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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529226Author Robert CreeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary pushes past the line and the fragment and toward the sentence, the thought trying to complete, the paragraph, a distinct passage. The poems, most a single paragraph, are comprised of several of the many things a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435032Author Jon Michael SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 220g

At the core of Libby Burton's highly anticipated debut poetry collection, Soft Volcano, are the vivid details underpinning the relationships we hold dearly in our lives. A feminist force, highly wrought and impressionistic, surges from these intensely...

Whether Hicok is considering the reflection of human faces in the Vietnam War Memorial or the elements of a "Modern Prototype" factory, he prompts an icy realization that we may have never seen the world as it truly is. But his resilient voice...

Poet and philosopher Mark Nepo was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma in 1987. His journey back to health awakened a new life. In his latest book, Nepo explores how sacred and useful everything is. As such, this book is for everyone, not just for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692131589Author John P IrishFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Bit O'Irish PressPublisher Bit O'Irish PressWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615954622Author Susan Smith NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Texture PressPublisher Texture PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088084557Author Amber MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 86g

Calvin Bedient's fourth collection, The Multiple, meets an unspeakably excessive reality with an unremitting intensity of its own. The "multiple" in question is the imbroglio of entwinements and failed copulas within us and all around us, the...

To Be Read in the Dark casts its strobe of radical vision on the dark crises of our common experience. Personal and prophetic, these compressed lyrics are capacious in meaning. Here is a penetrating appraisal of the underlying politics and philosophical...

Fiercely elegiac, the title poem of Paul Hoover's desolation : souvenir began as a "filling in" of the blank spaces in A Tomb for Anatole, Paul Auster's translation of Mallarme's grief-stricken notes for a poem that he never completed on the death of his...

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Essay: A Critical Memoir is an experiment of the old school and of revived delight in the pleasures of close reading. What if all the poems are true? What if the allegories of a man or woman's life are in every way, and always, the actual shape of that...

In Landscape with Human Figure, his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America's most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos Williams, who was also a physician, Campo plumbs the...

Marjorie Welish, the esteemed poet who selected Michelle Taransky's manuscript for the Omnidawn prize, explains that these poems "animate the economies and concerns of our lives. Barn Burned, Then implicates Objectivism in this imagining, to create...

Beyond speaking of possession and dominance, which so often come cloaked in the placating language of stewardship; beyond speaking as merely an observer of the destruction wreaked upon the natural and social environments of this planet--Richard...

In the archives offers a lyrically rich, emotionally compelling cycle of poems that explores the alienation and longing we feel as we face the increased mechanization and frightening militarization of our present moment. In these formally inventive...

The Real Subject is not exactly a novel and not really a poem, though it contains some verses and is not without characters. Jacob Delafon, whose musings are here presented, is a man late in life who has gotten around-at least in his own mind-read a...

Liz Waldner's poems are emotive explorations into the personal, social, and political nature of speech. While this poet speaks into and through the implications of identity as a product of class, gender, history, literature, language, she nonetheless...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998671529Author Michael Stuckey JrFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Michael J. Stuckey Jr.Publisher Michael J. Stuckey Jr.Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998324081Author Gene S JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Dreamquest PublishingPublisher Dreamquest PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998258898Author Lisa Beech HartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Grayson BooksPublisher Grayson BooksWeight(grams) 145g

The question of civic lyric-the possibility of a politics of mourning-runs through this book-length aria-errancy-eros. All vectors of "rag" are at work: polemic political journal, syncopated turn-of-century song, menstrual blood, burial shroud,...

Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), has lived for two decades away from his homeland. This new collection maps the emotional and geographic cartographies of his various migrations, departures, and arrivals...

SUBWOOFER makes audible the deep bass of history, for this is a book of vibrant, honest listening: to the voices of Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Basquiat; to those without names; to the sadness of loss and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998736433Author Jerry BradleyFormat PaperbackImprint Angelina River PressPublisher Angelina River PressWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998601205Author Amy Saul-ZerbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Alexandra NaughtonPublisher Alexandra NaughtonWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998552231Author One Summers DeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Left2write BooksPublisher Left2write BooksWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998482958Author Warren CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Blast PressPublisher Blast PressWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998412702Author Jennifer Merri ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Prolificent PressPublisher Prolificent PressWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998367668Author Worthy DurginFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint With a Capital M Publishing Group, LLCPublisher With a Capital M Publishing Group,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998235554Author Roberto Mendoza AyalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Darklight Publishing LLCPublisher Darklight Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595188765Author Robert Watts HandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 953g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998403601Author Clifton SniderFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Los Nietos PressPublisher Los Nietos PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

These prose poems are parables of the human condition, written in plain-spoken unguarded candor, yet they sparkle with lyric surprise and imagistic inventiveness. Teicher is by turns seriously insightful, and cleverly playful as he examines the complex...

A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original,...

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The Ginseng Hunter's Notebook records a vital and eccentric dance for life. In poems of brilliant texture and intimate gesture, the poet, wounded yet resilient, evokes a music as compelling and fresh as birdsong. In her love of language, and in her...