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Literary Criticism

Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...

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Fiction

The French List

Red Scarf Followed by "Two Stages" and Additional Notes

Bonnefoy Yves

ISBN: HB: 9780857427380, Seagull Books, March 2021
208 pp., 19.6x13.9 cm

In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93, Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in prose, L'echarpe rouge, translated here as The Red Scarf. In this unique book, described by the poet as "an anamnesis" – a f...

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Literary Criticism

Radium of the Word A Poetics of Materiality

Dworkin Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226743561, ISBN: HB: 9780226743424, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations...

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Poetry

Rise Wildly

Kelley Tina

ISBN: PB: 9781933880808, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching on matters such as marriage, child-rearing, and caregiving for her mother and her earth, Kelley's poems betray an unabashed affection for big words and...

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Poetry

Runaway

Graham Jorie

ISBN: PB: 9781784109950, Carcanet, September 2020
96 pp., 23.5x18.7 cm

A new collection of poetry from one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Ide...

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Fiction

Radio Works: 1946-48

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035802504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most expe...

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Poetry

Red Gloves

Watts Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9781784109554, Carcanet, June 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human and the non-human.

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Poetry

Raft of Flame

Alvarez Desiree

ISBN: PB: 9781632430816, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

A painter and poet, Desiree Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca's passionate cante jondo, or "deep song," and her own family history with Andalusian f...

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Literary Criticism

Rhythm Form and Dispossession

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226685878, ISBN: HB: 9780226685731, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It's the pulse of the body, a power that orders ma...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw Animals, Language, Sensation

Hawhee Debra

ISBN: PB: 9780226706771, ISBN: HB: 9780226398174, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: t...

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