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Circle / Square
ISBN: PB: 9781938769665, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2020
32 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Throughout Circle / Square, T. J. McLemore renders the language of physics and theoretical science into poetry to illuminate the mysterious ways we experience reality. Exploring the complex and at-times dense world of scientific language, MeLemore sp...
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£10,00
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To Love Is to Act Les Miserables and Victor Hugo's Vision for Leading Lives of Conscience
ISBN: PB: 9780997228762, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
"To love is to act" – "Aimer, c'est agir".  These words, which Victor Hugo wrote three days before he died, epitomize his life's philosophy. His love of freedom, democracy, and all people – especially the poor and wretched – drove him not only to wri...
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£24,00
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Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty Selected Verses
ISBN: PB: 9780997228731, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, March 2019
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, "Les Miserables" – but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, "La Fin de Satan", left unfinished and not published until after...
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£19,00
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Everything I Kept Todo Lo Que Guarde
ISBN: PB: 9780997228724, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, May 2018
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, language: English / Spanish, 10 halftones
Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we...
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£18,00
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Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists
ISBN: PB: 9780997228717, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2018
180 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic and sometimes elusive c...
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Shadows of Your Black Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780997228700, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2016
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, "Shadows of Your Black Memory" presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays the...
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£15,00
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White Islands / Las Islas Blancas
ISBN: PB: 9780983322092, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x13.3 cm
"I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean". So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jew...
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School of Solitude Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780983322061, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, August 2015
160 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 12 halftones
Peruvian poet Luis Hernandez is legendary in his native country. Haunted by addiction and spending periodic reclusion in rehabilitation centers, Hernandez was exceptionally gifted in his youth, publishing three books of poetry by the time he was twen...
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Lost Cities Go to Paradise Las Ciudades Perdidas Van al Paraiso
ISBN: PB: 9780983322078, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, August 2015
150 pp., 22.8x12.7 cm
In "Lost Cities Go to Paradise", poetry breaks into song and poetic prose becomes lively storytelling as Alicia Borinsky raises intimate questions about the fragility of contemporary life. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, sn...
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Alliance and Condemnation / Alianza y Condena
ISBN: PB: 9780983322023, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2014
180 pp., 20.3x13 cm
A splash of sea foam. A sly sparrow. A man dodging the rain. From such mundane, unexpected moments, Spanish poet Claudio Rodriguez crafted his 1965 "Alliance and Condemnation", a collection of poems that temper the joy of existence – the "bounty that...
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