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I Thought There Would Be More Wolves Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781602234499, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the animals that stayed hidden and hunted. As she struggled with loneliness, cruelty, and t...
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£12,00
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Epidemic Empire Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020
ISBN: PB: 9780226739359, ISBN: HB: 9780226739212, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this tro...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Cox or The Course of Time
ISBN: HB: 9780857427366, Seagull Books, November 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The world's most powerful man, Qianlong, emperor of China, invites the famous eighteenth-century clockmaker Alister Cox to his court in Beijing. There, in the heart of the Forbidden City, the Englishman and his assistants are to build machines that m...
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£21,99
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Poetry in a Global Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226730141, ISBN: HB: 9780226730004, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-nati...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association
ISBN: PB: 9781632430878, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
This magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose's Lower East Side apartment and is thus priced out of his "More R...
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£6,00
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Angular Desire Selected Poems and Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784109257, Carcanet, March 2020
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The first Western edition of the poetry of the great anglophone poet of postcolonial India, Srinivas Rayaprol.
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£16,99
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New Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109066, Carcanet, March 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A new and thoroughly revised selection of Christina Rossetti's poems, with an introduction from Rachel Mann.
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£12,99
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Against Heidegger
ISBN: PB: 9781632430793, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
Attachments to proper names, traditions, and entrenched thought formations are a perennial problem and, as L. M. Rivera shows, an addiction. "Against Heidegger" is a collection of poetic meditations on that pervasive, and possibly eternal, compulsion...
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Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781946724267, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, February 2020
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons" imagines a human mission to Mars, a consequence of Earth's devastation from climate change and natural disaster. As humans begin to colonize the planet, history inevitably repeats itself. Dystopian and ecopoetic,...
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£13,00
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Winter Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780857426109, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "Winter Stories", Norwegian author Ingrid H. Rishoi gives us three contemporary tales about personal resilience in the face of adversity. We meet a teenager on the run from social services with her younger half-sister and half-brother in tow; a yo...
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£18,99
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