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Celebrating the Arts - Dwight-Englewood School

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BULLDOGBOOKSHELF<br />

If you are a D-E alumna, alumnus, student, parent, or current or former member of our faculty and/or<br />

staff, we welcome your Bulldog Bookshelf submissions. Please forward information about your<br />

publication(s) to: alumninews@d-e.org. Please plan to provide electronic files of cover art images<br />

and/or any relevant press releases, biographical information, etc., when submitting your publication(s)<br />

for consideration. In lieu of electronic files, hard copies are accepted. Deadline is July 1, 2011.<br />

Peter Balakian ESB ’69<br />

Bruce Black ESB ’72<br />

Ian Harris ESB ’61 and<br />

Chuck Howlett<br />

Ziggurat (Poems)<br />

The University of Chicago Press,<br />

September 2010<br />

Exploring history, self, and imagination,<br />

as well as his ongoing concerns with<br />

catastrophe and trauma, many of<br />

Balakian's new poems wrestle with <strong>the</strong><br />

aftermath and reverberations of 9/11.<br />

Writing Yoga: A Guide to<br />

Keeping a Practice Journal<br />

Rodmell Press, 2011<br />

In a volume that is part memoir and part<br />

writing guide, Black shares tips about how to<br />

keep a practice journal, with guided writing<br />

exercises in each of <strong>the</strong> ten chapters.<br />

Books not Bombs:<br />

Teaching Peace since <strong>the</strong><br />

Dawn of <strong>the</strong> Republic<br />

Information Age Press, 2010<br />

Offering a comprehensive historical<br />

analysis of <strong>the</strong> origins and development of<br />

peace education in America, this book<br />

examines <strong>the</strong> evolution of peace ideology within <strong>the</strong> context of<br />

opposing war and promoting social justice in <strong>the</strong> classroom<br />

and in society.<br />

James Lord ESB ’40<br />

My Queer War<br />

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011<br />

Published posthumously, this memoir tells<br />

<strong>the</strong> story of <strong>the</strong> author’s sexual awakening<br />

as a young soldier during World War II and<br />

his experiences with <strong>the</strong> horrors and<br />

vagaries of war.<br />

Susan Newman, Ph.D. D ’60<br />

The Case for <strong>the</strong> Only<br />

Child: Your Essential Guide<br />

Health Communications, June 1,<br />

2011<br />

The popular Psychology Today blogger and<br />

author of fifteen books, Newman examines<br />

<strong>the</strong> increasingly prevalent phenomenon of<br />

one-child families and offers guidance to parents weighing <strong>the</strong><br />

factors involved in choosing to raise a singleton.<br />

Susan Thomas D ’64<br />

Last Voyage: Selected<br />

Poems of Giovanni Pascoli<br />

Red Hen Press, 2010<br />

Thomas and her fellow translators<br />

introduce <strong>the</strong> work of a well-known 19thcentury<br />

Italian poet, whose poems have<br />

never before been presented in English.<br />

Spring 2011<br />

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