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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

A stunning first collection full of lyrical, heartwarming poems by the remarkable Lisa Panepinto. Her words touch on the suffering of the disenfranchised was well as the beauty and power of nature. As poet and National Book Award Finalist Patricia Smith...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983300823Author Heather ToneFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry ReviewWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979745072Author Scott CoffelFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977945856Author James P LenfesteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977639519Author David RoderickFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970625021Author David PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 71g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966339505Author Joshua BeckmanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry ReviewWeight(grams) 312g

"L. Lamar Wilson reinvents the memoir in verse with the tour de force of his Sacrilegion. With a keen eye that toggles between reverie and our hopes for the future, Wilson offers a salve for any soul that knows what it feels like to be counted out...

Using chant-rhythm beats to create layers of harmony and meaning, Simon weaves poetry from jazz, sex, and geography.Book InformationISBN 9780918273932Author Leslie SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House...

Modern parables and prose poems representing a dynamically shifting vision of the world, reminiscent of Kafka and Borges. "Fixel's parables and prose poems are...like rituals--exorcisms that keep the reader aware of the world while dispelling its...

"There is a classical simplicity to its spare syllables.... Mr. Heller's book is intent on inquiry, full of rumination ... filled with illumination."--Carol Muske, New York TimesBook InformationISBN 9780918273581Author Michael HellerFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918273413Author Linda HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918273284Author Jack MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 184g

The third full-length collection by Julien Poirier, Out of Print is a truly bicoastal volume, reflecting the poet's years in New York as well as his return to his Bay Area roots. Consider it a meetinghouse between late New York School and contemporary...

Since his post-9/11 essay "The Emergency," Andrew Joron has been regarded as one of American poetry's most profound practitioners. Trance Archive draws on over twenty years of Joron's work, from his early science fiction poetry to his later fusion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872333659Author Jeanne GuilleminFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Bauhan PubPublisher Bauhan PubWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm * 14mm

In a stunning cycle of persona poems, Daneen Wardrop offers us a panoramic view of the inner lives of those forgotten among the violence and strife of the American Civil War: the nurse and the woman soldier, the child and the draftee, the prostitute, the...