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Poetry

Fort Necessity

Gewanter David

ISBN: PB: 9780226533766, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and destroyer – ultimately, as the broken mold of its own work. Haunted by his father's autopsy of a...

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Literary Criticism

Interacting with Print Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation

ISBN: HB: 9780226469140, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
416 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 16 colour plates, 49 halftones

A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new".Interacting with Print" delivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical mon...

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Literary Criticism

Alice in Space The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

Beer Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9780226564692, ISBN: HB: 9780226041506, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass", Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 186...

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Fiction

Ivory and Paper Adventures In and Out of Time

Hudson Ray

ISBN: PB: 9781602233461, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
273 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Thirteen-year-old Booker leads a sheltered life in Vermont – until a spellbinding relic throws him skidding into a world of magic and myths come to life. Anna is an Unangax? teenager looking for answers after her long-absent mother reappears in her l...

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Poetry

Woman Prime Poems

DiMaggio Gail C.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233423, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
70 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A woman is a series of shifting possibilities. The frame that contained her in the morning can transform into something completely different by afternoon. The roles she's called on to play mutate over the years and throughout a lifetime. And her very...

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Poetry

Losers Dream On

Halliday Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226533599, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces – time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion – win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained – in...

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Fiction

Search

Akhtar Shaheen

ISBN: HB: 9789385932298, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
360 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Twenty-five long years after the war that was supposed to liberate Bangladesh – and that instead, for far too many people, merely brought fear, violence, and loss – a young researcher arrives on the doorstep of one survivor in Dhaka, Mariam, armed wi...

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Fiction

Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists

Ransom Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780997228717, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2018
180 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic and sometimes elusive c...

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Literary Criticism

On War and Writing

Hynes Samuel

ISBN: HB: 9780226468785, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

"In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers met...

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Poetry

Senses of Style Poetry before Interpretation

Dolven Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780226517117, ISBN: HB: 9780226517087, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing

Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism – especially now, when an age of interpretation asks us to look right through it. And yet style does so much tacit work, telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What place does it have among...

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