Poetry

A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America's most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation's curriculum for...

'you start every new day with an inventory: a moth, a cape, a parachute, a coffin, a gun, the wall you built to mount the gun.' On the Subject of Fallen Things is an addictive, Chekhovian metanarrative: phenomenological, absurd, and dripping with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374516529Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780976395065Author Miltos SachtourisFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Archipelago...

A canonical great poem, or mahakavya, of the Sanskrit canon, depicting a well-known episode from the Mahabharata.Magha's The Killing of Shishupala, written in the seventh century, is a celebrated example of the Sanskrit genre known as mahakavya, or great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993454714Author Paul Van OstaijenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957551138Author Yoyo YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre

Keats and the Culture of Dissent sets out to recover the lively and unsettling voices of Keats's poetry, and seeks to trace the complex ways in which his poems responded to and addressed their contemporary world. It offers new research about Keats's...

"Fragment of the Head of a Queen makes it clear why Cate Marvin is becoming one of our essential poets."-Rodney Jones Cate Marvin's new poems, their wrought music, unblinking focus, and hard-edged sensuality, are wreathed with an entirely different...

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537302Author Paul MuldoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781973680895Author Michael FinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint WestBow PressPublisher WestBow PressWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529284Author Henri ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 113g

Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects his essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry.“When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that's what I'd do my whole life. I don't regret it." - from the afterword by...

In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of Gertrude Stein's posthumous works, among them her incomparable Stanzas in Meditation. Since that time, scholars have discovered that Stein's poem exists in several versions: a manuscript that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876389Author Victoria BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Every major airport has a three-letter code from the International Air Transport Association. In perhaps history's greatest-ever feat of armchair travel, Nasser Hussain has written a collection of poetry entirely from those codes. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578507835Author Zachry K DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Zachry K. DouglasPublisher Zachry K. DouglasWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

A scholarly edition of a work by Lucretius. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198144571Author LucretiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint...

This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence...

"With this volume, Chaves makes an outstanding contribution to the books that present classical Chinese poetry in both accurate and enjoyable English translation."-Choice Yuan Hung-tao (1568-1610) was the greatest poet of Ming dynasty China. His poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861523306Author Angus Peter CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 297mm * 129mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536565Author C. K. WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 506g

"An artist who moonlights as a dentist. A worm who's eternal. A farmer who milks his cow to death. Not to mention the guy with a belly button for an eye. Russell Edson, self-named Little Mr. Prose Poem, returns with See Jack, a book of fractured fairy...

H.D. called By Avon River "the first book that really made me happy." In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.'s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322754Author Jenny RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

In her fourth collection Isobel Dixon takes readers on a journey to far-flung and sometimes dark places in poems that are vivid forays of discovery and resistance, arrival and loss. Bearings sings of love too, and pays homage to lost friends and poets -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998829050Author Friederike MayrockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Song CavePublisher Song CaveWeight(grams) 136g

F.T. Prince's "Collected Poems 1935-1992" incorporates all the work that he wished to preserve, from his earliest published poems to late, uncollected pieces. Prince has become best known for his wartime poem "Soldiers Bathing", a meditation on violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988732183Author David MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976161257Author Clark CoolidgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm)...

Drawing on subjects as varied as Roman legionaries and a worn-out shirt, modern air travel and the imagined life of a lugworm, A Sense of North searches for purpose and order in the human condition. A sense of wonder finds itself kindled in the small and...

With the Saina as his figurative vessel-a ship built in modern times as an exact replica of the swift outriggers designed and sailed by the Chamorro people until banned by their oppressors-Craig Santos Perez deftly navigates the complexities in his...

"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his...

A legend of 19th century French Canadian poetry, Emile Nelligan was only 16 when he fell under the influence of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and began writing taut, confidently surrealistic poems, shot through self-lacerating melancholy. Translating Nelligan's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398442740Author William BirminghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This volume contains translations of two late collections by Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According to the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis "for his poetry, which, against the...

"The Canto General", thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.About the AuthorJack Scmitt is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese at California...

Social Justice Poetry Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story of a stowaway on the Windrush,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598890Author Jonathan EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press