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Bower
ISBN: PB: 9780226613789, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? "The Bower" engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Ireland, with her young daughter...
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£14,00
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Cry in the Snow and Other Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857425973, Seagull Books, March 2019
120 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu's poetry dwells in spaces of paradox, seeking out the words, metaphors, and images that capture both the peaceful stillness of snow and the desperate cry of human experience. "A Cry in the Snow" often draws on these two fert...
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Aeneid
ISBN: HB: 9780226450186, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
So begins the "Aeneid", greatest of Western epic poems. Virgil's story of the journey of Aeneas has been a part of our cultural heritage for so many centuries that it's all too easy to lose sight of the poem itself – of its brilliantly cinematic depi...
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£26,50
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Ragdoll for my Heart
ISBN: PB: 9789383074099, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2015
142 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
First published in 1966 by award-winning Marathi writer Anuradha Vaidya, "A Ragdoll for My Heart" is a unique free verse novella now making its English debut. The lyrical work, translated by Shruti Nargundkar, tells an age-old story: that of a woman'...
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£11,50
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Calle Florista
ISBN: PB: 9780226295329, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
88 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
This World and That One Sometimes you defy it, I am not that, watching a stranger cry like a dog when she thinks she's alone at the kitchen window, hands forgotten under the running tap. The curtains blow out, flap the other side of the sill. In you...
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£13,50
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Poetry of the Taliban
ISBN: PB: 9781849043052, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Overlooked by many as mere propaganda, poetry offers an unfettered insight into the wider worldview of the Afghan Taliban. This collection of over two hundred poems draws upon Afghan tradition and the recent past as much as upo...
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£12,99
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In Spite of the Dark Silence
ISBN: HB: 9780974888187, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2011
120 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm
"He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice". So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders...
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£21,00
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Perfect Order Selected Poems 1974-2010
ISBN: PB: 9780856464317, Carcanet, November 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"The Perfect Order" is the first extensive selection of Nasos Vayenas's poems to appear in English. Spanning thirty-six years from 1974 to 2010, it covers every phase of his long and varied writing career – from the first registrations of his poetic...
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£12,95
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Capillarity
ISBN: PB: 9781857549911, Carcanet, March 2009
72 pp., 21.6x15.5 cm
How can language retrieve memories and identities? A young man, a first-generation American, explores a true story of three generations of upheaval, migration and homecoming. Rooted in autobiography and in twentieth-century Armenian history, it is al...
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£9,95
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856464133, Carcanet, November 2008
144 pp., 19.7x13 cm
This bilingual collection of Aldo Vianello's poems draws on early translations by Richard Burns from Vianello's "Time of a Flower" (1968), with new versions by Peter Jay and Linda Lappin of poems from his later books. Vianello's exceptional lyric gif...
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£9,95
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