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There are thousands upon thousands of love songs. There's probably one for every happy and hurting heart, from Springsteen's "If I should Fall Behind" to Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U." On their first album, acclaimed Atlanta band,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813009438Author Roald HoffmannFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of Florida

Suffused with pain and power, Minnie Bruce Pratt's poetry is as evocative of the swamps and streets of the southern United States as it is of the emotional lives of those too often forced into the margins of society. Vivid, lush, and intensely honest,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295241Author Amy NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Grounded in deep and thoughtful awareness, this complex collection of poems combines history, sexuality, pop culture, and political experience with edgy, wry, often absurd humor and an underlying penchant for the macabre. Rachel Loden employs both strict...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934832882Author Stephen IraFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint New Michigan PressPublisher New Michigan PressWeight(grams) 64g

*Brett Ralph has an incredible stage presence. His years of singing in punk rock bands and his current work with the Kentucky Chrome Review will bring out lively audiences in many cities, and he is willing to do an extensive tour. *A cross between Frank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213986Author Opel Palmer AdisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 309g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918273918Author Victor Hernandez CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579261Author Katie MaryaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

For nearly half a century Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914086444Author Celia GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929918539Author Crystal BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 118g

Clear and insightful poetry on our relationship to the given world.Book InformationISBN 9780819511911Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher Wesleyan University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934471029Author Paul VioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1996.Book InformationISBN 9780880014762Author J. GrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781893652439Author Genesse Bourdeau GentryFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writer's Club PressWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295555Author Brian TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027582Author Corina CoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 190g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936687435Author Peter Lamborn WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Xexoxial EditionsPublisher Xexoxial EditionsWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524722Author August KleinzahlerFormat 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 9781910669129Author Andrea PotosFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692307991Author Ilene StargerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Rara Avis BooksPublisher Rara Avis BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured narratives to fragmented lyrics that convey the ambiguity of loss, these poems both arc into the past and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978998905Author Derrick C BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Inside the Money Machine is poetry for the immense majority for those who work for a living, out of the house or at home, from the laundromat to the classroom, from blue-collar construction sites to white-collar desk jobs. These fresh, gritty and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811046Author Connie ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 200g

In poems full of bounty, loss and the mysteries of the body, Taylor offers a rich, severe, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. In 2010, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her...

"While others are busy catching their own reflection in the storefront of poetry, [John] Godfrey goes to work on the damage and squalor of the overlooked. His genius rings true."-Peter Gizzi With an enemy like daylight who needs the psychology...

This book contains work from all phases of Kenny's career, beginning with his Butler University days through his life in New York City and on his many road trips through his eventual return to his homeland in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486784Author Joyce SutphenFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University PressWeight(grams)...

Richard Wilbur, a former Poet Laureate of the United States and one of the most admired poets and critics of his generation, revisits the poetry of Poe, exploring the philosophical seriousness of verse often identified with its macabre and gothic...

In the tradition of French poets like Francis Ponge, Pierre Reverdy, and Rene Char, The Tranquilized Tongue offers a series of prose meditations in the form of surrealist declaratives, each sentence unfolding like an alchemical riddle in which sounds,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861714374Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams) 88g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957240503Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern's previous work, move into an area of knowledge-even wisdom-that reflects a long life of writing, teaching, and activism. They are poems of grief and...

Nina Bogin writes of her second collection that she has 'drawn together poems that deal with the personal - family, friendship, love and loss; poems about landscape and place; and, poems that try to come to grips with the larger world and its chaos...

A new volume from Adrienne Rich, "Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth" is one of her most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme", in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel", in the voices from past and...

Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects the most up-to-date Williams scholarship. In addition to including many more pieces, Tomlinson has organized the whole in chronological order. "It isn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907056277Author Patrick HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry