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Whether searching for the beloved or translating dreams and memory into bearable parables, the speakers of Tessa Rumsey's poems cannot escape their endless longing. Will this uncontainable desire lead to the possession of the other, or to the dissolution...

Sexy, telegraphic, edgy, and rapt. .Exquisitely visual, cuttingly witty, Moore's poems are at once cool and searing.- Booklist In her third collection, Honor Moore returns to the charged territory of her earlier poems. Here, erotic and almost surreal...

This collection's searing poems travel between the frozen moment of personal time and the inexorable sweep of history. The poet tracks genocide's record from Tamerlane to Pol Pot, an exiled tyrant's return to the killing fields, and Penelope's embracing...

Following her stringent and much-acclaimed Kyrie, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ellen Bryant Voigt now examines more intimately the ordeals and exaltations of everyday life. Nature, both fierce and benign, infuses this collection,...

"A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning-'this,' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' Garbage is an epic of ideas: all life-not that of human beings alone, but every species-is shown to be part of an ultimate reality...

Although many of the poems here unfold among the small towns, abandoned farms, and slate skies of the rural Midwest, their larger landscape is the sheer fact; geographical, psychological, metaphysical; of "absences like so many lighted windows as you...

The centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister in which he gathers, piece by piece, the scattered fragments of his sister's life. In other poems, Santos follows this elegiac theme...

Stephen Dunn experiments with short, related pieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs cover such subjects as "Scruples/Saints," "Hypocrisy/Precision," and "Anger/Generosity." The wisdom and startling turns...

"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent...

With characteristic economy, A. R. Ammons writes that "Brink Road lies off NY 96 between Candor and Catatonk." The very name suggests that we are ever in transition from one state of mind to another always on the edge of revelation. The more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395700976Author Thomas LuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 130g

Orphan Hours is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. The urgency of the elegy has been absorbed by an acceptance of the detail,...

Romanticism explores and challenges the central ideas of high Romanticism: the tragedy and gallantry of the individual's life journey, the appeal of revolution and violence, the beckoning forces of Nature, and the estrangement from but constant longing...

In his fourteenth collection, Stephen Dunn, "one of our indispensable poets" (Miami Herald), continues to probe brilliantly the unsaid and the elusive in the lives we live, in language that Gerald Stern has called "unbearably fearless and...

Following his National Book Award winner, This Time, Gerald Stern further explores history and memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world. The weight of history and the bouyance of memory, the casual...

In Still Life in Milford Thomas Lynch tenders poems on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geographies. "[Thomas Lynch's] poems . . . are as stark and graceful as geese lifting off backwater. The poems trace from the rural...

Here, in his fifth book, Paul Mariani uses the trope of the wheel to chart the kinds of losses we all face in living: deaths and separations, lost loves, lost friends, lost happiness. The wheel of fortune, a ferris wheel ridden with a friend now dead,...

In these new poems, her eleventh collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet focuses on the themes of family, friendship, the pleasures and rigors of rural life and the animal world that have always engaged her powerfully and fruitfully. Change and the...

Her subjects are everywhere: inside apartment houses and alongside towering buildings, on streets and sidewalks, or beneath them, at the water's edge and in the changing heavens. In her able hands, through her painterly eye and rich vision, the odd...

Poems deal with the past, secret relationships, hidden emotions, the South, childhood, and love.Book InformationISBN 9780393310030Author Susan ProspereFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 149g

The range of this new collection is exciting. Gilbert travels along the shifting boundaries of past and present with wonderful deftness, making Jackson Heights into a magic kingdom. I love this rich ethnic mix.--Maxine KuminBook InformationISBN...

Presenting the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1981 to Ammons's A Coast of Trees Richard Locke, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, said, in part: "In the thirty years since A. R. Ammons published his first poems, he has fashioned a...

The poems in this first selection from her whole work were written over a period of forty years. They convey a wonderfully energetic alternation of mood, idea, and experience that are part of her unique creative process.About the AuthorMay Sarton...

Bloom continues, "There are other American poets since Stevens who have composed a handful of memorable poems, but only Ammons has begun to show us a whole poetic world. More than his contemporaries, he has perfected a voice that, to cite Emerson, is...

When they do, the must be treasured as gifts from the White Goddess, "sister of the mirage and echo." To May Sarton, poetry was life's deepest creative passion. It reflected the preoccupations of her mind and emotions as she progressed through...

"Richard Hugo is such an important poet because the difficulties inherent in his art provide him a means of saying what he has to say. It is no accident that he must develop a negative in order to produce a true image." --Richard HowardBook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395856000Author Donald HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712074Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711152Author Dan ChiassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532178Author Wheeler GalassiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531478Author Professor Robert PinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Bird Skin Coat is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent and descent - doves and dives, sparrows and slugs, attics and cellars - this collection reflects Sorby's keen eye...

Betsy Andrews' sweeping, energetic, book-length poem pounds the pavement of the New Jersey Turnpike, driving through America - past landfills and wetlands and weapons labs - under the towering shadows of engines, oil, and war. With a disarmingly unique...

We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we...

The poems in Manuel Paul Lopez's The Yearning Feed, winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley regions, communities located along the U.S.-Mexico border. Lopez, an Imperial Valley native, considers La...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228891482Author Eric R ArledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037798Author Robert WrigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142000649Author Amy GerstlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156135467Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Harcourt Brace InternationalPublisher Harcourt Brace International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062435521Author Ron RashFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...