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Cities

Feinstein Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9781847770615, Carcanet, June 2010
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Cities is a book of travels, from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi – and from the child in wartime Leicester to a 'fortune beyond any deserving / to be still here' in a London garden, eight decades later. "Migrations", the book's opening poem, c...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Poetry

Juvenilia

Chen Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780300160086, Yale University Press, May 2010
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ken Chen is the 2009 winner of the annual Yale Younger Poets competition. These poems of maturation chronicle the poet's relationship with his immigrant family and his unknowing attempt to recapture the unity of youth through comically doomed love af...

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Poetry

Rough Music

Sampson Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9781847770455, Carcanet, May 2010
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Rough music" is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampso...

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Poetry

Awater

Nijhoff Martinus

ISBN: PB: 9780856464072, Carcanet, May 2010
112 pp., 19.6x13 cm

The poetry of Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) was distinguished by clarity of language combined with mystical content. His masterpiece Awater, written in 1934, is the most important Dutch poem of the 20th century. This edition of "Awater" features thre...

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Poetry

Village Life

Gluck Louise

ISBN: PB: 9781847770592, Carcanet, May 2010
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

From a fountain where "all the roads in the village unite", concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain – the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological tim...

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Poetry

Culture Studies

Medicine Show

Yuill Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226971650, ISBN: HB: 9780226971643, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
80 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "Medicine Show", inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and...

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Poetry

Love Poems by Pedro Salinas My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine

Salinas Pedro

ISBN: HB: 9780226734262, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

When Pedro Salinas's 1933 collection of love poems, "La voz a ti debida", was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone's 1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest sequence of love poems written by a man or a woman,...

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Poetry

Slow Trains Overhead Chicago Poems and Stories

Gibbons Reginald

ISBN: PB: 9780226478845, ISBN: HB: 9780226290584, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
120 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience – a chance encounter with a ve...

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Fiction

Black Ice Score A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226771090, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
168 pp., 20x13 cm

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back – with the help of a "specialist" – Pa...

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