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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 9780062914729Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1987.Book InformationISBN 9780887480218Author Rita DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher...

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...

This remarkable new collection of poems is a sure affirmation of the fact that, as one critic has written, Linda Pastan "has quietly become one of our leading poets." Another critic noted, of her first volume, that she "in large measure fulfilled...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709128Author Kenneth KochFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125g

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

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...

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 9780374530655Author Elizabeth BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Penguin's landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove) Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United...

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...

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,...

The thread that dangles us between a dark and a darker dark, Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there. Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere- Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing. -from "Scar...

"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,...

"The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudah's poems explore loss, displacement, suffering, and longing. They drift from the personal and specific to the larger stories of peoples and nations that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619022775Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

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

"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."--David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey "What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle .....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062144607Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880012423Author Robert HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 140mm * 6mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578451169Author N R HartFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Monday Creek PublishingPublisher Monday Creek PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

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)...

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...