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Woman Prime Poems

DiMaggio Gail C.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233423, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
70 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A woman is a series of shifting possibilities. The frame that contained her in the morning can transform into something completely different by afternoon. The roles she's called on to play mutate over the years and throughout a lifetime. And her very...

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Losers Dream On

Halliday Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226533599, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces – time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion – win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained – in...

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Senses of Style Poetry before Interpretation

Dolven Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780226517117, ISBN: HB: 9780226517087, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing

Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism – especially now, when an age of interpretation asks us to look right through it. And yet style does so much tacit work, telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What place does it have among...

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Well at Morning Selected Poems, 1925-1971

Reynek Bohuslav

ISBN: HB: 9788024634258, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
90 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 25 colour plates, 5 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Springtide" A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flowers are flares of white. The c...

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The German List

Requiem for Ernst Jandl

Mayrocker Friederike

ISBN: HB: 9780857424754, Seagull Books, February 2018
80 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker – and bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayrocker immediately began attempting to come to terms wit...

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The India List

Very Close to Pleasure, There's a Sick Cat And Other Poems

Chattopadhyay Shakti

ISBN: HB: 9780857424938, Seagull Books, February 2018
124 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder...

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The German List

Father's on the Phone with the Flies A Selection

Muller Herta

ISBN: HB: 9780857424723, Seagull Books, February 2018
80 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm, 75 colour plates

To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize–winner Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in a the form of a collage. "Father's on the P...

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Collected Poems, 1990-2000

Ashbery John

ISBN: PB: 9781784105259, Carcanet, January 2018
400 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Career-defining collection of the most decorated US poet, timed to mark his 90th birthday. The book contains: "Flow Chart" (1991), "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992), "And the Stars Were Shining" (1994), "Can You Hear, Bird" (1995), "Wakefulness" (1998), "Gi...

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Islam

Vintage Humour The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas

Rowell Alex

ISBN: HB: 9781849048972, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Abu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy,...

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