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Portulans
ISBN: PB: 9780226737393, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Taking inspiration from medieval sea charts – portulans – the poems in Jason Sommer's collection bring a fresh variation to the ancient metaphor of life as a journey. Creating a coordinate system charting paths between ports and the dangers that surr...
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In the Antarctic Circle
ISBN: PB: 9781938769726, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate their relationship and understand their identities amid a l...
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£14,00
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Storage Unit for the Spirit House
ISBN: PB: 9781632430861, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win's second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt use...
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wyrd] bird
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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Grimoire
ISBN: PB: 9781938769603, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Named after a magical textbook, Cherene Sherrard's Grimoire is a poetry collection centered on the recovery and preservation of ancestral knowledge and on the exploration of black motherhood. Incorporating experiences of food preparation, childrearin...
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Scraping Away
ISBN: PB: 9781933880785, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of view of restaurant workers. Shaw considers the cos...
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£13,00
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Habitat Threshold
ISBN: PB: 9781632430809, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 4 graphs
With "Habitat Threshold", Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future. The book begins with the birth of...
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£15,00
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Silver and Information
ISBN: PB: 9780887486456, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
72 pp., 23.4x13.9 cm
The title of "Silver and Information" comes from a photographer's statement, "My work is becoming more and more and more silver and less and less information". This book swings between the poles of aboriginal working-class Philadelphia, where a fathe...
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£14,00
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Crush
ISBN: PB: 9780300246308, Yale University Press, January 2020
80 pp., 21x14 cm
Richard Siken's "Crush", selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional,...
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Mistress
ISBN: PB: 9781936970629, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, January 2020
80 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm
This book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the same time demonstrating how little the ways in whic...
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£12,00
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