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Fiction

I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction Essays

Clarke Brock

ISBN: PB: 9781946724366, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and...

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Literary Criticism

Speaking Stone Stories Cemeteries Tell

Griffith Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781947602304, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, March 2021
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 86 halftones

The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, fo...

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Poetry

In the Antarctic Circle

Sweeney Dennis James

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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Literary Criticism

Infinitely Determinable Children and Childhood in Modern Literature

Giuriato Davide

ISBN: PB: 9783035803167, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Upon the "discovery of childhood", as named by Philippe Aries, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse...

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Poetry

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture"

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035803648, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
108 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they...

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Literary Criticism

Sea Life

Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

King Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones

Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...

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Poetry

Lucky Wreck Poems

Limon Ada

ISBN: PB: 9781938769801, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation,...

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Poetry

Oh You Robot Saints!

Morgan Frank Rebecca

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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Poetry

One Certain Thing

Cooley Peter

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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Poetry

Glorious Veils of Diane

Oet Rainie

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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