New Releases by Jay Wright

This book’s focus is on Alzheimer’s, the many additional diseases that cause dementia and the reasons for the lack of drugs to treat these neurological dysfunctions. Suggested changes to the USA’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protocols are offered in order to accelerate the drug development pipeline and reduce the huge costs required to conduct human clinical trials. The importance of the brain renin-angiotensin system is described and possible new directions in drug development are discussed, along with the changing role of academic researchers in identifying and developing new treatment strategies. The book was written for those families touched by Alzheimer’s and other dementias, academic scientists interested in neurodegenerative diseases, and would-be entrepreneurs considering beginning a start-up company.

RELEASING JANUARY 1st, 2024! Alan Augustine hasn''t been lucky in a long time, so when a too-good-to-be-true business venture drops in his lap, he snatches it up. Unfortunately, a few old clients aren''t thrilled. And he can''t seem to stop seeing grim omens in his tarot. Bad Romance features Alan Augustine in his first full-length adventure and is heavily influenced and inspired by the music of pop, punk, and emo artists like Marianas Trench, Good Charlotte, Smashmouth, Madonna, and Lady Gaga.

In Postage Stamps, Jay Wright continues his lifelong exploration as a sojourner, a pilgrim, the "homo viator," who speaks through and by an embellishment of a constantly changing movement to discover the incomplete sense and measure, the temporal invention of all relation, the soul in flight. This word flows all alonede rama en rama,a semitoneshaping the enigmaof air and voice, its tonea dilemma.

A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright Jay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century. But in recent years, he has also written a series of unconventional essays that he calls “examination papers,” which he defines as “designated inquiries to myself.” In these linked essays, most of which resemble prose-poems, with only a few lines set on each page, Wright explores abiding artistic and philosophical concerns, including language, aesthetic form, knowledge, time, and death. Soul and Substance presents these pieces for the first time. Drawing on everything from African mythology to mathematical axioms, Wright reflects on a wide range of topics: the difficulties of defining and confronting death; the challenge of transcending one’s own consciousness; the nature of rhythm and the structure of space; and the relationship among the self, the body, and the material world. Throughout, the book examines the limits of human knowledge and the implications of our always imperfect understanding. Experimental and original, Soul and Substance is an important addition to the work of a major writer.

Jasper Craig hasn''t been the same since he died. Going back to normal after months of captivity and torture isn''t as easy as his partner, Elder werespider Crimson Apocalyse, makes it seem. Jasper is depressed, dejected, and plagued by confusing dreams where death waits for him around every bend. Crimson, on the other hand, is his same old self and Jasper is starting to hate him for it. And then a stranger arrives in New York City, looking for Jasper. A stranger with glowing white eyes, a teleportation device and a Masters in physics. Are they here to help or to harm? Is it merely another ruse to capture the rare, mysterious half-blood for good, or will Jasper finally learn the truth of what and who he is? DREAM ON is the fourth book in the MM urban fantasy ''The Hunter and The Spider'' series.

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.

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 TWO: The Crossing, Daughters of the Water, Homage to Anthony Braxton, The Crossing of the Second River, The Delights of Memory, The Disappearance of Mexico, The Possible Impossibility of Leaving Home. Poetry. Drama. African & African American Studies.

"Jay Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1934 and currently lives in Vermont. Wright was a professional baseball player, a member of the U.S. Army medical corps, a jazz bassist, and has been a visiting professor of literature at many universities. Active during the Black Arts Movement and the New American Poetry, his first poetry collection was published in 1967 and he has since published over fifteen books of poetry--including Thirteen Quintets for Lois (2021), Music''s Mask and Measure (2007), The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two (2000, winner of the American Book Award), Elaine''s Book (1988), The Double Invention of Komo (1980), and The Homecoming Singer (1971). He is also the author of more than forty plays and a dozen essays. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Wright''s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a MacArthur Fellowship, The Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Before Columbus Foundation."--

Poetry. In THIRTEEN QUINTETS FOR LOIS, Jay Wright has found both form and structure to intertwine aspects of music, logic, number theory, and philosophy in a wide-ranging, exhilarating harmony. With rhymes providing a ceremonial dimension, the poems read at times like those of a playful and lyrical Parmenides in their meditations on being and grace.

