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As a child of deaf adults (CODA), Pia Taavila first learned to communicate when her deaf father fingerspelled the names of toys in her crib and her mother showed her the signs for objects in picture books. From this primary visual orientation, in...

Moving through shades of darkness and light, Charlie Smith captures a refracted view of a disturbed, disintegrating world. Demo explores landscapes both natural and urban, probing the spaces where the two overlap. Its narrator is at once wanderer and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251201Author Gary FinckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 150g

An exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as "a seduction by way of small astonishments"Nate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is "an original in Eliot's sense of the word." In Hosts and...

Poetry. A Brenda Hillman Selection. "Here, the sum of the parts generates'such a brutal equation' that there is little difference between 'the longerlife' and 'the lush line.' Mathias recognizes the 'lush line' was everimplemented not for the sake...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930974494Author Kevin BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University, New...

David Sanders's second book of poems mixes free and formal verse to search for wisdom in life's quiet moments as well as in those jolting times when our fragility is most apparent.Book InformationISBN 9780804012331Author David SandersFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587318597Author Dick AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 83Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 249g

"It's presumptuous, but if you're reading this you Probably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations: The "world"-both the word and what it stands for-and time, Which is or isn't real, depending on my mood. I've always Hated poems about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593741Author David BudbillFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 198g

Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either is a debut poetry collection which seeks Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla as a means of reconnecting to the speaker's cultural identity. As Spanish language and culture becomes more accessible to non-Latinx...

In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen X landmarks-from Devo to Atari to the...

For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of recollection and elegy commingle and conjoin with poems...

Praise for Martha Collins: "A dazzling poet whose poetry is poised at the juncture between the lyric and ethics, Martha Collins has addressed some of the most traumatic social issues of the twentieth century . . . in supple and complex poems. . . ...

How do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is both beautiful, full of suffering, and balanced precariously on...

As a collection of politically engaged poetry for the 21st century, Nude Descending and Empire develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet speaking to the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological crisis. This is a book that brings...

The Double Truth is a collection of poems that arc from myth to history, knowledge to mystery, Eros to natural love, animals to human beings, then back in an alternating poetic current that betrays a speaker who is at once a privileged witness of her...

Ka-Ching! is a book of poems that explores America's obsession with money. It also includes a crown of sonnets about e-bay, sestinas on the subjects of Sean Penn and the main characters of fairytales, a pantoum that riffs on a childhood riddle, and a...

American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned ""Pitt Poetry Series"". Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes...

The Falling Hour is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation. It is a fiercly elegiac and even apocalyptic book, culminating in a series of blistering elegies written after the sudden death...

The poems in Immigrant Model explore issues of individual and communal identity in the face of conflict, conflicting "truths" or histories, and uprootedness. They explore the notion of homeland as it relates to one's roots, adopted space,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811221788Author Lawrence FerlinghettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

With macabre humor, You, Beast explores the roots and limits of human empathy. Nick Lantz examines our strange, absurd, and often brutal relationship with other animals, from roaches scuttling across the kitchen floor to pigs whose heart valves can...

'Late September': Now, from the sweet fragrance of roses, bitterness stings our nostrils. The bay's withdrawn from us, the beach is littered with broken things - splintered oars, bits of old clay pipe from a long ago shipwreck, fragments of china plates...

The poems of Recalculating take readers on a journey through the history and poetics of the decades since the end of the Cold War as seen through the lens of social and personal turbulence and tragedy. Formally stunning and emotionally charged,...

From Three at 4:43, and here comes my friend, limping on his heavy boot, the heel come off. A cobbler's shop appears, and I buy the black nails, the dwarf's hammer, glue and strapping. I work hard on it, bending there until he speaks and walks on. But as...

This World and That One Sometimes you defy it, I am not that, watching a stranger cry like a dog when she thinks she's alone at the kitchen window, hands forgotten under the running tap. The curtains blow out, flap the other side of the sill. In...

This text explores the place of poetry in American culture and in the university. Addressing many interrelated issues, Charles Bernstein moves from the role of the public intellectual to the poetics of scholarly prose, from vernacular modernism to...

"Sometimes we have questions that seem to defy answers or even suppositions but then we find Love and Strange Horses to help us map out a course to continue loving life. A really wonderful, thoughtful read by an intriguing new voice." -Nikki...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934414347Author Wyn CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 114g

An accessible collection, the poet's inspiration and subject matters are intriguingly varied. Christopher Bunce lets his highly individual imagination play on a wide variety of subjects, concocting a strong brew of emotion, faith, love and disaster. It...

Explosive and incantatory, The Low Passions traces the fringes of the American experiment through the eyes of a young drifter. Pathologically frugal, reckless and vulnerable, the narrator of these viscerally compelling poems hops freight trains,...

In passionate poems about sin, obsession, and mortality-an artist's infatuation with a doll, an interspecies relationship, an ex-lover whose presence lingers in recipes, ecclesiastical birds, and a sex toy holding a loved one's ashes-Waters delivers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590870Author Susan GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint 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 9781556591662Author Madeline DeFreesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 297g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930974111Author Ruth Ellen KocherFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University,...

The dress of Inside the Yellow Dress is both the clothing of childhood, of girlhood in particular, and the garment of language we all put on. And like clothing, the poems are cut as though from cloth: here an armhole, here a sleeve, a cuff, and, finally,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2013 and Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2014. Short-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2014.Book InformationISBN...

Chana Bloch's collection of new and selected poetry explores a retrospective view on Jewish texts and traditions, illness, death, gender, memory, and family life.Book InformationISBN 9781938769009Author Chana BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint...

Charles Rafferty's latest collection of prose poems turns philosophical. In A Cluster of Noisy Planets, Rafferty captures the rhythms and patterns of life as a lover, father, and poet, distilling each moment to its essence and grounding them collectively...