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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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Oh You Robot Saints!
ISBN: PB: 9780887486685, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Part bestiary, part litany, part elegy, Rebecca Morgan Frank's Oh You Robot Saints! is populated by a strange menagerie of early automata and robots, including octobots and an eighteenth-century digesting duck, set alongside medieval mechanical virgi...
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£13,00
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One Certain Thing
ISBN: PB: 9780887486661, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Peter Cooley's eleventh book of poetry is an elegy, not only of lamentation but also of self-reckoning in the face of his wife's sudden death, after a marriage of half a century. The three-part conversation between the speaker, his wife, and God, pla...
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Oresteia of Aeschylus
ISBN: PB: 9781784108731, Carcanet, April 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A new verse translation of the "Oresteia of Aeschylus", with illustrations by Tom Phillips.
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£16,99
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Only a Lodger... And Hardly That A Fictional Autobiography
ISBN: HB: 9780857426468, Seagull Books, February 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
A novel in five parts, "Only a Lodger... And Hardly That" puts Vesna Main's power of beautiful observation on full display as she explores how writing stories about one's ancestors is key route to learning about and fashioning one's own identity. Whi...
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£18,99
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Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space
ISBN: PB: 9780226653341, ISBN: HB: 9780226653204, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 5 line drawings
In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to – and substantially shifts – that conversation in "Th...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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On Interpretive Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780226614007, ISBN: HB: 9780226613956, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 line drawings
"Interpretation" is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing medical images to the million ways we perceive other people's actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the like...
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£20,00
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£57,00
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Other Presences Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies
ISBN: PB: 9781512603576, ISBN: HB: 9781512603484, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
"The Other Presences" presents a radically new mode of engaging with the idea of otherness in contemporary American literature. Expanding on the earlier theories of poststructuralist and phenomenologist philosophers like Berhand Waldenfels and Jean-F...
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£38,00
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£72,00
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On Tarrying
ISBN: PB: 9780857427243, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy, and political...
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£9,99
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Of Darkness and Light Poems by Kim Cornwall
ISBN: PB: 9781602233744, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2019
50 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
This is the hardest kind of listening. / And who will care? / Most do not. / It's all applause, / applause applause. / How is it possible / to ask for more than that? An honest work, stunningly passionate: Kim Cornwall's spirit-infused poetry weaves...
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£12,00
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