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Poetry

Place

Graham Jorie

ISBN: PB: 9781847771933, Carcanet, August 2012
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"P L A C E" begins with a poem dated 5 June 2009, located at St Laurent Sur Mer, better known by its code name Omaha Beach, one of the sites of the American landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944. It is the starting point for a book of poems written in...

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Poetry

"Fresh Air" and "The Story of Molecule"

Gallas John

ISBN: PB: 9781847770974, Carcanet, June 2012
195 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Fresh Air" is an exhilarating, freewheeling ride through landscapes and languages. The poems, all written on the move (tramping the Gobi desert, cycling in Irish drizzle, paddling in Tonga) have the fizz of travellers" tales, the enchantment and the...

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Poetry

Selected Lyrics

Gautier Theophile, Shapiro Norman R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181555, ISBN: HB: 9780300164336, Yale University Press, June 2012
552 pp., 21x14 cm

In his "ABC of Reading", Ezra Pound begins his short list of nineteenth-century French poets to be studied with Theophile Gautier. Widely esteemed by figures as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Gustave Flaubert, Oscar Wilde, Henr...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Diary

Gombrowicz Witold, translated by Lillian Vallee, new preface by Rita Gombrowicz

ISBN: PB: 9780300118063, Yale University Press, June 2012
800 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his "Diary" with one of literature's most memorable openings: Mond...

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Literary Criticism

Fuenteovejuna Lope De Vega

Racz G. J., Gonzalez Echevarria Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300181524, Yale University Press, June 2012
144 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Lope de Vega "single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre", writes Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria in the introduction to this new translation of "Fuenteovejuna". Often compared to Shakespeare, Moliere, and Racine, Lope is widely considered the...

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Fiction

Dona Barbara A Novel

Gallegos Romulo

ISBN: PB: 9780226279206, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
448 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

Romulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel "Dona Barbara". Published in 1929 and...

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Fiction

Evguenie Sokolov

Gainsbourg Serge

ISBN: PB: 9780966234619, DAP, TamTam Books, February 2012
137 pp., 17.8x13.3 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! Serge Gainsbourg's sole foray into fiction, "Evguenie Sokolov" describes an artist who uses his intestinal gases as the medium for his scandalous artwork. What once was a smelly and noisy problem in his social and sex life...

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Glass is Elastic

Glover Jon

ISBN: PB: 9781847771148, Carcanet, January 2012
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Glass is Elastic" is a book of surfaces and reflections, mirrors and windows. What do we see – what do we know – in a world experienced through lenses and screens? "Don't blink. Nobody's / looking, nobody's seeing". Jon Glover explores the treachery...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226306674, ISBN: HB: 9780226306667, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes – of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and ver...

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History of Art

Literary Criticism

Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature

Gamboni Dario

ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones

French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...

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