Category: Subject

April 22, 2013

Book Giveaway: "Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future" by Vivien Gornitz

This week our featured book is Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future, by Vivien Gornitz. Throughout the week, we will be featuring the books and their editors on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed, and on our Facebook...

April 19, 2013

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp – The Dalai Lamas and the Origins of Reincarnate Lamas

Read “The Dalai Lamas and the Origins of Reincarnate Lamas,” by Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, excerpted from The Tibetan History Reader.

April 18, 2013

Santiago Zabala – Out of Network: The Art of Filippo Minelli

Read “Out of Network: The Art of Filippo Minelli,” an op-ed by Santiago Zabala, which appeared in the New York Times blog, The Stone.

April 18, 2013

The Epic of King Gesar

A few excerpts from the Epic of King Gesar, “often described as the Tibetan national epic and as the longest poem in the world,” taken from Sources of Tibetan Tradition.

April 17, 2013

"History as Myth," by Peter Schwieger

Read “History as Myth,” by Peter Schwieger, from The Tibetan History Reader.

April 16, 2013

William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz Answers

Columbia University Press has had the privilege of publishing two volumes of critical essays by the poet and critic William Logan, Our Savage Age: Poetry and the Civil Tongue and The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin. As...

April 16, 2013

Timeline of Tibet

Read a timeline of Tibetan history, from Sources of Tibetan Tradition.

April 12, 2013

William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz

Take our quiz on William Logan’s poetry criticism for a chance to win FREE copies of William Logan’s Our Savage Age and The Undiscovered Country!

April 11, 2013

Siobhan Phillips — A Case for Collected Poems

The following post is by Siobhan Phillips, author of The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse: We come on poetry in any number of ways. We dip into anthologies, page through journals, take in our favorite’s...

April 10, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Wild World of Lulu

In the following post, Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, explores the new publishing options open to poets and whether poetry still needs publishers: Poetry is cunning. Eternally broke and without resources, it manages...

April 9, 2013

Skin and Ink — Mike Chasar Gets a Robert Creeley Tattoo

“My adaptation of ‘I Know a Man’ … also links me to the popular reading practices I study and value—practices that respect and honor important texts not by preserving those texts in the unchanging museum space of an anthology, but...

April 8, 2013

The History of U.S. Capitalism

Yesterday’s New York Times article In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism by Jennifer Schuessler explores “the specter of capitalism” in history departments. As Schuessler explains: After decades of “history from below,” focusing on women, minorities and other marginalized people...