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Deceptively straightforward and subtly pyrotechnic, the poems in Hannah Sanghee Park's debut collection captivate with their wordplay at first glance, then give rise to opportunities for extended reflection. ""If / truth be told, I can't be true,"" she...

For the Lost Cathedral delves deeply into the human relationship with the divine and its capacity for empathy, transformation, and the tolerance of difference and doubt. Bruce Bond seeks neither to praise nor to attack institutional religions, instead...

Broken Cup brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret Gibson describes as ""traveling the Way of Alzheimer's"" with her husband, poet David McKain. After his initial and tentative diagnosis, Gibson suspended her writing for two...

A polished poet of extraordinary skill.... Levine is caught between wholehearted love of the world's beauty and sorrow at its unavoidable misery and suffering."" -- Library Journal With an astonishing grasp of language and detail, Julia Levine...

Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as...

In Catherine Carter's The Swamp Monster at Home, classical sirens sing from a Chesapeake Bay island; Adam and his lover, Steve, share beers in Eden; and a Norse goddess strides into an emergency room, ""glowing like grain."" With...

Years in the making, Stephen Sandy's Overlook gathers themes and occasions that have intrigued the poet throughout his career. This powerful collection explores love and death, success and failure, war and disaster, with appropriate measures of wit and...

Relying most heavily on music and metaphor, syntax and diction, Two Rooms explores the conflicting claims of life and art, world and word, cultural heritage and cultural affinities, through the sacral, erotic, and creative imagination. By the light of...

Thomas Reiter's Catchment abounds with stories brought to life. From memory, myth, and imagination comes a faith in the power of poetry to bear witness. Here we find a variety of personae engaged in dutiful labor ranging from gardening to tomb repair...

Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us ""it's hard to be understood and make that look easy,"" he describes his own poetry perfectly. This latest effort from Williams provides a collection...

Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in Sex at Noon Taxes mix straightforward narrative, midwestern vernacular, and linguistic...

The poems in The House on Boulevard St. were written within earshot of David Kirby's Old World masters, Shakespeare and Dante. From the former, Kirby takes the compositional method of organizing not only the whole book but also each separate section as a...

Catherine Carter's first volume of poetry exudes a genuinely classical quality-cool-eyed and clear-eyed, intelligent, unsentimental, self-aware, and witty in the fullest and best sense. Carter takes our evolutionary development in the womb as a departure...

Half Wild is spiritual biography wound backwards, spiraling into the world rather than out of it. Though it reflects on the paradoxes of our violent times, Mary Rose O'Reilley's collection hangs on to life like the bee ""up to his hips in...

Grounded in technical mastery, the poems in Out of Speech address issues both universal and timely. In this series of ekphrastic works, Adam Vines explores themes as varied as exile, family, disease, desire, and isolation through an array of twentieth-...

One Body is Margaret Gibson's most intimate collection of poems to date. Written as if to honor the injunction ""Work to simplify the heart,"" the poems are direct, empathetic, and tender in their study of life and death. The thirteen...

Gibbons Ruark is a poetic naturalist, bending close to his subject to report with precision the complexity of beauty we overlook in our haste. A truly imaginative writer as well, however, Ruark gives back to us not merely mirrored documentation but...

Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty narrative poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, and converses with her Afro-New Orleans forebears, both blood ancestors and spiritual predecessors, weaving...

In this collection Jane Gentry evokes, in images as haunting as the Kentucky landscape, a garden thriving with the flowers of memory, a physical world that reflects a realm of transcendence. In this garden, cosmic harmony reveals itself in the...

I greatly admire Alison Deming's lucid and precise language, her stunning metaphors, her passion, her wild and generous spirit, her humor, her formal cunning. I am taken, as all readers will be, by the knowledge she displays and how she puts this...

Margaret Gibson is a writer who extends the scope of poetry beyond its accustomed boundaries. Her previous work has ranged from lyric celebrations of natural world to poems that speak out against political injustice and violence. She can turn from a...

In Carole Simmons Oles's fourth collection of poetry, small events of everyday life throw open a door to meditations on the absence of a husband, on the separation from children, and on the sustenance gained from friendship and the sorrow its loss. Each...

Finalist for the 1991 National Book AwardIn The Homeplace, the stories of a family become the history of a people as Marilyn Nelson Waniek sketches the lives descended from her great-great-grandmother Diverne.The poet's mother, Johnnie Mitchell Nelson,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168755Author J. D. McClatchyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 301g

Drawing from a career of almost fifty years, Daniel Mark Epstein's collection of new and selected poems forms a lyrical autobiography of its author as a poet and a man. Dawn to Twilight examines universal themes such as love and aging, happiness and...

In the title poem of The Swing Girl, a Greek burial relic with an image of a small child on her swing suggests the ability to move between present culture and the ghosts of history, between modern metaphor and the rhetoric of myth. Katherine Soniat...

Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan's dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. In writing up our minor moments, he reckons to find ""peace beneath the unsteady light / where we give ourselves to the world / as we...

The Bad Secret takes readers on a dark yet sometimes comic sojourn through the undercurrents of a life suddenly unmoored by grief, and then to the subsequent rise of the spirit to recovery. Tough-minded and intellectual, Judith Harris's poems are also...

Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder ""quite simply, the most endearing book I've read in some time."" Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree. Jan...

Wyoming (The Lost Poems) is a run of poems written and put away in the 1970s. It is the work of a writer who began as a student of poetry but who became a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. None of the poems have been published previously or...

Poems in this volume bring readers through the construction site gate alongside the women who practice a skilled trade in a dangerous industry. Assured and impassioned, the poems not only manifest outer events and day-to-day realities of the worksite but...

Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world? And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982484487Author Dana L PrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Everlasting PublishingPublisher Everlasting PublishingWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983334460Author Gary PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Human Error PublishingPublisher Human Error PublishingWeight(grams) 163g

In this groundbreaking collection, Alice Fulton weds her celebrated linguistic freshness to a fierce emotional depth. Felt-a fabric made of tangled fibers-becomes a metaphor for the interweavings of humans, animals, and planet. But Felt is also the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988924833Author Lynne ThompsonFormat PaperbackImprint What Books PressPublisher What Books PressWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988924826Author Judith TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint What Books PressPublisher What Books PressWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983350873Author Danny StrackFormat PaperbackImprint Austin Slam PoetryPublisher Austin Slam PoetryWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971974159Author Bernard JankowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pond Road PressPublisher Pond Road PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960093175Author Nahshon CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Shabda PressPublisher Shabda PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm