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100 Words Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430915, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
Written as a conversation, 100 Words is an exchange of ideas, dialogues, burdens, and ideals between someone White and someone Brown. Two poets, Damon Potter and Truong Tran, write to each other about one hundred powerful words – like "proximity", "s...
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£15,00
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Train Music Writing / Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9781632430885, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 12 halftones
Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak train in New York City and, four days later, stepped off another train at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Giscombe was returning home to California to addr...
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£16,00
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Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s)
ISBN: PB: 9781632430892, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 22 halftones
Tropical Lung is a collection of writings and drawings from and to a new homeland, a vision of Panama and the Tecumseh Republic where technology is necessary for understanding the ancient, then is erased and transcended by an ever-present electronic...
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Life in a Field Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430908, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 1 halftone
This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time. A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Peterson's slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs b...
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Luminaries
ISBN: PB: 9781632430939, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
40 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Agnes has been drifting away from herself. People look through her, her husband doesn't understand her, and lately, she's begun losing the sensations in her body. When a tube of shoplifted lipstick awakens her back to life, an impulse for stealing em...
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£6,00
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Boyish Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430922, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narra...
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£12,00
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Quiet Orient Riot
ISBN: PB: 9781632430830, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Tracing the conception of a child through to her birth, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherho...
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Storage Unit for the Spirit House
ISBN: PB: 9781632430861, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win's second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt use...
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This Red Metropolis What Remains
ISBN: PB: 9781632430854, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Answering a call to go feral, these poems are part invocation and part prayer, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In This Red Metropolis What Remains, Le...
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wyrd] bird
ISBN: PB: 9781632430847, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German m...
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