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Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143116967Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447957Author Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447957Author Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape-hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and...

2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into...

America's Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. The poems in his final...

I can't undo all I have done to myself,what I have let an appetite for love do to me.I have wanted all the world, its beautiesand its injuries; some days,I think that is punishment enough.Maya C. Popa's poems explore the capacity of wonder to reawaken...

'A tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our world' Ocean Vuong'Radical . . . invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery' Tracy K. Smith'Psychotropic, visionary songs of love and defiance' Ralf Webb'Deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395825211Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 180g

"Don't expect sense from these poems, in which grief, politics, literary theory, and sexuality interweave. But do expect language surprise and beautiful metaphors. . . . When [Akilah] Oliver presents her experiences in metaphor-rich language, the reader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594403Author Olena Kalytiak DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 198g

Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and...

Galway Kinnell was one of America's major modern poets. This new selection - drawing on eight collections from What a Kingdom It Was (1960) to Imperfect Thirst (1994) - updated his 1982 Selected Poems, which won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National...

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395443Author Chief Dan GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395957776Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 111g

Cynthia Miller's debut poetry collection, Honorifics, is an astonishing, adventurous, and innovative exploration of family, Malaysian-Chinese cultural identity, and immigration. From jellyfish blooms to glitch art and distant stars, taking in Greek gods,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780374604103Author Louise GluckFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021525Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809970Author Edward SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted...

"Must-Read Poetry: October 2019" by Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions "Best Books of 2019," Book Riot This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395450Author Robert ServiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883642389Author Karen McCoskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth PressWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

War All the Time is a selection of poetry from the early 1980s. Charles Bukowski shows that he is still as pure as ever but he has evolved into a slightly happier man that has found some fame and love. These poems show how he grapples with his past and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. Nominated for New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780375755194Author Billy CollinsFormat...

More of a story than a collection of poetry, Love by Night will whisk you away from your world and into the dreamy romantic night.Love by Night begins with anxious hesitation and nervous attraction, grows into tender affection, blossoms into passionate...

Translated by the prizewinning translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the publication of Breathturn into Timestead, Paul Celan's collected later poetry. Finally, Celan's readers are able to read his work in full, with a new introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537215Author Gary SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 1000Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807069059Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 160mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420961126Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Etel Adnan's evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan's meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.About...

James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving,...

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his...

This new, comprehensive selection of one of America's foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems (1986), and includes selections from both her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981521305Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak…I can feel it."  In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond...

*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...