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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Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon.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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915079459Author Taylor StricklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951226190Author Anne WaldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Trident Business PartnersPublisher Trident Business PartnersWeight(grams)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420958775Author William BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

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...

There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871133748Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic BooksWeight(grams) 192g

The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501196812Author Madisen KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394109759Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Delhi Open BooksPublisher Delhi Open Books

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625579232Author Bettina JuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989641562Author Neil HilbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 106g

Author of more than thirty books, Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Selected Poems offers a full and representative selection of poems from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671210441Author Jim MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 168g

Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618083435Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 455g

Jane Hirshfield is a visionary, profoundly original 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Reading the West (Poetry) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780679755272Author Sandra CisnerosFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524855031Author Taisia KitaiskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060910914Author Edna St. Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g

In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems-Shepard's first-one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflects on growing up in America, rock and roll, the sex of fishes, and other topics. Shepard displays his...

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood...

Billy Collins is one of the world's most popular poets. While his poems often begin in the everyday and domestic, fans know that they might end anywhere - and that they will lift their heads from the book to a world startlingly different from the one...