Poetry
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Imperial Liquor: Poems [Paperback]
Amaud Jamal Johnson (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966067
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. ... .... Learn More -
I, New and Selected Poems [Paperback]
Toi Derricotte (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966289
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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I, New and Selected Poems shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet's inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy. It is a record of one woman's response to the repressive and fracturing forces around the subjects of race, class, ... .... Learn More -
The Painted Bunting's Last Molt: Poems [Paperback]
Virgil Suarez (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966098
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The Painted Bunting’s Last Molt explores fatherhood, parenting, and separation anxiety; and the ways in which time and memory are both a prison and a giver of joy. Fifteen years in the making, Virgil Suárez’s new collection uses his mother’s retur... .... Learn More -
Holiday in the Islands of Grief: Poems [Paperback]
Jeffrey McDaniel (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966104
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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In his new collection, Jeffrey McDaniel confronts the insular and expansive qualities of loss. With electric language and surrealistic imagery, McDaniel’s poems deliver the quotidian elements of middle-age life while weaving us in & out of childho... .... Learn More -
French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony [Paperback]
Patrick Chamoiseau (Author); Matt Reeck (Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9780819579300
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Hailed by Milan Kundera as “an heir of Joyce and Kafka,” Prix Goncourt winner Patrick Chamoiseau is among the leading Francophone writers today. With most of his novels having appeared in English, this book opens a new window on his oeuvre. A movi... .... Learn More -
The Age of Phillis [Hardback]
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780819579492
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry
In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by a... .... Learn More -
Odes and Elegies [Paperback]
Freidrich Holderlin (Author); Nick Hoff (Author)
£14.95ISBN: 9780819511904
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry
For more than a century, Friedrich Hölderlin has been considered one of the key figures in modern European literature. The translations in Odes and Elegies, including poems never before available in English, render forcefully and directly the deep... .... Learn More -
North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language [Paperback]
Lisa Sewell (Editor); Kazim Ali (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819579423
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: American Poets
North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language is an important new addition to the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of th... .... Learn More -
North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language [Hardback]
Lisa Sewell (Editor); Kazim Ali (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9780819579416
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: American Poets
North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language is an important new addition to the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of th... .... Learn More -
The Woman in the Corner: Poems [Paperback]
Nancy Krygowski (Author)
£17.00ISBN: 9780822966043
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The Woman in the Corner keenly observes and gives voice to the ambiguities and astonishments that we often turn away from - in human relationships and in our own unruly hearts. In poems that speak fearlessly about sex and grief, mothers and daught... .... Learn More
