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Literary Criticism

Vampire A New History

Groom Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300254839, ISBN: HB: 9780300232233, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 35 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of "The Vampyre", Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century,...

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Poetry

Birdsong on Mars

Glover Jon

ISBN: PB: 9781784109752, Carcanet, August 2020
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The fifth Carcanet collection from the man behind Stand magazine and Northern House books explores displacement and growing older.

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Madwoman in the Attic The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Gilbert Sandra M., Gubar Susan, Appignanesi Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780300246728, Yale University Press, May 2020
784 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwor...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Poetry

BEIT

Green Eryn

ISBN: PB: 9781936970667, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
100 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

Eryn Green's new collection of poetry "BEIT" is a lyric examination of the idea of home, and how it intersects with the essential human experiences of love, attachment, and loss. Filtered through a Hebrew sense of the letter Bet – the second letter o...

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Poetry

Insofar

Gridley Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781936970650, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
80 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

"Insofar" is a collection of poems dedicated to analogical reasoning, seeking to remember basic terms of relation and proportion. Archival in mood, it works with and against the idea of an A–Z filing system. This alphabet is akin to a damaged rosary...

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Poetry

Sky Burial New and Selected Poems

Gizzi Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781784108229, Carcanet, February 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

In 1995 Carcanet published "The Exact Change Yearbook" edited by Carcanet poet Michael Palmer and by Peter Gizzi, then at the beginning of his career. The issue featured writing by Gertrude Stein, Barbara Guest, Jack Spicer (whose work Gizzi has edit...

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Poetry

Views of Jeopardy

Gilbert Jack, Fitts Dudley

ISBN: PB: 9780300246346, Yale University Press, January 2020
64 pp., 21x14 cm

In an essay on his own work in "19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate", Jack Gilbert writes that "I am by nature drawn to exigence, compression, selection... One of the special pleasures in poetry for me is accomplishing a lot with the least means...

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Poetry

Art of Escape

Gorji Mina

ISBN: PB: 9781784108823, Carcanet, January 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Among Mina Gorji's poems in "New Poetries V" (2011) was one about Houdini entitled "The Art of Escape" which returns here as the titlepoem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of "the...

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Fiction

Waiting A Collection of Stories

Gandhi Nighat

ISBN: HB: 9789385932540, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young girls struggle for the "purity" that religion deman...

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