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In this highly original reexamination of North American poetry in English from Ezra Pound to the present day, Christopher Nealon demonstrates that the most vital writing of the period is deeply concerned with capitalism. This focus is not exclusive to the work of left-wing poets: the problem of capitalism's effect on individuals, communities, and cultures is central to a wide variety of poetry, across a range of political and aesthetic orientations. Indeed, Nealon asserts, capitalism is the material out of which poetry in English has been created over the last century.

Much as poets...

'Wonderful and mad' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . .

Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times'Tender, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving' Louise O'Neill'GAS and beautiful and truthful and touching' Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups'A novel for anyone who's ever felt lost in the world' John Boyne, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies'Sharp, clever and affecting' The Independent'Beautifully written . . .

emotionally intelligent and thought-provoking' Daily...

Writing in both Spanish and English, Lili Nealon takes us on a journey through Buenos Aires, New York, Kigali, Nazareth and a deserted island called Poitou in story after story that depict humanity at its best and at its worst. Her journey leads us to unknown places, dives deep into our heart and soul, and often brings us to tears.

We experience the hopes of a nine-year old orphan in Rwanda, a young couple facing death in a deserted beach and another hiding their affair in plain sight at the beautiful Colon Opera House in Buenos Aires. There is an arrogant psychiatrist who finds an...

In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower. Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue...