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Number of Titles Found: 9
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| Title: Born Sleeping |
| By (author): H.C. Gildfind |
| ISBN10-13: 1881163695 : 9781881163695 |
| By recounting one womanâ s real-time witnessing of a coupleâ s experience of stillbirth, Born Sleeping explores the ambivalence that lies at the heart of human relationships, the difficulty of comprehending othersâ realities, the voyeurism of being on the outside of trauma and the disturbingly cool, detached eye of the writer. |
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Pages: 81
Size: 208x152x10mm
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| Published: Miami University Press - March 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 9 |
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| Title: Conscious Designs |
| By (author): Nathanial White |
| ISBN10-13: 1881163709 : 9781881163701 |
| Eugene, a wealthy paraplegic, must decide whether to preserve his consciousness forever in a digital utopia or suffer the pain tormenting his existence. Yet the more he learns about digital replication, the more deeply he understands personhood, empathy, and the value of suffering. |
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Pages: 133
Size: 177x127x12mm
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| Published: Miami University Press - May 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 9 |
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| Title: Day of All Saints |
| By (author): Patricia Grace King |
| ISBN10-13: 1881163628 : 9781881163626 |
| Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. MartÃn Silva de Choc, childhood survivor of an army massacre during the Guatemalan civil war, and now a language-school teacher in Guatemala City, falls in love with his American student, Abby, and follows her home to Chicago on a fiancé visa. Days before their wedding, however, Abby goes missing, and on a Halloween afternoon MartÃn embarks on a search that leads from the ghost- strewn yards of Chicago's North Side to the Lincoln Park Conservatoryâ and ultimately back to his violent past. A story about repressed secrets and the limits of love, DAY OF ALL SAINTS traces the effects of historical trauma on individual lives. |
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Pages: 96
Size: 203x140mm
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| Published: Miami University Press - November 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 3 of: 9 |
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| Title: Fastness |
| Sub-title: A Translation from the English of Edmund Spenser |
| By (author): Trevor Joyce |
| ISBN10-13: 188116361X : 9781881163619 |
| Poetry. Translation. The Mutability Cantos have long been recognized as Edmund Spenser's crowning achievement, and along with his unfinished Faerie Queene, of which they appear to be an isolated fragment, they constitute a founding text of English poetry, and of the entire Romantic movement. In FASTNESS, Trevor Joyce gives us a poem which his subtitle describes as "A Translation from the English" of the Mutability Cantos. His introduction justifies this provocation on historical and poetic grounds. Spenser migrated to Ireland in 1580 and, as administrator and settler colonist, he served as an intrinsic part of England's colonial enterprise, and a participant in its barbarities. It was in his castle at Kilcolman in north County Cork that he wrote most of the Faerie Queene, including the Mutability Cantos, and it was in that Irish landscape that he situated many of the idylls of his epic poem. It was there too that he composed his "View of the Present State of Ireland," a prose tract which advocated the conquest of Ireland through a savage policy of scorched earth and induced famine, which provided a model for Cromwell's campaign fifty years after Spenser's death. It is the break made by Cromwell's conquest, and the massacres and ethnic cleansing which accompanied it, that radically alters the meaning of Spenser's text viewed in historical retrospect, and justifies calling FASTNESS a translation. Joyce's poem turns allegory inside out, foregrounding the political narrative which underlies the mythological surface of Spenser's text. The Mutability Cantos grafted Elizabethan colonial politics onto a base of classical mythology. In FASTNESS, Joyce strips out Spenser's poetic dialect, and refits the narrative with modern poetic vernacular, viewing this monument of English culture through four centuries of British imperial and colonial history. "Trevor Joyce's superb introduction to his translation of Spenser's English into our English tells us what we need to know about Spenser's time, his method, his politics, Ireland then, and the making of a poetry that is twined around sound, syntax, and sense. This is a bracing book held fast by multitudinous events spinning in unison. We see how the gods behaved towards Earth (a clod of turf in space) savaging her with bad weather. Wild Irish weather from mountains to sea, season to season, day to day: ever mutable. The held-fastness of the words together give indigenous a new poetic meaning."â Fanny Howe "Part of a series of oversettings of Edmund Spenser's work that commenced with Joyce's Rome's Wreck (2014), a monosyllabic 'translation into English' of the sonnet sequence The Ruines of Rome, this new rendering of Spenser's The Mutability Cantos is nothing less than a radical postcolonial Irish poem. In FASTNESS, Joyce gives us back Spenser's language both ruined and revived, as Spenser, the settler colonial official and land- grabber of Kilcolman Castle, Cork, plotted the ruin of Irish culture, language and people. Like Blake's Milton, FASTNESS is Spenser's poetry with sympathy for the devil, a language of Mutability, fast in its vernacular and in its rollicking narrative, and holding fast, as Joyce always does, to the ample resources of the language that its ruination reveals. Read, and enjoy the ride."â David Lloyd |
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Pages: 112
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| Published: Miami University Press - October 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 9 |
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| Title: Fictions |
| By (author): Ashley Honeysett |
| ISBN10-13: 1881163741 : 9781881163749 |
| When turmoil erupts in her private life, a struggling writer finds that her real-world problems have begun to cross over into her work, leading to a quest to better understand herself as an artist. Told in a fragmentary style that blurs the line between reality and imagination, Fictions considers the everyday tollsâ the personal as much as the aestheticâ of getting our longings onto the page. |
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Pages: 119
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| Published: Miami University Press - May 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 9 |
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| Title: Hafez |
| Sub-title: Translations and Interpretations of the Ghazals |
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| ISBN10-13: 1881163547 : 9781881163541 |
| Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Farsi by Geoffrey Squires. Thought by many to be untranslatable, the great 14th century Persian poet Hafez, who has been celebrated by figures as different as Goethe, Emerson, and Bunting, has at last found the voice in English that he deserves. Geoffrey Squires, who lived in Iran for three years, gives powerful insight into that culture with these translations of the work of one of its iconic figures. Based on 248 ghazals (just over half the Divan), this is one of the most comprehensive translations ever to appear and also one of the most varied, revealing aspects of the workâ courtly, lyrical, satirical, mysticalâ that will surprise and delight many. Squires brings a poet's ear to the task, capturing the energy, wit and beauty of the original which after all this time still speaks to us. He also breaks new ground in terms of translation strategy, using short interstitial prose pieces to punctuate and point the text. Detailed background notes are provided, and there is an extensive bibliography in Farsi, English and French. "Geoffrey Squires' translations of Hafez are not only beautiful (and they are) but innovate a new approach to the translation and presentation of poets from the distant and exotic past. In finding fresh means to show Hafez in context, Squires composes a work both faithful to Hafez and with a narrative power that opens a true dialogue between present and past. His Hafez in that sense sets a new standard for our time and for years to come."â Jerome Rothenberg "In their careful, musical, painterly pointing of difference in similarity, stress inside equanimity and singularity breaking the continuum, Geoff Squires' Hafez translations weave a shimmering, moiré fabric from the old and the new, the strange and the deceptively familiar. Squires is the best of hosts, too, offering small, genial and always useful interventions, tiny palate-cleansers of data or abstract form, which arrive before you knew you needed them. If Paul Blackburn had improvised a verbal riff on Astrophil and Stella, and Brian Coffey had written it down, they might have come close to, but would never equal, the marvelous sensual minimalism of Hafez and Squires."â Peter Manson "Geoffrey Squires is a poet of note. What strikes me is his capacity to put into words what is fluid or elusive, writing characterized by the innerness of its language. This explains why he has an affinity with Hafez. His long absorption in the world of Iran has led him to the masterpieces of its literature. Analyzing Hafez in the light of his predecessors such as 'Ayn al Qozat, he explores among other themes the mystic gulf between belief and faith. A richly mature work, this translation brings a new lustre to the jewel that is Hafez."â Charles- Henri de Fouchécour |
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Pages: 515
Size: 229x152xmm
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| Published: Miami University Press - March 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 9 |
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| Title: Mitko (Miami University Press Fiction) |
| By (author): Garth Greenwell |
| ISBN10-13: 145076214X : 9781450762144 |
| Fiction. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American newly arrived in a foreign city pays a young man for sex. Over the next months, as what at first seems an uncomplicated transaction deepens into something more intricate and unnerving, his discovery of the geography and griefs of an unfamiliar country is accompanied by the unfolding of Mitko's own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. The story of a desire that grows increasingly ambivalent, poised between submission, need, and resentment, MITKO is a powerful meditation on the chances of history and privilege, on mutual predation, and on our inability to know with any certainty the natures of others or our own fugitive selves. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Miami University Press - June 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 9 |
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| Title: Rumi |
| Sub-title: Poems from the Divan-E Shams |
| By (author): Jalal-Uddin Rumi |
| ISBN10-13: 1881163679 : 9781881163671 |
| Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated by Geoffrey Squires. HAFEZ: TRANSLATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF THE GHAZALS (Miami University Press, 2014), also translated by Geoffrey Squires, won the 2014 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize awarded by the American Institute of Iranian Studies. In this volume of translations of another of the major figures of Persian poetry, Squires brings the same combination of poetic skill and scholarly precision to the task. The book traces the changing and sometimes challenging relationship between the scholarly Rumi and the unpredictable dervish Shams, who suddenly appeared in his life, and through it the deepening of Rumi's experience of love and his insight into mysticism. We also get occasional glimpses of Rumi the man and a sense of the times in which he lived. There are detailed notes on the poems and a groundbreaking discussion of Text and Context."The massive volume of Rumi's DIVAN-E SHAMS resembles a vast field of wild flora in which the person in search of flowers to make a bouquet can easily become confused and lost. Geoffrey Squires has not only accomplished the daunting task of picking those flowers, but also domesticating them for the garden of English poetry, and has miraculously managed to retain their original scent and hue. With his free verse renditions, in these translations, he beautifully captures the whirling dance of Rumi's poetic language and music."--M. R. Ghanoonparvar"This book should consolidate Squires' international reputation as one of the most accomplished and sensitive translators of ancient poetry--both Persian and Irish--for the modern reader."--Augustus Young |
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Pages: 264
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| Published: Miami University Press - February 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 30.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: The Electron-Ghost Casino |
| By (author): Randolph Healy |
| ISBN10-13: 1881163733 : 9781881163732 |
| Comprising forty-nine units, with a bespoke porch and optional exit through a bestiary, Randolph Healyâ s The Electron-Ghost Casino has a décor ranging from the cerebral (all percentiles included) to the earthy. Notes of horror, intimacy, fractured histories, and joy echo from its chambers. Healy is the author of Green 532: Selected Poems 1983-2000(Salt 2002) and other books and chapbooks celebrated by readers throughout the Anglophone poetry world. This is his first American book publication. Are some of his tunes unfamiliar? Donâ t worry, or do. We may be out of time, but thereâ s still space. Dance. |
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Pages: 86
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| Published: Miami University Press - March 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
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