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.

After finding his werespider boyfriend, Crimson Apocalypse, faking his own death, and running across the country in the most amazingly ridiculous van, it''s all clear skies and white sand for Jasper Craig. Finally. Jasper and Crimson have made a new home for themselves in California, complete with a Santa Monica apartment and a new favorite bar. Jasper gets a job with Crimson''s werespider niece at a paranormal investigation agency called Lunar Investigations. His past as a Hunter is coming in handy at LI and his new team becomes new friends. But it''s not all summer sun for Jasper and Crimson. They haven''t left all of their problems behind them, as much as they might wish. Crimson is being Drawn, pulled by a red thread of fate towards another Hunter. Cecilia Folami (a collector of rare species) and Regan Knightly (a vampire hungry for vengeance) have teamed up to find them. Their past is quickly catching up to them. Will Jasper and Crimson stay one step ahead? Will the Draw prove to be too tempting to ignore? Only The Good Die Young is the fourth book in the MM urban fantasy ''The Hunter and The Spider'' series.

"So, what are you expecting me to believe here?" Even to his own ears, Jasper''s forced casualness sounded more forced than casual. "That you''re a... good werespider?"The werespider was midway to taking another shot of tequila but drew it away from his lips at the last second, sparing himself the minor tragedy of coughing it up in the sudden burst of laughter that erupted from him. He had the sort of laugh that could fill a whole room, loud and pleasant, and a great deal less nasal than his heavy accent might have entailed. "Good? Nah, man. Nah." He composed himself long enough to throw back the shot and clap the empty glass down on the counter. "I''mma great werespider. Best in Brooklyn. New York. Whole state, even."Where there''s demons, there''s bound to be demon hunters and in Brooklyn there''s no shortage of either.Jasper Craig is a hunter at New York''s secret St. James Academy, and he''s one of the best. With superior strength, agility, and a handy ability to sense demonic energy, it''s like he was born for the job. Since he was orphaned at a young age, his parents took the secret of what, exactly, he is to their graves. And if his adoptive father knows, he''s not telling. Loyal to the cause of keeping the mortal world safe from the evils of demons, there isn''t anything Jasper wouldn''t do. So when his father and superior officer tells him to go undercover to trick a rare and dangerous werespider, Jasper agrees. Crimson Apocalypse is one of New York''s oldest residents and the only known werespider in the north eastern United States. He''s the sort of guy who lives as fast as he talks and talks as fast as he drives, and if Jasper wants to get closer to the werespider he''s going to have to keep up. But getting closer might be dangerous in more ways than one and what Jasper learns may not be what he expects. Strangers in the Night is a tense, action-filled urban fantasy. A story of self-discovery in a world where things are not always what they seem and the lines between good and evil are hard to draw.

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

"Two buddies who grew up in the Appalachian foothills of rural northwest Georgia in the 50''s capture stories and tales from the past and into the present. There are also poems about the beauty and culture of Appalachia." --www.lulu.,com

Ellie boldly makes her way along a treacherous desert canyon road. She is on a quest for the ultimate Sarsaparilla root beer float at the Scorpion Saloon, renowned as the most villainous, dangerous place in the world. Nate races along the canyon rim keeping a protective eye on his sister. He''s convinced she''s on a path toward certain doom.Along the way, a colorful cast of characters guide them thru the perils of the unfamiliar desert. Waiting for them at the final showdown in the Scorpion Saloon, is the most rotten villain in the history of villain-hood: Eyepatch the Scorpion. A new challenge is met on each page and their sense of adventure and goodwill eventually prevail as they discover that life in the desert is not all it appears.

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

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

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."

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.

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.

This is the true life inspirational story of how a seventeen year old boy named David Fatorma was miraculously spared from a massacre during the Liberian civil war and went on to found three Christian churches and a school with over three hundred students.

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.

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 . . ."

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.

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, all gathered in Transfigurations: Collected Poems, whose eight books represent the eight master signs. The two 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.

"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.