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Vampire A New History
ISBN: PB: 9780300254839, ISBN: HB: 9780300232233, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 35 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of "The Vampyre", Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century,...
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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300255379, Yale University Press, September 2020
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, "Life and Fate", had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and before Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag". But "Life and Fate" was seized by the KGB. W...
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Voice Message
ISBN: PB: 9781938769528, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Through the poems of "Voice Message", Katherine Barrett Swett reflects on her personal tragedy and the fragility of human lives and bodies with a tender care. Her debut collection explores the powers of art and poetry to participate in the processing...
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Views of Jeopardy
ISBN: PB: 9780300246346, Yale University Press, January 2020
64 pp., 21x14 cm
In an essay on his own work in "19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate", Jack Gilbert writes that "I am by nature drawn to exigence, compression, selection... One of the special pleasures in poetry for me is accomplishing a lot with the least means...
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Very Drunk / Borracho Love Poems & Other Acts of Madness / Poemas de Amor y Otros Actos de Locura
ISBN: PB: 9781940939964, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
244 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
This collection of poems by Jesus Papoleto Melendez reads as a poetic autobiography of a hopeless romantic. "Borracho" invites us to find the essence of a man's character laid bare in the foibles of his desire and passionate pursuit of love. Spanning...
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Vital Stream
ISBN: PB: 9781784108076, Carcanet, November 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Vital Stream" takes the form of 133 sonnets that revisit six extraordinary months in 1802, a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings eventually set up home together in the Lake District, wher...
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Variations on Dawn and Dusk
ISBN: PB: 9781632430700, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Acting as poetic records of light, the poems in "Variations on Dawn and Dusk" follow the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts the space of Robert Irwin's untitled (dawn to dusk) in the desert of Marfa, TX. Built on the footprint of the town's o...
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Village Indian
ISBN: PB: 9780857427212, ISBN: HB: 9780857421012, Seagull Books, September 2019
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Part "Odyssey" of the Persian Gulf and part "1001 Nights" in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home...
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Views from the Inside Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948-1989)
ISBN: PB: 9788024635927, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the later twentieth century displayed an astonishing, and unheralded, variety. This fasc...
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Venus as a Bear
ISBN: PB: 9781784105549, Carcanet, April 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Vahni Capildeo's new book lives with things – carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. "Venus as a Bear" places the non-human world at its centre, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it is alive. We have feelings for familiar or stra...
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