James Gifford

24 July 1834 – Edward Taylor Fletcher contracted cholera in the pandemic and wrote about it in 1885. I edited this piece during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it changed how I read everything the man ever wrote… (the book is free online, so take a peak!) […]

Book cover for Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth Century Canadian Literature

Friends, I've decided to post a year of content from my edition of Edward Taylor Fletcher's works. The hashtag #EdTaFl seems shiny and unused, so I'm taking it… This project came out during a tricky period and never really caught eyes, so I'm going to do that now! […]

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Flowers along the path

More #bloomscrolling a short walk from home

A nice review is coming out soon

Tooting on Mastodon with reposts bridged to BSKY means never having to see the "well, actually" replies… Or at least not until months later, at which point who care about someone on the internet who's wrong.

And…"BSKY" will never cease to make me think "NKOTB." There, I said it. I'm old.

Water lilies

Water lilies

Water lilies count for #bloomscrolling

New Release Shih-I Hsiung: A Glorious Showman. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press https://www.fdupress.org

Yuan Shu reviews Da Zehng's *Shih-I Hsiung: A Glorious Showman* in Journal of Chinese Overseas:

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683931072/

"Zheng’s work represents a pioneering and cutting-edge effort in Asian American studies, overseas-Chinese studies, and […]

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Two chapbooks of poetry. TERMINALS by Nathanael O’Reilly and the suitcase poem by many hands with Amanda Earl.

New poetry focused on form from above/ground press! (a consolation for missing @robmclennan read last week…)

From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Delany, and David Eddings James Gifford @GiffordJames@mas.to

Gave a talk today for the #Louisville conference #LCLC52. Huge fun and a bit crazy to have done…

“From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel R. Delany, and David Eddings”

#academia #literature #modernism #SFF

New Release: Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell: Alexandria to Angkor Wat edited by Isabelle Keller-Privat and Anne Zahlan. www.fdupress.org

Isabelle Keller-Privat & Anne Zahlan's *Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell* is now out!

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934448/

*Heresy and Heterotopia* gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and […]

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Patullo Bridge from Surrey, BC in the show Allegiance

I’m not used to television showing my neighbourhood as if it were New York. I could get used to it… #Allegiance #CBC

Many people walking around in a frozen lake behind a sign “DANGER THIN ICE KEEP OFF”

And there it is. The most Canadian spectacle I have ever seen… #Canada

The Judge on the Screen: A Translation and Critical Edition by Vincenzo Tomeo translated and edited by Peter Robson. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, www.fdupress.org

Vincenzo Tomeo's *The Judge on the Screen: A Translation and Critical Edition* is now out, edited and translated by Peter Robson with Vincenzo Ferrari and Ferdinando Spina

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934172/

Tomeo’s pioneering research in the 1960s and […]

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God bless everyone working in the transplant units, and God bless and grant comfort to every family who grieves while giving the gift of life.

Cover for Sabrina Vellucci's Italian American Poetics of Place: An Environmental Perspective, www.fdupress.org

Sabrina Vellucci's book *Italian American Poetics of Place: An Environmental Perspective* is now out!

This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. From mid-twentieth-century […]

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Happy to share that my story “Asclepius in Albania” is out in the Nashwaak Review, vol. 50/51!

New Release "India's Imperial Formations" by Amrita Ghost, Rohit K. Dasgupta, and Bhakti Shringarpure www.fdupress.org fdupress@fdu.edu

Amrita Ghosh, Rohit K. Dasgupta, and Bhakti Shringarpure's book *India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives* is now out!

They explore how empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion […]

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book launch for Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim by Justin Tse

Wonderful book launch for *Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim* by Justin Tse

Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn: A Critical Companion by Timothy S. Miller in the Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon series

Just received the new Beagle book by @timothysmiller.bsky.social for review in #YWES! And I'll be teaching The Last Unicorn this spring, so pretty sure I'll get an early start on this one…

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6

FDU Press booth at Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities

Time for an #introduction! Fairleigh Dickinson University Press left social media dormant for a spell, and now it's time to think about how best to be public and promote our #authors This feels like the right time and place.

With editorial offices in […]

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New Release: E.D. Blodgett's Walking Into God www.fdupress.org | fdupress@fdu.edu

“What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that’s the only heaven we are given to know in life.” -- Edward Dickinson […]

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You can watch the author Dennis Wilson Wise interviewed in this excellent PBS documentary about the revolutionary #fantasy and #sciencefiction editor Judy-Lynn del Rey: https://youtu.be/bO9oSyR-5UM

New Release! Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology by Dennis Wilson Wise. www.fdupress.org

If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement?

Over the last ten decades, #poets working in #fantasy, #sciencefiction, and #horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative #poetics akin to what once happened in […]

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An extremely kind and generous review of my anthology, *Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival," by Daniel Rabuzzi over at STRANGE HORIZONS.

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I would think. How strong is gravity though?

Yes. ie: "MMMBop." Also see, Callinan's "Big Enough."

Uhm. Yes. I am definitely referring to her poetry. The other possibility must remains forever part of the trauma of the bird site, never to be revived.

With those feet, she ain't walking away…

Son "Daddy, I've gots a plan."
Me "What's that?"
Son "When I'm a daddy & you're a grandpa, I'll make a potion."
Me "Yeah?"
Son "A potion so you'll never die & we'll all stay like that forever."
Me "—"
Son "Can I have candy?"