Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782742015795Author Dr Philippe GelisseFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint John Libbey EurotextPublisher John Libbey EurotextWeight(grams) 1530g

The funeral elegy is in some important ways the quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how it developed into a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice. The hospitality of elegy to...

From the Lannan Translation Series Selection comes another double blessing' - the incandescent poetry of the master, Saadi Youssef, translated to perfection by another master poet, Khaled Mattawa. Youssef is one of the most powerful writers of the Arab...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711344Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Listening LibraryPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385017336Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

"Laura Formentini has written a lovely book of life lessons through stories, poems, and vignettes of insight and wisdom and revelation. The ultimate result is reinventing life through conscious awareness of life's daily miracles of healing transformation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913432713Author Jennifer KeevillFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stairwell BooksPublisher Stairwell BooksWeight(grams) 71gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967542416Author Frank X WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Old Cove PressPublisher Old Cove Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531452Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 172mm * 105mm * 27mm

Selected by Sally Keith as a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series, this debut collection is a ruminative catalogue of overgrowth and the places that haunt us. With Devon Walker-Figueroa as our Virgil, we begin in the collection's eponymous town of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860763Author Sarah de de LeeuwFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 248g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956890467Author Norah HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578401645Author Madalina ComanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Madalina ComanPublisher Madalina ComanWeight(grams) 236g

If Alice landed in London not Wonderland this book might be the result-picture and word weft and warp to create an alchemic (rabbit) whole. On one page, the image of an alien costume-hanging surreally beside a school uniform on a washing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367896Author Mimi KhalvatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Stray Birds (1916) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, Stray Birds is a powerful collection of short poems by a master of Indian literature. "Stray birds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398434264Author Misabel .Format HardbackPage Count 42Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715356842Author Oskar LeonardFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916139213Author Jo ColleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection Journey Poem published in 1989,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2020 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.Book InformationISBN 9781912196425Author Jill PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398411760Author Eve GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

From the very first page of this varied and engaging debut collection, Rhys Owain Williams invites his readers to pause. Here is a poet who is working things out, taking time to contemplate what it means to grow older with each passing day. The poems in...

"Why so few women on the street at night is another brilliant offering from the87press." -Bhanu KapilA searing and multi-form debut from Palestinian human rights activist and theorist Sarona Abuaker. Complete with images from performance pieces, essays,...

Ceci n'est pas Stonehenge', this is the cosmos, distilled to elemental rock and stone, depicting that interstellar collision, four billion years away, a chaos of realignment unimaginable, when all the worlds we knew or didn't know osmotically pass...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130383Author Carrie JerrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876808Author Jean AtkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Kaddy Benyon's second collection, The Tidal Wife, is concerned with islands: both as physical landforms and as emotional states; the need to retreat and be cut off as much as the need to reconnect and come to trust the pulse of one's internal tide. The...

A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker's experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993014123Author Heathcote WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Thin Man PressPublisher Thin Man Press

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique 'poem of place' in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained...

From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, this collection troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life.About the AuthorDOUGLAS KEARNEY'S work as a poet, performer and librettist has been featured in many venues...

Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought and wrote about the world. Miller's skillful introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001318Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196791Author Nick OnFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

"Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji," David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid...We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems...

Winner, 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize The divine and the digital achieve a distinct corporality in Maya Salameh's How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Layering prayer with code, Salameh brings supposedly...

Despite having written many acclaimed non-fiction books on the region, he has always considered those writings to be footnotes to the poems. From the long work "Mutra," written in 1952 and accompanied here by a new commentary by the author, to the...

A Fast Life establishes Tim Dlugos-the witty and innovative poet at the heart of the New York literary scene in the late 1970s and 1980s and seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic-as one of the most distinctive and energetic poets of our time. This definitive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807025918Author Richard BlancoFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press