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Poetry Books
Alma Books Ltd Spring Awakening Calder Publications
Book SynopsisSpring Awakening is set in a small German town in the 1890s, where adolescent boys and girls grope their way towards knowledge and maturity against the blocks set up by parents and teachers in the name of morality. Melchior, fearless in his pursuit of the truth, manages to retain his freedom of spirit, but his friends are not so lucky or strong.Wedekind's controversial play occupies a special place in modern theatrical history as a key work of the naturalist school and the principal precursor of German Expressionism.Trade ReviewThe best and most enduring German play of its era. * Jonathan Franzen *
£9.49
Gill Syncopated Blue
Book SynopsisInfluenced by his father's and grandfather's poetry, Ryan Hennessy started writing poems as a young boy growing up in Co. Kildare. As lead singer of Picture This, Ryan's songwriting reveals the unguarded spirit of a young man unafraid to wear his heart on his leopard-print sleeve.In his first book of poetry, Ryan reveals his natural gifts of self-expression to cover topics such as love, relationships, growing up and identity. At once defiantly romantic and nakedly vulnerable, he deftly chips away at the barriers many young men build in self-defence as he explores the euphoria of young love and its subsequent heartbreak.With striking illustrations by Irish illustrator Megan Luddy, Syncopated Blue features over ninety relatable yet deeply intimate poems, resulting in an extraordinary collection that reflects the free spirit of its creator.
£11.39
Manchester University Press The Spanish Tragedy Revels Student Edition Thomas
Book SynopsisThe "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically juxtaposing romantic passion with violent death.
£19.71
Manchester University Press The Changeling
Book SynopsisThis classic text is the tale of a woman who becomes involved in murder without realizing the terrible price she will pay for it. This edition includes an introduction which analyzes the play in detail, and a commentary illuminating difficulties in the play for the modern reader.
£14.24
Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd The Gardeners Little Book of Verse
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£5.34
Pluto Press On Cuddling
Book SynopsisWhat can a cuddle tell us about intimacy, violence and racism?Trade Review'A necessary book about holding, being held and the hold(s) of the past. Playful, vulnerable, ever acute - Antwi gets down with the funk of language, history, and bodies to make fugitive sense of modernity as anti-Black grammar and embrace.' -- Nadine Attewell, scholar of intimacy, empire, and diasporic life'Antwi invites us to look more closely at the associations between the cuddle, the choke, the hold and the coffle for Black people. But, beyond the violence of the racial embrace, he also finds a place for fugitive cuddling, the comfort that arcs back and forth between those who flee, those who escape and even those who remain held back. This book will take its place among others by Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman and Hazel Carby that have investigated the violence of intimacy and the intimacy of violence.' -- Jack Halberstam, author of 'Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire''An urgent and elegant text ... excavating the many meanings of cuddling under racial capitalism. Antwi's writing is lyrical and powerful; the way he harnesses epistemology and polysemy to build both dancing prose and crucial political analysis, is revelatory.' -- Sophie K Rosa, author of 'Radical Intimacy'Table of ContentsBe Held A Scroll Scene of Subjection, Choreography of Care Racial Embrace Hold. Womb. Tomb. Spoon. The Dead Can Love Us Too Grammars of the Black Atlantic Bearing Attraction and Abjection Continuous Present State Cuddling Loved to Death Theater, Hustling, Embrace It’s Almost Time Fugitive (Solidarity (Betrayals)) Acknowledgments Notes
£16.14
SPCK Publishing Arthurs Garden
Book SynopsisPam Rhodes shares an endearing collection of gloriously green stories and poems that are bound to appeal to green-fingered readers.Trade Review'A timely reminder of the humour and solace of the garden in a frantic world.' -- Alan Titchmarsh
£14.39
Oxford University Press Shakespeare Made Easy Romeo and Juliet
Book SynopsisThe Shakespeare Made Easy series aims to take the fear out of Shakespeare. By having Shakespearean and Modern English facing each other, pupils will find it easier to comprehend the text. Through discussion of the life, work and theatre of Shakespeare pupils can gain a more rounded understanding of these classic works.
