Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811200080Author Gottfried BennFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

There's no predicting a Denise Duhamel poem, except that it might be about something you've never seen in a poem before: Mr. Donut, Rodney King, or nude beaches; Gertrude Stein, phone sex, or the Girl Scouts. Poems from The Woman with Two Vaginas, a book...

This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems amuse, but also offer vivid insight into the world of...

Autostraddle's "Books Relevant to Your Queer and Feminist Interests in 2020" and Latin Post's "Must Read Books by Latin Authors in 2020"In elegiac and fervent poetry, Lara Mimosa Montes writes across the thresholds of fracture, trauma, violence, and...

A seminal collection of poetry from the medieval Sufi mystic-the most popular poet in America-and his "soul friend," Shams Tabriz, which illuminate the evocative and deeply spiritual dimensions of friendship and love, compiled by the foremost Rumi...

I was a single parent for many years and along the way discovered that the most important thing in life to me is being a mum. Having battled low self-esteem throughout most of my life, I found I could express myself through writing poetry. I have always...

A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan's work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time. Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of the most important poets writing in Arabic. Since the...

Often history is told by the victors, or by those who did not witness it. Trilussa was a witness, and through his art, a victor. He documented Roman and Italian society in poems and fables, from Italy's birth in the late nineteenth century, to its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930337053Author Laura SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Codhill PressPublisher Codhill PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Samuel N. Rosenberg, one of the premier translators of Old French, presents in this volume the first modern English-language version of the thirteenth-century French romance Robert le Diable, a tale of supernatural birth and spiritual redemption.Robert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595622Author Liu Tsung-yuanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

In the first modern edition of the poem since 1863, James H. Morey presents The Prik of Conscience to a new audience of students of the Middle Ages. The famous fourteenth century poem leads its audience on a path of penance. Attributed to the mystic...

In No More Time, Greg Delanty offers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. The collection's long sequence, "A Field Guide to People," is an alpha-bestiary of twenty-six sonnets, each a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Poetry) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781555975333Author Jason ShinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher...

The Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card 2021. In February 2020, ventilated tetraplegic poet Owen Lowery and his wife, Jayne, were travelling to Scotland when their vehicle aquaplaned, spun round on the motorway, hit a barrier, flipped over the...

"Swarm", Jorie Graham's eighth volume of poetry, is a book-length sequence which sets out to encounter destiny, Eros and law. The poet confronts a fundamental problem: whom to address, who there still is to address. She negotiates passionately with those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122539Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 157mm...

Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.About the AuthorE. E. Cummings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935904267Author Jon SandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 143gDimensions(mm)...

Slakki is Old Norse for a shallow depression among hills: 'Not much of a valley. A Slack,' writes Roy Fisher, with typical self effacement. But appearances are deceptive where this Slakki is concerned. Opening with new poems written during his 80s -...

Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning...

Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua: many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt's many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal, certainties are undone in an open-ended quest. A Chinese...

Head in the Clouds: Memories and Reflections is the long-awaited sequel to Boyd Clack's acclaimed first memoir Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. Made up of 100 Facebook posts, the book blends prose with selected poems to share tales from the stage, from the...

"Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post "Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."-New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's...

Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats spent the winters of 1913-16 living together in a Cottage in Sussex. During that period, Yeats, with Pound's help, developed his autobiographies and Noh-style plays. Pound, similarly, under Yeats's influence, experimented with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812997873Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 243mm...

Once a blue moon, a love like this comes along. This collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. With her beloved gravely ill, poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt turns to daily walks and writing to find a...

The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since the love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods - pre-Islamic, Ottoman classic, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad...

WINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction!WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction!"Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."-Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943977437Author H MeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCPublisher Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578297286Author Prabhsharandeep SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Sikh Chintan PrakashanPublisher Sikh Chintan PrakashanWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902382098Page Count 27Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 55g

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts,...

A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811206624Author Ernesto CardenalFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Jack Sheldon examines the German mindset at the close of 1914 when it became apparent that a quick victory was no longer a possibility. Both sides were temporarily exhausted in static positions from the Channel to the Swiss Border. In a reversal of...

This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic...

Surdas has been regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of the sixteenth century, when he lived, to the present day. His fame rests upon his remarkable refashioning of the widely known narrative of the cowherd deity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945023125Author Laura WinberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Indolent BooksPublisher Indolent BooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we swear.This is what...