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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060577025Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

"Canonized for being insufficiently American although he took America as his subject, chastised for obscurity by readers who would not allow or would not read homosexual meanings, Crane embodies many understandings of America, and of the predicament of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375404641Author Sylvia PlathFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 165mm...

In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorialising the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower Manhattan avenue, to searing poems of human conflict...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536855Author John KoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 126g

Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work...

John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems-an American master at the height of his talent The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer's pen. Scribbled...

Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773490168Author Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Able Muse PressPublisher Able Muse PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788884709Author Emily DickinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982671Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060752514Author Distinguished Writer Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Few poets have as much to tell us about the intricate relationship between the African American past and present as Jay Wright. His poems weave a rich fabric of personal history using diverse materials drawn from African, Native American, and European...

Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.About the AuthorCharles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493733583Author Mae KrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117728Author Joanna KlinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 106gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award Winner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry "Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith's new book, Shoulda Been Jimi...

sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted...

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.

The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).About the AuthorAdrienne Rich...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589184Author Philip WhalenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Throughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath's and Hughes's...

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 9780692658444Author Topher KearbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Gray Force PublishingPublisher Gray Force PublishingWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829306Author Hillel BroderFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930691Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526595Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 426g

I saw a tramp last night the way the old dog walked with dotted, tired fur down nobody's alley being nobody's dog ...past the empty vodka bottles past the peanut butter jars, with wires full of electricity and the birds asleep somewhere, down the alley...

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)...

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...

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...

Christopher Middleton, long a resident of the USA, is one of Britain's finest poets. He was writing (not for publication) his 'Nocturnal Journal' during the two years prior to his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin, where he had taught...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711664Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 181mm...

A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan."Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself...