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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...

The major work from a hero of Beat poetry, political activism, and rock 'n' roll."Sanders [is] the poet-maestro of American history."-Michael McClure"Sanders has been an astonishing and fertile presence n our cutlural and political landscape...But it is...

I know the occurrence of objects in this climate. Even music, if left to our weather, will warp within days. Conceived in the years before Hurricane Katrina and deeply influenced by its aftermath, Saltwater Empire is a brilliant assemblage of...

Renowned for his pioneering mixture of both Spanish and English in poetry and prose, Victor Hernandez Cruz has now incorporated Arabic language and North African culture into his unique poetic idiom. As Cruz builds poetic bridges between Arab-influenced...

1. A 2005 NEA Fellow and a finalist for the 2004 New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition, Mathys is a rising star in the New York poetry scene. 2. Mathys's personal background and the book's relationship to the Midwest and Upper-Midwest should...

In poems as beautiful in their telling as they are powerful in their ethos, poet and memoirist Hedge Coke draws upon her background as a tobacco sharecropper, factory worker and fisherwoman, articulating the stark contrast between a tradition of labor...

In praise of his poetry, The New York Times calls Andrei Codrescu "one of our most prodigiously talented and magical writers." Part genius, part tongue-in-cheek provocateur, Codrescu is an audacious and passionate poet. The heart of this first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566891301Author Jack MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 566gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566891295Author Greg HewettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 198g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566891073Author Mark NowakFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566891059Author Tenaya DarlingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890786Author Elaine EquiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890700Author Michael ScholnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890663Author Victor Hernandez CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 284g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890540Author Jack MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890151Author Jack MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 170g

Gerald Burns is a leading practitioner of long-lined, thickly textured verse. "These / long lines are long life to us, go back to Kenneth Irby's 'A Set' I saw first in / a flyer from Lawrence, KS where Burroughs chats with Cage whose spitbubbles / may...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595073Author Michael McGriffFormat 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.AwardsWinner of Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594694Author Ted KooserFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594410Author Dr Jane MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint 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 9781555978143Author Catherine BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

The Tower is a "translation" of W. B. Yeats's The Tower-an homage and reinvention of the poet's greatest work. Whereas Yeats's book contended with his mortality as an aging spiritualist Irish Senator, this version contends with a new mortality:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551520124Author Dennis DenisoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press