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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590467Author David RomtvedtFormat 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 9780932826497Author David MarlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University, New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932826541Author David Dodd LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 63Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University, New...

Winner of the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize selected by Alicia Ostriker. Schwartz's Dear Good Naked Morning explores what it is to be a woman in love with the world.Book InformationISBN 9781932870039Author Ruth L. SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Pennsylvania Collection Agency is comprised of poems written in 1986 but withheld from publication until now. This volume utilizes the unifying structure of a single year in the poet's life as an organizing principle. Burkard has been quietly...

In this, her first book, Martha Serpas succeeds brilliantly in fulfilling the calculations of the alchemists, those great hermetic artists of medieval Europe. Cote Blanche deliberately and beautifully weds the secular to the divine in poems which,...

Poetry. Cynie Cory's poetry delves into the nature of identity, gender, and American experience with frequently remarkable results. "Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart's territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical...

The poems in Lullaby (with Exit Sign), explore the very nature of the elegy as rite, memorial, mechanism for healing, and raw utterance. Bar-Nadav asks, what is the shape of grief-its forms, silences, and sounds? The muscular music of her language and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907356230Author Michael WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901538175Author John A. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint etruscan booksPublisher etruscan books

Once again, the setting for many of the pieces is the Green Mountains of Vermont, where the poet and his family have lived for several years. A member of the editorial board of The Hudson Review and a regular contributor to numerous periodicals, he is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486258Author Rebecca Morgan FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

fault tree is a book-length poem divided into three connected effects stemming from one undesired state: time. This text poses time as a governing body overthrown by a simple mental repositioning--only 'inescapable' because so few have tried to escape...

From the author's "Memo to the Reader": "if you open this book and expect to / know me you will find both truth // and lie all poets lie and lay and have / lain so discover inside what's mad // or curious yet beware ye who enter / for you...

Mortar is a text of stealth and volatility, of both explosive and empathic interactions. Just as the title connotes both the short smoothbore gun used by the military to wreak havoc, and the organic material made from cement, sand, lime and water that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087893372Author Nicholas M AbdoFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 127g

Evoking the life of Nicephore Niepce, one of the pioneers of photography, The Room In Which I Work explores how the invention of the medium was also an invention of language. At once biographical and personal, factual and fictional, Seguin's debut...

Witness to the late and sorrowful pact between predator and prey, spectator and species, Molly Bendall's fifth book beckons the reader into the enigma of animal relation. "What's left?" she asks. The answer is past remembering, attuned to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897648933Author William WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Salmon Publishing LtdPublisher Salmon Poetry

The elegies that comprise Richard Greenfield's third book of poems, Subterranean, open the rhetoric of the form in new ways, creating a site of grieving that transcends a focus on the death of the father. Though lyrical, these elegies juxtapose the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903392805Author Eamonn WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 57Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Evolved from the poet's observation of the daily practice of Tai Chi Sword, these poems evoke the fluidity of martial art practice, the motion of Chinese brushstroke painting, as well as the shifting physical and metaphysical arena that is human...

Every Day But Tuesday is a book of lyric experiments amassed from a space beyond ordinary time, where "this is tomorrow and the sun" stands, reverberating both as precursor and postscript to the apocalypse. The extraordinary world of these...

Squander occupies a place where "the mind's upstairs windows [are] blown out": a place of juxtapositional delight through sensory and conceptual dislocation. Poems based in word origins work as fables, and poems based in dialogue work within a select...

The last living member of the original circle of Anarcho-pacifist poets at the birth of the San Francisco Renaissance, Richard O. Moore presents his second book, Particulars of Place. The title poem is a meditation on life in the twilight of American...

Yolanda's a convict, caught by the cops while her boyfriend was robbing a bank. Now all the Hell Sisters at Harrington Hills prison farm are in love with her. Their leader wants to "marry" her. Yolanda has to find a way out. She's been taking a...

A Semblance: Selected and New Poems (1975-2007) is the first selected compilation of poetry by Laura Moriarty. Drawn from her previous poetry collections and including new work, this selected demonstrates Moriarty's ability to make each lyric phrase into...

Blood Oboe materializes inside the labyrinth of the cosmos. These poems, possessed by tonal torque, writhe in frustration: in loss of faith, in the shadow of "progress," in abject desire. For lack of finding transcendence in the everyday,...

Zach Savich's The Man Who Lost His Head wrestles with the irrational rationality of life as we dimly perceive it. Yet these poems elicit, like the ambiguity of life itself, our most fervent and strange fidelities. There's such a thing as a willed poetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880075Author Teresa CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint CavanKerry PressPublisher CavanKerry PressWeight(grams) 666g

In Zach Savich's new collection, intent seeing makes the present more present. Here clarity is a quality not of logic, but of perception-not of description, but of the landscape itself. The mysteries of grief and joy, of daily desire and loss, resonate...

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Aerial is concerned with the sky--its cloud-laden aspects in the first section, its dry realms of severe spirituality in the second. And as poetry is always about attention to language, the words "cloud" and "clod"--a shape of vapor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932826626Author Angela SorbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University, New...

In a woods where bodger and cabinet maker are at work, Michelle Taransky's second collection of poems, Sorry Was In The Woods is that landscape where perspective is not singular, where waiting, worrying, watching, and recording are able to both arrange...

Some Habits proceeds by way of a series of letters charting the dreams, observations, apologies, and epiphanies of an unnamed addressor. The poem is infected by the vernacular language of the Ozark mountain region, and by the cultural effluvia of the...

Thigh's Hollow locates the wound Jacob suffers from wrestling with a divine stranger, but in a voice more Esau than Jacob: a "box this telling comes through not of." These transgressions leave a longing in their wake, a fundamentally alienated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886449657Author Charles SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Barrytown LimitedPublisher Barrytown LimitedWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979062315Author Andrea SelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carolina Wren PressPublisher Carolina Wren PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930100186Author Jeanie ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 61Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 136g