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In Blood Pages George Bilgere continues his exploration of the joys and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in the Midwest. OK, maybe he's a bit beyond middle-aged at this point, and his rueful awareness of this makes these poems even more...

This debut collection of vivid, lyrical poems explores the emotional landscape of childhood without confession and without straightforward narrative. Chang sweeps together myth and fairy tale, skirting the edges of events to focus on the psychological...

The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989872454Author Albert GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Brick Road Poetry PressPublisher Brick Road Poetry PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2001 and Triangle Awards (Gay Male Poetry) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780916397722Author Justin ChinFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594496Author Jennifer Michael HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 184g

Inspired by Lanford Wilson's play Talley's Folly, Jeremy Radin's Dear Sal is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin's second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic...

A Year From Today traverses a many-layered urban terrain-social, political, poetic, animal-in a form more raw than a diary, weightier than a series of sketches, more idiosyncratic and implicated than a conceptual program. Among this volume's many...

Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the poet's brother and father. Emerson covers all aspects of the tragedies that, as...

Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the driver, an amateur physicist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984897558Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486951Author Joyce SutphenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486937Author Rolly KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University PressDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486920Author John HoppenthalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the US-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137726Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780374606480Author Louise Gl ckFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982167288Author Lana del ReyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063306073Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 180mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486975Author James RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

My Last Resume: New and Collected Poems showcases an exquisite body of poetry spanning more than five decades. While Joseph Di Prisco, a true Renaissance man, has achieved success across genres, his lifetime of work showcased in the long-awaited My Last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061125614Author Leonard CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593685402Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375712258Author Sharon OldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A...

A selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator. This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives,...

In poems bursting with narrative power, Disease of Kings explores the tender yet volatile friendship between two young scammers living off the fat of society. Here are stories of an odd couple who scrounge, con, hustle, and steal, alternately proud of...

In earlier civilizations ruins were remainders and reminders of the glory of long passed times. People pondered what could still be seen of the palaces, great public buildings and places of worship. The everyday working world was left without any record...

Time's Language contains powerful poems of witness as well as personal poems, and autobiographical prose pieces (that read like prose poems), recounting a life of resistance, the life of a life-long literary and political revolutionary. As US Poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589800564Author James RiceFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486494Author Margot SchilppFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

Who That Divines comprises short songs and puzzles and longer poems of memoir and history-all of which assert an unconventionally feminist sense of the possibility of locating the divine in language, politics, and daily life. Moriarty's position as one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880341Author Rachel HadasFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint CavanKerry PressPublisher CavanKerry PressWeight(grams) 300g

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARDHer painful legs refused to emerge. It was a question of a particular movement. A passage from analyses to terrifying hallucination. The pressure oozing out of her. Still nursing she held up the head. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900715263Author Stewart BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771835275Author Tom BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Guernica Editions IncPublisher Guernica Editions IncWeight(grams) 1g

This is the most complete selection of work by 2005 Texas State Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach ever put in one volume. It brings together selections that represent his more recognizable pieces, work that has only been available in journals, work that has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628971859Author Tobias RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591136Author Heather AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556437540Author Gerrit LansingFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581771107Author India Hixon RadfarFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Barrytown LimitedPublisher Barrytown LimitedWeight(grams) 181g