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Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom is a collection of some of her best and most empowering quotes. This is the ultimate keepsake for fans of Maya Angelou's beautiful poetry, as well as for anyone looking for a bit of in-the-moment inspiration to have in their...

Poetry. Asian American Studies. LUCKY FISH travels along a lush current-a confluence of leaping vocabulary and startling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at its source: for love, motherhood, "new hope," and the fluid and rich possibilities of...

Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns is wry, profound and abundant with an unspecified...

Social media sensation Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages of empowerment. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire the fortitude...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803623979Author Sofia J RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Eclectic Editions LimitedPublisher Eclectic Editions LimitedWeight(grams)...

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD 2015WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 2015'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding...

The poems in More Shadow Than Bird are imagistic narratives of emotional situations that offer not the story of a life, but of the consciousness accompanying the life lived. The quirky perspective and musical surface of these poems makes them engaging -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617202643Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781997062Author Nicola CassidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd

Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry-an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."-Library Journal (Best Poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062688811Author Nicole SealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916111592Author Emily BullockFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Reflex PressPublisher Reflex PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm

This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of border crossings. Nichols's major female protagonists...

From best-selling poet, r.h. Sin, comes an expanded hardcover keepsake edition of his original chapbook, Rest in the Mourning. The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and emotion...

Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood,...

"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document...."--Adrienne RichAbout the AuthorAudre Lorde (1934-1992) published eleven volumes of poetry and five works of prose. Her constellation of honors includes honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin, and Haverford...

‘A writer who never loses their way’ New York TimesA searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world’s gaze turned to Minneapolis – Smith's own home.Written after two years of artistic silence, during...

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Recommendation. In Discipline, her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted...

Although a very prolific poet-and arguably America's greatest-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing...

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray SextonWhen Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which...

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONPostcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book, an anthem of desire against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174869Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Soft spoken yet powerful, Serenity perfectly captures the constant battle of fear and courage that lives within us. The seeds of Serenity were planted in F.S. Yousaf's last collection of poetry, Sincerely. Struck by inspiration and overwhelmed by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804910375Author Dan SlottFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd

US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997426588Author Pierre Alex JeantyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Jeanius Publishing LLCPublisher Jeanius Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

'THE BEST AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION.' - TIMEGathered on the occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a fresh and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry. The renowned...

"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." -NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947021433Author Jessica MehtaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Unsolicited PressPublisher Unsolicited PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker)For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563249Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.The Selected...

The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition. Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531056Format PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 75g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060951696Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117711Author Carrie FountainFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Charles Olson (1910-70) believed that poetry exists in an 'open field' through which the poet transmits energy to the receptive reader. Olson's influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense. His...

'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an...