Highlights From the Press

We are
pleased to announce that Peter Gizzi's Threshold
Songs was selected as one of the "Best Books of
2011" by Times Literary Supplement.
"Gizzi’s fifth collection, is his most profoundly rueful and wildly
humoured work to date. This is a wintry ‘un
gathering’ of poems, sung in the name of ‘Tradition & The Indivisible
Talent’ - a company whose ghosts include Basil Bunting, W.S. Graham and the
late R.F. Langley.
-TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BOOK OF THE YEAR
(Pictured
above are My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer and
The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, both edited by Peter Gizzi, as well as Gizzi's
original works, The Outernationale and the newly released volume, Threshold Songs.)
News & Highlights
Dr. Mel, longtime WTNH weatherman & Wesleyan author, dies at 66
It is with sadness that we report the passing of longtime WTNH meteorologist Dr. Mel Goldstein (Jan. 18, 2012). The staff at Wesleyan University Press has fond memories of working with him on Dr. Mel’s Connecticut Climate Book. His good nature and strength were admirable, and he inspired many. Read more about Dr. Mel here....
Marjorie Perloff on John Cage
Reconsider John Cage. Read Marjorie Perloff’s essay from the Los Angeles Review of Books here. Rethink Cage with our 50th Anniversary edition of Silence, with a new foreword by Kyle Gann....

