Warm congratulations to Liesl Yamaguchi on the publication of her book On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking through Synesthesia!

Please see the release information on the Fordham University Press website for a full description. Here are some excerpts of reviews:

"A thrilling journey to the edges of the mind—and into the heart and soul of language and literature. Guiding us through famous poems and forgotten treatises with equal ease, Yamaguchi unfolds a powerful new picture of how words work.”---Shane Butler, Johns Hopkins University

“Liesl Yamaguchi’s beautifully written and carefully argued book investigates the role played by vowel color in nineteenth and early twentieth century theories about language, from Indo-European linguistics, to French Symbolist poetics, to the science of acoustics. The idea that the notion of vowel color is crucial for the development of free verse as a modern poetic category is explosive and exciting. With clarity and precision, Yamaguchi zeroes in on one of the most stubbornly nebulous categories in the linguistic and poetic tradition.”---Sarah Pourciau, Duke University