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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484698Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

City of Salt, Gregory Orr's sixth book of poems, is largely autobiographical and presents moments of intense emotion which are anchored in clearly dramatized events. These are poems of elegy and celebration, and of occasions where the two modes fuse in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707575Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125839Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *...

'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563263Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm *...

'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' Boston GlobeIn Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the...

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color ...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie...

I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594779Author Richard SikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 113g

The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry "Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic...

Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735990Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2024'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807069141Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 159mm * 7mm

Brief poems describe nature, mortality, a missing child, the lives of animals, and the beauty of the seasons.Book InformationISBN 9780316650045Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown &...

'Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favourite new writers. If you want to feel seen and deeply moved, read Good Grief. Let the power of her writing guide you to a better life.' Yung Pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling authorAn expanded edition with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060882969Author Gwendolyn BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395957769Author SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 551g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062432964Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 183mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595752Author Ellen BassFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807066096Author Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641388214Author Keith S WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Page Publishing IncPublisher Page Publishing IncWeight(grams) 109g

In celebration of the American poet's centennial, Ask Me collects 100 of William Stafford's essential poems together in one title. As a conscientious objector during World War II, whilst assigned to Civilian Public Service camps, Stafford began his daily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593766580Author Maggie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 127mm * 15mm

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness so steadfast and radiant in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010004Author Everette MaddoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint UNO PressPublisher University of New Orleans PublishingWeight(grams)...

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.Book InformationISBN 9780876851913Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint...

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618083435Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 455g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068793Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 159mm * 9mm

Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting...

Featuring the full contents of Robert Frost's first three volumes of poetry-A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval-this unparalleled collection is a testament to the beauty of the master's writing. It gathers more than 100 of Frost's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068977Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 159mm * 6mm

"I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else," says Susan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian-American author and social activist, in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought the Wind. This new work followed her highly acclaimed novel,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024366Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader-The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.About the...

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 9780865474772Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...