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Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt...

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 9780880014779Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 18mm

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 9780595140145Author Albert HuffsticklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535297097Author Melody LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

"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...

A milestone of modern poetry, American history comes to life in the actual words of victims and criminals in its courts.Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts,...

From the author of You Must Remember This, an uncanny collection of poems that plumbs our capacity for cruelty and for wonder. Who? A speaker at once questioner and questioned. An artist who embraces and resists what his work requires of him. "A naked...

Kara Candito's second poetry collection is anything but a comedy, although it ends happily. At the book's centre is the struggle of a U.S. citizen and a Mexican citizen to find a common space and language in their relationship while navigating the U.S...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394743271Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 144gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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

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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 9781556592171Author Kenneth RexrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 900Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 1048g

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...

"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...

In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects- colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it means to enter language,...

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

2013 National Book Award FinalistIn his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In Outgoing, the speaker erases his brother's...

Anew, sun, to fire summer leaves move toward the air from the stems of the branches fire summer fire summer -from Anew Here is the complete music-filled arc of Louis Zukofsky's shorter verse collected in one...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805032574Author Miguel AlgarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780679455141Author Robert FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 165mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555673Author Hala AlyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140587005Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...

Superb collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. This collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks's comprehensive...

Why God Is a Woman is a collection of poems written about a magical island where women rule and men are the second sex. It is also the story of a boy who, exiled from the island because he could not abide by its sexist laws, looks back with both...