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In his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the absurdities of modern life, expectations derailed, the lived...

An Individual History describes the fears, anger and guilt-personal, familial, societal, political and historical-that comprise a life. The figure of the speaker's maternal grandmother who was institutionalised for five decades serves as an overriding...

“Sherod Santos is a contemporary master of the lyric poem. In The Intricated Soul, we witness the astonishing effects of his powerful, restless poetic imagination. . . . Santos is a musician and a thinker, architect and bard, theorist and witness, and we...

“When Julie Sheehan takes the lyric poem out for a few drinks, everyone winds up talking fast and loose. The lush, agreeably-out-of-style cocktails who take the stage in Bar Book . . . [pull] the reader through this artful, wry, and unlikely book’s tales...

"Here is the mature work of a poet who has always managed to delight—but who now demands something more of us. He asks us to enter the twenty-first century with open eyes: attentive to the past, eager for the future, naming what we love."—Judith Kitchen,...

Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the...

With poems about loss, home, marriage, and the inner music of our lives, Pitch is a series of variations on an overturned piano. By turns bright and dark like the keys on a keyboard, these poems demonstrate the range of one of contemporary poetry's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494801Author D. NurkseFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 185mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711633Author D. NurkseFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375710506Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701351Author Philip LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

David Baker, acclaimed for his combination of "visionary scope" (Gettysburg Review) and "emotional intensity" (Georgia Review), is one of contemporary poetry's most gifted lyric poets. In Swift, he gathers poems from eight collections, including his...

Not days of anger but days of mild congestion, infants of inconstant sorrow, days of foam in gutters, blossoms and snow mingling where they fall, a spring of cold profusion. If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538699Author Thom GunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780374283742Author Louise GluckFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus &...

In The Story of Your Obstinate Survival, Daniel Khalastchi boldly strides across a landscape of smoldering fires, unmarked boxes, and pictures of senators in airplane bathrooms as a way of asking: In the face of incessant turmoil, how do we go on? This...

What is good fortune? The Golden Coin asks-and answers-this question in poems about youth, conflict, travel, family love, and the joys and fears of getting old. Aboard his sailboat, Feldman draws lessons from the sea about time and history. His gaze...

Envisioning Brazil is a comprehensive and sweeping assessment of Brazilian studies in the United States. Focusing on synthesis and interpretation and assessing trends and perspectives, this reference work provides an overview of the writings on Brazil by...

Emotion, raw and unadorned, is woven through the poems of Christianne Balk's The Holding Hours. Part I explores the subtle and surprising transformations that come from caring for her young, neurologically injured daughter. Insights unfold in metaphor...

Disquiet is a collection of poems that utilizes natural phenomena-a bright beach, a fallen tree limb, the weight of gravity-to evoke and reflect upon memory and human experience. The poems are structurally innovative, each shaped around a central axis as...

The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear...

In The News and Other Poems, David Citino confronts and attempts to make sense of the news. He explores the good and bad ways the world has of careening into a life and sending it off course. Citino tries to understand how we come to know what we know,...

"For years, I've wondered in amazement how Walt McDonald does what he does, poem after poem, book after book. He sings like no one else. In Climbing the Divide, McDonald has made his strongest collection of poems yet." -David Citino, author of...

Ned Balbo's 2004 Sandeen Prize-winning collection of poetry seeks a voice for contemporary and historical figures as they face the ecstasy and grief of love. In these assured and powerful poems, Balbo's confidence in lyric, narrative, and dramatic forms...

A poetry collection that brings together word, image, and sound to reflect on fractured, fragmentary states of being.    The poetry of Mandible Wishbone Solvent is situated in the space of bridges, fragmentary overlays, spectral reach, and the desire to...

Cold Comfort is a book of poems written out of deep affection and concern for the world in a dangerous time. An urbane stylist, Anderson characteristically focuses on rural and small-town America, where the events of personal history intersect those of...

The poetry in Humanophone, the third volume from award-winning poet Janet Holmes, celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to capture the music heard in their...

William Jay Smith has been one of the most respected figures on the literary scene for more than half a century. Two of his thirteen poetry collections were finalists for the National Book Award, and the present volume is clearly the work of a true...

William Jay Smith has been one of the most respected figures on the literary scene for more than half a century. Two of his thirteen poetry collections were finalists for the National Book Award, and the present volume is clearly the work of a true...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892554232Author Allison SeayFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 93g

In Count the Waves, Sandra Beasley turns her eclectic imagination to the heart's pursuits. A man and a woman sit at the same dinner table, an ocean of worry separating them. An iceberg sets out to dance. A sword swallower ponders his dating prospects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942280200Author Chris RansickFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907056574Author Philip FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 161Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Little Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian...

A fifth collection by this "fiction writer in a poet's body."Book InformationISBN 9781889330389Author Baron WormserFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Sarabande Books, IncorporatedPublisher Sarabande Books, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979419898Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899179992Author Bryce MilliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Aark ArtsPublisher Aark Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947817104Author Robert OstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Saturnalia BooksPublisher Saturnalia BooksWeight(grams) 181g

Arguably America’s most recognized poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the equivalent of a movie star in his day (1807–1882), and his epic poems, such as “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “Evangeline,” and “Song of Hiawatha” helped create the mythic vision of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942280033Author Sigman ByrdFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House