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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335412Author George Elliott ClarkeFormat PaperbackImprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear Publishing

Present Tense is a tour de force, a book-length poetic project that is anatomy, history, testimony, eulogy, and divining rod of our constantly evolving present. In four acts, Rabinowitz dramatizes not only our various socio-religious-political ecosystems...

As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous...

Life cannot be without purpose. When you look closely, you see how it is all connected; how the fabric of reality is woven together perfectly on the loom of everything. Somehow, the pattern of the universe speaks to all of your senses. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595356Author Richard JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint 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 9781556593802Author W.S. Di PieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593017Author Lisa OlsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591808Author Marvin BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592157Author David BottomsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 127g

Kim Dower's poetry has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache," and by O Magazine as "unexpected and sublime." Acclaimed for combining the accessible and...

Poetry. "Lodged in various locales, whether urban or rural, earthbound or on the open sea, answering a landscape, a family memory, or the vagaries of love, the poems of CAUSEWAY are always informed by an honest buoyancy of spirit that can mix 'the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587314773Author George GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 227g

Alli Warren's I Love It Though looks hard at the material and affective world we've inherited, including the ordinariness of the sublime and the sublimity and transcendence of what's most ordinary. This book makes meaning of our contemporary moment, both...

In this beautifully wrought first book, Myronn Hardy writes poems that explore the connection between places, examine where things lie. The poet travels to countries such as Spain, Brazil, South Africa, Cuba, and always manages to enter into discourse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589775Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385484107Author Bill MoyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946433930Author Lewis WarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling Presse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737446538Author Laila HalabyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint 2leaf PressPublisher 2leaf PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981968742Author H L HixFormat HardbackImprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 816g

In poems initially inspired by Aeschylus' fifth-century B.C. trilogy "The Oresteia," which chronicles the fall of the House of Atreides, Loose Strife investigates the classical sense of loose strife, namely "to loose battle" or...

Winner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeBest Bones is a house. When you walk around the rooms of the house, you overhear the desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. The various voices in the...

This collection is divided into three sections. The first opens with the speaker's reflections on her childhood loss of her father and subsequent move to a new house and a new life, a life in which she is always alert to the absences and danger but also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822954217Author Alicia OstrikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Named one of Library Journal's Top 20 Poetry Books of 1998Winner of the 1997 Agnes Lynch Starrett PrizeRunner up for the Great Lakes Colleges Association 1999 New Writers AwardCity of a Hundred Fires presents us with a journey through the cultural coming...

This volume of poetry presents a ""spiritual geography"". Its places are varied including the grasslands, the small towns of the western Dakotas, the industrial landscape of northern New Jersey and the quiet spaces of a Benedictine monastery.Book...

From a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden": Gihon, that compasseth the whole land At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were...

This generous volume of new and selected poems by Christopher Howell encompasses three decades of his distinguished work, drawing upon all of his previous books. Dreamless and Possible chronicles his wide range of interests, expressed by blending...

John Witte's poetry sweeps the reader immediately into its crosscurrents, its passionate engagement and its ambivalence. Composed of staggered tercets, the poems in Second Nature track the chaotic rush and swerve of life as we live it. Wide open to the...

The title poem-about a group of schoolchildren illustrating Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark"-ends with the following assertion: "these are the only / lessons they will ever need to learn: that life / is not artifact, but aperture-a stepping into / and a...

Song for Thom Gunn There is no east or west in the wood you fear and seek, stumbling past a gate of moss and what you would not take. And what you thought you had (the Here that is no rest) you make from it an aid to form no east, no west. ...

"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing - even lurid - hallucination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir...

From "Chord": come the marrow-hours when he couldn't sleep, the boy river-brinked and chorded. Mud-bedded himself here in the root-mesh; bided. Sieved our alluvial sounds - "Romey's Order" is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and...

"There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries and the other voice like water that seeks to saturate, erode, and boil . . . It ruins everything you have ever saved." ...

Hailed as one of the best contemporary poets writing in the English language, David Ferry meditates unsentimentally, in many of these powerful and often wrenching poems, on the dispossession of people afflicted by madness, homelessness, or other forms of...

Milton's God Where 1-95 meets The Pike, a ponderous thunderhead flowered - stewed a minute, then flipped like a flash card, tattered edges crinkling in, linings so dark with excessive bright that, standing, waiting, at the overpass edge, the onlooker...

from Bagatelles Bagatelles, mere gestures in dry air, each pluck a dot, strokes marked on silence reaching into the dark. Beauty is strict, it passes: an echo, a wedge of harmony, sudden, broken - Who goes there? "An Algebra" is an interwoven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950268078Author Lisa FishmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Wave BooksPublisher Wave Books

Rick Bursky's latest poetry collection reaches into the peculiarities of human relationships with emotional accuracy, charm, and a touch of surrealism. In poems that channel memories of brief encounters and long-lost loves through imagination and...

The debut poetry collection of Charles Kell, Cage of Lit Glass engages themes of death, incarceration, and family through a range of physical, emotional, and philosophical spaces. In startling images of beauty and violence, Kell creates a haunting world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938769764Author Michael WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House PressWeight(grams) 152g