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Boyish Poems

Parrish Craig Brody

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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Literary Criticism

Modern Myths Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

Ball Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226719269, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time – fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them – and still living them – today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman,...

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No Chronology

Fish Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226768977, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In No Chronology, Karen Fish's third collection of poems, she investigates those moments when the boundary of everyday life merges with history, imagination, and art. Fish was trained as a visual artist, and this way of seeing is intrinsic to her app...

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No One Leaves the World Unhurt

Foy John

ISBN: PB: 9781938769757, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

John Foy's newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O'Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyda...

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Creep Love

Walsh Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781938769764, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Michael Walsh's poetry collection Creep Love explores a family contending with a complex and ongoing crisis, the aftermath of which creates a shockwave that reverberates through these poems. Stories, half-truths, and lies combine into disturbing fabl...

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One Summer Evening at the Falls

Campion Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226737119, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in this collection capture the fantastic feeling of falling in love, all while keeping eyes on its lifecycles of crashing aftermaths, lingering regrets, guilt, and renewal. Peter Campion brings us to a series of scenes – on the damp patio,...

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Dream Women Called

Wilson Lori

ISBN: PB: 9781938769740, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the poems in The Dream Women Called, Lori Wilson attends to the spirits of depression, uncertainty, and fear while wondering at the beauty in what's broken, the remarkable in the ordinary, and the balm that the natural world can offer. Follow...

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Poetry in Exile Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition

Hrdlicka Josef

ISBN: PB: 9788024646572, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlicka – one of the Czech Republic's foremost experts on lyric poetry – examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlicka a...

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Portulans

Sommer Jason

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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Literary Criticism

Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...

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