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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386084Author Ivan ArguellesFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484605Author Jeff FriedmanFormat 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 9780593535721Author Campbell McGrathFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524712334Author David YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 149g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932826619Author Angela SorbyFormat HardbackPage Count 77Imprint 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 9781930974340Author Gail MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University, New...

Poetry. Includes a CD with Liebler and the Magic Poetry Band. "These poems byM.L. Liebler fall into righteous extremes--from prayers and meditations to diatribes and paeans, all grounded in the solid savvy of all-American working-class roots. Always...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596605Author Jorie GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 190g

Poetry. In James Armstrong's pellucid poetry the drifting of autumn leaves shares space with the baroque architecture of nineteenth century England. A woman peruses a book of pharmaceuticals in a coffee shop looking for hints of happiness. And a naked...

In Gibb's second Autumn House Poetry collection, he finds sublime music in everyday city life. He offers a roadmap to hear the music of life and nature within the context of an industrial setting.Book InformationISBN 9781932870565Author Robert GibbFormat...

Poetry. "I say Claire Bateman is weirder, deeper, weirdeeper, and in that way better than the poets some say are so damned good. Those poets just make me go 'Huh?' and 'Oh, sure, ' whereas Bateman makes me go 'Sheesh!' and 'Holy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936364381Author Ann SpiersFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Black Heron PressPublisher Black Heron PressWeight(grams) 55g

At his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was counted among the greatest poets in nineteenth-century America. This variorum edition of all the poems Emerson chose for publication during his lifetime offers readers the opportunity to situate Emerson's...

"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good...

The winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize-"These poems are fresh, crisp, and muscular. They are decisive and fearless. Every object, icon, or historical moment has a soul with a voice. In these poems these soulful ones elbow their way to the...

Vagrants & Accidentals, the second full-length collection from poet Kevin Craft, is part vade mecum, part songbook, whose taut lines and adaptable stanzas traffic in the personal effects of emigration and estrangement, exile and return. In...

Winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Eryn Green's Eruv is the latest winner of the oldest annual literary award in the United States, which originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty...

Violence. Trauma. Memory. Isolation. These are just a few of the themes Graham Barnhart explores in his first collection of poems, many of which were written or begun during his years as a US Army Special Forces medic. Ranging from conventional lyrics...

Think of a time when you've feigned courage to make a friend, feigned forgiveness to keep one, or feigned indifference to simply stay out of it. What does it mean for our intimacies to fail us when we need them most? The poems of this collection...

There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell's fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, part...

In poems of haunting lyricism, and in a voice wholly unlike any other American poet, Christine Garren's second book of poetry explores common themes such as love, loss, and family with an uncommon sensibility. Among the Monarchs is filled with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128762Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 79gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm * 6mm

Imagine a heaven populated by familiar Greek gods. Sexy Aphrodite, gorgeous Adonis, Ares the warmonger, Artemis the huntress, wise Athena, bitter Demeter, and the like. But imagine also each of these denizens of Olympus stepping forward and revealing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807002254Author Jon SandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934639184Author David LauFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Commune EditionsPublisher Commune Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908998101Author Don ShareFormat HardbackPage Count 79Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm...

Author of the recent and critically acclaimed memoir ""I Hear Voices"", Jean Feraca is also an award-winning poet. Her second collection of poems, ""Crossing the Great Divide"", has not been widely available until...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430645Author Herbert MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 500g

The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which the energetic relationship between a meditative body and its universe is not only the envisioning of absence by presence but also vision itself: "Here begins the...

Expansive poems connect personal, national, and global historiesIn her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological...

With her latest poetry collection, Gail Mazur once again shows her mastery of the descriptive-meditative narrative, powerfully evoking the past while writing from the firm ground of the present. In Land's End, we see Mazur writing with the kind of lyric...

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337106Author Adrian BlevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 213g

"Seething Nation! Vast & Flowing! Day & Night & Dawn!" Poet Edward Sanders tells the story of America in incandescent verse. Bold, sweeping, investigative, rhapsodic, hilarious, heart-rendering, thought-provoking, Edward Sanders' three-volume,...

Poetry. Winner of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by Carl Phillips. "Here is a rarely expressed self-awareness that accedes as little to words as it does to the pain of the condition itself"--Fanny Howe.Book InformationISBN...

Poetry. African-American Studies. "This versatile poet blinks at nothing under thestars. Speaking and singing in the many voices and key signatures of poetry, our primal human language, Kocher shines and sheds visible and audiblelight" - Al...

Whether Aligned with the mechanism whereby the spirit is borne aloft through song comes again the question: whether. And not soothed so much as opened by the boy soprano's Sanctus, what moves in the mind as the throat constricts in sympathy,...

In Wesley's fourth poetry collection, she continues her lyric exploration of what it means to be a survivor and an immigrant, retelling stories of a generation ruined by war and grief, and the healing that follows.Book InformationISBN 9781932870404Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914742630Author Thomas McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 340g

For more than four decades, readers and critics have found Lloyd Schwartz's poems unlike anyone else's-a rare combination of the heartbreaking and the hilarious. With his ear for the poetry of the vernacular, Schwartz offers us a memorable cast of...