Poetry / Disability, Gender & Race

An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise

Eckart Goebel, University of Tübingen, Germany Translated by James C. Wagner Why does ambition continue to drive people even after their safety and livelihood are secured? Is it possible to establish a clear distinction between ‘healthy’ and ‘pathological’ ambition? Whilst philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and especially world literature, have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of the role of ambition in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, from Hesiod to Kafka and from Shakespeare to Freud, Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition—an insatiable hunter in the mirror—and power.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 192 pages PB 9781501383830 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781501383847 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501383854 • £19.17 / $24.25 ePdf 9781501383861 • £19.17 / $24.25 Bloomsbury Academic World English

Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation

Natasha Rulyova, University of Birmingham, UK Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation examines how the Nobel Prize winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky mastered English as his second language and became the fifth Poet Laureate of the United States. Based on the archival study of Brodsky’s manuscripts and correspondence, held at the Brodsky archive in the Beinecke library at Yale University, Rulyova follows Brodsky’s bilingual journey stage by stage. In doing so, she shows how, as a late bilingual, Brodsky’s success was dependent on collaboration with his network of translators, editors and peer poets whose loyal and relentless support helped him to become a recognized American poet, in addition to being, arguably, the most celebrated Russian poet of the 20th century.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 216 pages PB 9781501369797 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501363924 ePub 9781501363931 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501363948 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics

Daniel Katz, Warwick University, UK

Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods

Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry

Christopher Chen, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Providing a comparative study of post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and black experimental poetry, this book examines the intersection between race and capitalism through the works of poets including: Myung Mi Kim, Nathaniel Macket, Larissa Lai and Erica Hunt. Challenging conventional understandings of North American racial formation, it explores experimental poetry's understanding of race as a range of relational configurations of subjects within racial groups and across racial divisions.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350164000 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350164024 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350164017 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic Svetlana Boym, Harvard University, USA Edited by Ron Roberts This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical “snippets of experience” written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical. They illuminate the formative conditions for the thinking which she was to develop into her majestic work on nostalgia. Importantly, these pieces fill in gaps in understanding the genesis and outlook of her take on the world. For readers both familiar with her work and for those new to it, The Origins of Nostalgia will enable our own cultural past as well as that of the former Soviet Union to be viewed in a different light.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 192 pages HB 9781501389931 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781501389948 • £69.79 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501389955 • £69.79 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Gender Commodity

Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security

Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA Gender has become a commodity. Today’s economy trades in symbols and narratives as much as in objects. Gender Commodity argues that gender is a social relation made into an alienated object. In an era of radical insecurity, people identify with objects that promise quite falsely that they grant stability, duration, and fulfillment, and gender has been made into one of those. An interdisciplinary study that brings literary studies into dialogue with the surrounding mediascape, Gender Commodity asks how the symbolic production of gender commodity at home informs an imagination of gender policy as it reaches out globally.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 192 pages HB 9781501388026 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501388033 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501388040 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Radical Elegies

White Violence, Patriarchy, and Necropoetics

Eleanor Perry Through in-depth close readings of elegies by Black women, trans* women, and non-binary writers, this book foregrounds forms of poetic knowledge and poetic practices that trouble - or work against - the ideals, values, standards and forms of knowledge embodied by the ‘English’ elegy so often privileged within canonical tradition. In doing so, it offers a challenge to the ways in which we currently read elegy, unearthing possibilities for revising our understanding of the elegiac tradition.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781350236066 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350236080 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350236073 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic