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Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick's previous books, beginning with The Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called Under the Carpathians. His work-known for working class and Catholic themes-probes labor and social history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299330446Author Benjamin S GrossbergFormat PaperbackImprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Traversing time, cities, and voices, The Apollonia Poems finds its central aesthetic in place: physical and locational, perceptual and imagined. Judith Vollmer's poet-wanderer explores the layered terrains of urban environments from Pittsburgh to the...

Breeze, winner of the 2003 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, exudes a material and musical sensibility, informed as much by the sound of a word as it rolls off the tongue as by the ideas it may trigger. In these carefully crafted poems, John Latta traces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553073492Author Louis L'AmourFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130987Author Joseph HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809836Author Brooke HorvathFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

About Little Charlie Lindbergh, like earlier Margaret Randall poetry collections, presents a unique poetic voice by a revered elder in the genre. These poems are all about making connections, many of them unexpected. Randall links national events with...

In Mars Poetica, Wyn Cooper explores the conscious and unconscious ways we comprehend both the world around us and the one inside. From subjects like fashion, film, music, and painting, to more solemn and universal themes such as desire, anxiety, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946770Author BJ WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119647Author Carol Muske-DukesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 91g

Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet’s second collection, published several years before she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and...

For five decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this “sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary” (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories in his poems, blending...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596773Author Jorie GrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Little Low Heaven describes a world of isolation and beauty, art and prophecy, loss and yearning. In his tender yet terrible reading of the human condition, Anthony Butts has become a poet of pain and sorrow and, finally, of the barest budding of hope...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025790Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

In his eigth full-length collection of poetry, Ochester is at his best: straight-forward and tender, he views the world with no illusions and a great deal of compassion.Book InformationISBN 9781938769016Author Ed OchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count...

In poems performed via scat singing, via documentary, poems devoted to the sui generis, Missing Her redefines the elegy as a seeking statement.Book InformationISBN 9781930974869Author Claudia KeelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Western Michigan...

Poetry. "A humanist at heart, Linda Nemec Foster has demanded from her poetry an artfulness that engages ordinary life. With each new book her work has continued to mature, deepen, console, surprise, and TALKING DIAMONDS is as wise as it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486821Author Barbara EdelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733276047Author Wayne MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed EditionsWeight(grams) 177g

Poetry. "In THE WINDOW FACING WINTER, the urgency of the beautiful andsometimes murderous urban landscape, set alongside the seductive, intricateoasis of the Japanese garden, renders possible a vision into 'sliver ofthe absolute.' With unflinching...

In poems as tautly constructed as they are trenchantly observed, Winter, Glossolalia probes the nature of language to depict the world from which it springs. Paired with humorous, often satirical images, this collection explores human ingenuity and...

Stylistically innovative, deeply moving, carefully researched, Martha Collins's eleventh volume of poetry combines her well-known attention to social issues with the elegiac mode of her previous book. She focuses here on race, gun violence, recent wars,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771833851Author Elizabeth MacalusoFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Guernica World EditionsPublisher Guernica World EditionsWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711535Author Vincent KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561957Author Ethna McKiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 156g

Stuart's first book of short stories remains haunting, powerful, and humorous.Book InformationISBN 9780813191140Author James Baker HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of Kentucky

Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places-never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a...

A book of contemporary poetry exploring the fine, shifting line between faith-secular and spiritual faith-and fanaticism in an insecure age, American Fanatics is a lyrical, pop-culture inflected meditation on democracy, morality, beauty, commerce, and...

When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet - whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation - lives in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318522Author Brooks HaxtonFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 149g

Praised for a voice with "the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet" (Ilya Kaminsky), James Longenbach explores a life lived with the knowledge of its end in his sixth collection. These luminous, lyrical poems pose a question: Why did...

f2f: Shorthand for "face-to-face," as in meeting someone in real life, flesh-to-flesh, as opposed to in the electronic world of cyberspace. Used in chat rooms and while instant messaging on the Internet. At the core of this challenging new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226737119Author Peter CampionFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226737393Author Jason SommerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101906231Author Jana PrikrylFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Tim Duggan BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944697365Author Joseph ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944194697Author Kathryn Carole EllisonFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Brisance BooksPublisher Brisance Books

From the Foreword by David McCann: "... Bishop McKendree's gathering of songs and poems from the Japanese prisoner of war camps of World War II is a remarkable outcome to a brutal experience....The materials were elusive in their circulation among...