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143,95 kr. Small Press Traffic "Book of the Year 2004". This memoir provides an exquisitely rich exploration of the relation of context to reference, subtext to meaning, back story to presented experience, and composition to poetics. Silliman's work unravels and reforms in this exemplary and exhilarating act of attention and reflection.
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- 1987-1992
153,95 kr. Periplum and other poems brings together Peter Gizzi's celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem "Music for Films." This new edition functions as a collected poems of Gizzi's work from 1987 to 1992.
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- Poems
143,95 kr. Written from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer and mixed-race experience, these poems confront a legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal, and resist ongoing attacks on both Indigenous and Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual /Transgender communities.
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- Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft, unnumbered: Precis
193,95 kr. Since 1986, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has been writing a long poem in canto-like sections, grouped in nineteen units. The individual poems fold over each other, using repeated elements to construct a sense of memory and traces or reminders of prior statements. Their themes involve history, gender, mourning and hope, all in "socio-twisty" language.
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208,95 kr. Silliman's major long poem published in a new edition and introduced by Barrett Watten. Tjanting abounds in a wealth of cultural reference and explores the strategies and procedures of constructing a reality in language. This classic text will delight readers and provide students of modern American poetry with a key work of the late 20th Century.
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- New and Selected Poems
153,95 kr. This selection of Revard's work lets you hear duets of humpbacked whales and wine-throated hummingbirds. You can shoot craps in Las Vegas and see an ex-bank-robbing uncle get shot dead hijacking a shipment of bootleg whiskey. You can watch a swan become a soul, and track vanilla honey to a beehive on top of L'Opera Garnier.
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- Poems and Prose
143,95 kr. Evidence of Red contains dramatic events of the creation of a people, interwoven with a haunting narrative of their lost homelands. Howe takes her readers through the chaos of lost lives and the cannibalism of fallen lovers, inviting readers into her world of Choctaw Code Talking.
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143,95 kr. Shortlisted for The Minnesota Book Awards 2006. Poems that consider and figure women's experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe language recovery.
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143,95 kr. Shortlisted for The Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Katia Kapovich creates a gallery of narrative portraits that are both unheroic and unforgettable - mute children, laundering women, Moldovan homosexuals, beggars, pickpockets, Russian draftees, Soviet boy scouts, political convicts, all at home in Dostoyevskian worlds.
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168,95 kr. This is an important literary debut: the sound of a new, unique, captivating voice. The journey Capildeo describes with such ferocity and such an ebullient, unexpected sense of fun is also emotional, and she entices the reader into travelling with her. Undiscovered countries are here spread out before us, ready for exploration.
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343,95 kr. A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and antagonist Captain Beefheart. Written in the iconoclastic spirit of Zappa's art, this book traces the mixed media experiments of California freakdom through the dada blues of Beefheart, mapping out the pleasures of imaginative excess.
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143,95 kr. Words Need Love Too represents both a summation - a drawing together of concerns that the poet has explored in his writings through the previous 'years of salt' - and a turning point, a hopeful new beginning.
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208,95 kr. Gravity presents the first five books of poems from the sequence Gravity as a consequence of shape, started in 1982 and scheduled for completion in 2005. The subjects bridge biotechnology and quantum physics through a system of urban gardening and leaking streets.
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- New Modernist Poems
208,95 kr. This international anthology provides students and the general reader with an invaluable introduction to contemporary modernist poetry. Containing over thirty poets from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, it presents an alternative vision of late 20th century poetic achievement: international, politically engaged and radical in vision.
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- New and Selected Poems 1996-2003
133,95 kr. This book contains a long, new sequence of poems and prose by Frances Presley, as well as a selection of her work since 1996. It provides an important opportunity to see her recent work as a whole, and to appreciate how different sequences interrelate and develop, both in form and theme.
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- Selected Poems 1969-2002
168,95 kr. These are poems which welcome distraction and seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and reconstructed second-hand words and, taken together, chart a form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the twentieth century.
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- Language and Community in the Poetry of W. S. Graham
288,95 kr. William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) is increasingly widely acknowledged as one of the most important British poets of the twentieth century. This study relates his poetic exploration of language to his nostalgic memories of his Clydeside childhood, and argues that his work tries to turn language itself into a community.
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143,95 kr. An expanded version of Ring of Fire, originally published by Zoland Books, Boston, 2001. This full-length collection includes individual lyric poems as well as a previously published chapbook Sea Lyrics and a new collaborative piece "Dumb Duke Death" with illustrations by Jennifer Jarnot.
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128,95 kr. Seven stories set in seven different countries - by a prizewinning poet who is also emerging as a talented writer of fiction. Set in Romania, Miami, the Sahara, Thailand, France, Indonesia and Canada, they expose human frailty in its many forms but suggest that humanity has more that binds us together than separates us.
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- Selected Poems 1967-2004
168,95 kr. Winner 2004 International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry. Featuring "La Tierra Giro para Acercarnos" (The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer) from the Oscar-nominated film 21 Grams, this new translation of selected poems and prose by Eugenio Montejo is translated from the original Spanish by Australian poet Peter Boyle.
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273,95 kr. The Salt Companion to Mina Loy comprises ten new essays by leading scholars and writers on the work of modernist poet Mina Loy. Loy (1882-1966) is increasingly seen as central to Anglo-American modernism, and she is often a set author on British and US undergraduate and MA courses.
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143,95 kr. Imagination Verses is a moving and accomplished book of real lyric poetry. Hailed as a modern masterpice it is made available here in a new expanded UK edition. Rarely does a poet bring such talent and experience together in a single volume, it is a book of wonderous possiblities, warm, engaging and truly magical.
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118,95 - 178,95 kr. Marta and Mats form a love story like no other. The Squeeze explores the transactions that take place between men and women. Sex, money and the desire for love, are at its heart.
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108,95 kr. This debut novel is about the transformation of two young women and about the way that a nation changes and develops after war. It evokes a specific, undiscovered place. It is characterised by striking imagery and daring form.
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108,95 kr. In this darkly hilarious and seriously horrifying book Williams tells the story of Aidan, a vigilante and young offender from one of Sheffield's roughest estates. At breakneck speed, we see Aidan's world unravel as he goes from hero to outlaw, fighting against all-comers and the circumstances he can't escape.
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108,95 kr. In 1940, Holly Stanton's grandfather was a spy, on the run in occupied Norway. He was rescued by a brave Norwegian fisherman, whose wife and children were executed in retaliation. Holly has always known this. But does that mean she should tell the story? And what if it isn't true?
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108,95 kr. Like Fight Club for girls, Project XX is a biting satire of the American obsession with violent destruction in the midst of rampant materialism. The darkly humorous story of girls on a rampage will grip you by the throat and not let go until you gasp for breath on the final page.
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133,95 kr. On the surface, his move to the isolated village on the coast makes perfect sense. But the experience is an increasingly unsettling one for Timothy Bucchanan. A dead man no one will discuss. Wasted fish hauled from a contaminated sea. The dream of faceless men. Questions that lead to further questions. What truth are the villagers withholding?
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118,95 kr. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.
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108,95 - 128,95 kr. The story of a man taking his keys out of his pocket, In the Absence of Absalon is the comically meticulous new novel from Simon Okotie. An unnamed detective is investigating the disappearance of his colleague, Marguerite, last seen on the trail of Harold Absalon, the Mayor's transport advisor.
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