances Charles asked the state to walk away from more than $70 million
in public money already spent on the project and find a new site. The
state, in an unprecedented and controversial decision that reverberated
around the nation, agreed.
In search of the story behind the
story, Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes spent more than a year
interviewing tribal members, archaeologists, historians, city and state
officials, and local residents and business leaders. Her account begins
with the history of Tse-whit-zen village, and the nineteenth- and
twentieth-century impacts of contact, forced assimilation, and
industrialization. She then engages all the voices involved in the dry
dock controversy to explore how the site was chosen, and how the
decisions were made first to proceed and then to abandon the project,
as well as the aftermath and implications of those controversial
choices.
This beautifully crafted and compassionate account,
illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, illuminates the collective
amnesia that led to the choice of the Port Angeles construction site.
"You have to know your past in order to build your future," Charles
says, recounting the words of tribal elders. Breaking Ground takes that
teaching to heart, demonstrating that the lessons of Tse-whit-zen are
teachings from which we all may benefit.
Lynda V. Mapes is an
award-winning journalist with a twenty-year career in newspaper
reporting, much of it with the Seattle Times. She is the author of
Washington: The Spirit of the Land.
Join Lynda here
Thursday, May 14 at 7 p.m. at the Burke Museum with University Book Store. Artifacts from the Tse-whit-zen Village excavation will be on display
Sunday, May 17 at 2 p.m. at Seattle Public Library with Elliott Bay Book Company
Friday, May 29 at 7 p.m. at Seattle REI with Pacific Northwest Archaeological Association
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COMING SOON
This June, the Press is pleased to publish Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU by Harvey Schwartz. In this collection of firsthand narratives, union leaders and
rank-and-file workers - from the docks of Pacific Coast ports to the
fields of Hawaii to bookstores in Portland, Oregon - talk about their
lives at work, on the picket line, and in the union. Workers
recall the back-breaking, humiliating conditions on the waterfront
before they organized, the tense days of the 1934 strike, the
challenges posed by mechanization, the struggle against racism and
sexism on the job, and their activism in other social and political
causes. Their stories testify to the union's impact on the lives of its
members and also to its role in larger events, ranging from civil
rights battles at home to the fights against fascism and apartheid
abroad. You can join Harvey Schwartz Saturday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Elliott Bay Books to learn more about the ILWU and its workers.
All the best,
Rachael Levay
University of Washington Press
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