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In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone...

Cathy Song's fourth collection of poetry unveils glimpses of the elusive but ever-present power of wisdom and compassion. Recognizing that we have the ability to create our own misery as well as our own bliss, she finds the unexpected in broken lives,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Award 2022. Long-listed for Griffin Poetry Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781524711610Author Sharon OldsFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition "Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece."---Thomas McGuane This fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Edward Dorn's masterpiece, Gunslinger, a comic, anti-epic critique of American capitalism that still...

Randall Mann's "Breakfast with Thom Gunn" is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929-2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937073718Author Charles PlymellFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Bottle of Smoke PressPublisher Bottle of Smoke PressWeight(grams) 66gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594663Author Laura KasischkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105411Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 79gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596643Author Kevin PruferFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint 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 9780451527875Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ROC (imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing...

In Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner takes inspiration from William Blake's "bounding line" to explore the poem as a body at the intersection between poet and audience. Using this as a figure for sexual, political and economic interactions, Wagner's poems...

Moving back and forth with the rhythm of the writer's life, from Paris to New York, from the 1990s to the 1940s, Squares and Courtyards reminds us that, to take action, it is necessary to take notice.About the AuthorMarilyn Hacker is the author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977566Author Fanny HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

In his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment. What is the face we prepare in our public lives to distract others from our private grief?...

Jay Hopler's Green Squall is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Louise Gluck observes in her foreword, "Green Squall begins and ends in the garden"; however, Hopler's gardens are not of the seasonal variety...

Millay's first three books of lyrics and sonnets are collected here: Renascence, Second April, and A Few Figs from Thistles. With a balanced and appreciative introduction and useful annotations, this volume presents some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450540Author Laurel RadzieskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 5mm

I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is film noir set in verse, each poem a miniature crime scene with its own set of clues frosted eye-shadow, a pistol under a horse's eye, dripping window units, an aneurysm opening its lethal trap. In otherworldly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394758527Author Lucie Brock-BroidoFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 126gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529505Author C. K WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027735Author Monica de la TorreFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486906Author Ron SlateFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint 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 9780374537739Author Ange MlinkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

"As always with a Bob Hicok book, fascinating and a book you sort of can't help but pick up and suddenly, two hours later, find yourself having read straight through. I can think of just about no contemporary poets who publish such consistently great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555973544Author Elizabeth AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.

This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of a haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco building and translating his mother's diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre that took place in Poland in...

Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale-telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous...

Migrant Psalms prays for a way to make sense of immigration to the United States-now that we realize the American Dream was always an impossible one. Both reverent and daring, this verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written...

Deborah Landau's fourth book of poetry, Soft Targets, draws a bull's-eye on humanity's vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an endangered planet on which all inhabitants...

These are poems that rock you like a tilt-a-whirl, off-kilter and non-stop.In this collection of poems by Joe Hall, you might find yourself laid off at a cannabis grow or vomiting gold. You might find yourself screaming in your underwear at the tech bro...

Kimiko Hahn's poetry explores the interplay-and tensions-among her various identities: mother, lover, wife, poet, and daughter of both the Midwest and Asia. However astonishing her subjects-from sideshow freaks to sadomasochistic fantasy-they ultimately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959984221Author Yahia LababidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint FomitePublisher FomiteWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692333372Author Cecilia WolochFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591044Author Timothy LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces--time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion--win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained--in family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780807068311Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Beacon...

Exquisite hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the "New York School" of poetry, Frank O'Hara. Published on the 50th anniversary of Lunch Poems.Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590122Author Thomas McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

A book of prismatic, lyrical poems that enhance and disrupt the pastoral tradition to consider organic and mineral worlds, queer desire and experience, the mathematical and the spiritual; struggle and resistance.Pink Noise orbits in spaces of memory,...