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Way of All the Earth

Anna Akhmatova

Ohio University Press, 2001

Anna Akhmatova is considered one of Russia’s greatest poets. Her life encompassed the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and the paranoia and persecution of the Stalinist era: her works embody the complexities of the age. At the same time, she was able to merge these complexities into a single, poetic voice to speak to the Russian people with whom she so closely and proudly identified. Way of All the Earth contains short poems written between 1909 and 1964, selected from Evening, Rosary, White Flock, Plantain, Anno Domini, Reed, and The Seventh Book. Intricately observed and unwavering in their emotional immediacy, these strikingly modern poems represent one of the twentieth century’s most powerful voices.
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Way of Death

Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830

Joseph Calder Miller

University of Wisconsin Press, 1996

This acclaimed history of Portuguese and Brazilian slaving in the southern Atlantic is now available in paperback.

With extraordinary skill, Joseph C. Miller explores the complex relationships among the separate economies of Africa, Europe, and the South Atlantic that collectively supported the slave trade. He places the grim history of the trade itself within the context of the rise of merchant capitalism in the eighteenth century. Throughout, Miller illuminates the experiences of the slaves themselves, reconstructing what can be known of their sufferings at the hands of their buyers and sellers.

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Worlding

Finding a Way in Broken Times

Kathleen Stewart

Duke University Press, 2027

In Worlding, Kathleen Stewart traces the proliferation of everyday practices, fantasies, and scenes of damage in a new ordinary in the United States from the 1950s to the Trump years. Her poetic prose moves like a flip book across patterns, places, times, strays, troubles, and lines of power, laying down a creative-critical experiment in description, autoethnography, auto-theory, and a new materialism of elements. Writing in fragments overrun with ideas, she proposes a creative-critical practice that branches out rather than synthesizes. Worlding is a series of tryouts approaching the weight, generativity, and politics of the unthought, the cryptic, the visceral, the conventional, the artful, and the elemental. From birds and weather to a face or a harsh phrase, Stewart plays at the boundaries of worlding’s capacities, creatively mulling over the possibilities beyond the edge of experience and speculation.
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