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Poetry

2nd Chance

Becker Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781936970674, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, October 2020
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in 2nd Chance are written in the voice of a doctor; the speaker often imagines he is talking to students, residents, patients, families – anyone who is ill or has witnessed illness and suffering. The poet, Daniel M. Becker, has been a physi...

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Literary Criticism

Weak Planet Literature and Assisted Survival

Dimock Wai Chee

ISBN: PB: 9780226477107, ISBN: HB: 9780226477077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature...

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Fiction

Beforeland A Novel

Vallianatos Corinna

ISBN: PB: 9781946724380, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In The Beforeland, a boy's desperate act of rebellion against his grandmother reverberates outward, causing rifts and reckonings in the lives of others: a man fleeing his own troubled family who becomes the grandson's unwitting accomplice; a poet str...

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Literary Criticism

Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

Der-Wei Wang David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...

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Fiction

Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association

Rothman David

ISBN: PB: 9781632430878, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

This magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose's Lower East Side apartment and is thus priced out of his "More R...

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Literary Criticism

Lyric Now

Longenbach James

ISBN: PB: 9780226716046, ISBN: HB: 9780226715995, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting readers int...

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Poetry

wyrd] bird

Stancek Claire Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781632430847, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German m...

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Poetry

Breathing Place

Bedient Cal

ISBN: PB: 9781632430823, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in The Breathing Place, Calvin Bedient's fifth collection of poetry, take in and move through three areas of consideration. Focusing first on the turmoil of an imperfect world before turning to raging social concerns, the poems finally come...

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Poetry

Marksman

Friedman Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780887486593, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jeff Friedman's eighth collection of poetry, The Marksman, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to explore the question of what it means to survive and live in our troubled times. This is a book of migrations...

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Poetry

Build Me a Boat Words for Music 1968 – 2018

Browne Michael Dennis

ISBN: PB: 9780887486586, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Build Me a Boat" gathers a selection of the words that poet Michael Dennis Browne has written for music over the past fifty years. Working with a number of different composers, Browne has ranged widely across forms; what we discover here are lyrics,...

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