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Winner of the 1993 Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, Merrill's previous work has received wide acclaim.Book InformationISBN 9781893996120Author Christopher MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint White Pine PressPublisher...

Equipoise, Kathleen Halme's second book of poems. Based in fact on the North Carolina coastline, the climate of these poems is one abundant with sun, salt water, and the paradoxical shore. Equally at home in formal meter and free verse, Halme explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885586964Author Tony SandersFormat PaperbackImprint Turtle Point PressPublisher Turtle Point PressWeight(grams) 91g

Making use of the old name for psychoanalysis in his title, American Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Howard's poems are spoken out of a solitude and into a solitude, but passing through a company of some order, some chaos. Themed throughout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781882295999Author Angelo NikolopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alice James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295623Author Henrietta GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295616Author Donald RevellFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295302Author Ellen Dore WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295135Author Kinereth D. GenslerFormat PaperbackImprint AlicejamesbooksPublisher AlicejamesbooksWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295050Author Carol PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295029Author Deborah DeNicolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 67Imprint AlicejamesbooksPublisher AlicejamesbooksWeight(grams) 113g

Set on a remote island on the Maine coast, GHOST :: SEEDS incorporates elements of magical realism and myth to explore and trouble conceptions of gender and identity. The central tension of this book-length poem is a dialogue between a trans speaker and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558859272Author Jimmy Santiago BacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arte Publico PressPublisher Arte Publico Press

Wager, Adele Elise Williams’s raucous debut, celebrates the fearlessness and determination that can be wrested from strife. Early on, Williams confronts multiple challenges, both personal and communal, including persistent childhood anxieties and...

In the search for a true home, what does it mean to be confronted instead by an insurmountable sense of otherness? This question dwells at the center of Saba Keramati’s Self-Mythology, which explores multiraciality and the legacy of exile alongside the...

Dandelion fences, twine wires, shoebox roses: Savich’s fanciful, stark meditations showcase the momentary and the momentous.Momently is a collection of meditative but probing poems that ask questions of the tangible and the ephemeral, in which the every...

"For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating."--Robert Pinsky In Bright Body, Aliki Barnstone seeks to unite mind and body,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295289Author Claudia KeelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566895323Author Ed-Bok LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935520573Author Chip LivingstonFormat PaperbackImprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 132g

Joshua Robbins’s much anticipated and smartly provocative second book, Eschatology in Crayon Wax, evokes a feeling of being caught between a fragile yearning to be transformed and a whirlwind of botched divinity. Robbins faithfully asserts, “Paradise /...

The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots, Ned Balbo’s sixth book of poems, inhabits that twilight, “the hour of dark and not-dark,” when the rising of the moon traces the arc of memory, and we ask ourselves, “What else are we given?” From a crow’s orbit and a hawk’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597097598Author Eloise Klein HealyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 340g

 As a psychologist, Lisa C. Krueger is familiar with digging into what makes us human. The joys and celebrations or the pain of what cuts the skin—and what cuts deeper. In animals the size of dreams, Krueger looks into the dark corners and, instead of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597091565Author Peggy ShumakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597091107Author Sholeh WolpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597090537Author Peggy ShumakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 658g

Incantatory, intimate, and incendiary, the poems of this award-winning debut are filled with explosive wit and humor like "a knife you don't see coming." A kaleidoscopic intelligence flows through Beautiful Zero, embracing forms of culture high...

A William Carlos William Award Finalist for 2012 A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012 A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our...

Tom Crawford's words paint familiar landscapes—Seattle's coastline, New York's public spaces, rural China, and Western mobile homes—in a new light. In poems as humorous as they are revelatory, sea birds careen off cliff walls "Then back/to the water to...

Jack Marshall's work is closely attuned to the historical context of our present moment, and uses that long view to make a passionate case for intervention in our contemporary climate of hawkishness, endless war, ecological disaster. Marshall's poetry...

Anna Moschovakis measures words, crosses languages, and invents forms. In a mode of inquiry, friction, and barbed naivete, these four long poems trouble notions of history, self-knowledge, and intimacy, insisting that "how to be" is a question we can...

"Unforgettable." --Michael Ondaatje These rhythmic poems negotiate the collisions between past, present, and future--and outline a universal mythology of the self. Exploring the overlapping arrangements of time and memory, life and death, Sikelianos...

"One of our most radically original poets." Anne Waldman Sotere Torregian, an American poet of Ethiopian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, and Moorish ancestry, approaches the world with an open-armed embrace of distant and diverse phenomena. His surreal...

"I regard Lease as the best poet of his generation. This is a poetry filled with stories that are built to last. This is a poet who will become a major voice in American poetry."—David Shapiro With singular grace and musicality, these accomplished poems...

"Equi seems to know all our foibles and, instead of edging toward the door, reports the latest developments with precise, loving equanimity. Her voice is unique, poised, witty, intimate, and somehow interstellar. It's as if she's visiting from a future...

The Iovis Trilogy, Anne Waldman's monumental feminist epic, traverses epochs, cultures, and genres to create a visionary call to poetic arms. Iovis details the misdeeds of the Patriarch, and with a fierce imagination queries and subverts his warmongering...

Playful but ominous, 10 Mississippi reads like a game of hide-and-seek set in America’s rising floodwaters of text and technology. Fluid, lively, and referential, 10 Mississippi samples language from many cultural tributaries, performing sequels of...

"In Ange Mlinko's Shoulder Season observation and metaphor are always on edge. . . . The poems are at once formally engaged, playful, and disturbing. It's a wild ride and a great read."-Rae Armantrout With a title that plays upon "shouldering" one's...

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by David Shapiro "The whole / world is synonyms," says Sarah O'Brien in a debut collection that contemplates the art of photography and dwells in the many essences of light. Each poem is a miniature snapshot...