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With a storyteller's timing and the emotional range of a singer, Darnell Arnoult in her debut collection offers readers a stirring string of poems about the people of Fieldale, Virginia. A planned community founded in the Virginia foothills by Marshall...

Poet and cardiologist John Stone is a man of many voices. A gifted verse maker, he exhibits in his writing the qualities of a compassionate physician, a musician, linguist, naturalist, and down-to-earth yet whimsical grandfather, son, husband, and...

In Catching Light, Kathryn Stripling Byer searches for the language of aging, for a way of confronting every woman's fear of looking in the mirror and seeing an old woman staring back. Inspired by a series of photographs entitled...

In this eloquent long poem, Claudia Emerson employs the voices of two family members on a small southern farm to examine the universal complexities of place, generation, memory, and identity. Alternating between the voices of Preacher and Sister, Pinion...

Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts. In a rushing, rolling style, poems sweep...

The House of Blue Light is the second collection of autobiographical ""memory poems"" by Catholic-school-boy-gone-bad-turned-poet-made-good David Kirby, a stand-up comic of verse if ever there was one: ""in Stardust Memories...

Recent interest in the life and works of John Crowe Ransom has brought to light the many apparent contradictions and discontinuities in the career of this important man of letters. A noted poet, Ransom chose to devote his energies primarily to the...

The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown's deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and...

Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in No Confession, No Mass move toward restoration and reunion. Jennifer Perrine's...

From the totem-pole makers of the Northwest to the hunters of the eastern woodlands, from the horse nations of the plains to the desert dwellers of the Southwest and the Mayas and Aztecs of ancient Mexico--from some forty tribal groups--A. Grove Day has...

For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl?...

Drawing on forty years of published work, Jay Rogoff's Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems marks a milestone in the career of this confident, wise, and rigorous poet. The volume presents over one hundred poems from earlier collections alongside...

In Small Mothers of Fright, Tara Bray draws on her experiences as a mother struggling to strike a balance between protecting her daughter from the world's perils and dazzling her with its many wonders. The birds that fill these pages convey a sense of...

In Poem for Jenne, which opens Jacqueline Osherow's ambitious and challenging newcollection, a neighbor has planted larkspur and delphinium in the poet's yard and is tending them hoping to bring color and light into a household stricken by personal...

In his newest collection, Blind Rain, Bruce Bond transforms the known and the familiar into something surreal and new. With spare, unadorned language, he complicates what it is to be both bound to the world and yet free within that world, the way in...

In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces readers to Soque Street and its ""Affrilachian"" residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic...

In The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems 1970- 2000, Dave Smith's poetry reveals its roots in the elegiac tradition that has marked a southern literature so prominent in the twentieth century. Yet equally visible, now, is the ancestral shadow of the...

The significantly revised version of Brother to Dragons appeared in 1979, twenty-six years after the original. It is, Warren wrote, ""in some important senses, a new work."" Told in the distinct voices of characters long dead and now gathered at an...

In Transit Authority, Tony Sanders continues his investigation of contemporary urban metaphysical pathos. The book is made up of three sequences that mark the early and late junctures of the twentieth century: the first, a series of poems that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692861127Author William D SroufeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Akmaeon PublishingPublisher Akmaeon PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984242429Author Dr Douglas RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Weak Creature PressPublisher Weak Creature PressWeight(grams) 140g

Don Bogen's latest volume, Luster, takes on everything from bullhorns to the cultivation of olive trees in poems that are sharp-edged and open to surprise. They capture not just things themselves but the essential contexts-history, power, the personal...

The speaker in Irene McKinney's poems is most often alone, sitting at the side of a stream, or standing at her own chosen gravesite in the Appalachian mountains, and the meditations spoken out of this essential solitude are powerfully clear, witty, and...

Stephen Todd Booker, an inmate on Florida's death row, writes piercingly of incarceration. But he also sings, in a voice at once jagged and polished, of racism in Brooklyn and the South and of growing up black in 20th-century America, as he examines his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986304033Author Greg KeelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Elk River Books, LlpPublisher Elk River Books, LlpWeight(grams) 222g

Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Prize Selected by Marilyn Nelson Finalist, 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize "Imagine Leda black-" begins Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's exciting new collection of poems. Mixing vernacular language with classical mythology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988371323Author Michael Todd SteffenFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Cervena Barva PressPublisher Cervena Barva PressWeight(grams) 113g

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Passionately written and perfectly crafted, Anya Krugovoy Silver's poems help us to view life through a different lens. In I Watched You Disappear, she offers meditations on sickness but also celebrations of art, motherhood, and family, as well as a...

"Earthling" is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly, James Longenbach traces the life of a modern-day earthling as he looks squarely at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615879260Author Robert KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Poets Wear PradaPublisher Poets Wear PradaWeight(grams) 68g

The poems inHummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barks's personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of Plotinus, Barks's appearance on PBS NewsHour, a note Keats...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615741567Author Henry HooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Wonder HousePublisher Wonder HouseWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692869239Author Michael McInnisFormat PaperbackImprint Nixes Mate BooksPublisher Nixes Mate BooksWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692866146Author Pauline DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Altadena Library DistrictPublisher Altadena Library DistrictWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692925294Author Daniel WettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Daniel Wetta PublishingPublisher Daniel Wetta PublishingWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692913536Author Mitch GreenFormat PaperbackImprint William GreenPublisher William GreenWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692998182Author Jesse Rey WhippleFormat PaperbackImprint Janus Visions PressPublisher Janus Visions PressWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990543558Author Ray McNieceFormat PaperbackImprint Red Giant BooksPublisher Red Giant BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988432420Author Elvis AlvesFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Mahaicony BooksPublisher Mahaicony BooksWeight(grams) 59g