Words as Grain
New and Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300227390,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
256 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
256 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
A leading poet from the Cultural Revolution to the present day, Duo Duo is one of China's most influential contemporary writers. He began writing in the 1970s. His poetic vision matured in Beijing in the 1980s and during his exile in the 1990s follow...
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22.50 GBP
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100 Poets
A Little Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300266993,
Yale University Press,
September 2022
280 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
280 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select th...
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10.99 GBP
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Mothman Apologia
ISBN: PB: 9780300261073,
Yale University Press,
May 2022
120 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
120 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
The latest volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age.
The 116th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Robert Wood Lynn's collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the...
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14.99 GBP
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Home
100 Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300253450,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
264 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
264 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
In this poignant collection, Christian Wiman draws together one hundred evocative poems and prose fragments about home, exploring home's deep theological, literary, philosophical, historical, political, and social dimensions. Wiman calls home "a hous...
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20.00 GBP
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
ISBN: PB: 9780300261530,
Yale University Press,
November 2021
672 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
672 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death – completed weeks before Harold Bloom died – shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called "a universe of death". Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of li...
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17.99 GBP
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New World Written
Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300241242,
Yale University Press,
July 2021
256 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
256 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
The poetry of Maria Baranda is a haunting homage to the natural world: transcendent in scope, attentive to the particular, and acutely aware of the mystery of being. Absorbed by nature's otherness, Baranda seeks to inhabit the voices of the wind, of...
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27.50 GBP
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What Noise Against the Cane
ISBN: PB: 9780300256536,
Yale University Press,
May 2021
96 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
96 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
"What Noise Against the Cane" is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative...
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16.99 GBP
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Little History of Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9780300255034,
ISBN: HB: 9780300232226,
Yale University Press,
February 2021
320 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems h...
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15.99 GBP
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Craft of Poetry
A Primer in Verse
ISBN: HB: 9780300251913,
Yale University Press,
February 2021
192 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
192 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms – all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of po...
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15.99 GBP
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That Light, All at Once
Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300214208,
Yale University Press,
November 2020
232 pp., 19,7x15,2 cm
232 pp., 19,7x15,2 cm
Equal parts dramatic and symphonic, the poetry of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen provides acute insight into the European consciousness of the first half of the twentieth century. With energetic innovation and imaginative depth, Dadelsen extols the somber bea...
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