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Redolent of Chicago's ethnic culture, Susan Hahn's intensely personal lyrics emerge from the world of an extended Jewish family and its neighbors. The voices of these immigrants are imbued with the profound effects and memories of the journey 'From a patrolled town in the Ukraine/to Baltimore on a boat, then a train to Chicago.' Hahn's poetry is about love and the lack of love, about rejection, and about other forces-generational, political, social, and sexual-that overwhelm individuals and cause them to limit themselves both physically and psychologically.

The poems collectively build up a novelistic world even as they individually retain all the intensity of focus associated with lyricism. Hahn's fevered book of human emotions becomes a powerful rumination on love, aging, and mutability in general.

A great book, astonishing in its range of language and invention, and utterly enthralling in it combination of irreverent humor, linguistic play, and deadly insight. Feldman's sensibility combines and integrates in remarkable ways intellectual suspiciousness and lyric, almost visionary, reach.

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clock. Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's sensitivity to the insecurity of human experience amid the temporal circumstances of change and time-passage, as well as strategies for ethicising historical vision in several of his major works. While wasting time was sometimes viewed as a sin in the late Middle Ages, Chaucer resists conventional moral dichotomies and explores a complex and challenging relationship between the interior sense of time and the external pressures of linearism and cyclicality. Chaucer's diverse philosophical ideas about time unfold through the reciprocity between form and discourse, thus encouraging a new look at not only the characters' ruminations on time in the tradition of St Augustine and Boethius, but also manifold narrative sequences and structures, including anachronism.