New Release Books by Jay Wright

Tartus vowed after the war it would never happen again. That was before they found their new home in Las Vegas. His people operate in secret at the edges of society, lower working class, living in trailer parks, operating junk stores and digging - mainly at the nuclear waste containment facility known as Yucca Mountain. They are unreal refugees, residents in the counterfeit that is Las Vegas. Fenur's people are dead. The remaining elves hate him for what he had to do. They have found a home and new wealth in the casino system, and with the casinos' less savory organized crime figures. He likes it here, even if they think it's beneath them. The old tribal ways and conflicts are emerging in this new world. It may keep them from returning home.

One of the most celebrated African American poet's work as a playwright Jay Wright is a poet's poet; identified by poet Dante Micheaux as one of the best American poets--because "his poetry represents everything that America is and...not what he would like it to be." One of two, this volume of Wright's selected plays offers readers, performers, theatre makers, and scholars an expansive look into an under-explored area of the poet's body of work, spanning over four decades, from the early 1970s to 2015. Those who know Wright's poetry will find familiar rhythms and figures. New to the scene, however, is the mobilization of polysemy, quantum entanglement, and global-American identities within theatrical form. Arriving amid a pandemic, however, when the face of theatre has been forced to change in order to comport itself to new restrictions on liveness, these texts seem to challenge us to find other ways to perform, to tell stories, to grow together. Moving between Vermont, the Sandia Mountains, unnamed rivers, San Pedro, an urban square, Boca Negra, Mesa City, and numerous liminal spaces of ritual and incantation, these plays, selected by Jay and Lois Wright, showcase quotidian terrestrial affairs spliced with spiritual ascendency. Those who pick up these plays will find themselves involved in everything. In VOLUME ONE: Passage, The Hunt and Double Night of the Wood, The Playing Space, Lemma, Syntax, Aria. Drama. African & African American Studies.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the coach of the 2016 and 2018 NCAA Tournament–winning Villanova University men’s basketball team comes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG When Kris Jenkins sank a three-pointer at the buzzer to win the 2016 NCAA Tournament, it was a victory not just for a team and its coach but for an entire program. In his twentieth season with the Villanova program, including a five-year stint as an assistant to Coach Rollie Massimino, Coach Jay Wright had achieved his lifelong dream—and witnessed the culmination of a decades-long effort to build a culture of winning around a set of core values. In Attitude, Coach Wright shares some of the leadership secrets that have enabled Villanova, a private university with an undergraduate enrollment of less than 6,500, to thrive in the hypercompetitive world of college athletics. As he recounts the story of the 2015–16 Wildcats, Coach Wright offers anecdotes from his own journey up the ladder of success, with lessons learned on the Little League playing fields of his youth and wisdom passed down from his coaches and mentors. Each step of Villanova’s journey to a national championship incorporates a signature term torn from Coach Wright’s own motivational playbook. Here are key principles that aspiring leaders can apply, not only on the basketball court but in the boardroom, the classroom, and the living room. From learning to accept your role to remembering to honor those who came before us, Jay Wright’s core values provide a positive blueprint for transformational team building based on the idea that anyone—from the head coach to the last player on the bench—can be a leader when the moment demands it. The product of a lifetime’s worth of championship-level preparation, Attitude is perfect for anyone looking to build a team, achieve a goal, or nurture their own winning culture. Praise for Attitude “Jay Wright’s Attitude is filled with wonderful anecdotes, life lessons, and that which we all seek: wisdom.”—Phil Knight, co-founder and chairman emeritus, Nike “In 2015–16, Villanova displayed the best attributes of a champion by playing hard, smart, and together. Jay Wright instilled those traits in his team, and in Attitude he shares the universal leadership lessons that helped it succeed.”—Mike Krzyzewski, head coach, Duke University basketball

A sequence of poems and a one-act play examining arithmetical proportions and the definitions of harmony.

2013 Reprint of 1961 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This work has been cited as one of the most seminal works of the era. Forrester outlines industrial dynamics as an experimental, quantitative philosophy for designing corporate structure and policies that are compatible with an organization's growth and stability objectives. Forrester believes that management systems possess an orderly and identifiable framework that determines the character of industrial and economic behavior. In this volume, he presents for the first time a methodology for detecting and exhibiting this structure for study.

A gift for his wife, Jay Wright's Polynomials and Pollen explores the complementary exigencies of abstraction and physicality. In five sections, each arranged under the aegis of a tutelary concept--from the Yoruba, Akan, Bamana, and Náhuatl--the book is a constellation of protophilosophical inquiry into notions of order, disarray, evidence, flowering, and return; it is also a dynamically visceral work whose feelingtones register rage as well as devotion.

The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which the energetic relationship between a meditative body and its universe is not only the envisioning of absence by presence but also vision itself: "Here begins the revelation of a kiosk." With occult emotionality and analytic brilliance, Jay Wright has written the user's guide to evanescence: "I have become attuned / to the disappearance of all things / and of my self . . ."

In The Guide Signs, acclaimed poet Jay Wright closes a movement he opened with his first book, The Homecoming Singer, in 1971, a movement that takes its design from the ancient people of Mali. Wright continued this theme in subsequent works, gathered in Transfigurations: Collected Poems (2000), whose eight books represent the eight master signs. The two new books of The Guide Signs represent the primordial Nommo twins. All together, these ten books, as the ten earlier signs taken from the “complete signs of the world,” provide the base for the soul and life force given to everything. Wright encourages the reader to participate in weaving the fragile and fragmentary fabric of experience, and to do what Horace Silver encourages his listeners to do—“get down in the music with us.”

A baby girl makes sense of her brand new world, the entirety of which is comprised solely of her parents love. They are her sun and her moon. Their love is the air she breathes. "Whisper my name" she asks, seeking the love and tenderness that comes along with that whisper, "I need to hear it from you."

32 tales...32 storytellers with a twisted mind to entice you. When you were younger, the stories told around the campfire were the best you had ever heard. The bedtime stories our elders would tell us were the ones that put us to sleep but the campfire was where you got the chills to stay up because of every sound the woods made at night. It is hard to believe in a world where things do not get creepier at night or the world does not come more to life at dusk. Where the world gets just a little unhinged in the dark. Urban Legends is a collection with some of today's up and coming authors in the indie world. Giving you their takes on the tales they grew up with...legends of mystery, of the macabre, of horror, designed to make the hairs on your neck stand alert and your skin crawl. You know some of the stories but do you know the twisted minds of the author telling the tale? Make sure you keep the lights on...things get harder to wrap your thoughts around at the Crossroads in the Dark. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction "Inclusion" by Edd Sowder Foreword by Kerry Alan Denney The Game by Kevin Wimer The Trusted by Samantha Alexandra Possession of the Hexham Heads by L. M. Barrett Site 48 by T. J. Weeks Tommy's Bend by David Owain Hughes A Farmhouse Haunting by L. Bachman Pump One by Richard Farren Barber The Scarlet Cloak by Karen Bovenmyer The Yonder by R. M. Warren Forfeit Tissue by C. C. Adams Plague by T. Joseph Browder The Whispering Tree by Glenn Damien Campbell Sleep Tight by Brian G. Murray The Miners by Alice J. Black The Legend of Sugisawa Village by Michael Arnold Sweet Dreams by Jonathan Shipley Cemetery Mountain by Jay Michael Wright II Send in the Clowns by Kerry Alan Denney Dream Sequence by S. L. Perrine Friend Request by Frank Martin Eigengrau by Michael Schutz Pigman Road by W. T. Watson The Goatman by Mark Reefe Sad Sarah by Carl Alves Urban Legend (With a Modern Twist) by Donna Marie West Night Hunt by L. D. Ricard Shadow Ink by Aziza Sphinx The King of Hollywood by MJ Kobernus Slow Gurgling Under Water by Sergio Palumbo The Dark Forest by James Master The Spirited Children by S. L. Kerns Severed Attachments by Jonathan Edward Ondrashek

This issue celebrates all these wonderful inventors who never cease to amaze us with their incredible imaginations, and an interview with the Science Museum of London’s resident inventor, Mark Champkins. It features award-winning inventor Dominic Wilcox’s funniest inventions, and is filled to the brim with a dazzling array of games, activities, and beautifully illustrated stories. “A unique and beautifully designed magazine for kids, totally unlike anything else on the market. The illustrations are beautiful enough to please the most finicky parent, and fun enough to engage children.” —The Guardian ANORAK is the happy mag for kids, published four times a year by The ANORAK Press in London, and aimed at both boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 12 years old. In every edition, you will find fun stories to read, stuff to make, and plenty of coloring pages to keep everyone happy! Since its launch in 2006, ANORAK has broken new grounds in terms of visual communication for children. Its unique format includes brand-new stories written and illustrated by contemporary illustrators, a ‘good stuff’ guide, and some fun activities. The press has been featured in the Huffington Post, GOOP, OhDeedoh, and TIME magazine. It is recognized worldwide as a publishing house that produces fun, positive, edu-tainment for kids. 'Nominated first of top three 'hot new prints' -Time Magazine. 'A unique and beautifully designed magazine for kids, totally unlike anything else on the market. The illustrations are beautiful enough to please the most finickity parent, and fun enough to engage children' -The Guardian. 'The most delightful children's magazine.' -Tyler Brulé, Monocle. 'A quarterly publication bursting with ideas and inspiration, and urging its young readers to tap into their own imaginations.' -Telegraph.