£17.33
Oxford University Press Shakespeare Made Easy Othello
Book SynopsisThe Shakespeare Made Easy series aims to take the fear out of Shakespeare. By having Shakespearean and Modern English facing each other, pupils will find it easier to comprehend the text. Through discussion of the life, work and theatre of Shakespeare pupils can gain a more rounded understanding of these classic works.
£17.33
The History Press Ltd The Mighty Goddess
Book SynopsisThe Goddess in all her glory! A celebration of important and powerful goddess mythologies from around the world.
£15.29
The History Press Ltd Icelandic Histories and Romances
Book SynopsisThe Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world''s great literary treasures. After an extended and lively introduction to the genre, Ralph O''Connor provides new translations for five of the greatest of these sagas. We encounter a humble Icelandic scholar dreaming of a Viking past, a royal adventurer evading the horrible lusts of troll-women, a demon popping out of a lavatory, the death spasms of the old Northern gods and unnatural acts in Muslim Germany. The sagas are evocatively illustrated by Anne O''Connor.Trade Review'All in all, this is a splendid production, easily accessible to the general reader but with a critical apparatus to satisfy the most stringent academic demands.' Magnus Magnusson writing for The Guardian
£11.69
Ebury Publishing Introducing George The Poet
Book SynopsisThe title is Search Party the idea being that we're all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.' A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a Cambridge education; a social consciousness with a satirical wit and infectious rhythm George The Poet is the voice of a new generation.Search Party is a thought-provoking and deeply autobiographical collection. From the overtly political Go Home' to the deeply personal Full-time'; the narrative poems that offer vivid and unapologetic snapshots of inner-city life, such as His Mistakes', Believer' and the anthemic My City'; to the provocative social commentary in Lazy Dog' and YOLO'; to the inspiring, idea-driven pieces such as The Power of Collaboration' and School Blues', George takes poetry into new territories and to new audiences, offering a different way to talk about the things that matter, to explore his own experience and ideas, and encourage others explore theirs.George The Poet's mesmerising and unforgettable live performances have earned him critical acclaim. From sell-out headline gigs and YouTube hits, to recording his own music, and now his first collection of poetry, George uses his work to speak truth to power and challenge our preconceived ideas about the society we're living in.Whether you're searching for yourself, for answers, for change join the search party.
£11.69
Octopus Publishing Group Vampires the Shadow World
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£9.50
Penguin Random House Group Shima
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£15.29
McClelland & Stewart Inc. Walking Occupations
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£12.79
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Triumph of the Sparrow
Book SynopsisShinkichi Takahashi is one of the truly great figures in world poetry. In the classic Zen tradition of economy, disciplined attention, and subtlety, Takahashi lucidly captures that which is contemporary in its problems and experiences, yet classic in its quest for unity with the Absolute. Lucien Stryk, Takahashi''s fellow poet and close friend, here presents Takahashi''s complete body of Zen poems in an English translation that conveys the grace and power of Takahashi''s superb art. A first-rate poet . . . [Takahashi] springs out of some crack between ordinary worlds: that is, there is some genuine madness of the sort striven for in Zen. -- Robert Bly; We visit places in Takahashi that we once may have visited in a dream, or in a moment too startling to record the perception. . . . You need know nothing of Zen to become immersed in his work. You will inevitably know something of Zen when you emerge. -- Jim Harrison, American Poetry Review
£11.39
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Plot
Book SynopsisIn her third collection of poems, Claudia Rankine creates a profoundly daring, ingeniously experimental examination of pregnancy, childbirth, and artistic expression. Liv, an expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, are at an impasse from her reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. The couple's journey is charted through conversations, dreams, memories, and meditations, expanding and exploding the emotive capabilities of language and form. A text like no other, it crosses genres, combining verse, prose, and dialogue to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and existence.Trade ReviewPraise for Plot: "Plot is inexhaustibly complex, varied, and difficult—and as fearlessly and even grimly inventive and searching as one can conceive any book of poems as being. It instantly joins the few contemporary works . . . whose gravity is synonymous with the passion and integrity of their intelligence." —Calvin Bedient, Verse"To read her work is to be drawn deep into a thought's unfolding, into the eerie landscape of a dream; the dislocation one feels is tempered by the assurance of the writing, the deftness of Rankine’s experiments with words and ideas." —Indiana Review"I am awestruck. Quite simply, I have never read anything like Plot. Its stupendous intelligence . . . marks it as a masterpiece." —Mary Gordon"Plot moves as in a picaresque novel, in which the body schemes and frightens, accompanied by Claudia Rankine’s instinct for poetic surprise." —Barbara Guest"A startling and eloquent exploration of states in, about, and around maternity. . . . This is an unsettling poetry of the body wrestling itself in the making of thought." —Charles Bernstein
£11.04
Louisiana State University Press Refusal
Book SynopsisIn Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny - invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide - to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppression.
£16.10
Louisiana State University Press Naming the Leper
Book SynopsisBetween 1919 and 1941, five relatives of Christopher Lee Manes were diagnosed with an illness then referredto as 'leprosy' and now known as Hansen's disease. After their diagnosis, the five Landry siblings were separated from their loved ones and sent to the National Leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, where they remained in quarantine until their deaths. Drawing on historical documents and imaginative reconstructions, Naming the Leper tells through poetry this family's haunting story of exile and human suffering.While confined at Carville, the Landry siblings attempted to keep some connection to the outside world by writing letters to family members and other loved ones. Manes incorporates materials from this correspondence, along with medical records, the leprosarium newsletter, and personal interviews, as he crafts poems that reconstruct his relatives' daily lives at Carville. Although much can only be imagined, their words remain factual and the
£18.95
Louisiana State University Press Romances
Book SynopsisIn this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love. Instead of bachelor knights bemoaning their allegedly cruel beloveds, Romances emphasizes the voices of female troubadours, along with those of historical figures such as Dante's wife, Petrarch's Laura, and Anne Boleyn. Ampleman also incorporates the work of the Italian Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa, mentioned in Rilke's Duino Elegies, through a series of adaptations of her verse. Elsewhere, a contemporary sonnet sequence dedicated to Courtney Love shows the 1990s grunge rocker as subject, object, performer, and mother. As her poems reflect on popular romantic ideas about the past, the means by which elegies romanticize the dead, or the conventional romance of a happy marriage, Ampleman addresses a range of romantic entanglements: courtly and commonplace, sentimental and prosaic, toxic a
£18.95
Louisiana State University Press Louder Birds
Book SynopsisAngela Voras-Hills's Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems holds a haunting absence at its center, an absence that is impossible to navigate.
£16.10
Northwestern University Press Seduction
Book SynopsisThe world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe's Seduction, the I becomes the Eye, serving as metaphor and witness in a narrative compilation from a master of poetic music. Elegies and dramatic odes look at the seduction of all things loved or hated, especially the man made of colour.
£26.55
Northwestern University Press Miracle Marks Poems
Book SynopsisIn her third poetry collection, Miracle Marks, the indomitable Purvi Shah charts women's status through pointed explorations of Hindu iconography and philosophy and powerful critiques of American racism.
