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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513282497Author Yone NoguchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387779020Author Kahlil GibranFormat HardbackPage Count 632Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books

Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of...

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family - the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes - all from Asian American, immigrant and queer perspectives. Holding all...

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.Through elegaic verse that honors her mother and tells of her own...

Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'One of the most important poets of his generation'ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical'Powerful'DUA LIPA'Redefines our idea of what an...

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...

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...

"Sincerely is passionate. Honest. Charming. F. S. Yousaf has beautifully encapsulated in a book what it feels like to fall in love."-Madisen Kuhn, author of Almost HomeFans of top-selling Sincerely are saying "unexpected perfection", "not your basic...

Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a healing narrative and explores trauma and place through a somatic, poetic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781556595745Author Victoria ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S...

WINNER of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant LiteratureFinalist for the Firecracker Award for Poetry! A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156391252Author Carl SandburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912481Author Sarah KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595851Author Ocean VuongFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one...

*AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***Selected as one of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021**'Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.' TOMMY ORANGEWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535957Author Chew-Bose, DurgaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gorgeous ... intense ... shimmering ... [an] unforgettable collection' Observer'Beautiful, sensuous and plural ... a vital and visceral collection. Breathtaking' Joelle Taylor, author of C+nto & Othered Poems'Brave .....

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALISTJackie Wang's magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.The poems in The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From...

Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the...

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527205321Format PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ruby DhalPublisher Ruby DhalWeight(grams) 186g

In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought "the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue." Her first book, the highly original postmodern text Dictee, is now an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735365Author Phil KayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986093838Author Natasha RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry Review

Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526830Author Li-Young LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594670Author Arthur SzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Literary Award (Open Book) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781556594106Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S...

"Adamantine bristles with taut, startling language that continues to yield surprises even after readers realize that they are at serious play within the fields of the human heart, a realm in which 'we must know when to give in.'"--Carolyne Wright "How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9780156983501Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526533Author Li-Young LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943977277Author Kaveh AkbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCPublisher Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCWeight(grams)...

A furious, multiform examination of the devastation wrought by anti-Asian racism in America Truong Tran's provocative collection of poetry, prose and essays is a stunning rebuttal to the idea of anti-Asian racism as a victimless crime. Written with a...

Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes. The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. Master follows the speaker's struggle with masculinity...

An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter.Reading Prescribee is not dissimilar to the experience of coming across a recipe in a vintage American cookbook:...

A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life. Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection When the Dark Spoke to Me to life through words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595264Author Aimee NezhukumatathilFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.