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What Darkness Was
ISBN: PB: 9780857428325, Seagull Books, March 2021
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Close to death, an old man collapses and struggles to his bed. The sounds of the endless night unsettle him, triggering images, questions, and memories. In What Darkness Was, Inka Parei, author of The Shadow-Boxing Woman, allows the reader to inhabit...
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£9,99
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North African Poetry in French Yale French Studies, Number 137/138
ISBN: PB: 9780300250374, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry. The sixteen essays collected in this special issue of "Yale French Studies" sho...
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£50,00
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Mechanisms of Loss Two Novellas
ISBN: HB: 9780300237177, Yale University Press, February 2021
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
From esteemed Greek writer Michel Fais comes a pair of novellas that explore the stories we choose to tell about the lives we pretend to live. "Aegypius monachus" is a semi-autobiographical snapshot of a man roaming the streets of Athens, reflecting...
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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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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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Glorious Veils of Diane
ISBN: PB: 9780887486692, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Glorious Veils of Diane is about the weird way children turn themselves inside out on the world, and a reimagining of the author's own childhood. Diane is an ever-changing archetype, a self-conscious child who's seen too many horror movies and is dis...
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I Thought There Would Be More Wolves Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781602234499, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the animals that stayed hidden and hunted. As she struggled with loneliness, cruelty, and t...
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£12,00
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Keats's Odes A Lover's Discourse
ISBN: HB: 9780226762678, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over – like this world, and some of the people in it". In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them – "Ode...
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Knives We Need
ISBN: PB: 9780887486678, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Knives We Need is a settler-colonial coming-of-age tale, set in landscapes in Palestine and the United States. In short, iterative lyric poems, Nava Etshalom combs through disastrous settler genealogies. Wittily, meticulously, the collection unpi...
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Wonderama Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880822, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Wonderama is a collection of cinematic, surprising, and at times harrowing poems that capture 1960s Paterson, New Jersey, as experienced by the poorest, most vulnerable children living there. With candor, ferocity, and stunning imagery, Catherine Dot...
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£15,00
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