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Year of Blue Water
ISBN: PB: 9780300242645, ISBN: HB: 9780300242652, Yale University Press, May 2019
96 pp., 21x14 cm
How can a search for self-knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective...
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£14,99
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Discipline 
ISBN: PB: 9781784107079, Carcanet, March 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Discipline", her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as p...
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£9,99
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Story Time Essays on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780300218459, Yale University Press, February 2017
248 pp., 20.3x19 cm, 35 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
The history of children's literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books. The publication mines the "Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collectio...
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£20,00
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Translation as Muse Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780226279916, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Poetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with "Translation as Muse", she uses the work of the celebrated Roman poet Catullus...
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£40,00
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Pow!
ISBN: PB: 9780857422217, ISBN: HB: 9780857420763, Seagull Books, December 2014
440 pp., 25x15 cm
A benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama – in which nearly everyone dies – unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII mortar...
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£13,50
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Journey to the West, Volume 1 Revised Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226971322, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
576 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line illus.
nthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West" t...
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£22,00
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Journey to the West, Volume 2 Revised Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226971346, ISBN: HB: 9780226971339, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm
Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...
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£22,00
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£58,00
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Journey to the West, Volume 3 Revised Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226971377, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm
Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...
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£23,50
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Journey to the West, Volume 4 Revised Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226971391, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line illus.
Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...
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Ninjas
ISBN: PB: 9781847771476, Carcanet, November 2012
80 pp., 21.1x13.5 cm
Funny, heartbreaking, haunting: Jane Yeh's poems open windows onto utterly strange – and eerily familiar – worlds. Lonely ghosts hover around children on their way to school; lilies whisper among themselves, their heads '"filled with pollen and bored...
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£9,95
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