Poetry

Dawud Wharnsby's unconventional approaches to writing and religion challenge paradigms of how we look at our own lives in relation to others and the world through which we all journey. "For Whom the Troubadour Sings" collects together all the lyrics that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724903Author Eoghan WallsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Six of the most remarkable contemporary Russian poets present their groundbreaking verse in a bilingual poetry collection published in partnership with PEN America's Writers in Dialogue project. In 2020, as international travel skidded to a halt, PEN...

The first anthology of its kind to appear in English, "Modern Poetry of Pakistan" brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages, six of them regional (Baluchi, Kashmiri,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595615Author Keith S. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978143Author Catherine BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

In a 1989 interview, Han Dong declared that he wrote poetry for nobody, not even himself. He likens the poet to a roofer: "I write poetry for the constitution of poetry, just as a roofer gives no thought to who lives in the house whose roof he is...

"Fireworks and Working Girls" Fireworks and working girls They've danced with abandon Descending into loneliness in the end Confucian moralists wouldn't agree: These explosions in the heavens are a natural thing We watch as we please reflect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713703Author Kyla JamiesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

"A true poet of modern classic culture in mid-twentieth century U.S.A."-Allen Ginsberg"At their best the poems have an intensely oral, I would like to call it glossolalic, freedom, as if they captured the essence of what one might like to express in the...

Since his post-9/11 essay "The Emergency," Andrew Joron has been regarded as one of American poetry's most profound practitioners. Trance Archive draws on over twenty years of Joron's work, from his early science fiction poetry to his later fusion of...

Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards in Poetry and 2010 American Book Award The first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from the Mayan ruins of Central America to Arizona. Thus,...

"Housekeeping"Tepid blow cools the liquid to hunch and wind. A box arrives and loaded spills order across the Jloor. Living room, dining room, room of tinder and kindling. The joints grindto aspirin under the whitest application. At night I place oil...

Originally written in Portunhol - a Spanish-Portuguese mix from where Brazil and Argentina border Paraguay - with Guarani, Bueno's Paraguayan Sea is a homage to life, to being embodied, to border crossing, and to language itself. Who is its Paraguayan...

Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings, Newports, and love, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption vs. the whitebody s idealized reflection) with live Black bodies. Woven through experimental lyrics is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595028Author Lucia PerilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 184mm...

First English-language collection of award winning Misty poet Authoritative selection of work from the last 20 years Work included in the recent anthologies Push Open the Door (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and Twentieth Century Chinese Women's Poetry...

Inspired by the Beats, Black Mountain, and the New York School, Lisa Jarnot emerged in the 1990s as one of the foremost poets of the post-Language avant-garde. Joie de Vivre draws on twenty years of work, from the bold fragmentation of her mixed media...

Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation "In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning memory into verse, recovering from the past everything that...

Available for the first time, this significant volume collects over one hundred of Robert Bly's prose poems written over a period of five decades. It includes the bulk of several landmark out-of-print volumes as well as uncollected poems and new material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595660Author Deborah LandauFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595721Author Dean YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

"I like being in the world of Craig's poems. Anything can happen, and probably will, and it will affect me in small or large ways that I couldn't have imagined. The precision of their imagery keeps me reeling with delight."--James Tate Thin Kimono...

"Although the past is a constant theme in Rozycki's work, the present erupts with no less urgency . . . he witnesses the ant-like unimportance of human beings viewed from a cosmic perspective." Helen Vendler, Harvard University The hero of the mock...

"Song of Napalm is more than a collection of beautifully wrought, heartwrenching, and often very funny poems. It's a narrative, the story of an American innocent's descent into hell and his excruciating return to life on the surface. Weigl may have...

Ford is editing the UK edition of the Best American Poetry series and we can expect attention and support from them here Ford is a very active critic and both well-known and well-respected in both the UK and the US with regular reviews in the TLS and...

Originally published in Chinese in 1999, Salsa has been Hsia Yu's most successful collection of poetry, selling thousands of copies in Taiwan and Hong Kong alone. Zephyr Press's 2001 edition Fusion Kitsch included a generous selection of material from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912516318Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Grey Fox PressPublisher Grey Fox PressWeight(grams) 99gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909360303Author Mike WhittakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 78g

A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. "Your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906228975Format PaperbackImprint Iron PressPublisher Iron PressWeight(grams) 282g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130860Author Arthur WaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

"On the bridges to those slippery worlds, we are wrapped in gold foil, disease free. Who is saving whom? The question's not stated, only implied." In 2013, the Italian government implemented Mare Nostrum, an operation intended to limit immigration from...

Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit...

"Amanda Nadelberg's poems ...are jumping, funny, romantic, and frequently lyrical...which in the immediate reading is almost pure music."-Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly From "Matson": So what patent reason is there to doubt the color of a person's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781953534668Author Charif ShanahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345277602Author J.R.R. TolkienFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 175mm...

Low explores the jaggedness of memory and what is salvageable when the past is broken by loss, violence, and trauma. Punctuating Nick Flynn's signature lyric poems are prose pieces and sequences, veering toward essays, including "Notes on a Calendar...

Through the creaking of bedazzled branches and the soft rustle of jeweled leaves, deciduous qween explores the queer world all around us-how we, like our environment, wear and shed different identities in our performance as human, as drag queen, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881747Author Hilde DominFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 142mm *...