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In Elizabeth Spires's sixth collection of poetry, the pilgrim soul, in its various guises, meditates on its own slow becoming, finding humble companions in creatures as unlikely as a lowly snail, a prehistoric coelacanth, or a tiny Japanese netsuke of a...

"Troubled young men and boys animate" these "memorable" (Publishers Weekly) poems of James Hoch's second collection, set in the decaying, working-class towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.Book InformationISBN 9780393333107Author...

An evocative meditation on destruction and creation, the sacred and ephemeral, along Louisiana's coast. In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by...

In his eighth collection of poems, Martin Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the...

Bosh and Flapdoodle is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for...

In her fifteenth collection, Maxine Kumin meditates on the social consequences of such events as the bicentennial of the Civil War, and looks to poets writing from circumstances vastly different from her own. With death the central theme, poems of the...

In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children ("Not of course here") learn...

In poems humorous and daring, forthright and wise, Molly Peacock returns in this collection to the landscape of North American poetry she has helped create-the investigation of love in all its manifestations. In the new poems, she takes us to the Land of...

Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, along with poems addressing the eminent dead: Wordsworth, Gorki, Rukeyser, and others. "Inescapably, many poems come up out of the earth I live on and tend to," Kumin says.Book...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; winner of the 1994 National Poetry Series. In the singular landscape of Matthew Rohrer's first book of poems, the weather, the food, even the household appliances come to life. "A few pages into this book," says...

She then turns inward to examine herself as an artist and a woman. In the final section she celebrates the courage that allows us to be death's great opponents.Book InformationISBN 9780393320640Author Joan MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint WW...

Greg Glazner's lyrical and meditative poems address the burdens, demands, and joys of life at the end of the twentieth century. Their subjects range from a self-portrait distorted by nightfall to a consideration of the place of consciousness in a...

The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern...

Through myth, dream, and sensual detail, the poems in this remarkable first collection portray a hectic world plagued by a desire for psychic coherence. The book begins and ends in extremity: the opening poem, "Infernal," evokes the searing...

Combining the personal with the political in his fifth collection, Martin Espada celebrates the bread of the imagination, the bread of the table, and the bread of justice. The heart of the collection is a series of autobiographical poems recalling...

Where a Nickel Costs a Dime captures the hip-hop rhythms and in-your-face intensity of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a downtown Manhattan club where the hottest young poets are finding their fame. Willie Perdomo's poems, in the tradition of Amiri Baraka,...

For thirty years, Rich's poetry has revealed the individual personal life-sexualities, loves, damages, struggles-as inseparable from a wider social condition, a world with others, in which the empowering of the disempowered is increasingly the source of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393045116Author Bonaro Wilkins OverstreetFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 140g

Ommateum, his first book, was published in 1955, and was followed in 1964 by Expressions of Sea Level. Corsons Inlet and Tape for the Turn of the Year were published in 1965 by Cornell University Press. In 1966, Mr. Ammons received a John Simon...

The critic Harold Bloom writes, "With the publication of his Selected Poems (1968), soon after turning forty, A. R. Ammons quietly demonstrated a unique and central position in recent American poetry. . . . Recognition, as is always the case with a...

The distinguished poet A. R. Ammons once described himself as, "not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may be summoning itself through me from the self not mine but ours." This "availability" has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709876Author Marie PonsotFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536824Author James McMichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9780374531911Author Professor of English Yusef KomunyakaaFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527013Author August KleinzahlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312151911Author Amy TrachtenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363g

In this collection of poems - which won the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry - topics range from a union barbershop in mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the ""befuddlement"" of childhood, and the...

Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Wrigley Season of the Second Thought begins in a deep blue mood, longing to find words for what feels beyond saying. Lynn Powell's poems journey through the seasons, quarreling with the muse,...

Falling Brick Kills Local Man is a daring and inventive collection of narrative poems rich with thoughtful and precise language. Mark Kraushaar writes about what moves him, whether that is the war in Iraq, the notion of synchronicity, the retelling of...

Reactor gives voice to beloved and ruined American landscapes through extended meditations of an urban mystical wanderer.Book InformationISBN 9780299199449Author Judith VollmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher...

"Times Beach is brimming, teeming with life. John Shoptaw, with breathtaking expanse and lasting intricacy, somehow writes a book in which we traverse the vastness of the American landscape-its gorgeous yet misguided rivers, its achingly honest and...

The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing...

A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143108177Author Corinne LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 164g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116974Author Barbara RasFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Daniel Groves presents a debut collection of tightly rhymed poems that, through adherence to form, unlock a power in language to surprise and illuminate-a power too often dormant in writing that eschews these conventions. Enchanted by the wit and...

Victoria Chang's collection takes its title from what many call ""the worst weed in the world,"" a plant so rapidly and uncontrollably invasive that it is illegal to sell or possess in the United States. Chang explores this image of vitality and evil in...

This powerful collection of poems from Laura Mullen is the edgy, unashamedly experimental, and formally inventive book of a poet who has found her way to her own voice or style-or rather voices and styles, for there are several. The poems of After I Was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060799137Author Camille NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930837Author Allen GinsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...