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"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...

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

Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones...

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 necessary reminder that whatever we are feeling, we are never feeling it alone." -Trista Mateer, author of Aphrodite Made Me Do It"There are defining moments in our lives that we often experience in certain places. It's in these places, that we feel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982121259Author Madisen KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm *...

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...

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)...

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,...

"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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595332Author Ted KooserFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491914041Author David J MelnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint UitgeverijPublisher UitgeverijWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 12mm

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771435024Author Julia FehrenbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint CCB PublishingPublisher CCB PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2004. Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9781887128971Author Daphne...

always women in the
dark on porches talking as if in blackness their secrets would be safe —from “Champlain, Branbury, the lakes at night” Lyn Lifshin can make something memorable out of the most familiar words and scenes—something memorable, something...

An exuberant skeptic, Elizabeth Marie Young writes in the infidel hope that writing itself can create worlds. These hilariously erudite prose poems are cosmologies - miniature, ever-expanding universes crammed with over-active particulars. They are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934200407Author Jena OsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence BooksPublisher Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887840307Author Ron WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Motina BooksPublisher Motina BooksWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798876002808Author Cerys MansiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798739402097Author Colin KeatingFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988464384Author Christian SchlegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Song CavePublisher Song CaveWeight(grams) 136g

Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl can be examined as if a work about the archetypal trickster with a special focus on the figure of Coyote. This examination reconsiders Howl through a four-part trickster framework: appetite, boundlessness, transformative power,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885030368Author Josey FooFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Kaya Production,U.S.Publisher Kaya Production,U.S.Weight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597090575Author Percival EverettFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996778633Author Lucy IvesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Song CavePublisher Song Cave

This volume brings together two collections - one well known but unavailable for some time, the other little known - by a distinguished Canadian poet. The Boatman, first published in 1957, was one of the outstanding poetry collections of the 1950s and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781973772262Author Brett Matthew GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Award-winning fantasy author Fran Wilde returns to her roots in Clock Star Rose Spine, which brings together poems previously published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and more with a selection of work never before published. In this collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798398363647Author Mooshoo FlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Boston Book Review (Poetry) 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780375700644Author Amy ClampittFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989233335Author Jesse NathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Unbound Edition PressPublisher Unbound Edition PressWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936769018Author Edmond Andrae BruneauFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Boston Publishing CompanyPublisher Boston Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936769001Author Edmond Andrae BruneauFormat HardbackImprint Boston Publishing CompanyPublisher Boston Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514270721Author Damien TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...