Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528614Author Zagajewski AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Charlotte Smith's life was the stuff of romantic anguish; upon marriage she felt exiled in "personal slavery", and began publishing poems to earn money while in debtor's prison with her extravagant husband. They subsequently resided in France...

The Bible is by far the leading source of inspiration for Western literature, and in particular, the life of Jesus has drawn the attention of artists and writers throughout the ages. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905232Author Thorne MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Honno Welsh Women's PressPublisher Honno Welsh Women's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134776Author Arthur WaleyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” told in the style—and substance—of the great English poets from Edmund Spenser to Stevie Smith.   In The Lamb Cycle, David R. Ewbank achieves the unthinkable—he writes so convincingly in the style of the great English...

Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust. Alan Dundes' theses identifies a strong anal erotic element in German national character,...

The first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history. This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan's medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is...

Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780856356216Author George CrabbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Fyfield BooksPublisher Carcanet Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789870442Author Annie Johnson FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm)...

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and ...

Marie-Therese Walter was seventeen when she met Picasso. He was forty-six. These poems - as simple and direct as quick sketches - use her voice to tell the story of the relationship with Picasso and what it meant to her from its first beginnings, until...

"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature--honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."--Dennis Cooper "[Myles' writing] comes across simultaneously as effortless and utterly gorgeous...To...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957240121Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387268Author R H BlythFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 32mm

John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world...

Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and memory. Hitting the Streets is Queneau's love letters to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393309768Author Carolyn ForcheFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598692Author Di SlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Over a period of several months poets were invited to write new poems in response to the 1217 Charter of the Forest, to trees or woodland of personal significance to them, or how trees have shaped our society, landscape and lives. They sent poems about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize Poetry Category 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780819511928Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher...

For more than five decades Anthony Rudolf has been active as translator, critic, editor, and publisher: all in all, an enabler of writers and readers. His own poems come to him gradually, under pressure of real themes and subjects, refined by the...

An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor,...

From writer, photographer, and fashion editor Emmy Marucci comes an arrestingly candid volume of poetry and photographs exploring the universality of family nostalgia, grief and loss, fear, and enduring love. In Tell Me Another Story, Marucci examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615956800Author Jeannine Hall GaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398435957Author Samuel RankinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The central theme of Carole Satyamurti's new collection is the shifting relationship between loss and gain. It explores the varied ways in which that relationship is played out in day-to-day experience. The poems range from personal to the political, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112549Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 183gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838349509Author Francesca FoxcroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Foxbooks PublishingPublisher Foxbooks PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

With a foreword by National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann Dictionary of Midnight collects almost 50 years of poetry by Abdulla Pashew, the most influential Kurdish poet alive today. Pashew's poems chart a personal cartography of exile,...

Dubbed 'an immaculate survivor' by Robert Creeley, Tom Raworth has remained steadfastly independent of literary fashions and cliques throughout a poetic career spanning fifty years. As When is the first selection of Raworth's writing to address the full...

In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (which he liberally excerpts and remolds), the modernism of William Carlos Williams, and the haunting urban imagery of Baudelaire, Cavafy, and Lorca. Three long poems...

The first definitive collected edition of American poet Edward Dorn s writings, this irrepressibly offbeat volume marries the old West with American counterculture. As it celebrates Dorn s epic poem "Gunslinger, "this collection which is both wonderfully...

The stories are familiar: family disharmony, mourning the loss of a loved one, vengeance, national tyranny, international war, a desire for justice. This new translation by Jeffrey Scott Bernstein, an independent scholar and novelist, preserves the...

Viva Loch Lomond! collects the greatest hits of stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster Elvis McGonagall in one volume for the first time. Witty, satirical but not afraid to be plain daft, Elvis McGonagall's work takes aim at our septic isle of...

As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky's The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and...

"Her complex ideas are born into verse with the easy, simple beauty that is typical of her stunning lyric style."-Boston GlobeAbout the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Reviews"The title of [Sarton's] luminous...

Explorations of humans in the natural world using tender, sometimes erotic, always moving language. Julia Fiedorczuk entangles images and concepts from science (astronomy, physics, and biology) with deeply personal explorations of relationships and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062389091Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 386g