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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887487040Author Dzvinia OrlowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

With all the power of a long-brewing storm, the brilliant poet Jenny Factor finally returns to make public the interior work and spoils of decades in Want, The Lake, her second poetry collection. This book of fifty-two poems spans twenty years of...

An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet James P. Lenfestey dazzles with a suite of odes to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406255Author Sam EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596933Author Kayleb Rae CandrilliFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Joseph Fasano’s The Last Song of the World delves into the chaos of the modern world, and searches for resilience in the face of environmental and societal devastation. Dripping with images of ancient ruins and mythological figures, these poems serve as...

An underground denizen of San Francisco soars above it in a state-of-the-art long poem.Over a decade ago, Patrick James Dunagan stoically refused to be published in the Spotlight series, citing his desire to maintain critical independence as a prolific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556597015Author Ted KooserFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

A powerful debut and a lyric coming-of-age narrative that interrogates the myths we carry In Find Me When You’re Ready, Perry Janes traces a sweeping journey from Detroit to Los Angeles. As he leaves home and forges toward California, the speaker in...

An abundant and anticipatory collection of poems exploring the season of waiting that precedes adoption.From Guggenheim fellow and celebrated author Sally Keith comes an incantatory collection of poems on the transformative process of nurturing new life...

What Monsters You Make of Them interrogates ecology and injustice through shifting landscapes and ancient cities. Stand astonished at a painting, venerate the mugshot of a poet, riff on a comedian’s quip, and recall a mentor persevering through grief...

Wrestling with the experience of living online as a non-digital native Joanna Fuhrman didn’t grow up online. Her generation entered the digital age as adults, with optimism about the possibilities it would bring for community building. In the alien...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596957Author Jenny GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Moving through the realms of digital technologies, these poems cut to the core of our physical human experiences amid a virtually mediated world. Diving through illusions and phantoms of virtual realms and into the human desire for boundless...

River Road is a collection of narrative poems in the voice of Susan McFalls, writing from her new home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.Wayne Caldwell, author of Cataloochee, returns to North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains to continue the story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378596Author Farnoosh FathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822967286Author Bret ShepardFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887487064Author Andy YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint 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 9780887487057Author Eleanor StanfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

“It was breeding season, / wasn’t it, and they were running from something,” writes Caitlin Roach. Surveille’s queer speaker is on the cusp of motherhood, vacillating between attentiveness and paranoia, surveilling her body, civic bodies, natural and...

Standing on the shore, preparing to journey into the unknown, James Longenbach wrote these final poems with astonishing courage and clarity. Seafarer opens with a gorgeous sequence in which the poet looks down on his life from above, as if he’s already...

A debut full-length poetry collection from Sarah Lyn Rogers rewriting girlhood and summoning mischief Sarah Lyn Rogers’s debut full-length collection is a tragicomic exploration of codependent and transactional relationships: economies of shame, gifts as...

“There are fevers you still wish to forget,” writes Eduardo MartÍnez-Leyva, but how fortunate for the rest of us that he remembers. These tenderly crafted autobiographical poems pierce through to the heart of pain, love, loss, and the ongoing search for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596964Author Niki HerdFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry is an anthology of poems originally selected by Ted Kooser in 1980 and published by his Windflower Press, a small, independent publisher that specialized in poetry from the Great Plains. The collection contains...

Jerome Rothenberg’s final anthology—an experiment in omnipoetics with Javier Taboada—reaches into the deepest origins of the Americas, north and south, to redefine America and its poetries The Serpent and the Fire breaks out of deeply entrenched models...

In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, these poems range from Kansas highways and sunbaked...

What the Earth Seemed to Say is a powerful collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of America’s most daring and courageous poets. With its ‘radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest...

The Winter Dance Party lays out, not someone's entire life, but that person's life as a poet. This enthralling, career-spanning book by the National Book Award finalist David Kirby is made up mainly of new poems along with a generous number of older ones...

Death Benefits deepens and extends David R. Slavitt's sublime, lyric confrontation with mortality and does so in a plainspoken and marvelously entertaining, conversational way. His poetry encourages us to recognize our own predicaments, as we see...

Winner of the Backwaters Prize in PoetryDear Wallace addresses the poet and insurance executive Wallace Stevens in an attempt to reconsider art, power, and creativity amid the demands of everyday responsibility. Exploring relationships between modernism,...

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryJagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent. In this five-part testimony Lory Bedikian...

In his final book, the celebrated poet Fred Chappell reflects on life and the beyond. Details drawn from daily actions, religion, classical myth, and the Appalachian landscape adorn this autumnal collection that unearths connections both strong and...

The Winter Dance Party lays out, not someone's entire life, but that person's life as a poet. This enthralling, career-spanning book by the National Book Award finalist David Kirby is made up mainly of new poems along with a generous number of older ones...