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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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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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Disturbing the Light
ISBN: PB: 9780887486609, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through the course of numerous books, Samuel Green has established his primary poetic preoccupations, and in Disturbing the Light, he continues to mine them, addressing rituals and work in a small, isolated, rural community; the influence of the past...
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Petition
ISBN: PB: 9780887486616, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From privilege at a gas station to fraud in a memorial grove, Joyce Peseroff follows the faults of indifference and division that crack our impulses toward mercy and love. She nests fragmented tales of the overheard and overlooked – lonely widowers,...
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Fat New and Uncollected Prose
ISBN: PB: 9780887486623, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Selected from the past twenty years of W. S. Di Piero's prose writings, Fat displays the range and intensity that caused Poetry magazine to call him "probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American...
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Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association
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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Marksman
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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Build Me a Boat Words for Music 1968 – 2018
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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