£16.88
Northwestern University Press Secret History
Book SynopsisIn David Barber's third collection of poetry, the past makes its presence felt from first to last. Drawing on a wealth of eclectic sources and crafted in an array of nonce forms, these poems range across vast stretches of cultural and natural history in pursuit of the forsaken, long-gone, and unsung.Trade ReviewBarber approaches the scrap heap of common discourse as a connoisseur ready to celebrate the vitality of lexicons and vocabularies so encased in custom and context that everyone else has mistaken them (and by implication the aspects of our lives that they evoke) for dead." —Langdon Hammer, poetry editor for The American Scholar
£12.71
Northwestern University Press Quiet Armor
Book SynopsisThe third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, Quiet Armor examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships and, more broadly, intimacy.Trade ReviewThe poems in Quiet Armor explore the shadows and nuances of one woman teetering between conventional, gendered expectations and witch/martyr/saint/goddess. These poems unfold with improvisational energy, creating an ongoing sense of a life lived, of time passing, of wisdom accrued through experience. It is difficult to write of life’s reparations, especially where love is concerned, without sentimentality—here, Edwards succeeds, and how: when we reach the end of the last poem, we feel we know the collection’s speaker intimately, and we feel—some of us, anyway—known." - Diane Suess, author of frank: sonnetsTable of Contents Parthenogenesis Window Shopping Easy as Pie Ladylike Nobody Is Lost What Is Left to Say About the Body Composed Portrait of My Mother, Age 56 Spell for Undoing a Life Sentence Essay on Guns Verity Clytemnestra, Daughter of Leda, Beholds a Swan Dream without Men Red Spell Mouthy Self-Portrait as Medusa Calling Her Names Elegy for Lavinia Five Days Before the Election Rumor Has It Drunk Bitch Dreams of a Luminous Stream Babylove Harm’s Way Drunk Bitch Wants to Fuck Like a Man After the Election I Woke Up What I Left Learning to Leave a Bad Thing Alone Drunk Bitch Tries Her Hand at Recovery Medusa with the Head of Harvey Weinstein The Astonishing A Few More Lines on Lavinia Some Things We Carried Medusa as Shield Dread Myth Some Lines in which I Want to Go On Aubade with the Longest Eyelashes On Progeny Some Threads from a Depression Ode to Chill Pills Self-Portrait as Too Much On Want All the Heavens Were a Bell Another Poem About Pain Dear Extraterrestrials Ode to Joy Entreaty Epithalamion Tapping Therapy Notes Acknowledgments Thank You
£17.05
New Directions Publishing Corporation Turtle Island
Book SynopsisWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1975)Trade Review"Snyder is on the side of the gods. " -- Herbert Leibowitz - The New York Times"An accomplished technician who has learned from the poetry of several languages and who has developed a sure and flexible style capable of handling any material he wishes." -- Kenneth Rexroth"Gary Snyder is a rarity in the United States: an immensely popular poet whose work is taken seriously by other poets. " -- Eliot Weinberger
£11.39
New Directions Publishing Corporation These are My Rivers New Selected Poems 19551993
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...the foremost chronicler of our time." -- Library Journal"Tenderly lyrical, outrageously irreverent, yet always accessible." -- Fort Worth Star Telegram
£14.24
New Directions Selected Writ Cendrars Pa
Book SynopsisA collection of the best of Blaise Cendrars poetry. Includes three short prose pieces.Trade Review"Everything is written in blood, but a blood that is saturated with starlight. You can look clean through him and see the planets wheeling. The silence he creates is deafening. It takes you back to the beginning of the world, to that hush which is engraved on the face of mystery." -- Henry Miller
£12.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Sorting Facts or Nineteen Ways of Looking at
Book SynopsisPart of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout.An excerpt:Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammarhas no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to record somethingbecause I am a survivor in this ocean.Trade Review"One way of understanding Sorting Facts as it appears in this cultural moment — though surely different times and subsequent readings will fade certain colors and deepen others — is as a premonitory exegesis of this registration of the fact of Marker’s death. And so to encounter the essay now is to see in it a memory of the future: a premonition of an annotation." -- Rebecca Ariel Porte - The Los Angeles Review of Books
£8.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Vale Ave
Book SynopsisA hymn to Eros that charts the course of two lovers who each seek the other across cultures, myths, and centuries
£8.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Debths
