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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593766580Author Maggie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 127mm * 15mm

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limon, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three...

Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Gerald Stern describes his poetry as "heartbreakingly beautiful." John Updike proclaims his poems...

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...

As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130723Author E. E. CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Avalon Travel PublishingPublisher Avalon Travel PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780375701375Author Mark StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

Anne Stevenson (1933-2020) was a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight,...

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...

Tony Hoagland's poems interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. His new poems are no less observant of the human and the worldly, no less sceptical,...

"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...

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...

Brigit Pegeen Kelly creates a magical landscape of sound-patterns, myths and surreal encounters, celebrating the mystery and surprise of creation. She is one of the best-loved poets writing in the United States today, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,...

"If memory serves, it was five years ago that yours began to refuse," Rosmarie Waldrop writes to her husband in The Nick of Time. "Does it feel like crossing from an open field into the woods, the sunlight suddenly switched off? Or like a roof without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525071Author Mina LoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

In his most expansive and unruly collection to date, the acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein gathers poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of "covidity," as Bernstein calls it in one of the book's most poignantly...

Finalist for the 2024 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay PoetryCollaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten By a Man captures crisis by cutting up the record of a...

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 9780395825211Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143108160Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 155mm *...

Written over three seasons in a Vermont cabin, these poems act as a reflecting pool, casting back mortality, consciousness, and time in new, crystal-clear light.Early access copiesPromotion: BookExpo America, AWPTargeted bookseller mailingNational print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375710810Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544711195Author LondrelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963818331Author Muriel RukeyserFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Paris Press IncorporatedPublisher Paris Press Incorporated

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019New Statesman's best books of the year, 2018This new book of poems and essays by Eileen Myles finds our game-changing writer keying lines in the euphoric style that the New York Times has called 'one of the...

Deadpan, epic, and searingly charismatic, A Sand Book is at once relatable and out-of-this-world. In poems tracking climate change, bystanderism, state murder, sexual trauma, shopping, ghosting, love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, A Sand Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892554782Author Molly McCully BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594557Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher...

"He's a poet for our time like Ginsberg was for his."--Eileen Myles "Conrad's work shows us that the body itself is the first source of alienation and estrangement from the self, and is thus the true subject of poetry. Only by engaging this body ...can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711985Author Anthony HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596643Author Kevin PruferFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint 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 9780143131700Author sam saxFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944380113Author Chelsey MinnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fence BooksPublisher Fence BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 170mm * 15mm

Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether the voice embodied is that of 'an adult male of late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804170857Author Mark StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm *...

This modern spiritual classic is a touching and human portrait of the woman who was the mother of Christ, drawn with reverence and dignity-a narrative poem of special distinctiveness, universal in its appeal, and written in fluent verse of exceptionally...

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work written between 1914 and the 1970s. Many of the...

Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in...

John Ashbery is known foremost as a poet, but he has been creating collages for nearly as long as he s been writing poetry. He began working in the medium when he was an undergraduate at Harvard, more than seventy years ago. Now, for the first time ever,...