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128,95 kr. The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home. The collection is littered with the mise-en-scene of being lost: motel rooms, alcohol abuse, prostitution ... Yet, in each story there is some elemental contact with light and sound, the product of the characters' longing for simple, uncorrupted, reorienting signs.
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- and Other Stories
128,95 kr. The characters in this award-winning debut collection are very good at losing things: children, lovers, hope, the plot. They discover the past is not a place easily escaped from, as it pursues them with startling, sometimes horrifying, consequences. Provocative and bold, these stories will get under your skin.
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143,95 kr. Plain spoken narrators as diverse as the America they inhabit - a pastor's son, the lonely night nurse and fat boy - are all ill at ease. Through road kill, September 11th and death row characters address their own bitter faults with noir-like melancholy, seeking redemption and absolution.
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143,95 kr. In addressing public and private conflicts and transnational borders, David Lloyd's new collection Warriors draws from myth, history, popular culture, family, the animal world, the environment while using an array of forms: the sestina, the parable, the lyric, the narrative, the poem sequence.
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143,95 kr. Jonty Tiplady grew up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, moving to London, Paris, then Brighton, where he received a PhD on Jacques Derrida. He has published 8 chapbooks of poetry, including 'Zam Bonk Dip' (Barque Press 2007) and 'At the School of Metaphysics' (Fly By Night 2008). He won the 2009 Crashaw Prize and currently lives in London.
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- Selected Early Poems, 1974-1999
153,95 kr. William Logan's poetry has been called elegant, difficult, cranky, formidable, dazzling, intoxicating, and ominous. For almost forty years, he has published poems that do not fit comfortably with the work of most of his contemporaries, and perhaps do not want to fit at all.
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158,95 kr. She loved ... and killed ... both men and women. She was utterly beautiful and utterly mad. This is a tale of passionate horror ... a breath-taking venture into abnormal psychology ... a story which cannot be forgotten.
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128,95 kr. An ambitious sequence of prize-winning poems, Flatlands unearths a living world from Britain's prehistory. The poems' stark forms evoke the voices of flint miners, tribal warriors and Boudica rebelling against Roman rule.
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143,95 kr. Reasons for Writing Poetry is the first collection of verse to appear in English from the internationally acclaimed Peruvian poet Eduardo Chirinos. The poems, carefully chosen for this edition by the author and translator, reveal with simple eloquence how poetry may be written in today's world.
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153,95 kr. Appearing for the first time in English, Blue Coyote with Guitar and Other Songs, by renowned Mexican poet Juan Banuelos, creates an alternative poetics that rejects individualism, defies nationalism, and opts for the alterity of the most marginalized social subjects in modern Mexico.
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273,95 kr. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein presents scholarship on one of the U.S.'s best living innovative poets. Scholars explore major themes in his work, and poets present pieces inspired by his poetry. The book is intended for both scholars looking for informed critical insight into Bernstein's work as well as for students to examine his work.
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141,95 kr. Taking us from a Seventh Day Adventist boarding school to a traveling exhibition of plasticine bodies, from the moonlit paths of Yellowstone National Park to a quiet New Hampshire lake house, Vollmer's twelve stories are at once sorrowful, exuberant, and absurdly comical.
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193,95 kr. A major selection from Monk's work, including "Interregnum" in its entirety for the first time, here combined with new sequences not previously published. This is a substantial volume from a key British writer whose approachable experimental works are filled with wit, linguistic virtuosity and a sound grasp of the world we live in.
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143,95 kr. Pitch is a skeptical monument, tracking an encounter with an edge we might pitch over, with the pitch dark of our time, with our lurching desires to do the necessary work of seeing and understanding. This book manifests one of the more distinctive ethical-aesthetic practices in contemporary poetry.
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128,95 kr. Throughout this collection, opposites collide - reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. These poems cut away at convention and simmer with unsettling, dramatic images. Ironic and humorous, complex and engaging, you can't do without The Opposite of Cabbage.
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128,95 kr. Echo Train begins "Once upon a time / Books began this / Way" and asks us not "to be shocked to find / We must return and / Stand for what we are" when we reach the book's end.
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143,95 kr. Shout Ha! to the Sky explores history and contemporary life from a Maori person's perspective, and seeks to restore possibilities removed through the forces of colonialism. The poetry is intimate, wry, funny, angry and always loving.
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128,95 kr. This collection engages with traditional forms and carries out various kinds of experimentation centering on the physical meaning of life. The poems confront issues of cognitive, spiritual and erotic experience, and address longing and desire in the material world. The Creature yearns for new language in which we can all more truly live.
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128,95 kr. Restricted View is the colourful and highly anticipated debut collection from the award-winning young poet and journalist Olivia Cole. From London to New York and Italy, she takes readers on a journey as public as it is private.
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143,95 kr. The first collection of the poetry of Juan Calzadilla to be translated into English, Journal with No Subject spans eleven books published from 1962 to the present. This poetry denounces the dehumanization of modernity, appropriates surrealistic language, questions identity and poetry itself, and dissolves the coherent, autonomous subject.
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128,95 kr. This passionate new book gathers together for the first time many of Vanessa Gebbie's award-winning stories. Described by Maggie Gee as 'a prodigiously gifted new writer', she is a natural storyteller; her narratives unfold with a deceptively light touch, exploring with compassion what it is to be human and flawed.
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153,95 kr. Garden of Silica is the first poetry anthology of the Uruguayan Ida Vitale to appear in English, spanning eight books published from 1960 to the present. Her work seeks a balance between subjectivity and objectivity, privileges intellectual capacity above that of sentimentality, and requires an active reader.
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128,95 kr. Five million English-speaking Chinese, Indians and Malays live in Singapore today - an artificial port city created entirely by British traders in the 19th century. In her vivid stories, the Singapore-born American writer Wena Poon captures the true urban sophistication of New Asia and the journey of an eclectic people coming to terms with their cultural legacy. -- Wena Poon
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143,95 kr. Goose Music is a co-written by two notable poets Andy Brown and John Burnside. The poems are intense lyrics paying close attention to natural detail, and explore ideas of identity, self, myth, landscape and place in these times of great environmental change.
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143,95 kr. 'The Searching Glance' is the long-awaited second collection from one of Scotland's leading short story writers. The worlds inhabited by the characters in these stories are diverse. Linda Cracknell's stories are multi-layered and brooding with longing and loss, allowing the reader a 'searching glance' at characters' lives.
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128,95 kr. Working within the conventional form of the sonnet this sequence is on the surface one of Monk's most accessible works but the simplicity is deceptive. Each poem shifts and veers into unexpected complexity. Monk brings together disparate strands of uncertainty in a fragile world and she does it with her usual tenderness, ferocity and humour.
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- Manifestos and Unmanifestos
168,95 kr. This is a eclectic and exciting gathering of poetry and prose-poems that try to understand what poetry is and who or what it might be for. It is also about what writers might want or demand from poetry, in either a general or personal way.
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168,95 kr. In Michael Murphy's annotated edition of Kenneth Allott's Collected Poems all Allott's previously published work is combined with eighteen new poems, some of which have only recently come to light. The whole collection now represents the most complete picture of Allott, a man widely regarded as one of most exciting poets of the Thirties.
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