Book SynopsisWinner of the Griffin International Poetry PrizeTrade Review"A fresh occasion not just to celebrate Howe, who turned seventy-eight this year, but also to read her anew, which is the more formidable and ultimately more rewarding charge. Wildly and wantonly she is bringing everything to the table, including poetry, history, research, politics, autobiography, imagination, obsession and love, all the while demonstrating how strange, puzzling, and untamed writing and thinking can be." -- Maggie Nelson - Artforum"Definition of poetry as the intersection of sight, sound, and sense." -- Christopher Higgs - Big Other"Coming after the publication of over thirty books and chapbooks, it is difficult not to read Debths, Susan Howe’s first full-length collection of poetry since Spontaneous Particulars in 2014, as the culminating gesture of her remarkable career. Indeed, Howe, who turns eighty this year, has suggested it is likely her last book. If this is so, I can think of no better way to crown her many decades wandering through the American literary wilderness: Debths reads like the crescendo at the conclusion of a symphony. It is a profound synthesis of Howe’s obsessions, methods, and concerns as a writer—a recursive loop back through her oeuvre, but also a renewal of its main lines, drawing the various threads together into a tighter weave. Howe's writing is as vital now as it has ever been." -- Stephen Collis - Boston Review"Debths is a fascinating look at art across time. Howe adroitly brings into conversation both identified and unknown source material to create a finely woven exploration of narrative and transmission anchored in the American past and future....composed of elements from her own childhood, the art of Paul Thek, draft annotations of late Yeats, fairy tales, dictionary entries, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...the resulting counterpoint is quite complex, but it is ultimately one of strange consonance that rings true in the same way as a story too strange to have been invented." -- Sarah Huener - Chicago Review of Books"Monomania has its rewards—an incantatory power that shines through. Howe’s images, being historical as well as biographical, have the eerie shading of ghosts half-believed in, giving a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere reminiscent of Borges at his sharpest." -- Kirkus Reviews"Howe’s telepathic poetry is also the most attentive to materiality: handwriting, spacing, the slightest fold or crevice which might contain fragments, marginalia, a scribble of poesy. And that’s just it—Howe’s attention is the essential rigor of all poetry." -- Literary Hub"For nearly thirty years, Howe has occupied a particular and invaluable place in American poetry. She’s a rigorously skeptical and a profoundly visionary poet, a writer whose demystifying intelligence is matched by a passionate embrace of poetry’s rejuvenating power." -- John Palattella - The Boston Review"Howe should be read in the company of Pound, Stevens, Stein, Ashbery and other American poets who reconfigured the ground rules of their art. With her long career in view today, her comment on Dickinson, in 1985, applies to Howe herself: ‘A great poet, carrying the antique imagination of her fathers, requires of each reader to leap from a place of certain signification, to a new situation, undiscovered, and sovereign. She carries intelligence of the past into future of our thought by reverence and revolt." -- Langdon Hammer - The New York Review of Books"Howe is among the worthiest heirs to the high-modernist line in American poetry, interested in the accidents, smudges, and tears that fasten works of literature to their material embodiments on the page. Howe’s own ‘American aesthetic of uncertainty,’ shuttles among forms, genres, and states of matter. What connects it all are Howe’s powers of insight, and the implied relations between her sparkling trouvailles." -- Dan Chiasson - The New Yorker"Susan Howe is our great poetic chronicler of what it means to dwell in possibility, to live on the Edge." -- Marjorie Perloff"The intertextual erudition underpinning all of Howe’s work is enabled—and ultimately exceeded—by an unquenchable and wide-eyed curiosity, an infinitely open-ended empathy, and the fervent belief in the notion that 'only art works are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals.'" -- Kevin Carollo - Rain Taxi
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation 33 Poems
Book SynopsisA selection of the greatest poems from one of poetry’s most beloved mysticsTrade Review"To the best of my knowledge, a saint is simply all the things that he is. If you placed him among the Old Testament figures above the south portal of Chartres, he wouldn’t look odd. His poems are sleight-of-hand demonstrations. I don’t know any religious writing that moves me as much or is as persuasive as the prose communication with the unseen, unknown, unanswering but felt fountain-source of his belief." -- William Maxwell"He's good, isn't he!" -- Samuel Beckett"One of the great original voices of our times—a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence." -- Jack Kerouac
£14.24
New Directions Publishing Corporation Milkweed Smithereens
