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A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan."Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself...

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...

Too many amazing poems end up overlooked by the academy and excluded from the canon, remaining largely unknown to the poetry-reading public. Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer's Dark Horses joyfully rediscovers dozens of these poems, recognizes their power, and...

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...

A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. "Your...

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982777Author Samuel LovemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her...

For the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competing...

"Printer's ink is the greater explosive." Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of...

Titled after the poem that burned up on Tumblr and has inspired wedding vows, paintings, songs, YouTube videos, and even tattoos among its fans, Mouthful of Forevers brings the first substantial collection of this gifted young poet's work to the public. ...

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 9781935904373Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887483363Author Ted KooserFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578451169Author N R HartFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Monday Creek PublishingPublisher Monday Creek PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the Braille slate to sensuous prose poems...

I met you at dusk. We loved till midnight. Then, you left me. 2am found me at my lowest. When the sun came up, I dried my tears, found my strength, and went on with my day. The poetry of 2am Thoughts condenses an entire relationship with its untamed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530327Author Robert LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 1216Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection seek out the delicate intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Exploring questions of inheritance (from mother to daughter, from...

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593319192Author Anthony HechtFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062399465Author Nikki GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint William Morrow PaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Unlike many Wave titles, this paperback edition follows the hardcover by one year and will arrive in the market enjoying a year's worth of very strong publicity and word-of-mouth, attracting new readers with the new format and lower price. All of...

Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead.Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011451Author Wallace StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 1030Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692730102Author Cara Alwill LeybaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Passionista PublishingPublisher Passionista PublishingWeight(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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136804Author Robyn SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The six sequences of "There Is an Anger that Moves" travel from Jamaica to England and back. A mother's heart is broken; men fall in love secretly; people dance until they die. Religion haunts these disbelieving poems which move sometimes to the measure...

TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORIn this collection of essays, the author of Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna brings to us (out of one of history's...

Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595288Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint 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 9781598537215Author Gary SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 1000Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and...

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 9780981521305Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Quill Awards (Poetry) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781556592584Author C.D. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher...

Voted one of the best poetry collections of 2019 by readers on Goodreads! Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer takes a magical approach to self-care with her new collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In this empowering and...