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To Zenzi
ISBN: PB: 9781936970698, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, April 2021
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
To Zenzi is the extraordinary story of Tobias Koertig's odyssey through the apocalypse of Berlin in 1945. An orphaned thirteen-year-old who loves to draw, Tobias is coerced into joining the German youth army in the last desperate weeks of the war. Mi...
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£15,00
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Topsy-Turvy
ISBN: PB: 9780226783604, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 1 halftone
In his most expansive and unruly collection to date, the acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein gathers poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of "covidity", as Bernstein calls it in one of the book's most poignantly...
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Train Music Writing / Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9781632430885, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 12 halftones
Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak train in New York City and, four days later, stepped off another train at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Giscombe was returning home to California to addr...
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Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s)
ISBN: PB: 9781632430892, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 22 halftones
Tropical Lung is a collection of writings and drawings from and to a new homeland, a vision of Panama and the Tecumseh Republic where technology is necessary for understanding the ancient, then is erased and transcended by an ever-present electronic...
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Time and Festivity
ISBN: HB: 9780857426307, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated a body of work that astonishes with its abundance and...
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Teaching Archive A New History for Literary Study
ISBN: PB: 9780226736136, ISBN: HB: 9780226735948, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. In Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's literary history, we watch T. S. Eliot and his working-class students revise...
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£76,00
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
ISBN: HB: 9780300247282, Yale University Press, November 2020
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death – completed weeks before Harold Bloom died – shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called "a universe of death". Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of li...
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That Light, All at Once Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300214208, Yale University Press, November 2020
232 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm
Equal parts dramatic and symphonic, the poetry of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen provides acute insight into the European consciousness of the first half of the twentieth century. With energetic innovation and imaginative depth, Dadelsen extols the somber bea...
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Threadbare Coat Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109981, Carcanet, November 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This "Selected Poems" celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer – a vivid minimalist, ruralist and experimentalist.
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Thousand Cranes for India Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred
ISBN: PB: 9780857427441, Seagull Books, November 2020
176 pp., 19.6x13.9 cm
In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise in wish making. Origami cran...
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