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Year of Blue Water
ISBN: PB: 9780300242645, ISBN: HB: 9780300242652, Yale University Press, May 2019
96 pp., 21x14 cm
How can a search for self-knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective...
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£14,99
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£30,00
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Discipline 
ISBN: PB: 9781784107079, Carcanet, March 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Discipline", her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as p...
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£9,99
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Ninjas
ISBN: PB: 9781847771476, Carcanet, November 2012
80 pp., 21.1x13.5 cm
Funny, heartbreaking, haunting: Jane Yeh's poems open windows onto utterly strange – and eerily familiar – worlds. Lonely ghosts hover around children on their way to school; lilies whisper among themselves, their heads '"filled with pollen and bored...
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£9,95
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Medicine Show
ISBN: PB: 9780226971650, ISBN: HB: 9780226971643, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
80 pp., 21.5x14 cm
In "Medicine Show", inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and...
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£10,50
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£45,00
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First Yeats Poems by W. B. Yeats, 1889-1899
ISBN: PB: 9781857549959, Carcanet, April 2010
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) began writing poetry as a devotee of Blake, Shelley, the pre-Raphaelites, and of nineteenth-century Irish poets including James Clarence Mangan and Samuel Ferguson. By the end of his life, he had, as T. S. Eliot said, created...
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£18,95
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Marabou
ISBN: PB: 9781857547887, Carcanet, October 2005
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Marabou", Jane Yeh's first book of poems, is a meditation on the nature of artifice, and on the self. Her snapshots freeze fraught instants in the lives of a broad cast of characters: the horror movie mummy, an Elizabethan shoemaker, a flock of Cumb...
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£7,95
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Sweet Bells Jangled Laura Redden Searing: A Deaf Poet Restored
ISBN: PB: 9781563681387, Gallaudet University Press, August 2003
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Out of sight of the heated land Over the breezy sea; Into the reach of the solemn mist Quietly drifted we. Her return will be an event welcomed by poetry aficionados everywhere.
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£26,00
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857543926, Carcanet, November 1998
320 pp., 21.6x13.6 cm
Andrew Young's poetry came into its own in the mid-1930s. He was nearly fifty when he achieved the terse, individual style of his maturity. Despite changes of fashion he remains popular; his unusual nature poems are widely anthologised. "His works ar...
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£12,99
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