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When the Tamarind Institute of Lithography was founded in 1960, there was little interest in hand-crafted printmaking or lithography at all in this country. Fifty years and hundreds of prints later, it is difficult to imagine what lithography in the United States would be without the influence of the now world-renowned Tamarind Institute. Showcasing the broad aesthetic capabilities of lithography, Tamarind Touchstones demonstrates the diversity of the artists who have embraced lithography and their increased facility and comfort with the medium.

In his thirty-year career representing the citizens of New Mexico in the US Senate, Jeff Bingaman witnessed great things accomplished through the legislative process. He also had a front-row seat for the breakdown of governing norms and the radical increases in polarization and partisanship that now plague what was once called the world's greatest deliberative body. Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis traces the development of congressional dysfunction over more than three decades and provides eight case studies that examine how the crisis affects our government's ability to meet major policy challenges. We didn't always have a Senate that failed in its basic public obligations, including catalyzing a robust economy, confronting climate change, improving health care, fixing education, preserving public lands, and avoiding unnecessary wars. We do now.Presenting insightful analysis of the causes and consequences of the dysfunction in Congress, Breakdown shows how Congress fails at the tasks Americans expect it to perform and, more importantly, how it might begin again to succeed.

"The Abolitionist's Journal is a skillfully researched and deeply engrossing story centering on the life and times of the author's great-great grandfather, George Richardson (1824-1911)--a fervently abolitionist preacher who offered shelter to runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, served as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War, and founded a school in Texas for freed black slaves after the war, which still stands today as a testament to his extraordinary life. The book weaves his story with the selfdiscovery of how the author's ancestor's life has intersected with his own. "The book opens with the George Richardson's handwritten journal that sat unread on my father's bookshelf for decades until the weekend before I entered seminary in midlife to become an Episcopal priest. After reading the journal, my life was never the same again. "George Richardson filled his pages with stories of war, white vigilantes, Black schools, church politics and frontier congregations. He wrote of adventures at Yellowstone in the early years of the national park. He wrote of getting lost on horseback in Minnesota in the winter, and the crushing devastation in the Mississippi countryside in the days after the Civil War. He wrote of life in Black shantytowns, Texas Panhandle cowboys and Idaho Mormons. His is the story of our country. "After reading the journal, my wife Lori and I began retracing the steps through eight states of George and his wife Caroline Richardson ( 1825-1887), visiting graveyards, battlefields, schools, churches and the house they used on the Underground Railroad. "Our journey has brought me to the brink of the racial divide in America. The book raises uncomfortable questions about why a family that was committed to racial equality in the mid-nineteenth century lost that commitment in the twentieth century. The book covers my years as a journalist covering the resurgent Ku Klux Klan in Southern California, and later serving as a church pastor in Charlottesville, invaded by neoNazis thrusting this college town into the national spotlight.""--

In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeck's artistic career that deserve closer attention. He writes about the determining scientific influences, such as quantum physics and ecology, in Cannery Row and considers Steinbeck's addiction to writing through the lens of the extensive, obsessive full-length journals that he kept while writing three of his best-known novels-The Grapes of Wrath, The Wayward Bus, and East of Eden. DeMott insists that these monumental works of fiction all comprise important statements on his creative process and his theory of fiction writing. DeMott further blends his personal experience as a lifelong angler with a reading of several neglected fishing episodes in Steinbeck's work. Collectively, the chapters illuminate John Steinbeck as a fully conscious, self-aware, literate, experimental novelist whose talents will continue to warrant study and admiration for years to come.

A poet of both the body and spirit, the work of Romulo Bustos Aguirre often explores the nature of existence at the turn of the twenty-first century-humankind's relationship to itself and the universe, the meaning or purpose, if any, of human existence, and the daunting task of discerning that meaning. Critics have described his poetry as highly refined lyricism, metaphysical, existential, and at times erotic. Semantics of the World introduces the English-speaking world to the exciting work of Romulo Bustos Aguirre, one of Colombia's most celebrated living writers.This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora Arrieta Fernandez and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre's works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre's poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public. The volume offers the perfect introduction to Romulo Bustos Aguirre and his poetry for critical and popular audiences throughout the Anglosphere.

Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly.