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Dung Beetle; Be kind to me, a mess. I represent persistence - in the dirty thing; things larger than me; I do not fear. Whatever you think, or like - I live. Oh, marvell Pushing up the hill - rolling around. I feel myself at work. You are larger than I...

Poem to Fire: Fast transparency that explodes the fuel and air in the cylinder and shuts the intake valves and thrusts down on the piston so the crankshaft spins and spins you can through all material that blocks your way so fast that driving now past...

A poetic personification of the winter season, Mother Winter goes walking "on the longest cold night," inviting the reader along to experience chill winds, icy ponds, white snowdrifts, and other quiet wonders.Book InformationISBN 9781682770900Author...

In Peter Cole's remarkable new book, the forces and sources that have long driven his work come together in singular fashion. Things on Which I've Stumbled rides a variable music that takes it from an archeology of mysterious poetic fragments unearthed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733556842Author Malcolm MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Grayson BooksPublisher Grayson BooksWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892553594Author Aaron BelzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 120g

In his new collection Torn Awake, Gander continues to blend passion with intelligence, unveiling the forces of physical nature and personhood, the self as a construction of reciprocally reflective relations. Proposing models of hybridity, each of the...

In a careful examination of personal and collective histories, David Keplinger's Ice indexes the findings from memory's slow melt-stories and faces we've forgotten, bones hidden in frost."I am asking how much more / I have to learn from this," Keplinger...

Winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. The long-awaited follow-up to The Key to the City-a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986-Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital emanates a quiet and authoritative passion for social...

"The Other Lover" is a collection of bittersweet American love poems. Writing with jazz-like verbal panache, Bruce Smith reaches for the paradoxical pulls between sweetness and bitterness. With carefully crafted rhyming stanzas and unpredictable free...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649799654Author Jason WaddleFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 118g

In this, her first book, Martha Serpas succeeds brilliantly in fulfilling the calculations of the alchemists, those great hermetic artists of medieval Europe. Cote Blanche deliberately and beautifully weds the secular to the divine in poems which,...

With a half-dozen books of poetry published to date, Kenneth Fields distills some forty years of teaching and writing about poetry into Classic Rough News, a collection of fresh sonnets and sonnet-like lyrics that attests to both Fields's skills as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375710834Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 150mm...

Poetry. "Matthew Thorburn's SUBJECT TO CHANGE gives us a poetry of the meta-empirical, asking, `It's not too late, is it?' Exuberant and crystalline, these poems articulate the problematic beauty of our grand mix-up, our new and comic Dark Ages. The...

Award-winning poet Alan Shapiro offers a new collection of poems reflecting on mortality and finitude. Alan Shapiro's fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious...

In his latest book of poetry, Michael Fried continues his pursuit of lyric intensity but greatly expands his range of subject matter. The Next Bend in the Road is a powerfully coherent book of lyric and prose poems that has the internal scope of a novel...

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) produced a startling number of translations of both Spanish and Latin American poetry starting during WWI and continuing through the late fifties. Williams grew up in a Spanish-speaking home and sometimes described...

From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itself Earthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440396Author Amy Newlove SchroederFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

The Ginseng Hunter's Notebook records a vital and eccentric dance for life. In poems of brilliant texture and intimate gesture, the poet, wounded yet resilient, evokes a music as compelling and fresh as birdsong. In her love of language, and in her...

Gladys Cardiff is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, and a member of the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. Her small book, To Frighten a Storm, from Copper Canyon Press, won the Washington State Governor's First Book Award in 1976...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932826466Author Lisa FishmanFormat HardbackPage Count 57Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University, New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932826565Author Rebecca ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932826480Author David MarlattFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University, New...

Poet Julie Moulds has battled non-Hodgkins lymphoma for years, through remissions, recurrences, and a bone marrow transplant. In The Woman with a Cubed Head, Moulds summons up an exotic band of kindred spirits to accompany her as she engages the forces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440266Author Mary Ann SamynFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

These endlessly inventive contemporary American prose poems work forward from the tradition represented by Russell Edson and Charles Simic with energy and delight.About the AuthorBECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG is the author of six volumes of poetry, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440358Author Angie EstesFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932826169Author Maurice Kilwein GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440853Author Marcia SouthwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440327Author J. W. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440488Author Carol PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440334Author Timothy KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

In this remarkable book, her fourth collection of poems, Marianne Boruch continues to explore the world around her with curiosity, wry humor, searching skepticism, and thoughtful tenderness. Her poems range widely, letting themselves be triggered, often,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440457Author Pierre PeuchmaurdFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440440Author Mark NeelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440549Author Kenny WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440495Author Mark NeelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

The remarkable debut poetry collection from renowned bestselling novelist and Award-winning poet Paulette Jiles, reissued in a handsome A List edition.Originally published in 1973, Paulette Jiles's first collection amazed audiences with its rare depth of...