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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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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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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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This Red Metropolis What Remains
ISBN: PB: 9781632430854, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Answering a call to go feral, these poems are part invocation and part prayer, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In This Red Metropolis What Remains, Le...
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£15,00
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Bead of Amber on Her Tongue
ISBN: PB: 9781632430694, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
56 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm, 1 halftone
Helen of Troy and Aphrodite: two classical paragons of beauty and love. These two figures have served as the inspiration for innumerable works of art in the Western cannon. In the twenty-first century, however, what do their stories provide but a rem...
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£6,00
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