Book SynopsisA career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette MayerTrade Review"Mayer writes the kind of nonsense that makes sense, and sense that is nonsense: I can’t think of a better catering device in these topsy-turvy times." -- Daniel Wenger - The New Yorker"A poet of extraordinary inventiveness, erotic energy and challenge, and ironic intelligence." -- Michael Palmer"A consummate poet: would that all genius were as generous." -- Robert Creeley"Bernadette Mayer is one of the most original writers of her generation… All her work is full of brilliant observation, humorous and sometimes astounding conclusions, and amazing juxtapositions inspired by linguistic associations, patterns of movement, chance, mathematics, whim, and imagination." -- Michael Lally - The Washington Post"As an offering of selected works removed from all context, Mayer’s newest poetry collection reads like a glimpse into a vivacious mind rankled by incessant stillness and external distractions....Bracing and carnal, Mayer provides an idiosyncratic way to acknowledge changes in contemporary consciousness while framing her work in a new and dynamic light." -- J. Howard Rosier - Vulture"Mayer quotes Vladimir Nabokov, in The Gift: “I seem to remember my future works, although I don’t even know what they will be about.” In its newness, its remembrance, and its diaristic now, Milkweed Smithereens is a doggedly gorgeous expression of that peculiar, clairvoyant temporality." -- Brian Dillon - 4Columns"Mayer’s poems, like O’Hara’s, are something else: as gorgeous, sad, elated, horny, distracted, coy, angry, kinetic, and complex as people." -- Daniel Poppick - The Yale Review
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation Twice Alive
Book SynopsisAn exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryTrade Review"In Gander's follow up to his extraordinary book of loss and lamentation, Be With, (for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), this poet of metaphysical abstraction, Eros, and intimate observation — and even adulation — of the natural world finds fresh metaphors for the sudden and uneasy onset of new love." -- NPR"A restlessly experimental writer." -- Robert Hass"Gander’s verses have a shattering, symphonic quality." -- Tess Taylor - The New York Times"Gander’s love for formal, even archaic language and the quiet complexity of his syntax can build striking abstract landscapes in which the material and spiritual worlds seem equally intelligent." -- Tony Hoagland"This is an ecologically aware, tender, and captivating work." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Forrest Gander's new book of poetry, Twice Alive, is a lush, sensual addition to his formidable body of work." -- Meryl Natchez - Los Angeles Review of Books"Twice Alive investigates and celebrates “the wheeling life around us” with pincer-like precision and unfailing lyricism. The poet is at the height of his considerable powers and, in consequence, makes our heedful attention imperative." -- Albert Mobilio - Hyperallergic
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation Bloom Other Poems
Book SynopsisA rhapsodic meditation on the dreams and defeats, disparities and excesses, mythologies and absurdities of contemporary life
£17.09
New Directions Publishing Corporation World
Book SynopsisPoems of effervescent grace—about nature, magpies, reality, “the unreasons of this world” and spiders—from one of Portugal’s most beloved poets, published in a beautiful bilingual editionTrade Review"This bilingual volume, pairing Costa’s translations with Amaral’s Portuguese originals, relies on humble imagery and plain language to plumb complicated truths." -- The New York Times Book Review"Here is a lucid, forthright poet charmed by the paradoxes of each poem, by the tiny gestures and traces of life faceted within each poem, and by the vocation of poetry itself." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
£13.29
W. W. Norton & Company The Eternal Dice Selected Poems
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£999.99
The University Press of Kentucky Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow
Book SynopsisJoshua "Josh" Gibson (1911–1947) is a baseball legend - one of the greatest power hitters in the Negro Leagues, and in all of baseball history.Table of ContentsBottom of the First Manifesto for Black Baseball Players Smuggling Strength Naming Homerun #1 Night Visions Brooklyn Uncovered Dear Diary Papa Tells the Truth Premature Bottom of the Fourth The Original Dodgers Seen It Coming (1951) Pregame Cut West Field Can't Compete Trash Talk Bat Considers Considering a Strike Homerun #270 Dear Mama Your Enough Ain't Enough Not Fit for Service Pregame Prayer Top of the Fifth Telegram to Pittsburg Pirates Gator Belt Outfield Cot Worship Trucutu Perejil The Base Watch Winter Ball Bottom of the Sixth Resurrection The Magician Battle of the Greatest Late Night Ritual The Bats Speak Deep Breath Bottom of the Ninth Living Will Youth Fountain My First Slump Mamma and Her Daughter Let Us Be Home Run #800 and Something Extra Innings Cooperstown Where We Go The Walk Off Acknowledgements
