Poetry

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

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker and bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayrocker immediately began attempting to come to terms with his...

"Gorgeous and real poetry. This book is a bright spot in a bleak time." - Peter Gizzi A True Account collects works written between 2013 and 2020, published by a variety of small presses in the UK and the US. Here are variously refracted the student...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998829036Author Francis PongeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Song CavePublisher Song Cave

Negative of a Group Photograph brings together three decades of poems by the leading Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman. Born in Mashhad in 1962 and based in Sweden since 2006, Ghahreman is the author of five highly acclaimed collections. Her poems are lyrical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374522827Author Professor James WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

"Old Angel Midnight is one of the great delights of the boundless improvisational world. Jack Kerouac's ear is peerless, manifesting structures otherwise impossible. A masterpiece of the mind freed to fly. Read it aloud, for yourself, 'for the sake of...

Readers have noticed that the fifteenth century saw a remarkable flourishing of poems written in conditions of physical captivity or on the subject of imprisonment. The largest body of this poetry is from the pen of Charles of Valois, duke of Orleans,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061139758Author Allen GinsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 1189Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial

"Beauty isn't nice. Beauty isn't fair;" So, in part, states an epigraph for this stunning new collection, his thirteenth, by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry (2000). First traversing betrayal and loss, Stephen Dunn then moves to speak of new love,...

The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics' characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genre-receiving wide literary and popular attention. This groundbreaking...

"Poetry," Michael McClure has said, "is not a system but is real events spoken of, or happening, in sounds." And for thirty years, whether in his early "Dionysian" lyrics or his evolving "bio-alchemical" wisdom, his work has shown a ferocious energy and...

The complete text of John Gower's Confessio Amantis is a 3-volume edition, including all Latin components - with translations - of this bilingual poem and extensive glosses, bibliography, and explanatory notes. Volume 3 contains Books 5, 6, and 7, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390709Author Derek MahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985552725Author Michelle G StradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Michelle G. StradfordPublisher Michelle G. StradfordWeight(grams)...

The Three Cornered World is the novelistic expression of the contrast between the Western ethical view of reality and the Eastern ethical view by one of Japan's most beloved authors. Natsume Soseki tells of an artist who retreats to a country resort and...

Poems deal with death, self-image, disasters, politics, children, evolution, history, the news, language, dreams, animals, and love.Book InformationISBN 9780395404225Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912368Author Daniel NesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Sophia Blackwell's new collection, The Fire-Eater's Lover, is about performance of all kinds. Whether it's the rituals of seduction, the trials and triumphs of squeezing into a red vintage dress or the adrenalin of putting a microphone to your lips,...

At the heart of Repetition Nineteen are twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in Monica de la Torre's first book, written in Spanish. She embarked on this new genre-defying project after realizing she had been living in New York for as long as...

A showcase of poetry from some of the darkest and most lyrical voices of women in horror. A follow-up to the award-winning poetry showcase Under Her Skin, UNDER HER EYE features the best in never-before-published dark verse and lyrical prose from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566569354Author Farid Ud-Din AttarFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662933639Author Phoebe AngeniFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne and a vigorous defender of Christian orthodoxy, was born into the senatorial aristocracy in southern Gaul in the mid-fifth century and lived until 518. The verse in Biblical and Pastoral Poetry was written in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449486808Author Rupi KaurFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is universally recognized as among the most important twentieth-century German-language poets. Here, for the first time, are all the surviving translations of his poetry made by Ruth Speirs (1916-2000), a Latvian exile who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806663Author BhartrihariFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

An anthology of poems by members of Trinity College, Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College, Cambridge. Over the years, Trinity may have harboured more...

A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life. Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection When the Dark Spoke to Me to life through words...

Ya Shi, an "outsider" poet, who teaches math and lives 1,000 miles from the Beijing literary scene, is celebrated among lovers of Chinese poetry from the conservative to the avant-garde. This bilingual (Chinese/English) collection draws together jagged...

Features five key figures of Australian poetry - Kenneth Slessor, Roland Robinson, David Campbell, James McAuley and Francis Webb. Les Murray's introductory essays to the poets evoke the writers' circumstances, the trajectories of their very different...

Selected poems by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by John Teniels. Produced in an attractive and collectible format, marketed at a competitive price. This is part of a series which will number about 12 titles.Book InformationISBN 9781912945061Author Louise...

Sara Sutterlin's I Wanted to Be the Knife picks at the bones of modern romance by exploring the disappointments of intimacy and the loneliness of dissolving relationships. Her poems are brutal, funny and full of tender, ugly details that remind us of...

First published in 1968, this companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems was compiled by W.H. Auden to bring together six of his longer poetic works, originally published between 1930 and 1947. Auden was one of the modern masters of the extended...

The Best British Poetry 2011 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in British-based literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry, including lyric, formal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196159Author Michael McCarthyFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136217Author Amy GerstlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593190708Author John KenneyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his...

Appearing for the first time in a Liveright paperback edition, 22 and 50 Poems combines twenty-two new poems from Cummings's Collected Poems (1938) with his 50 Poems (1940). Included are such favorites as "My father moved through dooms of love" and...