Poetry

This landmark book brings together, for the first time in English, translations of 75 poems by the renowned Portuguese poet Maria Teresa Horta. It contains selections from each of her 21 volumes of poetry published over a writing career that spans six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524549Author Colin FalckFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734611588Author Katie WismerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Ahimsa PressPublisher Ahimsa PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584671Author Kaveh AkbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692495674Author Frank E HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Frank HoltPublisher Frank HoltWeight(grams) 454g

The new collection from RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award winner Mikko Harvey. Mikko Harvey's new collection invites readers into a world that is and is not the world we know. In poems at once surreal, satiric, and tender, we encounter a cast of...

The culmination of over 30 years of studying and thinking about Homer, world renowned scholar and accomplished poet Barry Powell has produced what one reviewer calls a "page turner, bound to become the new standard." Powell's translation renders the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936919642Author Diannely AntiguaFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint YesYes BooksPublisher YesYes BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 150mm *...

I am the Rage is not just a poetry book. It is a call-to-action.This evocative collection of thirty poems puts readers in the position of feeling, reflecting, and empathizing with what it means to be Black in America today. Dr. Martina McGowan, a doctor...

Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the “golden years.” as we live longer, we become inevitably curious about the actual texture of these late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908836045Author Thomas LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones - devotional and meditative, sardonic or political - and includes re-enactments of key...

Hailed by Plato as the "Tenth Muse" of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity's greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What's...

For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711702Author Edward HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406422Author Debasish LahiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 111g

"we find ourselves deep in the future of fairy tale. we are the offspring of our own imaginings." Ulrike Almut Sandig's second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable...

Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation' (Frank Bidart). His latest collection, "Where's the Moon, There's the Moon", takes its title from an improvised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524723Author Selima HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Camp Notebook is a masterpiece in its own right, a crucial work of European verse. It is one of the greatest pieces of literature to emerge from the Holocaust, and probably the finest volume of poetry born from the horror of the Second World War. ".....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532161Author Carl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061558894Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956440515Author Julie E BloemekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Madville Publishing LLCPublisher Madville Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735006Author Danez SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 5mm

In these restlessly exploratory poems and sequences, the space between things is never empty, but alive with messages. Utterly physical even when it is at its most enquiring, Philip Gross's latest collection contemplates space and sound. Even silence...

Published to mark the first centenary of Italy's entry into the Great War, Like Leaves in Autumn features 21 original Italian poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, with new English translations by Heather Scott. These are set alongside 21 new poems by...

The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"-a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio-visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that...

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream - and work - toward a more capacious "we"In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a...

'Beautifully up-to-date, old-fashioned work, where the dignity of English meters meets, as in a mosh pit, the vitality - and often the brutality - of American speech' Dan Chiasson, New Yorker'Shane McCrae is one of our best, a great poet who mines the...

In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a...

City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, City State presents a...

This 118-page book contains selected poems by Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885), rendered into English verse by John Howard Reid. Some of Rosalia's most famous poems are also presented in their original Castilian so that interested readers can compare de...

"The Will to Change must be read whole: for its tough distrust of completion and for its cool declaratives which fix us with a stare more unsettling than the most hysterical questions...It includes moments when poverty and heroism explode grammer with...

Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental...

"What treasures of knowledge we cluster around." That This is a collection in three pieces. "Disappearance Approach," an essay about Howe's husband's sudden death-"land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth"-begins the book with paintings by...

Opera Buffa is Tomaz Salamun's last testament. It is a book rooted in torn landscapes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Crafted from place and power, these poems are fragments of collective memory. "There are hands, inside. Concordance rises /...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367872Author David ConstantineFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

This volume of poems by Cyril Wong, one of the leading figures of poetry in Singapore, reflects the many ways in which love between two men can unfold, balancing emotional outpourings with meditations on the nature of relationships. The poetry punctures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578415710Author Neal SehgalFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Neal SehgalPublisher Neal SehgalWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861513618Author William F. McHardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 250g