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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544073777Author Grace SchulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395672822Author Erica FunkhouserFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395669938Author William MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 340g

Andrew Hudgins imagines himself in the life of a now largely forgotten poet, Sidney Lanier, who served as a soldier for the Confederacy.Book InformationISBN 9780395457139Author Andrew HudginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher...

After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance-looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality. In Middle Distance, his...

Marilyn Chin is a poet acclaimed by Adrienne Rich for her "powerful, uncompromised, and unerring" poems. Dancing brilliantly between Eastern and Western forms, fusing ancient Chinese history and contemporary American popular culture, she is one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393342000Author Jean S UntermeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 204g

Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. Both "delicate and powerful" (Library Journal), she faces with equanimity the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage-ending...

Julie Sheehan draws from nature guides and self-help books, weaves legal argot and street slang, and fills her work with "muscle, size, shadows, and nuance" (Linda Gregg).Book InformationISBN 9780393330359Author Julie SheehanFormat...

Women of America is an affecting meditation on the mysteries of what drives the heart by one of America's most distinguished poets. Charlie Smith draws the poems in this volume from the tussle and cry of love, in remembrance of love's journey from...

"Heartbreaking, overstuffed, seeping with history, lonelier than imaginable and truly in-the-face of American culture, Climbing Back's debris-field of prose poems tries with all its heart to outrun cultural paradigms and ends up refining our spiritual...

Here, in Elizabeth Macklin's second collection, an only child's responses to the fait accompli of childhood-decisions already made, accidents of history and family, patterns preset-come to the adult mind in the presence of change and grief. The mind...

Mosquito and Ant refers to the style in which nu shu--a nearly extinct script used by Chinese women to correspond with one another--is written. Here in this exciting and totally original book of poems the narrator corresponds with L. about her hidden...

Melding historical, sexual, and political themes, Janet Sylvester creates a map of America that is provocative and moving. Of this stunning collection A. R. Ammons writes, "This strong book will bring you home." "Janet Sylvester's...

Winner of a 1996 Whiting Award. In her fourth collection of poems Elizabeth Spires addresses the elemental subjects of life and of literature: birth, death, creation, and intimations of immortality. The first section focuses on the experiences of...

In this exuberant and distinctive collection, Dionisio Martinez addresses topics as diverse as love, the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, twentieth-century art and music, and the relevance of language in an age of image. Much of Martinez's private...

Using her trademark rhymes, characteristic humor, and daring sexual and psychological openness, Peacock's poems intertwine at least four types of original love: a narrative of meeting again and marrying in midlife; the tangled knot of mother/daughter...

In her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the feminist and lesbian canon.About the AuthorMarilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen volumes of poems. Her...

This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history." About the AuthorEavan Boland (1944-2020) was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Outside History and several volumes...

In this tenth collection, Stephen Dunn turns his "wise, well-practiced eye" (Library Journal) on an America growing ever more stringent with its daily mercies. Not content merely to observe the world, Dunn's stance is always dual, complicit...

Rosanna Warren's first collection of poetry, Each Leaf Shines Separate, announced the emergence of a fresh voice in contemporary American poetry and earned praise from John Hollander, Richard Eberhart, and Mark Strand. Now, in her second book, Rosanna...

Human character and human destiny-will and fate-pervade Ellen Voigt's work, giving her poems of relationship, her exploration of an individual past, rare depth and power. Now, in her fourth collection, a sustained meditation infuses the work, examining...

The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions-Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780393310108Author Gerald SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 170g

From a marketplace in Bangkok to the fields of New Hampshire, from recollections of her own childhood to celebrations of an infant grandson, Kumin stakes her far-flung claims with authority in her tenth book of poetry.--Publishers WeeklyBook...

In her eighth collection, Linda Pastan touches upon themes of family, childhood, time and loss, and the beauty of nature. "Let the eye enlarge with all it beholds," she says in the opening poem; she becomes a seer, as the San Francisco Review of Books...

"Between Angels affirms what we are capable of in our best moments-grace, tenderness, love-while acknowledging that the human heart can be merciless. It's a book of great breadth."--Gregory Djanikian, Philadelphia InquirerAbout the AuthorStephen Dunn...

What is the daily bread of women? In these splendid poems, Sandra Gilbert imagines spiritual regeneration through the tradition pioneered by the two Emilys--Emily Dickinson and Emily Bronte--who are her emblematic foremothers. At the same time, she sees...

Critics and readers alike recognize Ammons's achievements: in 1973, his Collected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry; in 1975, his long poem Sphere: The Form of a Motion was nominated for the National Book Award and received the Bollingen Prize...

The poems are on a diversity of subjects, but through them all runs the strong unity of vision that has led critic Geoffrey Hartman to acclaim Ammons as "a major American poet" (New York Times Book Review). "If his importance was suspected...

He writes of his own work: "Poetry, at least as i have leaned to want to write it, is a way of giving reality and even courage to the life which a man senses within himself and which he knows, by living among other men, is their chief possession...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393041361Author Robert MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709999Author Kenneth KochFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 193g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538507Author Frederick SeidelFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532147Author Charles WrightFormat 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 9780374530976Author Frederick SeidelFormat HardbackPage Count 101Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312623975Author Leslie M PockellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408g

Fairy tales both familiar and obscure create a threshold, and the The Blue Hour pulls us over it. With precise language and rich detail, these poems unflinchingly create an eerie world marked by abuse, asking readers not just to bear witness but to try...

An unsentimental and at times disquieting first collection, the poems of About Crows excavate self, family, race, location, sex, art, and religion to uncover the artifacts of a succession of traumas that the speaker does not always experience firsthand...

Susanna Childress writes with an earnest desire to understand things physical and things spiritual. What results is a first collection of provocative, honest poetry that explores various human predicaments: a cancer-ridden wife, an explosive father, an...