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      • Literary essays
        September 2016

        Calamities

        by Renee Gladman

        Winner of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction, this collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer features one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.

      • Literary essays
        September 2017

        My Private Property

        by Mary Ruefle

        My Private Property, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play.

      • Literary essays
        May 2018

        The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks

        by Joshua Beckman

        Collected as two books in conversation—part of Wave’s Bagley Wright Lecture Series—these talks provide a rare and unique insight into a deeply literary life. In The Lives of the Poems, poet Joshua Beckman offers three variations of the same talk that—through repetition and adjustment, a sort of echolocating—illuminate the intimate experience of making a particular set of poems. In Three Talks, he explores the fluid social dynamics of poetry as it lives between readers, poems, and books.

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