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An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 In her third collection of poems, Jillian Weise delivers a reckoning to the ableism of the Western Canon. These poems investigate and challenge the ways that nondisabled writers have appropriated disabled bodies, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012970Author Richard BlancoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

An Instagram poet with hundreds of thousands of followers, Christopher Poindexter presents a new poetry collection themed on love in its many forms. OLD SOUL LOVE is a combination of new, never-before-seen poetry, mixed in with some of Christopher's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532192Author Frederick SeidelFormat PaperbackPage Count 509Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

A contributor to Donald Allen's seminal New American Poetry anthology, John Wieners was on the periphery of many of the twentieth century's most important avant-garde poetry scenes, from Black Mountain and the Boston Renaissance to the New York School...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592331Author W.S. MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679765844Author Philip LevieeFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394758589Author W. S. MerwinFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880104500Author Michael Hedley BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060951061Author Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 181g

In a voice that is urgent, Howard Altmann asks the world to be patient with all that it cannot hear. Poet John Ashberry calls Altmann's interrogations and his hypnotic, mysterious and dreamlike poems 'as essential as a glass of water'.Co-op available...

Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku." HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH before we all go to Heaven VISIONS...

As a part of the launch of the new A List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Literary Award-winning The Circle...

Ezra Pound's Posthumous Cantos collects unpublished pages of his great poem, drawn from manuscripts held in the archive at Yale's Beinecke Library and elsewhere. They are assembled by Pound's Italian translator, the critic and scholar Massimo Bacigalupo,...

'This is surprising, addictive poetry with delicious, seemingly wayward lines . . . McLane is a true Romantic, rooted in tradition while leaping and exulting in her originality' Irish Times Gathering the best of her first five collections, a 'sexy,...

"What a clear, insistent health there is here--as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world...

Joyce Mansour (1928-1986) is widely considered to be one of the most important of the woman Surrealists. Her work has gained more recognition every year since her death. Following the release in France of a 700 page critically acclaimed anthology (in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526986Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068830Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 160mm * 7mm

The landmark oeuvre of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, has proved difficult to present entire. Until now, there has been no good vantage point from which to see the body of her remarkable work as a whole. Throughout her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789431988Author Alice Duer MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Oxford City PressPublisher Oxford City PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933377295Author Naomi Shihab NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Eighth Mountain Press,Publisher Eighth Mountain Press,

"As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732209718Author Ron WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Underground BooksPublisher Underground BooksWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood...

Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry. It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for National Book Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780143133186Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language among which he has lived. Snow Approaching On The Hudson is a collection of poetry that moves back and forth across the country...

Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening "spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and...

A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warren In her remarkable and assured debut, Alexandria Hall explores the boundaries and limits of language, place, and the self, as well as the complicated...

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Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory...

"Essays on Departure" is a gathering of 25 years' work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets working in English, work from eight books, including a generous excerpt from the electrically erotic verse novel "Love, Death and the Changing of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614298786Author John BrehmFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618154456Author Galway KinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 159mm * 14mm

Dorianne Laux's fifth collection of poetry peels back time to the summer of love and the Vietnam War. Her keen hindsight uncovers the humanity at the center of conflict with language that goes straight to the heart. This work stands as an elegy for the...

The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062853677Author GennaRose NethercottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for South Carolina Children's Book Award 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780525582090Author Vanessa NewtonFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Random House USA...