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Solace Is Not the Lullaby

Osier Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780300250343, ISBN: HB: 9780300250350, Yale University Press, May 2020
80 pp., 22.2x15.8 cm

The hollow more than shape is certain. The 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets features Jill Osier's poems of quiet attention to the human and natural worlds. In his foreword to the collection, award-winning poet Carl Phillips notes, "Ce...

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Songs We Learn from Trees An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry

Beckett Chris, Tebeje Alemu

ISBN: PB: 9781784109479, Carcanet, May 2020
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The first ever anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of this beautiful country.

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Sweet Nothings

Waterman Rory

ISBN: PB: 9781784109394, Carcanet, May 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The third and most adventurous collection yet from acclaimed poet, critic and performer Rory Waterman interrogates absences and where they might prompt or force us to go.

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Set in Stone

Carey Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9781933880792, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Set in Stone", Kevin Carey's poems tell stories as dreams, as memories, as rituals, or ceremonies. Carey writes poetry for the everyperson, poetry that deals with memory, loss, and nostalgia in an accessible and honest way. These poems tell stori...

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Squid Squad A Novel

Welton Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781784109356, Carcanet, April 2020
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

In "Squid Squad", award-winning poet Matthew Welton takes his first foray into fiction in verse form.

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Scraping Away

Shaw Fred

ISBN: PB: 9781933880785, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of view of restaurant workers. Shaw considers the cos...

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Scatterplot

Koehn David

ISBN: PB: 9781632430779, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

"Scatterplot" navigates a vast landscape of imagination through variations on being lost and found. David Koehn's investigative journeys allow space for the failures of consciousness and gaps in the knowable as he traverses a sensory terrain through...

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Sky Burial New and Selected Poems

Gizzi Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781784108229, Carcanet, February 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

In 1995 Carcanet published "The Exact Change Yearbook" edited by Carcanet poet Michael Palmer and by Peter Gizzi, then at the beginning of his career. The issue featured writing by Gertrude Stein, Barbara Guest, Jack Spicer (whose work Gizzi has edit...

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Fiction

Sleep of Memory

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300248586, Yale University Press, February 2020
136 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Patrick Modiano's first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive underside of love, the dreams and follies of youth, the vagaries of memory, and the melancholy o...

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