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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713109Author Bren SimmersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 112g

Conscious of politics and of music, these poems continue Conoley's explorations into the questions of grace and redemption, self and other, death in life, language and being, democracy and song. This collection takes its title from Italian philosopher...

- Knox's last collection was reviewed in The New Yorker, among other venues. - Knox is widely respected both in her generation and among a younger generation of poets. - Except for A Beaker: New and Selected Poems (Verse Press, 2002), this is the only...

-Greenberg is also a highly visible critic; she has written recent reviews in The Boston Review, Rain Taxi, Verse, and EPR. - Greenberg teaches at Columbia College, Chicago, and has taught at Bentley College in Boston. - Greenberg will have poems in the...

Of Beckman's follow-up collection to his APR-Honickman award winning first book, Tomaz Salamun writes: "There are no similarities with Apollinaire or Ginsberg, except with what they were doing to Time while they were young." The contemplative poems of...

- Rohrer's newest collection, A Green Light, is due out from Verse Press in May 2004, and will generate renewed interest in his backlist. - Rohrer's first collection sold extremely well, and he continues to be one of the most talked-about poets of his...

In his introduction to this, Richards' debut collection, Tomaz Salamun writes "It is inscrutable how Peter Richards produces this religious magma and bathes himself and us in it. How he restores internal time to the work of art."Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956665867Author Jeanpaul FerroFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Honest PublishingPublisher Honest PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4th full-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around in the New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's about the times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984200351Author Lance LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991307838Author Beth Francis ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Be BookhousePublisher Be BookhouseWeight(grams) 792g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559871Author Wallace Lee GruhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 176g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559864Author Helen BaroliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 51Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916397784Author Matt CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916397586Author Tarin TowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 180g

"For Richards, life in a poem is like life in a body-most at risk, and most fully at play."-David Rivard, Ploughshares Exfoliating language with wit, Nude Siren is sardonic, intimate, sump-tuous; an exacting sense of remaking the probabilities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559987Author Marcus RomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559970Author Tom SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 514g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559796Author Rebecca LillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 138g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559765Author Frank FaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559734Author John PopielaskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559666Author Jared SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559536Author Tom SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 258g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559550Author Marcus RomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2011 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9780889226326Author Stephen CollisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889226050Author Rob MclennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 241g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559567Author Warren CarrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 112g

A landmark work of bio-romanticism, Mephistos and Other Poems is the first completely new collection in five years from legendary Beat and SF Renaissance poet Michael McClure, reflecting his interests in mammal consciousness and ecological survival. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872867147Author David BrazilFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint City Lights BooksPublisher City Lights Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872867130Author David ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint City Lights BooksPublisher City Lights Books

Robyn Schiff's poems enquire about making, buying, selling and stealing in the material world, the natural landscape and the human soul. Schiff moves from Cartier and Tiffany to the Shedd Aquarium, from Marie Antoinette to the Civil War and from Mary...

In Fauxccasional Poems, Daniel Scott Tysdal imagines himself into poetic voices not his own, writing to commemorate events that never occurred, for the posterity of alternative universes -- and the delight of our own. From the reign of the first...

The Gun That Starts the Race, alternately like a David Lynch film or an episode of The Simpsons, finds the uncanny in the everyday, surprise you, make you laugh and weep (sometimes simultaneously) with recognition at the fleeting spark of our existence...

Apologetic for Joy is a lush collection from a unique new voice whose palette of subject matter ranges from artistic anatomy to dislocation. Hiemstra-van der Horst's poems reveal a sensual awareness and an imaginative escape into intricately woven poetic...

Brent MacLaine's elegant, capacious, and finely crafted fourth collection, Athena Becomes a Swallow, contains twenty-seven monologues spoken by characters that appear in Homer's The Odyssey. These are not the voices of the major players, but the voices...

Brent MacLaine's poems, like the poet himself, are rooted in the history and landscape of Prince Edward Island. Yet, MacLaine possesses a remarkable ability to graft rural values to contemporary culture, with its urban habits and popular entertainments,...

Chilean-born Renato Trujillo has published several collections of poetry in both Spanish and English. In "Rooms" he exhumes the floating images of his past -- his mother hanging clothes on the line, the cockroaches and streets of a new and...

A cache of the brooding imagery and strength characteristic of Gotro's poetry.Book InformationISBN 9780864920492Author Paul GotroFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

Lane is allusive, intricate, and technically ranging, while the abiding impulses of her work remain spirituously generous and affirmative. Few contemporary poets have her command of tone, able to shift from intense intellectual attention to private joy,...

Wheatley reflects on her experience with the Canadian Women's Army Corps -- exploring her own coming-of-age and offering an historical testament to the Canadian women who joined the Corps in World War II. Rich with sentiment, Wheatley's poems are never...