Poetry. African American Studies. Drifting from New Mexico with lawman Elfego Baca to Ricardo Molinari's Buenos Aires all the way back to ancient Alexandria, DISORIENTATIONS: GROUNDINGS offers an erudite and at times dizzying exploration of our mortal limits. Metaphysical in both content and manner of metaphor, these poems are in constant dialogue with the physical sciences, mathematics, and number theory. The result is a startling, quixotic, and truly original poetry.

A tongue-in-cheek book for guitar players, collectors, and professional musicians who suffer from Guitar Acquisition Syndrome. It contains insights, tips, and tools from well over 200 afflicted enthusiasts from 23 countries.

Few poets have as much to tell us about the intricate relationship between the African American past and present as Jay Wright. His poems weave a rich fabric of personal history using diverse materials drawn from African, Native American, and European sources. Scholarly, historical, intuitive, and emotional, his work explores territories in which rituals of psychological and spiritual individuation find a new synthesis in the construction of cultural values. Never an ideologue but always a poet of vision, he shows us a way to rejoice and strengthen ourselves in our common humanity. Here, together for the first time, are Wright's previously published collections -- The Homecoming Singer (1971), Soothsayers and Omens (1976), Explications/Interpretations (1984), Dimensions of History (1976), The Double Invention of Komo (1980), Elaine's Book (1988), and Boleros (1991) -- along with the new poems of Transformations (1997). By presenting Wright's work as a whole, this collection reveals the powerful consistency of his theme -- a spiritual or intellectual quest for personal development -- as each book builds solidly upon the previous one. Wright examines history from a multicultural perspective, attempting to conquer a sense of exclusion -- from society and his own cultural identity -- and find solace and accord by linking American society to African traditions. He believes that a poem must articulate the vital rhythms of the culture it depicts and is dedicated to a pursuit of poetic forms that embody the cadence of African American culture. In "The Albuquerque Graveyard", he offers a poignant elegy to victims of slavery's Middle Passage and also reveals the purpose of his poetry.to the Black limbo, an unwritten history of our own tensions. The dead lie here in a hierarchy of small defeats. Defying characterization, Wright has experimented with voices, languages, cultures, and forms not normally associated with African American literature. He is well schooled in the cultures of West Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and -- true to his New Mexican birth -- he is a powerful synthesizer of human experience. Transfigurations reveals Wright to be a man of profound knowledge and a poet of exalted verbal intensity.

The Wright Teaching Tips: Strategies and Techniques for Beginning College and University Instructors is designed to teach graduate students to teach large lecture classes. This book focuses on effective teaching strategies and lecture techniques proven effective in large introductory classes. It provides an easy to follow guide concerning important steps in preparing for, and the delivery of, a college level introductory class in any discipline. The book is designed to be used to assist in the training of graduate students and new faculty members new to teaching and assigned to their first course. Although there is no substitute for the experience gained in the classroom, prior preparation and practice lectures can provide the information necessary to avoid major mistakes while emphasizing effective lecture techniques. The advice and teaching tips included come from many years of trial-and-error testing of teaching approaches, with emphasis on those effective with large classes. This book can be used as a stand-alone guide to teaching, as part of a teaching workshop, or as a reference textbook in a formal course devoted to teaching strategies and techniques. This book focuses on: How to select a textbook and prepare a class syllabus. Lecture techniques effective in large classes. Methods to facilitate and focus student attention. Ways to establish mutual respect. Techniques to facilitate class discussion. How to interpret student body language. How to incorporate technology into classroom teaching. Ways to reduce student isolation.

"Music's Mask and Measure presents a series of five "equations" in a cosmic algebra. Drawing from such disparate sources as medieval theology, modern physics, and a Pythagorean sense of harmony, these poems offer glimpses of a dance in which only one partner can be seen. Reading them, we move in "the firm embrace / of the unsolved.""--Jacket.

A journal to help you connect to yourself by way of a few of your basic emotions. As a counselor, I encourage my clients to write out similar exercises to help them connect and explore their inner world.