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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226902272Author Anne WintersFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 85g

"David Ferry must have had something up his sleeve when he called his book "Strangers," because his is a poetry of intimacy and familiarity. More than that, Mr. Ferry's short, sparse lyrics are as perfectly and simply composed as Japanese haiku-a rare...

Erratic Boundaries is a collection of ten pen and ink drawings by architect and artist Sigrid Miller Pollin, coupled with ten ekphrastic poems by poet and economist Jane D'Arista. The drawings pull the viewer into fanciful natural and constructed visual...

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American...

"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."--W. S. Merwin Necessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934639238Author Samuel SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Commune EditionsPublisher Commune Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933149158Author Matt CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933149134Author Jack HirschmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Gay Poetry) 2007. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Male Poetry) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9781933149073Author Justin ChinFormat...

The second full-length collection from sonneteer and formalist poet Catherine Chandler, Glad and Sorry Seasons brings together new suites of poems--on grief, recovery, the deadly sins, and the virtues of faith, hope, and love--to meditate on those...

'When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorise Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 29, When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast stateA" for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241666Author Mark TerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications

Hartigan's Pool [5 choruses] takes readers into a porous realm where singular and multiple voices fuse. Amidst high levels of public noise--reportage on wars, elections, more--these poems journey into the accruals, interstices, and resistances of pooled...

Odalisque employs the lyric poem to achieve a complicated and layered narrative. It is, on the surface, the story of an L.A.P.D. bomb squad detective who falls for a street hooker. This transgression leads to his dismissal from the force, but it is only...

Attachments to proper names, traditions, and entrenched thought formations are a perennial problem and, as LM Rivera shows, an addiction. Against Heidegger is a collection of poetic meditations on that pervasive, and possibly eternal, compulsion. Rivera...

The poems begin where language fails, where speech becomes disembodied, and syntax skids to a stop that dissolves into gesture. Where its form reaches an end, formlessness offers a space ripe with possibility. Here we find Harpo, reaching into the...

What happens when the faith and community we once held close sours into an experience of tragedy? In Since Sunday, we find a poet who is rebuilding a sense of faith after fleeing religious abuse. Doubt, shame, uncertainty, and the pains of loss create...

A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art. "A boy with no one to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806212Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592215553Author Askia ToureFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 115g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210602Author Mwatabu OkantahFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 114g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214105Author Esther IveremFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 107g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592215492Author Sola OwonibiFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 401g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210077Author Molefi Kete AsanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 93g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592211104Author Tayo OlafioyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 243g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583228593Author William La RicheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 219g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227787Author Hattie GossettFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 188g

This poignant collection of stories and poems honours literacy educators for the often difficult and always essential work they do with students of all ages. A well-loved classic, Life's Literacy Lessons, is back in print by popular demand and now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563684135Author John Lee ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

Hide under your bed! Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret meets South Park in The Lillian Lectures, a collection of short poems and cheerfully nasty illustrations that will turn your universe on its head. Remember how strange you thought sex and God...

Natalee Caple made quite a splash with her first two books, The Heart is its Own Reason, a short-story collection from Insomniac Press, and The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World, a novel from House of Anansi Press. With A More Tender Ocean...

Yet another book of poems from the ubiquitous poet, playwright, actor, director, visual artist and standardized patient (yes, standardized patient), Stan Rogal. This is the first of Rogal's books to feature samples of his collage work.Book...

Alexandra Leggat, the author of Moondogging and numerous book and music reviews, puts on the page the remarkable texts that she is renowned for performing at spoken word events all over Toronto.Book InformationISBN 9781552450369Author Alexandra...

From Ways of Goingfor SteveWill it be like paragliding -gossamer takeoff, seedlike drifting downinto a sunlit, unexpected grove?Or ski-jumping - headlong soaring,ski-tips piercing clouds,crystal revelations astonishing my goggles?...Skittery flicker of a...

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. * Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996007979Author Anis ShivaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 129Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black Widow PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991307814Author Beth Francis ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Be BookhousePublisher Be BookhouseWeight(grams) 614g

I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean. So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jews...

Complex and intimate, Reverse Rapture is an account of a band of explorers who go sifting through the artifacts and sensations of our times in search of a core. The generous voices of these poems bring the reader along on their quest. In awe of...

The most notable work of fiction from our most beloved modernist poet, The Enormous Room was one of the greatest-yet still not fully recognised- American literary works to emerge out of World War I. Drawing on E. E. Cummings's experiences in France as a...