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Conjured by voices alternately ardent, caustic, grieving, but always watchful, these soliloquies move from free verse through sonnets and invented forms, insisting that every demolition builds something new and unforeseen. 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With their rapid shifts of scale and unusual directness, these poems find a new language for confronting our moment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49942461645073,"sku":"CIN1324020733G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51023110504721,"sku":"NIN9781324020738","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1324020733.jpg?v=1750755161"},{"product_id":"channel-book-jana-prikryl-9781324130383","title":"The Channel","description":"In her electrifying fourth collection, Jana Prikryl harnesses the power of King Lear to look back at her family story and see more clearly our own mad kings, our hunger for authority. Listening for Cordelia as a dissenter banished from home, Prikryl finds that outside her native tragedy the silent woman has more to say. The centuries and settings molt from the Bronze Age to Jacobean England to the Cold War to the digital now, as her voice pushes itself into evasive maneuvers, urgent digressions, bad jokes, worse puns, and desperate expressions of love, and she struggles to escape the roles written for her. What new language, what new reality—these poems ask—is available beyond the borders of any given role?     From “Insomnia at Anchor”:   ... the meter tells me who I was   the corridor I paced as Antony   Friends, best hour of school, can’t teach the fates   they couldn’t worry us, reading reassured   a book but carried out your feelings, ferried   away from home, amazing how stubbornly   we worried wrong, the fates will see you now   like rushes wetly cut from streams and tipped   in flame, or when that girl became a reed   is there a song that won’t make use of her","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53097679094033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53097679520017,"sku":"NGR9781324130383","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781324130383.jpg?v=1778234003"},{"product_id":"channel-book-jana-prikryl-9780571401383","title":"The Channel","description":"Jana Prikryl's poems wrestle with problems of power and selfhood in a style both fluid and inexorable. \u003ci\u003eThe Channel\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet's fourth collection and her UK debut, is in deep conversation with \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, listening for Cordelia as a person banished from home, whose nearest relations know love only as a form of control. 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