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'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary Supplement'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and...

Francesca Bell's second collection of poems, What Small Sound, interrogates what it means to be a mother in a country where there are five times as many guns as children; female in a country where a woman is raped every two minutes; and citizen of a...

In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers-in spite of the almost total academic...

Penguin's landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove) Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United...

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. Jeffers...

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 *...

Rae Armantrout, a core member of the Language writing movement, has long been known for the wit, emotion and punch of her social critique. Veil contains poems from five of Armantrout's previous books as well as a generous selection of new poems. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981808857Author Jules LaforgueFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black Widow PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

"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,...

The early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. But despite the power of his poems about...

"One of the great original voices of our times--a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence."--Jack Kerouac "Robert Lax's poems [prove] yet again that the gift to be simple is the gift to be free, that less is more, and that least may sometimes be most...

During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. His startling work alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) playful and recondite, affirms...

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for...

Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary...

In Toxicon & Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeney's daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick,...

Shivanee Ramlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic. Her poems reference the...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in 1923 in Jamaica, the son of a lawyer of Scottish descent and a Russian mother, he emigrated to America at the age of 17. Voices...

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize 2020. Longlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet - the placeless place...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711954Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618057047Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 293g

A Poetic Autobiography-Intimate, Sorrowful, and Funny Lynn Emanuel's sixth collection of poetry is not sequential or straightforward. It has no conventional chronology, no master narrative. Instead, it is a life story, with all the chaos and messiness...

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...

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...

The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and eventually rediscovers itself in a place of peace and closure. It's about learning to grow alongside grief. About taking the hand of your younger self and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735471Author Blythe BairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

A poet and student of the occult, Worth based her work on the premise that words themselves are a means to control exterior phenomena and interior changes. This is not the magic of complex ceremonies, this is magic from the heart, the magic incarnated in...

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

A gift for his wife, Jay Wright's Polynomials and Pollen explores the complementary exigencies of abstraction and physicality. In five sections, each arranged under the aegis of a tutelary concept-from the Yoruba, Akan, Bamana, and Nahuatl-the book is a...

Within the visual arts of painting and photography, Martha Ronk finds an undeniable presence lurking: silence. This character slips into pauses, hides between images, and expertly evades the grasp of language. Ronk shows us that what is hidden just off...

In addition to substantial new work, Allen Grossman in The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected 1979-1991 gives his readers a retrospective of a life in poetry that has brought him such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize of...

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. An essential voice in modern American literature, he was United States Poet Laureate in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2010 and Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781555975616Author James L WhiteFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525565345Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)...

WINNER OF THE PEGASUS AWARD FOR POETRY CRITICISMThe Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation...

Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530969Author Robert LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

"Among America's greatest poets, a true minimalist who can weave awesome poems from remarkably few words." -Richard Kostelanetz, New York Times Book Review Every generation of poets seems to harbor its own hidden genius, one whose stature and brilliance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908167Author Stephen SondheimFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783350Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...