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The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636840390Author Beth MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Primedia eLaunch LLCPublisher Primedia eLaunch LLCWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Jane Hirshfield's urgent new collection is a book of personal, ecological and political reckoning. Her poems inscribe a ledger personal and communal, a registry of our time's and lives' dilemmas as well as a call to action on climate change, social...

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...

Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works-Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha-as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than...

Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's...

Carolyn Forche is one of America's most important contemporary poets - renowned as a 'poet of witness' - as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. Over four decades, she has crafted visionary work that has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455519132Author Bo BurnhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. She is co-author with Dorianne Laux of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of...

In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063008427Author Kate BaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141169Author Joyce Carol OatesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2017Claudia Rankine described the poems in Alsadir's first book as 'lawless,' 'provocative, and 'heartbreaking' as they 'converse...

However arresting, outlandish, or hilarious, the poems in Horoscopes for the Dead are typically prompted by the familiar things of the world: dogs, stars, food, love, and marriage as well as life's local triumphs and disappointments, joys and shames...

Li-Young Lee is a leading American poet, born in Indonesia, whose poetry fuses memory, family, culture and history to explore love, exile, family and mortality. This selection, drawn from three collections and a memoir, shows Lee searching for...

Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic...

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)...

love comes in many colors.this is a storyof breaking and healing,of forgiving but not forgetting,of understanding and balance.it is not only something to enjoy,but something to learn from.here are the things i did right,and the many things i did wrong.i...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375404641Author Sylvia PlathFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 165mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735303Author Rachel WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE*Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Children's Literature) 2015 and Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Children's Picture) 2015 and Children's Book Committee Award (Poetry)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736596449Author Maxwell I GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Hex Publishers LLCPublisher Hex Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 240g

"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."-Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms-beautifully, forcefully-for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate...

What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534097Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

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

Frost is one of the foremost writers of American poetry. This is a thorough compilation of his seminal works.Book InformationISBN 9780312983321Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537703Author Robert FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780802145215Author Kay RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher...

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 9781556595134Author W S MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949966718Author Anne de MarckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945796418Author Janne RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Thought Catalog BooksPublisher Thought Catalog Books

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A selection of poems from the successful Radio 4 series, including Auden, Betjeman, Hopkins and MacNeice, with an introduction by Charles Causley.A compilation of classic poems from the beloved Radio 4 series.Book InformationISBN 9780460878241Author BBC...

David Starkey's "A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel" is a far ranging and fearless collection, of great humour and intelligence and sympathy. Ranging through philosophy and art and history - both global and domestic - these poems skillfully...

Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself.(I am large, I contain multitudes.)Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684125555Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 919gDimensions(mm) 235mm...