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Fiction

Nature of Remains

Eager Ginger

ISBN: PB: 9781936970643, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
478 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the tiny town of Flyshoals, Georgia, karma is writ small enough to witness. When Doreen Swilley discovers that her boss, who is also her lover, intends to fire her in order to placate his dying wife, she devises a plan to steal his business from h...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Poetry

BEIT

Green Eryn

ISBN: PB: 9781936970667, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
100 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

Eryn Green's new collection of poetry "BEIT" is a lyric examination of the idea of home, and how it intersects with the essential human experiences of love, attachment, and loss. Filtered through a Hebrew sense of the letter Bet – the second letter o...

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Poetry

Insofar

Gridley Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781936970650, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
80 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

"Insofar" is a collection of poems dedicated to analogical reasoning, seeking to remember basic terms of relation and proportion. Archival in mood, it works with and against the idea of an A–Z filing system. This alphabet is akin to a damaged rosary...

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Poetry

Scraping Away

Shaw Fred

ISBN: PB: 9781933880785, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of view of restaurant workers. Shaw considers the cos...

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Poetry

Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer

Tran Eric

ISBN: PB: 9781938769511, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer", Eric Tran contends with the aftermath of a close friend's suicide while he simultaneously explores the complexities of being a gay man of color. Grief opens into unraveling circles of inquiry as Tran reflects o...

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Literary Criticism

Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens's Birds

Wolfe Cary

ISBN: PB: 9780226687971, ISBN: HB: 9780226687834, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us...

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Literary Criticism

Different Order of Difficulty Literature after Wittgenstein

Zumhagen-Yekple Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226677156, ISBN: HB: 9780226677019, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his "T...

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Poetry

Raft of Flame

Alvarez Desiree

ISBN: PB: 9781632430816, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

A painter and poet, Desiree Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca's passionate cante jondo, or "deep song," and her own family history with Andalusian f...

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Literary Criticism

Rhythm Form and Dispossession

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226685878, ISBN: HB: 9780226685731, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It's the pulse of the body, a power that orders ma...

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