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Ever Since I Did Not Die
ISBN: HB: 9780857427908, Seagull Books, July 2021
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
"I gathered these texts like someone collecting body parts. Here are the pieces of my body, haphazardly brought together in a paper bag. It looks like me with all my madness and sickness – how the revolution made me grow up, what the war broke inside...
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£12,99
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Deke Dangle Dive Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880853, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is a person to do upon finding out that his older brother has six months to live? What is a father to tell his young sons about the everyday violence, inequities, and injustices of the world? What is a husband to do when confronted with his dome...
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£15,00
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Pelted By Flowers Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880860, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2021
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Kali Lightfoot's kindergarten teacher told her parents that Kali had "a well-developed sense of beauty and can skip with both feet". This proved prophetic for a life that has included a number of careers and passions – Lightfoot has earned a master's...
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£15,00
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100 Words Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430915, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
Written as a conversation, 100 Words is an exchange of ideas, dialogues, burdens, and ideals between someone White and someone Brown. Two poets, Damon Potter and Truong Tran, write to each other about one hundred powerful words – like "proximity", "s...
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£15,00
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Topsy-Turvy
ISBN: PB: 9780226783604, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 1 halftone
In his most expansive and unruly collection to date, the acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein gathers poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of "covidity", as Bernstein calls it in one of the book's most poignantly...
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£20,00
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Train Music Writing / Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9781632430885, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 12 halftones
Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak train in New York City and, four days later, stepped off another train at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Giscombe was returning home to California to addr...
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£16,00
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Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s)
ISBN: PB: 9781632430892, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 22 halftones
Tropical Lung is a collection of writings and drawings from and to a new homeland, a vision of Panama and the Tecumseh Republic where technology is necessary for understanding the ancient, then is erased and transcended by an ever-present electronic...
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£16,00
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Life in a Field Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430908, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 1 halftone
This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time. A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Peterson's slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs b...
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£16,00
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Blue Divide Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781936970728, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, April 2021
74 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in this powerful new collection explore the history of conflict and resilience – whether it occurs during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Croatia, or within the intimate tableaux of a family's dissonance. Weavin...
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£13,00
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Boyish Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430922, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narra...
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£12,00
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