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Sonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication.From Shelley Memorial Award Winner Gillian Conoley, Notes from the Passenger reminds us how with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625346414Author Wendy BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

When her "smart" phone keeps asking her to autocorrect her name to Denise Richards, Denise Duhamel begins a journey that takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion with her characteristic wit and insight. The poems in Scald engage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930974470Author Bradley PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint 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 9780887486869Author Michael McfeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University PressWeight(grams)...

Winner of the 2010 COAL HILL REVIEW Chapbook Contest. Marks explores the nature of parenthood, of what it means to be sheltered and to shelter. These are quiet poems, filled with intelligence and grace.Book InformationISBN 9781932870497Author Gigi...

Trowbridge's Fool is based on an archetype that runs from the beginnings of storytelling up to modern films (silent and sound), fiction, poetry, and stand-up comedy. He is combination schlemiel and shlimazel, alternately the spiller and the spilled-on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593321423Author Patrick PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494788Author Vera PavlovaFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 270g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997335521Author James HaugFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Talking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. The book centers around the sudden death of the author's long-time partner and travels outward to events in the world at large. Imagining themselves...

This is Wojahn's fourth and most wide-ranging collection of poetry. In these poems, centred around two elegies for his parents, private and public history merge. They also treat an array of subjects drawn from news events.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486449Author Honor MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University PressWeight(grams)...

A collection intent on worrying the boundaries between natural and unnatural, human and not, Unlikely Designs draws far-ranging source material from the back channels of knowledge-making: the talk pages of Wikipedia, the personal writings of Charles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374539344Author Lawrence JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 152g

Losing a loved one to addiction and the insurmountable grief that follows cannot be aptly defined by linear, literal description. In Once A Storm, acclaimed short fiction writer Janet Trull nimblyand thoughtfully depicts the loss experienced by a parent...

Ransom Street is Claire Millikin's third collection of poetry with 2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938633157Author Chris RansickFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Conundrum PressPublisher Conundrum PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012194Author Mercedes EngFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint TalonbooksPublisher TalonbooksWeight(grams) 181g

The title of Kelly Grovier's third collection, The Lantern Cage, conjures contrasting images of illumination and shadow, warmth and confinement, the burning soul and the material body. The poems it brings together are fascinated by a universe whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622889129Author Joel PeckhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337052Author James RichardsonFormat HardbackImprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 585g

Stunningly original, this collection—a prodigious feat of verbal invention—contains idiomatic phrases spiced with quicksilver insights, exploring craziness and horror, grief and love, wry humor and historical commentary.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011780Author MacKie Jv BlantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

God of Nothingness is a book for those who have seen death up close or even quietly wished for it. In these poems, honed to a devastating edge, Mark Wunderlich asks: How is it we go on as those around us die? And why go on at all? This collection is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125228Author Carl DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 150g

Formally innovative poems that engage with history and the individual. In his eleventh poetry collection, Baron Wormser offers the wide range of subjects and imaginative approaches that his readers have come to expect. Touching on topics such as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406262Author Jeanine StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 45Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 36g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596711Author Forrest GanderFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649799661Author Jason WaddleFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452318Author Jennifer GrotzFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802161895Author Eileen MylesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Poetry. "How do we read when everything around us needs to be read, history, heredity, our home on earth? 'By rewriting language' is theanswer suggested by this marvelously agile, rangy first collection"--ColeSwensen. "Undercutting almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486791Author Deborah PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint 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 9780887486753Author K. A. HaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University PressWeight(grams) 5g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486579Author Priscilla BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595714Author Maurice ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880204Author Jack WilerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint CavanKerry PressPublisher CavanKerry PressWeight(grams) 666g

The Wild Goose was a hand-made magazine of verse written and edited by John Boyle O'Reilly aboard the Hougoumont, the last ship to transport British convicts to Australia. O'Reilly (1844-1890) was an Irish Fenian sentenced to life imprisonment for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950584840Author Michael FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Green Place BooksPublisher Green Writers PressWeight(grams) 9g