Poetry

Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061537189Author Jorie GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739254650Author S. BruzonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dark Thirty Poetry PublishingPublisher Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956692211Author Francis DaulerioFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Unsolicited PressPublisher Unsolicited PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385302Author James BentleyFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 409g

Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692709184Author Alison MaleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Alison SennonPublisher Alison SennonWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912832Author Mindy NettifeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578935317Author Michelle L AwadFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Michelle AwadPublisher Michelle AwadWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398462861Author Paul HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912511Author Taylor MaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876327Author Lizzie SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975619100Author Catherine HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Catherine HannahPublisher Catherine HannahWeight(grams) 136g

A princely tale inspired by Christianity and Buddhism.One of the best known examples of the hagiographic novel, this is the tale of an Indian prince who becomes aware of the world's miseries and is converted to Christianity by the monk Barlaam. Barlaam...

2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance2022 California Book Award FinalistPolitically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593535936Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998438115Author Jesse CaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Secret Midnight Press LLC.Publisher Secret Midnight Press LLC.Weight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156421737Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

Mapping America as he travels westward, the Nostalgist is an exile from his native Kashmir, and even from his first American home; his is the unique perspective of the outsider. These jeweled, intricate poems, like the multilayered "In Search of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804392010Author John CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

In the 1930s, Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, two pioneering scholars of oral poetry, conducted adventurous fieldwork in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and northern Albania, collecting singularly important examples of Albanian epic song. Wild Songs, Sweet...

Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398424876Author Kamal MirawdeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880012126Author Robert HassFormat PaperbackImprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO PressWeight(grams) 160g

A Sleepwalk on the Severn is a reflective, book-length poem in several registers, using dramatic dialogue. Ghostly, meditative, and characterized by Alice Oswald's signature sensitivity to nature, the poem chronicles a night on the Severn Estuary as the...

"One of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I've read in some time."-Dwight Garner, New York Times"In a flurry of ideas, and with her typically sparse and open-ended lines, Minnis approaches her subject from a dizzying array of angles: ironic,...

Body Shell Girl is a memoir in verse about the first two years of a decade that Rose Hunter spent in the sex industry in Canada. When Rose walked into a massage parlour in Toronto in 1997, she was looking for a temporary fix to pay rent and avoid having...

Inspiration Led By PoetryStop cutting yourself short: You must wear your crown at all times. If you were waiting on someone to give it to you, Dear Woman is here to inform you that you can give it to yourself. Every woman is a queen, especially you. Put...

Bondo is Menna Elfyn's latest collection in Welsh and English. Her title means eaves in Welsh, referring to poems about getting close to language as sanctuary. Other poems were written episodically over a number of years. These meditative poems began...

This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together the most interesting experimental works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the major Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. As he moved from futurism to neoclassicism, symbolism to socialist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999674229Author Amir DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996778664Author Ron PadgettFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Song CavePublisher Song CaveWeight(grams) 118g

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets. She has published over 20 books in Danish since her first collection appeared in 1981, and her work has been translated into many languages. She received the 1999 Nordic Council Literature Prize -...

Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen books of poetry, the creative output of a lifetime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436842Author Robert John NewlandsFormat HardbackImprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ is absolutely central to the Christian religion. Peter Carnley deals critically with the attempts of the world's leading theologians over the past hundred years to handle the resurrection of Christ conceptually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436286Author Ralph DartfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm

Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination - a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of...

The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526618Author Caspar WeinbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 156g