Poetry

DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: A MASTERFUL SELECTION OF WORKS FROM ONE OF THE RICHEST OF ALL LITERARY PERIODS. WILLIAM BLAKE, ROBERT BURNS,SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, LORD BYRON, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, JOHN KEATS, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, EDGAR ALLAN...

Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. When she died in 1979, she had only published four collections, yet had won virtually every major American literary award, including the Pulitzer Prize. She maintained close friendships...

This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George...

The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55).About the AuthorDonald Justice is a preeminent American poet whose books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949342024Author Jacqueline SuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385093767Author Harold Gould HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

The "Canzoniere" is among Europe's most influential books of lyrics. The focus of this large collection is Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are many and various. Although part of the 14th century...

Moniza Alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In her early work, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious glimpses of the surreal - this poet's third country' (Maura...

A new child should mean new hope. But what if that's no longer so? Ailbhe Darcy's second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is threatened by a public one. Written in the American Rust...

"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." -LitHub For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past--memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560238Author Tamim Al-BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565023Author Casey BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of anthems for our time, at turns tender and piercing, and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630215Author John MontagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914362Author River WoltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495760Author Keith RavenscroftFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

These quiet, surprising, amazing poems deliver to the reader fresh contact with wisdom for life--lessons we should have known had we paused a little more and looked, things we may have known and lost track of, insights we perhaps sense and now can...

Rafey Habib was born in India, grew up in England, and now lives in America. In 'Shades of Islam', Habib provides a dazzling and moving collection of poetry that addresses faith, love, politics and Islam in the 21st century.Kube Publishing Ltd.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398478558Author TJ MustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374017Author Arvind Krishna MehrotraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with...

Born in Romania to Jewish parents, Paul Celan lived through the Third Reich and emerged as a poet, translator and teacher of great courage and resource. "Fathomsuns", a collection published in 1968, is Celan's longest collection and one of his most...

The hidden history of a vulnerable gay man whose life and death were turned into tabloid fodder.In the early 1990s, eight people living in a small conservative Florida town alleged that Dr. David Acer, their dentist, infected them with HIV. David's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771003509Author Jesse ThistleFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haunted by God. Poets, in times of great faith and times of doubt, have expressed for us their sense of both...

Translated by Clayton Eschleman A collection of writings ranging from cogent theoretical works to scatological glossolalia written during and after Artaud's incarceration in an aslum at Rodez creating one of the most powerful outpourings ever recorded...

With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to...

Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) was an award-winning poet and one of the leading British novelists of the twentieth century. He wrote more than fifty books, establishing an enduring critical and popular success with his 1958 novel Saturday Night and Sunday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398461338Author Daniel J L RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

2020 Stonewall Book Award - Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor BookLambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir';s debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity-the performance and sense of...

Virgula is an award-winning collection by acclaimed Dutch poet Sasja Janssen, and her second collection to be published in English. Taking as its title the latin word for ’comma’, the poems in Virgula reveal the stories hidden in the spaces in-between:...

Albania's Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxha's autocratic communist rule. Her recent poems are a response to what was missing then, not only in her life but for her whole...

E.A. Markham's iconic anthology Hinterland opened up new territory for many readers, with its substantial selections by 14 key poets with photos, interviews, essays by the poets themselves. It became a set text for the Open University and at many...

A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.The Therigatha is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally...

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award.In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954-"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also...

Women's sexuality is used as a weapon against them. In this stunning debut, Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power, in a world that refuses Black Queer women permission...

Asked what problems most perplexed "young men at present" Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) replied "a growing sense of discrepancy". His wry and wise poetry explores the tensions of a time of radical changes in the religious, political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978068Author Diane SeussFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177706Author James CagneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.