{"product_id":"after-you-were-i-am-9781963270297","title":"After You Were, I Am","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary debut from Camille Ralphs, heralding the arrival of a major new talent. In \u003ci\u003eAfter You Were, I Am\u003c\/i\u003e, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. The book's three sections - rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters, and how our past informs (and informs on) our present. This is poetry as incantation, plea and invocation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a vast range of influences, from sacred texts and early modern drama to Metaphysical wit, twentieth-century Confessionalism and contemporary irony and mistrust, this ambitious debut embodies the variety and singularity of living voices past and present, which through rapturous music, anarchic wordplay and formal distortion are dragged to breaking point. The very history of the English language glows through the cracks. The effect is a terrestrial transcendence, as spaces within and between human thoughts expand to reveal a shared heritage of faults and answerless questions at every turn. Ralphs's style is utterly distinctive; she is a modern metaphysical, maker of poetry that in comprehending the past manages to make of it something utterly original and contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Camille Ralphs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McSweeney's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 6.34w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963270297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCamille Ralphs\u003c\/strong\u003e, born 1992, is a poet, critic and editor. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including \u003cem\u003ethe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe London Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and she has released three pamphlets: \u003cem\u003eMalkin\u003c\/em\u003e (The Emma Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award, \u003cem\u003euplifts \u0026amp; chains\u003c\/em\u003e (If A Leaf Falls\/Glyph Press, 2020) and \u003cem\u003eDaydream College for Bards\u003c\/em\u003e (Guillemot Press, forthcoming 2023). She writes critically for publications including \u003cem\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ethe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, produces a regular column for \u003cem\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/em\u003e and conducts an interview series for \u003cem\u003ePoetry Birmingham Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.  She is Poetry Editor at \u003cem\u003ethe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e. The poem \"after Mechthild of Magdeburg\" is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and other poems are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eLiberties\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Camille Ralphs \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47711722930333,"sku":"9781963270297","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_6c8c22fc-b2d4-45bb-856d-63be56d70b1b.jpg?v=1773168610","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/after-you-were-i-am-9781963270297","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}