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Certain Windows is Dan Burt's second chapbook collection. It includes poems, sequences and the title prose, a vivid memoir evoking a harsh formative world. Among others, the poet's father comes alive here and in the poems, a powerful, hard and...

The first full-length poetry collection from art historian David C. Ward, Call Waiting combines wry meditations on twenty-first-century life, work and family with observation of America - its landscapes, its history, its social and foreign policy. Ward's...

John Calder's new poetry collection, 'Solo', avoids strict poetic forms in favour of a casual and natural expression of thought. Honest in its pessimism, the tone is often questioning, and some of the biggest issues, such as politics and war, are not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771830478Author Dane SwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 144g

Scatterplot navigates a vast landscape of imagination through variations on being lost and found. David Koehn's investigative journeys allow space for the failures of consciousness and gaps in the knowable as he traverses a sensory terrain through the...

In Blood Flower, passionate imagery married to music bursts from each line pushing out the boundaries of Uschuk's earlier poems. It continues themes in Uschuk's American Book Award winner, Crazy Love. The poems braid the startling, sometimes brutal...

"A searing memoir." Shelf Awareness "Powerful...Deserves attention and high regard." Kevin Stein, Poet Laureate of Illinois "Devastating, one-of-a-kind collection." Foreword Reviews "Gut-wrenching narrative lyric poems." Publishers Weekly "Taut.....

?In his stories of mystery and imagination Poe created a world-record for the English language: perhaps for all languages.?--George Bernard ShawRead throughout the world, admired by writers as different as Dostoevsky and H.G. Wells, translated by...

Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains. Be-Hooved, her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings--structured along the...

Primary Source presents Jason Schneiderman's most exuberant volume of poetry, as he plays with the literary canon and explores his own personal archive. Starting with rewritten lyrics that put Cole Porter's "You're the Top" squarely in po-biz,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581770803Author Cheryl PallantFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Barrytown Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Barrytown Ltd ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581770698Author Don ByrdFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Barrytown Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Barrytown Ltd ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581770537Author George QuashaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Barrytown Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Barrytown Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581771367Author George QuashaFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Barrytown LimitedPublisher Barrytown LimitedWeight(grams) 68g

In the winter of 1914, Carl Sandburg, then a reporter at The Day Book in Chicago, submitted several of his poems to Harriet Monroe's Poetry magazine. The title poem began: "Hog Butcher for the World, / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat..." Monroe at first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594915Author Marianne BoruchFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438483009Author Susan PetrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

This propulsive narrative poem tells the extended story of the popular born-again televangelist Ray Bob Elray-better known to all his fans as Big Bubba-his twin sons, Nick and Jesse, and his niece and adopted daughter, Donna. The comic tragedy of Big...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907056826Author Kevin SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711558Author Edward HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Elton Glaser’s ninth book of poems is haunted by the loss of his wife, each April bringing back the memory of her death. The opening line confesses the struggle to find a language for this grief: “I’m learning to speak in the accents of adieu.” As the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950055067Author Stephen RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Cuneiform PressPublisher Cuneiform PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 155mm *...

From an award-winning poet, an exciting new collection that explores exile and return, from North Africa to North AmericaIn Aurora Americana, Myronn Hardy, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco, reflects...

From an award-winning poet, an exciting new collection that explores exile and return, from North Africa to North AmericaIn Aurora Americana, Myronn Hardy, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco, reflects...

Change arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, names drift “billowing, unattached,” and language yields a broken music. A statue of Lenin topples in a Georgian square only to be raised again...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942549710Author Don ReardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint TranscendPublisher TranscendWeight(grams) 284g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555974930Author Tess GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 245g

Wyatt Prunty's eighth collection, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, opens with a Homeric mole who tunnels the yard then disappears, a nervous alpha dog convinced she gets less food than her sister because she eats faster, and a house wren whose loud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919688919Author Steve LuxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 80g

For William Dean Howells, the 1880s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal and came in the death of his daughter in 1889. The blow altered him radically. Among...

A landmark collection celebrating the remarkable range of Maxine Kumin, one of America's greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from five previous books, together with twenty-three new poems that pay homage to Kumin's farm life and to poets of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782322126965Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 404g

In Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande, Jimmy Santiago Baca continues his daily pilgrimage through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grande where winter dies, spring explodes, and inextricable links between the human spirit and the natural...

The seventh winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is J. Allyn Rosser's Foiled Again. Ms. Rosser's third poetry collection contains poems of startling range and depth, with formal poems-traditional, hybrid, and nonce-and just as many shaped by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555973186Author Dana GioiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.

FROM MIMIR'S HEAD comprises two reciprocal passes through the same terrain - a sequence of poems mostly exploring ontological matters in a variety of verse inventions, and a series of notes in a prose equally exploratory and inventive. In both, the...

For more than half a century, readers and listeners have taken special pleasure in the poetry of X. J. Kennedy. In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus is an ample gathering of his best work: memorable songs, startling lyrics, poems that tell poignant stories,...

Robert Phillips is a prominent member of America's neglected "transition generation" of poets-those born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. His work has been included in many anthologies and textbooks. He gathers for his seventh full-length collection...

In "Dark Horses" prize-winning poet X.J. Kennedy gathers 42 new poems. From the lighthearted ballad "Dancing with the Poets at Piggy's" to the darkly meditative lyric "The Waterbury Cross", the poems show Kennedy's wide range. There are intimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988355344Author Jayson KeeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Metatron PressPublisher Metatron PressWeight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm) 163mm * 119mm *...