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In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440433Author Jean GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Among many poems can be found "dying is fine)but Death," "so many selves(so many friends and gods," "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," "no time ago," "I thank You God for most this amazing," and "now all the fingers of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440419Author Angie EstesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354880Author Kate DurbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 183g

Wild Dreams of a New Beginning brings together two acclaimed poetry volumes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of our "ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist). Who Are We Now? (1976), the first half of Wild Dreams, takes a long poetic look at the cultural...

Described by some as "erotica for feminists," and "enemy to family values," DeColo's poems convulse with desire and a longing for connection. Her work speaks to the particular loneliness of watching Fox News after you've masturbated...

Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction. "The Beautifully Worthless is an outrageous act of kindness."--Eileen Myles "She's insanely talented, it's mad. The Beautifully Worthless crisscrosses the USA, like Close to the...

T. R. Hummer's new and characteristically pyrotechnic collection takes its title from the rare (in English) singular form of the common word ""ephemera."" In a work of startling originality, the poet presents a meditation on...

Muscogee (Creek) writer and humorist Alexander Posey (1873-1908) lived most of his short but productive life in the Muscogee Nation, in what is now Oklahoma. He was an influential political spokesperson, an advocate for improving conditions in Indian...

The vigour, humour and rugged rhythms of Robert Service's ballads of Yukon have given them great appeal. This is a collection of 39 poems that relate to his years in North America, and include "Men of the High North", "The Ballad of the Northern Lights"...

Atwoods first book of poetry since "Morning in the Burned House" in 1995, "The Door" contains 50 lucid yet urgent poems which range in tone from lyric to ironic and meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the...

In this, the fourth volume to win the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Lisa Zeidner's twenty-two poems introduce a surprising range of characters, from a cryogenically preserved caveman to a 78-year-old widow arrested for shoplifting. Some of the narratives...

Often breathtaking ...this latest collection from Kocot intersperses frantic images with hauntingly simple and loss-laden outcries. Throughout, there is the poet's thwarted longing for an understanding that cannot come: "all poets and poetry elude...

This dual language selection of Martin Carter's poems, edited by David Dabydeen, translated into Spanish by Salvador Ortiz-Carbonares and with an introduction by Gemma Robinson, will establish very clearly that Carter is a major South American poet, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374512Author Richard HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977108Author Professor of Creative Writing Nick FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Big Other Book Award for poetry and finalist for the Believer Book Award.If The Cloud Corporation is, as John Ashbery called it, "the poetry of the future, here, today," then Timothy Donnelly's third collection, The Problem of the Many, is...

Anthony McNeill was without doubt amongst the finest contemporary Caribbean poets, whose previous collections were hailed as works of immense originality. Chinese Lanterns from the Blue Child won the 1995 Jamaican National Literary Award. Completed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592690Author Christian WimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101947692Author Marie PonsotFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole's acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his "prosodic mastery" and "keen moral intelligence" (American Poets), and for the "rigor, vigor, joy, and wit"...

Shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards in the category of Most Promising Writer Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce -- plays in which, for example, the...

Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin's new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the...

Beckman's new poems come to us directly and intimately. Compulsively readable, full of fear and persistence, they resonate with the wildness and generosity of Ginsberg, Whitman, and Ted Berrigan, turning the everyday into an encompassing, harrowing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587318030Author Ralph McInernyFormat PaperbackImprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890318901Author Ralph McInernyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 125g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811205450Author Gary SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878397891Author Julia Klatt SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint North Star Press of St. CloudPublisher North Star Press of St. CloudWeight(grams)...

Tina Modotti, known to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed, was also a dedicated political activist and photographer whose best work has a powerful dignity and integrity. She lived with Edward Weston in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534523Author John BerrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533045Author Gjertrud SchnackenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126783Author Sarah de de LeeuwFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609803742Author Barry GiffordFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 529g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061923906Author Robert HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295807Author Brian TurnerFormat PaperbackImprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890106Author Linda HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Mountain Interval (1916) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Having gained success with his first two collections, both published in London, Frost returned home to New Hampshire and completed his third volume, Mountain Interval. The...

Who would have ever thought there was a direct way to connect mathematical concepts to poetry?Creative juices were certainly at work when this book of mathematical dialogues was created by Theoni Pappas. It presents anew way to enjoy and learn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684112203Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Stanford Inversiones SpaPublisher Stanford Inversiones SpaWeight(grams)...