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Education

Karagueuzian Dikran

ISBN: PB: 9781575866000, ISBN: HB: 9781575866017, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
200 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary...

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Poetry

I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets

Sexton Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602231191, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
59 pp., 22.6x15 cm

This all-new collection by former Alaska poet laureate smoothly blends his life in Maine, his years in Alaska, and his love of Chinese poetry – which has been a key influence on his work – into a lyrical fantasy that will enchant lovers of verse. The...

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Poetry

New Letters to a Young Poet

Margarit Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780974888194, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2011
120 pp., 19.8x13.2 cm

In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem – the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilke's classic "Letters to a Youn...

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Poetry

In Spite of the Dark Silence

Volpi Jorge

ISBN: HB: 9780974888187, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2011
120 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

"He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice". So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders...

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Poetry

Poetics of Repetition in English and Chinese Lyric Poetry

Chu-chin Sun Cecile

ISBN: HB: 9780226780207, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones

For more than half a century, Chinese-Western comparative literature has been recognized as a formal academic discipline, but critics and scholars in the field have done little to develop a viable, common basis for comparison between these disparate...

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Fiction

South Street Gang vs. the Coalcracker Cyclops

Benyo Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781589662087, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
151 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When Bob Capek's mother is killed in a hit-and-run accident in 1956, his father moves the family from Virginia back to his hometown of Mauch Chunk, a small town in the middle of the eastern Pennsylvania anthracite coal region. From the moment Bob boa...

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Literary Criticism

Ideas in Things Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

Freedgood Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226261638, ISBN: HB: 9780226261553, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
208 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 11 halftones

While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages".The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequen...

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Poetry

Complete Poems The 1554 Edition of the "Rime", a Bilingual Edition

Stampa Gaspara

ISBN: PB: 9780226770727, ISBN: HB: 9780226770710, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the earl...

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Poetry

Tourist in Hell

Wilner Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226900322, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
96 pp., 21.5x13 cm

Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and pr...

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Fiction

Deadly Edge A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770918, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
230 pp., 20x13 cm

"Deadly Edge" bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself – and his woman, Claire – menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Parker has a score to settle while Claire'...

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