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A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our time's best nature photographers and a very talented and creative poet. Inspired by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430379Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume...

First published in 1963, this book is now restored to print in a new edition containing some revisions and one hitherto unpublished poem.Book InformationISBN 9780393041460Author Adrienne RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW...

Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker's generous selections in A Stranger's Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp. In a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596520Author Erin BelieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint 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 9780593465066Author Amanda GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 439gDimensions(mm)...

In 1988, the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins' ""The Apple That Astonished Paris"", his ""first real book of poems,"" as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the...

Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne Laux's five expansive volumes, including her confident...

"The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudah's poems explore loss, displacement, suffering, and longing. They drift from the personal and specific to the larger stories of peoples and nations that...

In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively--globally, locally, and in...

'Seidel grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks. He is one of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century.' Calvin Bedient, Poetry'He is scary, but funny, but scary. You would have go back to confessional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912986Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

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. ...

A new collectable edition of Poe's poetry which demonstrates his skilful and imaginative command of the English language. Often regarded as the founder of the modern short story Poe also laid the foundations for the symbolist poets and futurists of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395120989Author Galway KinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure.Book InformationISBN...

Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects his essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry.“When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that's what I'd do my whole life. I don't regret it." - from the afterword by...

W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice in modern American literature, he was United States Poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534939Author Charles SimicFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781938912146Author Jack McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986270376Author Alexis Rhone FancherFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Kyso FlashPublisher Kyso FlashWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555598Author Kimberly JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

How to Carry Fire was born from the ashes of family addiction. Beginning with the burning down of her childhood home, Thatcher explores how fire can both destroy and cleanse. Her work recognises embers everywhere: in farmhouses, heroin needles, poisonous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591495Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 694g

In this new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside things that don't even exist-and then they do.In Dot, Ron Padgett returns with more of the playfully profound work that has endeared him to generations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679747673Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 136mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107439Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 380g

In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-Hannah Emerson's poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, and listen. They move with and within the beautiful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385094788Author Don MarquisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The...

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has produced but also a major poet of the twentieth century in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This anthology serves as an introduction to Jeffers's work for...

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and...

Philip Levine was the authentic voice of America's urban poor. Born in 1928, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he spent his early years doing a succession of heavy labouring jobs. Trying to write poetry 'for people for whom there is no poetry', he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939574183Author Chelsea WoodardFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Measure Press Inc.Publisher Measure Press Inc.Weight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593465271Author Amanda GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm)...