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An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780819512116Author Yusef KomunyakaaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher Wesleyan University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781692458676Author Poetry of DhimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607025Author Lex HixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "blackness," past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary moment, but...

Not since On the Road has a book been more thoroughly of the road. Unlike Kerouac's novel, however, this book was literally written on the road in Gudding's own car, on pad and paper while driving. Rhode Island Notebook is the handwritten account of one...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912696Author Andrea GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130963Author Robert ConquestFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

This newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound's Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are many of the "stale creampuffs" (as Pound called them) of the 1949 edition. Instead, new emphasis has...

The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"-a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio-visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414102Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 55gDimensions(mm)...

A revelatory anthology of poems, experimental prose and previously unpublished work by Madeline Gins, the transdisciplinary writer-artist-thinker famed for her "Reversible Destiny" architecture Poet, philosopher, speculative architect and...

Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his eyes. The poetry reveals his depth of understanding, both of the world around him and within...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Award Finalist 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780804172943Author Patrick PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061137457Author Allen GinsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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 9780807068823Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 165mm * 13mm

"Only artworks are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals," Susan Howe has said. In Concordance, she has created a fresh body of work transmitting vital signals from a variety of archives. "Since," a semi-autobiographical prose-poem, opens the...

With Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future. The book begins with the birth of the...

Michael Palmer's new book-a collection in two parts, "The Laughter of the Sphinx" and "Still (a cantata-or nada-for Sister Satan)"-contains 52 poems. The title poem begins "The laughter of the Sphinx / caused my eyes to bleed" and haunts us with the ruin...

Nineveh takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. Zohar Atkins's poems offer humour and hospitality alongside deep learning and enigmatic, mystical theophany...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626863897Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063087330Author Kate BaerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint HarperPublisher Harper

In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Judith Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534547Author John BerrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy." Many of Ginsberg's most famous poems. Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453610541Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959012Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060568238Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062854155Author Campbell McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679455141Author Robert FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 165mm...

At the center of Mayakovsky's Revolver is the suicide of Matthew Dickman's older brother. "Known for poems of universality of feeling, expressive lyricism of reflection, and heartrending allure" (Major Jackson), Dickman is a powerful poet whose new...

This collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets was first published in America in 1954. The Collected Poems was prepared by Stevens himself, shortly before his death, and contains all of his published books of poetry, covering more than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912245Author Anis MojganiFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

'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 9781450584357Author Edgar Lee MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work-when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.About the...

Charles Olson (1910-70) believed that poetry exists in an 'open field' through which the poet transmits energy to the receptive reader. Olson's influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense. His...