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Inhabiting the claustrophobia of marriage and domestic life, Erinn Batykefer's poems use the deeply personal as the lens through which she investigates larger cultural ideas. She reckons with feeling simultaneously large and small, finding ways to face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771333375Author Renee NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633374119Author H L OttFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Proving PressPublisher Proving PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578576916Author Jeremy SiglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hunters Point PressPublisher Hunters Point PressWeight(grams) 295g

A unique collaboration that explores themes of love and family, this collection features poems that are based on works of art placed alongside the very works that inspired them. It includes paintings by Natalka Husar; drawings, monotypes, and lithographs...

Cinematic and literary, this collection of poems reflects on the film icons of the 20th century, offering a fresh look at legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and Béla Lugosi. This work exhibits meticulous tone and language...

By morning you uncurl — lean in and pull back on a fulcrum of ego the way a steel-toed boot supports a shovel. When I emerge from behind our flap of vinyl, who comes out might be any collection of us here, hail, sunshine or rain. —Excerpt from “Day 6” In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010806Author Skip FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams) 386g

A dazzling new collection from an award-winning poet--longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award for PoetryAmy Gerstler has won acclaim for sly, sophisticated, and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places. The title of her new collection,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947817005Author Martha SilanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Saturnalia BooksPublisher Saturnalia BooksWeight(grams) 113g

An evocative, often mischievous remembrance and reinvention by the poet of his youth in the New York City of the '40s and '50s. In Loew's Triboro, John Allman's fourth collection of poems with New Directions, the poet recalls the movie palace in Astoria,...

Look Alive documents the construction of a queer femme self in the hostile territory of American late capitalism. Its speaker encounters darkness - in the form of violence perpetrated by both individuals and by societal systems of power and oppression -...

In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so asks what it means to be sentient and mortal on a fragile planet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637680681Author Liza Katz DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House Press

Steve Langan's brilliant first book is full of passion suffused with irony, poems cagily built to deconstruct sentimentality by using self-consciousness as a kind of comic foil. But for all the poet's clever feints and evasions, at the core of the work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930974661Author Carrie McGathFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University, New...

Poetry. African American studies. "For Lydia, poetry is about everything--love, family, hate, the forbidden--everything. This book gives a new voice to poetry with the wildness of fire, with the wildness that only words can know"--Patricia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733015349Author Rachel HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Southeast Missouri State Univ PressPublisher Southeast Missouri State Univ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945680489Author Robert HedinFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint White Pine PressPublisher White Pine Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486890Author Deborah PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint 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 9781946433770Author Jennifer NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling Presse

Winner of the 2011 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, selected by Denise Duhamel. Brodeur's second full-length collection showcases clarity of voice and sits in the domestic and poltical.Book InformationISBN 9781932870572Author Brian BrodeurFormat...

The philosopher Catherine Malabou once asked: "What should we do so that consciousness of the brain does not purely and simply coincide with the spirit of capitalism?" There Must Be A Reason People Come Here by Brian Foley is a collection of...

Once confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly established, and wildly popular, television genre over the last half century. The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader provides insight into and analyses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374606459Author Maureen N McLaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 152g

Henri Cole, one of our greatest poets, explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth in Blizzard, his tenth collection. "An artist of the greatest gifts." -Louise Gluck Daring, tender, truthful, the poems in Blizzard, Henri Cole's tenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884003540Author Reeve Robert BrennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Schreiber PublishingPublisher Schreiber PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Douglas Lochhead is one of Canada's finest poets. In celebration of his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing this collection of the best of Lochhead's work from the last fifteen years. Douglas Lochhead's poetic imagination receives its...

A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent charts a territory built of speculative histories, indeterminate landscapes, and mock narratives, all of them at the threshold linking exterior and interior worlds. Their logic is highly grammatical and slyly...

Charles Hood shows us a strange and perplexing world that runs on sadness, microbrews, snack cakes, and inexplicable magic. Brimming with natural history and bright flashes of language, his poems focus on transformations. He takes us from Paleolithic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944697983Author Ivan ArguellesFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 875g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880327Author Michael MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint CavanKerry PressPublisher CavanKerry PressWeight(grams) 172g

In this first major collection in nearly a decade from a revered American poet, William Pitt Root concerns himself with those extremes-spiritual, physical, or both-at which social and cultural forms disintegrate, leaving the individual as an unshielded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564783387Author C. S. GiscombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive PressWeight(grams) 108g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552669587Author Kathy MacFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Roseway PublishingPublisher Roseway PublishingWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Poetry Society of America - Shelley Memorial Award 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781556438332Author Kenneth IrbyFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint North Atlantic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556437502Author Charles BaraschFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 113g

Nance Van Winckel's wry, provocative slant on the world and her command of images and ideas enliven these stunning poems. Presented in two parts, Pacific Walkers first gives imagined voice to anonymous dead individuals, entries in the John Doe network of...

In the poetry collection Behemoth, Bruce Bond explores the metaphysical imagination, both in its secular and sacred forms, as something universal, endemic to consciousness, embedded in our longing to capture a lost past and stave off anxieties about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491780462Author David BrazilFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Last BooksPublisher The Last Books