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Poems of Widowhood A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 "Rime"
ISBN: PB: 9781649590145, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
206 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates
Vittoria Colonna's 1538 Rime, originally issued without her permission by a small Parma press, was the first of many editions of her poetry published during her lifetime. Born into one of the most powerful families in Rome and connected to many of th...
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£34,00
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Defense of Judgment
ISBN: PB: 9780226770154, ISBN: HB: 9780226653969, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful – and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than others. Yet the field of literary studies...
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One Summer Evening at the Falls
ISBN: PB: 9780226737119, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in this collection capture the fantastic feeling of falling in love, all while keeping eyes on its lifecycles of crashing aftermaths, lingering regrets, guilt, and renewal. Peter Campion brings us to a series of scenes – on the damp patio,...
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£15,00
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I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781946724366, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and...
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£14,00
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Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
ISBN: PB: 9780857428363, ISBN: HB: 9780857421845, Seagull Books, March 2021
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs", recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel 'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons'. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption is yet to be finalized. When she finally moves...
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North African Poetry in French Yale French Studies, Number 137/138
ISBN: PB: 9780300250374, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry. The sixteen essays collected in this special issue of "Yale French Studies" sho...
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£50,00
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One Certain Thing
ISBN: PB: 9780887486661, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Peter Cooley's eleventh book of poetry is an elegy, not only of lamentation but also of self-reckoning in the face of his wife's sudden death, after a marriage of half a century. The three-part conversation between the speaker, his wife, and God, pla...
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Threadbare Coat Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109981, Carcanet, November 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This "Selected Poems" celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer – a vivid minimalist, ruralist and experimentalist.
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Leavetakings Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781602234246, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not onl...
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We Defy Augury
ISBN: HB: 9780857427830, Seagull Books, November 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, "this not to come... the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Helene Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new book – and the latest chapter...
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