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In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806857Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 200g

How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? The Bower engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Ireland, with her young daughter. The...

This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man's son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a...

from "Mount Fuji" A draughtsman's draughtsman, Hokusai at 70 thought he'd begun to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, of the way plants grow, hoped that by 90 he'd have penetrated to their essential nature. ...

From the Second Draft: What other people learn From birth, Betrayal, I learned late. My soul perched On an olive branch Combing itself, Waving its plumes. I said Being mortal, I aspire to Mortal things. I need you, Said my soul, If you're telling the...

What I wanted was a goshawk on my wrist, A docile bit of wilderness in my care. Her setting-sun red eye returned my stare. Inside the cage I am a nurse, waiter, And janitor. Outside, an austringer. I searched for one all day in the forest. Now Chiefly...

A smudge of cloud on the horizon, then the pale city halo in the night sky. Quiet on the water-in the bare trees, tinsel rain. A bright, silent wheel turns on the bayside where the secret flag is raised at midnight. Skiffs push off from docks in the fair...

Earth I didn't come here to make speeches. I didn't come here to make trouble. I didn't come here to be somebody's mother. I didn't come here to make friends. I didn't come here to teach. I didn't come here to drag the space heater from the house in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060957957Author L. GluckFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418008160Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Editorial AlmaPublisher Editorial AlmaWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944697037Author Aaron AnstettFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 144g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591235Author John BalabanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590429Author Richard JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590726Author David BottomsFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 244g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590375Author John BalabanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 128g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591433Author Richard JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Tough and tissue soft, loose blossoms open for a while to sense, whatever slant of daylight comes, then close to cold in a slow wince. Dragons is a sonorous, sensual collection of poems from Devin Johnston, "one of the finest craftsmen of verse we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592928Author Mark BibbinsFormat 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 9781556590795Author John HainesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591976Author Peter PereiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591365Author Sascha FeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590696Author James GalvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 95g

In Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems, Frederick Morgan reworks and amplifies, in his extraordinary poetic range, the fundamental human themes that preoccupied him-love, death, pain, the nature and transcendence of the Self. In interweaving his many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930974692Author Jennifer PerrineFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues PressPublisher Western Michigan University,...

Poetry. Winner of the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize. "Reading STANDING IN LINE FOR THE BEAST is like eating a rich, complex dessert, where hints of acidity and underlying bitterness make the sweetness rare and delightful"--Richard Cecil.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587315701Author John FoyFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771338370Author Betsy WarlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596377Author Marianne BoruchFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

"The poems of Rebecca Dunham's Strike invoke the terse, noiseless monstrousness of the toxic-domestic, the 'once-us, ' in which 'to fall numb is not to fall/out of pain.' This collection is Plathian in its riven depiction of anger, which both...

From Michael Bazzett, poet and translator of The Popol Vuh, a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining. "Narcissus was never one to see himself // in moving water. // He liked his image /...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592676Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art. "A boy with no one to...

James Tolan's debut full-length collection exibits eloquent and direct language to explore family trauma and personal memory. Tolan has a truly unique voice and his poems offer readers something they won't find elsewhere.Book InformationISBN...

As in her previous collections, Miraculum shows Schwartz's true ability as a poet. These poems are passionate, tender, tough, and brimming with life.About the AuthorRUTH L. SCHWARTZ's Dear Good Naked Morning was the winner of the 2004 Autumn House Poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644211274Author Stanley MossFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Orbit connects the intimate with what is farthest from us, mixing what we can imagine with what is daily and near. Landscapes stretch from stable and fulfilling domestic interiors to the destiny of our sun as an exploding red giant. That dilemma of human...

Daisy Fried's third book of poetry is a book of unsettling, unsettled Americans. Fried finds her Americans everywhere, watching Henry Kissinger leave the Louvre, trapped on a Tiber bridge by a crowd of neo-fascist thugs, yearning outside a car detailing...

WINNER OF THE 2010 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE 'Glenn Shaheen is claiming new ground for American poetry. His poems are about the nightmares of information overload, collapsing infrastructure, ubiquitous violence, and other ills of late empire. The...

WINNER OF THE 2007 DONALD HALL PRIZE IN POETRY Selected by Bob Hicok Burn and Dodge is part serious/part serious play and opens with a frank and occasionally antic exploration of contemporary vices, such as Guilt, Envy, and Regret. Some poems...