Poetry

Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Yang Lian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524784Author Michael HofmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

'One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial TimesThousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts,crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts.This is the Sundarban, where great rivers give birth;to a vast jungle that joins Ocean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621383925Author Sam DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876419Author Jane LovellFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

"In a dark time," wrote Theodore Roethke, "the eye begins to see"--and with Braille Rainbow, Mike Barnes reveals both darkness and the light that shines beyond it. Beginning with a suite of poems completed before and immediately following his admission...

Borrowing its title from an Ennio Morricone ditty in the spaghetti western Gunfight at Red Sands, Jennifer L. Knox's A Gringo Like Me contains poems at once raucous and sexy, tender and high. In favorites such as "Hot Ass Poem," "Cruising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387676381Author Sonia SabnisPage Count 166Imprint CinnamontealPublisher Cinnamonteal

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374516222Author James SchuylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Rita Dove to Yusef Komunyakaa, Kim Addonizio, Kevin Young, and Danez...

A.R. Ammons produced some of the twentieth century's most innovative and enduring poetry, collected here for the first time in its entirety. Volume I follows Ammons's development through his National Book Award-winning Collected Poems 1951-1971 and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535209Author Spencer ReeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

The fruit of four years' work, Lawrence published his translation of Homer's epic under the pseudonym of T. E. Shaw, after George Bernard Shaw. Reading like a novel, it was described in the New York Herald Tribune as `perhaps the most interesting...

Braving the dusty trails of the Wild West, cowgirl Dorothy and her horse Toto are riding to see the wonderful Wiz Kid of Oz! The legendary entertainer is auditioning new acts for his Emerald Circus, and Dorothy and her friends, Tinny, Crow and Leo, hope...

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limon, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three...

Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether the voice embodied is that of 'an adult male of late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Children's Picture) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781568462011Author J Patrick LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint...

When Valerie Rouzeau's first poem sequence was published in France a decade ago under the title "Pas Revoir", it met with immediate critical acclaim. These poems are an urgent, stammered lament for her dead father, a scrap-merchant, in which the poet's...

Becoming a parent changes everything. Fear and love live together. Suddenly there is a person in the world for whom you want happiness and safety, even when those two don't always coincide. Diary of a Young Father comprises forty letter-poems written by...

In 1898, notoriously, Kipling urged the imperialist nations to 'Take up the White Man's Burden' the following year, in Satan Absolved, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt angrily replied, 'The White Man's Burden, Lord, is the burden of his cash'. Such ideological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532611445Author D S MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

In poems rich with sensuality and discord, Mukomolova explores her complex identity-Russian, Jewish, refugee, New Yorker, lesbian- through the Russian tale of Vasilyssa, a young girl left to fend for herself against the witch Baba Yaga. Heavy with family...

This full collection of poems by underdog polemical poet Jamie Thrasivoulou is a no-holds-barred exploration of anthemic working-class narratives. Our Man spans themes of politics, drug addiction, gritty social observation, class-divide and identity...

The Last Woman Born on the Island is an exploration of the past and the present, and a celebration of the landscapes, both physical and emotional, that make up our lives. What are the colours of the language or languages we speak, and how do they infl...

Andrew Crozier (1943-2008) was a poet, and an energiser of poetry. A champion of work excluded from the familiar canon, he brought to the English literary landscape of the 1960s and 70s an engagement with the energies of American poetry. As a publisher...

The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the `inscape' of the living world. In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal...

CARE Dress like you care! Eat like you care! Care like you care! You don't think apples just grow on trees, do you? * A fish taps a clam against a bony knob of coral to crack its shell - which demonstrates intelligence ...

The intricate stories told in Rodrigues' portraits are matched by the rhythms and imagery in Fraser's poetry. From 'The Bangladeshi Gentleman' to 'Jura Whisky', this book offers an insight into the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures in today's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906451530Author AlcaeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Circaidy Gregory PressPublisher Earlyworks PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 8mm

Building the Barricade, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness.”—Jane HirshfieldBuilding the Barricade, is poetry of witness, and a lyric account of the sixty-three day Warsaw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892811885Author Haleh PourafzalFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838394394Author Remi GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Fourteen PublishingPublisher Fourteen Publishing

In the form of a journal covering the period December 6, 1963, through January 10, 1964, A. R. Ammons's long, thin poem was written on a roll of adding-machine tape, then transferred foot by foot to manuscript. He chose this method as a serious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450028Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 1380Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm)...

Thomas Kinsella stands apart in modern Irish poetry. His work, employing traditional and modernist elements in individual poems and open sequences, deals in a range of subjects from the most intense and psychic privacy to political satire and social...

A triptych of wild, lyric love poems that are, at heart, an ode to Arkansas. Set among blue Ozark creeks, hoods of trucks, and changing constellations, Cody-Rose Clevidence's poems call up embodied sensations as they arise, with love and anguish, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637680384Author Michael WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398477636Author Vicky WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060951061Author Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612616575Author Scott CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 507gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...