Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398445291Author Rhian K. BhatoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. This...

'A systematic study of all the Satires, [this book includes] for each Satire an exposition of argument and structure illustrated by pieces of either idiomatic translation of paraphrase, a description ofhistorical and social background, and comments on...

"Beginning with a barely perceptible nod to William Carlos Williams's 'This is Just to say', Sunshine assumes the voice of a mistress addressing a now-famous film director's wife. Wielding a feminist knife, the voice slices its way through a series of...

In A Strangely Wrapped Gift, you will find journeys from mental illness to recovery, from heartbreak to heart growth, from hopelessness to empowerment, and from the ocean to the stars. Juniper takes heavy, emotional raw material and weaves it into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781974581108Author Rachel Rhodes-PuckettFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629050Author Ceaiti Ni BheildiuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 412g

NPR Best Books of 2019 Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2019 Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2019 O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019 The Millions Must-Read Poetry of June 2019 LitHub Most Anticipated Reads of Summer 2019 The...

Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea-crossings, oracular pronouncements and encounters with the...

Alex Wong's first collection, Poems Without Irony (2016), was a book that took nothing for granted, that broke through to the particularity of things and experiences, distrusting and defying generality. Elaine Feinstein celebrated the 'extraordinarily...

A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long...

In Like Bismuth When I Enter, Carlos Lara engages in the purely creative aspect of language-its synthesis of dream and waking world. In these vibrant, hallucinatory poems, inspired by the element bismuth and its iridescent, surrealist structure, Lara...

Chosen Poems is also, Lorde says, "a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the worlds I have inhabited." Among those worlds are such earlier books as The First Cities, Cables to Rage, From a Land Where Other People...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838465605Author Peju OshinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Bakanna BooksPublisher Bakanna BooksDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 74mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913089580Author Jeremy NicholasFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Porter Press InternationalPublisher Porter Press InternationalWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711893Author Vera PavlovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 152gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 128mm...

With his fifth collection of poems, Michael Earl Craig delivers a fresh set of tableaux that have us squinting aslant at the ordinary. Dexterously constructed, the scenes, conversations, letters, instructions, stories, bios, and little fables of Woods...

"The Dog in the Sky" offers a view of the world that is skewed, vibrant and larger than life. Here, words turn into tiger-moths or laughing birds, the Minotaur finds his Ariadne and Pinochio's sister cuts loose from her strings. "The Dog in the Sky" is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035812455Author Beverley DeemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761171Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398427525Author Jayne Salisbury-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

"Canonized for being insufficiently American although he took America as his subject, chastised for obscurity by readers who would not allow or would not read homosexual meanings, Crane embodies many understandings of America, and of the predicament of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811227964Author Eugene GuillevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Non-binary poet Cyrus Parker returns with an all-new collection of poetry and prose dedicated to those struggling to find their own identity in a world that often forces one into the confines of what's considered "socially acceptable." Divided into...

Longlisted for Laurel Prize 2023. Set in a technicolour world of dreams, ghosts, classical music, and Key West storms, Jodie Hollander's compelling second collection charts the emotional journey of the daughter of a professional classical pianist. These...

What is illusion-a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem-the truth, or "a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself"?Nicky Beer's latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine academy specializing in the study of subterfuge; Marlene...

A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers'...

A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this...

"It is above all her integrity that has made Linda Pastan such a rewarding poet. Nothing is here for effect. There is no self-pity, but in this new book she has reached down to a deeper layer and is letting the darkness in." -May SartonAbout the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591105Author Hayden CarruthFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525435297Author Amit MajmudarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

In 1972 an elderly avant garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward the 1920s and then progress back to 1972. Each of the three was infatuated with Sophie. Before she...

"By definition, all living poets are excluded from this book. Myself seventy-nine years of age, I grieve still for many of these poets who were my friends. But knowledge, not pathos, is my purpose in gathering this anthology. Lastness is a part of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739151706Author Charlotte BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Nine Pens PressPublisher Nine Pens PressWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz’s poetry and penetrate the...

These warm, intimate writings encourage and guide you through daily worship and devotions. They set the tone for the day to be one of praise, gratitude, and companionship with God.About the AuthorLeslie Pockell is the editor of The 100 Best Poems of All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398492479Author Jill SaudekFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428691Author Rene CharFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Seagull BooksPublisher Seagull BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760426Author MartialFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374506483Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...