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Blue Divide Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781936970728, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, April 2021
74 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in this powerful new collection explore the history of conflict and resilience – whether it occurs during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Croatia, or within the intimate tableaux of a family's dissonance. Weavin...
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£13,00
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Keats's Odes A Lover's Discourse
ISBN: HB: 9780226762678, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over – like this world, and some of the people in it". In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them – "Ode...
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£16,00
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Land Like You
ISBN: HB: 9780857427885, Seagull Books, December 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effor...
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£21,99
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Captain's Verses
ISBN: PB: 9781784109240, Carcanet, September 2020
208 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia – a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film Il Postino. Originally published anonymously in 1952 to spare his...
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£14,99
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Calamity Form On Poetry and Social Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226701318, ISBN: HB: 9780226701288, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, "The Calamity Form...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Vital Stream
ISBN: PB: 9781784108076, Carcanet, November 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Vital Stream" takes the form of 133 sonnets that revisit six extraordinary months in 1802, a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings eventually set up home together in the Lake District, wher...
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£12,99
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That Other World Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile
ISBN: HB: 9780300158830, Yale University Press, July 2019
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation's foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells...
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£20,00
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Street Players Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground
ISBN: PB: 9780226586915, ISBN: HB: 9780226586885, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narrative...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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English Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784105747, Carcanet, November 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
I was born in Belgium, I'm Belgian. / But Belgium was never born in me.' So writes Leonard Nolens in 'Place and Date', which captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this sel...
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£12,99
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Foxy Aesop On the Edge
ISBN: HB: 9789385932427, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Very little is known about Aesop who was supposed to have been a slave on the island of Samos in the sixth century BC. It is his fables (and those attributed to him) that have come down to us through the centuries. In this version, a fabulist from...
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£15,00
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