£30.00
The University Press of Kentucky Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow
Book SynopsisJoshua "Josh" Gibson (1911–1947) is a baseball legend - one of the greatest power hitters in the Negro Leagues, and in all of baseball history.Table of ContentsBottom of the First Manifesto for Black Baseball Players Smuggling Strength Naming Homerun #1 Night Visions Brooklyn Uncovered Dear Diary Papa Tells the Truth Premature Bottom of the Fourth The Original Dodgers Seen It Coming (1951) Pregame Cut West Field Can't Compete Trash Talk Bat Considers Considering a Strike Homerun #270 Dear Mama Your Enough Ain't Enough Not Fit for Service Pregame Prayer Top of the Fifth Telegram to Pittsburg Pirates Gator Belt Outfield Cot Worship Trucutu Perejil The Base Watch Winter Ball Bottom of the Sixth Resurrection The Magician Battle of the Greatest Late Night Ritual The Bats Speak Deep Breath Bottom of the Ninth Living Will Youth Fountain My First Slump Mamma and Her Daughter Let Us Be Home Run #800 and Something Extra Innings Cooperstown Where We Go The Walk Off Acknowledgements
£15.00
Wesleyan University Press Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton
Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to a major African American poet/>/>This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the Umbra Poets Workshop; a participant in the Black Arts Movement, R. D. Laing's Kingsley Hall, and the Antiuniversity of London; and a teacher at Oberlin College who counted amongst his friends bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Odetta. As a pioneer in the field of Black Studies, Hernton developed a theoretical and practical pedagogy with lasting impact on generations of students. He may be best known as an anti-sexist sociologist, following in the footsteps of W.E.B. Du Bois, but Hernton viewed himself, above all, as a poet. This volume includes a generous selection of Hernton's previously published poems, from classics like the often anthologized The Distant Drum to the visionary epic The Coming of Chronos to the House of Nightsong, reprinted in f
£17.58
Wesleyan University Press Fierce Elegy
Book SynopsisPeter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a work of loveIn Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection, we find, in the poet's words, that "the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world."
£12.50
Wesleyan University Press Mahogany
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£10.62
Wesleyan University Press Go Figure
Book SynopsisKeen, pithy meditations on a world that continues to surprise us/>/>The poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout's new book are concerned with this ongoing attempt/ to catalog the world in a time of escalating disasters. From the bird who check-marks morning/once more//like someone who gets up/to make sure// the door is locked to bat-faced orchids, raising petals like light sails as if about to take flight, these poems make keen visual and psychological observations. The title Go Figure speaks to the book's focus on the unexpected, the strange, and the seemingly incredible so that: We name things/ to know where we are. Moving with the deliberate precision that is a hallmark of Armantrout's work, they limn and refract, questioning how we make sense of the world, and ultimately showing how our experience of reality is exquisitely enfolded in words. It's true things fall apart. Armantrout writes. 'Still, by thinking/we heat ourselves up./>/>Sample Text/>/>HYPER-VIGILANCE/>/>Hilarious
£12.50
Wesleyan University Press DEED
Book SynopsisA lyrically and formally innovative exploration of desire and its cost/>/>DEED, the follow-up to torrin a. greathouse's 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award winning debut, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, is a formally and lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire, and what it can cost. Sprawling across art, eros, survival, myth, etymology, and musical touchstones from Bruce Springsteen to Against Me!, this new book both subverts and pays homage to the poetic canon, examining an artistic lineage that doesn't always love trans or disabled people back. Written in a broad range of received and invented formsfrom caudate sonnets and the sestina, to acrostics and the burning haibunDEED indicts violent systems of carceral, medical, and legal power which disrupt queer and disabled love and solidarity, as well as the potentially vicarious manner in which audiences consume art. This collection is a poetic triptych centered on the question of how, in spite of all these complications, t
£12.50
Wesleyan University Press A Las Orillas del Río Viejo
£7.99
Wesleyan University Press How to Dress a Fish
Book SynopsisIn How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.
£20.85
Wesleyan University Press The Past
Book SynopsisElegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration.
£17.58
Josef Weinberger Plays Driving Miss Daisy Acting Edition for Theater
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£10.44
