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Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as "the foremost poet-critic of our time" by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American poetry. Near/Miss,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761073Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 187g

The inaugural volume in the new Spotlight poetry series, Where Shadows Will selects from twenty years of innovative poetry by writer, painter, and translator Norma Cole. Cole has been a fixture of the Bay Area scene since 1977, writing melodic and...

White Spaces gathers the poetry and prose of Paul Auster from various small-press books issued throughout the seventies. These early poetic works are crucial for understanding the evolution of Auster's writing. Taut, lyrical, and always informed by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752790Author Mark StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 98gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 145mm *...

Robert Peake's incredible eye for detail illuminates a collection of stirring and delicately attuned poems that not only roam but actively seek - travelling far and wide to all manner of places but also moving through time, taking leaps of faith or...

Thomas Gardner artistically describes Jesus - ""the Word made flesh"" - as a poem penned by God for the world, and John - author of the Fourth Gospel - as the poem's interpreter. John's structural patterns, repetitions, and narrative interventions invite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535773Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 91g

Orlando White explores language from a Dine (Navajo) perspective. One idea that interests him, inspires him to think and write, is the idea of the English language as a forgotten language. Imagine if we as a people, all people in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955194129Author Kevin McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Saint Julian Press, Inc.Publisher Saint Julian Press, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976161264Author Kit RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595127Author Laura KasischkeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

With wit, charm, and grace the interviews in this collection demonstrate what readers of Wilbur's poems long have suspected: that this former U.S. poet laureate is no less persuasive and forceful in extemporaneous speech than he is in verse and prose...

For over half a century, David Ignatow has crafted spare, plain, haunting poetry pf working life, urban images, and dark humor. The poetic heir of Whitman and William Carlos Williams, Ignatow is characteristically concerned with human mortality and...

The three sequences in the book-"Logging," "Hunting," "Burning"-show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder's writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and Amerindian lore and other interconnections East and West,...

The three sequences in the book-"Logging," "Hunting," "Burning"-show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder's writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and Amerindian lore and other interconnections East and West,...

Love, lust, loss, art and myth - all find their way into Alan Kellermann's stylish debut collection. Here, the worlds of America and Wales collide, the sacred and the profane sit side by side and the paintings of Tony Goble are startlingly animated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734979176Author Ted KooserFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Pulley PressPublisher Pulley PressWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 2mm

In her powerful fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the grace of working people, she captures the pain and beauty of women in all their variety,...

From acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes dramatically awry. These formally ambitious poems and lyric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949966718Author Anne de MarckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Eleni Sikelianos, "a master of mixing genres" (Time Out New York), further bends time and space in Your Kingdom, an ode to our more-than-human animal origins. As she studies the wild roots of our past, present, and future, Sikelianos, one of our foremost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594656Author Marianne BoruchFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780060934446Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915380800Author Michele WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Word WorksPublisher Word WorksWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596742Author Lisa OlsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint 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 9780811217187Author Susan HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808914Author Stanley MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Though most of Jane Tyson Clement's poems remained hidden in private notebooks during her lifetime, the few that traveled beyond her hands were widely admired and drew critical acclaim. Now, with this first comprehensive anthology of her work, the public...

Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929-2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments either to claim or disavow him. To critics in the United Kingdom and United States alike, Gunn demonstrated that formal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494726Author Cynthia ZarinFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 272g

Kelvin Corcoran's first book, Robin Hood in the Dark Ages, appeared in 1985 and he has published eight subsequent collections with a range of British small presses. This volume presents a complete new collection, 'Against Purity', together with a...

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems originally published in 1986, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness,...

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A debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California.  Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, a debut collection by E. Hughes, marries personal narrative with historical excavation to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885635914Author Nicholas GuligFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

“We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud.”From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. “Thoughtful, witty, curious” (The New York Times), Equi’s subversive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989665273Author Chris CampanioniFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Roof BooksPublisher Roof Books

Ribcage of Time, a poetry collection from a woman’s point of view, is both intimate and universal in its scope of events—family life, birth, death, rape, abortion, genocide from a poet on the ledge of some eighty years of life with language fresh and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887487033Author Joseph MillarFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University PressWeight(grams)...