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Build Me a Boat Words for Music 1968 – 2018
ISBN: PB: 9780887486586, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Build Me a Boat" gathers a selection of the words that poet Michael Dennis Browne has written for music over the past fifty years. Working with a number of different composers, Browne has ranged widely across forms; what we discover here are lyrics,...
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£16,00
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Grimoire
ISBN: PB: 9781938769603, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Named after a magical textbook, Cherene Sherrard's Grimoire is a poetry collection centered on the recovery and preservation of ancestral knowledge and on the exploration of black motherhood. Incorporating experiences of food preparation, childrearin...
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£14,00
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under the aegis of a winged mind
ISBN: PB: 9781938769580, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in under the aegis of a winged mind are inspired by the life and times of the jazz composer and pianist Earl "Bud" Powell. Powell was a leading figure in the development of jazz, but throughout his life, he also faced struggles with police...
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Land's End New and Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780226720739, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
With her latest poetry collection, Gail Mazur once again shows her mastery of the descriptive-meditative narrative, powerfully evoking the past while writing from the firm ground of the present. In Land's End, we see Mazur writing with the kind of ly...
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£19,00
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Lives Brought to Life 20 Years of Literature of Emotion and Everyday Life
ISBN: PB: 9780967885636, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates
Founded twenty years ago by poet, memoirist, and clinical psychologist Joan Cusack Handler, CavanKerry Press has published fine literary work by established and emerging writers focused on the pursuit of understanding what it means to be human throug...
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£23,00
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Circle / Square
ISBN: PB: 9781938769665, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2020
32 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Throughout Circle / Square, T. J. McLemore renders the language of physics and theoretical science into poetry to illuminate the mysterious ways we experience reality. Exploring the complex and at-times dense world of scientific language, MeLemore sp...
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£10,00
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Set in Stone
ISBN: PB: 9781933880792, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Set in Stone", Kevin Carey's poems tell stories as dreams, as memories, as rituals, or ceremonies. Carey writes poetry for the everyperson, poetry that deals with memory, loss, and nostalgia in an accessible and honest way. These poems tell stori...
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£13,00
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Artaud the Momo and Other Major Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9783035802351, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
160 pp., 18.4x12 cm
"Artaud the Momo" is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an u...
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£12,00
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BEIT
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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Insofar
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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