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"Prose was always meant for colloquy, risk, and intimacy. With these rich and conversant prose poems, Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill return spoken language to sport--sometimes competitive, but often cooperative, exploratory, even humanely probative...

"An unusual, exciting volume which serves ideally to lead readers into the extraordinary creative world of three Minnesota poets who are familiar with the contemporary poetry of several nations and who together are bringing to American poetry a powerful...

"I was struck by the wisdom of this work, a quiet wisdom that inheres in images so fully imagined that one can never forget them. The language has been so thoroughly purified that truth becomes, in the telling, austerely beautiful."--Jay Parini "There's...

"Conners' prose poem is not just a beautiful quirky moment that gives us a glimpse of the miraculous, but also an attempt to become a myth in itself. That Conners seems to get it all into one book is simply amazing. What can I say? A literary master...

"Kaleidoscopic curiosity, powerfully kinesthetic language, and an encompassing compassion range in this abundant collection, in which personal and public realms serve as equal alembics for the distillation of both materia and light."-Jane Hirshfield ...

Koestenbaum's book of poems minces memory and culture into titbits to propose a new 'nude' poetics. The collection draws upon his signature themes - stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation - and cuts them into serial strips. Using...

Charles North is the master of the relaxed, urban and often wistful lyrical line. This new collection will delight fans and newcomers alike.-Author web site with extensive reviews www.charlesnorth.net -Molly Mikolowski to handle promotion and publicity ...

"The poems of Anthony McCann are beautiful, brutal, and unerring. They present us with, or return us to, a complicated, violent, poignant, weird, and mysterious world--a world which is very particularly his, and also our own, re-sung. For some time now I...

"Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection Letters to Wendy's, Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to verse, favoring (as before) relatively short poems,...

"If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman. He seems to be doing everything."--Daniel Handler,...

"Kocot has found a language for her emotions that pulls an abundance of memories, post-punk urban metaphors and manic verbal twists into her simultaneously cerebral and energizing universe..."-Publishers Weekly A tragic narrative journey through a New...

"Yoga Heart is a tiny treasure to hold and to behold. Even the typography and colors are food for contemplation...highly recommended for people who will not only read the lines for enjoyment, but also use them for contemplation and right action in life."...

Winner of the 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Dan Chiassonn From "The Above Song": Foie gras has been outlawed. So has gravitas, faux grass, middle class. Soon: the past. Julia Story lives in Somerville, Massachusetts...

This collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against contemporary experience. "Beyond the wonderful music of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337045Author Khaled MattawaFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable Press

What would the Son-of-Man get up to in present-day Rome? Would he wander the Galleria Borghese, loiter outside nightclubs, ride trams, tip accordionists? How would Keats feel about the neon Dior sign that flashes away above the Spanish Steps? Are there...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915022127Author Lex RuncimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

The fruits of the season, James Wright's luminous prose captures eternal moments in his travels through Italy and France.We will launch the book at the annual James Wright festival in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Ads in various literary journals.About the...

From the Himalayas, Angkor Wat, the barrios of Old Havana, the highlands of Chiapas, and the streets of New York, John Brandi's poems lead us toward rapport with the natural world and our own inner landscapes.Book InformationISBN 9781893996229Author John...

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 /...