Creative Writing Program
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-3269
Fax: 307-766-3189
Email: cw@uwyo.edu
I'm here to learn to dream in your language
by H. L. Hix
Etruscan Press (February 3, 2015)
In lyric sequences that record a lover's dreams and a dreamer's loves, I'm here to learn to dream in your language extends H. L. Hix's ongoing poetic inquiry into spiritual and sexual ecstasy.
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The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
by Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, and Cap Max King
Fence Books (March 31, 2015)
"It is not only white writers who make a prize of transcendence, of course. Many writers of all backgrounds see the imagination as ahistorical, as a generative place where race doesn't and shouldn't enter [where] the imagination is postracial, a posthistorical and postpolitical utopia. . . . To bring up race for these writers is to inch close to the anxious space of affirmative action, the scarring qualifieds."—Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda, from the introduction
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Zelestina Urza in Outer Space
by David Romtvedt
Center for Basque Studies (April 29, 2015)
For a sixteen year old immigrant from a Basque village, northern Wyoming, on a cold February day in 1902, seemed as distant and barren as the moon. Zelestina Urza, who had left her impoverished family, had no idea what lay ahead of her. How would she make a life out of what seemed like less than nothing?
Creative Writing Program
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-3269
Fax: 307-766-3189
Email: cw@uwyo.edu