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One Summer Evening at the Falls
ISBN: PB: 9780226737119, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in this collection capture the fantastic feeling of falling in love, all while keeping eyes on its lifecycles of crashing aftermaths, lingering regrets, guilt, and renewal. Peter Campion brings us to a series of scenes – on the damp patio,...
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£15,00
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Dream Women Called
ISBN: PB: 9781938769740, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through the poems in The Dream Women Called, Lori Wilson attends to the spirits of depression, uncertainty, and fear while wondering at the beauty in what's broken, the remarkable in the ordinary, and the balm that the natural world can offer. Follow...
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£14,00
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Poetry in Exile Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9788024646572, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlicka – one of the Czech Republic's foremost experts on lyric poetry – examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlicka a...
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£20,00
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Portulans
ISBN: PB: 9780226737393, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Taking inspiration from medieval sea charts – portulans – the poems in Jason Sommer's collection bring a fresh variation to the ancient metaphor of life as a journey. Creating a coordinate system charting paths between ports and the dangers that surr...
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Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones
How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...
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£23,00
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£27,00
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I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781946724366, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and...
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£14,00
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Speaking Stone Stories Cemeteries Tell
ISBN: PB: 9781947602304, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, March 2021
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 86 halftones
The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, fo...
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£24,00
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In the Antarctic Circle
ISBN: PB: 9781938769726, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate their relationship and understand their identities amid a l...
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£14,00
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Infinitely Determinable Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
ISBN: PB: 9783035803167, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Upon the "discovery of childhood", as named by Philippe Aries, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse...
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"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture"
ISBN: PB: 9783035803648, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
108 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they...
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£12,00
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