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With more than 70 produced plays and many produced screenplays, playwright/director/author Israel Horovitz presents a new dimension to his creative output in Heaven and Other Poems, the 75-year-old author's first-ever authorized poetry collection. A...

The poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe, thrumming with pathos and humor, pain and the beauty of living. Post- coalesces around three primary occurrences: the birth of a child, the death of a father, and...

In his first collection since Fancy Beasts, a book that "slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of the matter" (Tracy K. Smith), Alex Lemon dazzles us again with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained...

With intelligence and crystalline clarity, a chorus of female voices speaks through the poems in Her book, Eireann Lorsung's inspired second collection. From the poet who brought us Music For Landing Planes By, Eireann Lorsung's luminous voice is...

Praise for Marjorie Welish: "[Welish] challenges 'prettiness' at an almost feverish pitch, working against a poem's anticipated flow even as she moves it along with jazzy verve." --Bookforum Welish uses the page--not as a surface upon which to buoy...

Starting with Bob Holman's transcription of the griot poems sung to him by West African legend Papa Susso, Holman builds on that oral tradition to share his own intimate history. Spoken word performer, activist, and Bowery Poetry Club impresario Bob...

"Green Is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious."--Ange Mlinko, National Poetry Series judge Peering through a macro lens at the shapes and voices of our universe, this collection...

"Nystrom’s gift as a poet is that she doesn’t stop looking, and her poems make sure it is all still there for us to see."—Eamon Grennan The landscape of Torn Sky is South Dakota, a place of extremes, where parched land meets frigid air and exiled Native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780689801037Author David BouchardFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Atheneum Books for Young ReadersPublisher Atheneum Books for Young ReadersWeight(grams)...

Inspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht's Manual of Piety, the poems of Laughing Cult often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism,...

"The poems in Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice."—Mary Ruefle, from the introduction  Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Michael Homolka’s...

Javier's new book of long poems is both intimate and elusive, a simultaneity brought to the fore by the author's interest in the occult and intuitive processes, in oblique and plain spoken discourses. Politically and erotically charged, Court of the...

In hart island, the poet narrator walks and works in the East Village of Manhattan navigating the day to day needs and desires of a community, an organization, a changing neighborhood, as well as her own. The poem, which begins after she discovers the...

As in the title phrase-borrowed from a 17th century poem by Robert Herrick-in which "several" is used to individuate, questions of singularity and the plural, of subjectivity and the collective, pervade this dream-quick poetry. In A Several World there...

Poet and scholar Susan Gevirtz's new book Coming Events (Collected Writings) undertakes the search for what she calls a "third apprehension," via questions concerning childhood learning; the vexed subject of discursive writing; film as writing's cousin;...

In the middle of the night, when the fruit is scariest. I hold my hand out and feel your nibbling. Don't worry, my eyes are still closed. I've only peeked that once. The cold that is your breath—these windows of fog. If I were outside, I'd read your...

"My Reptile" Little frilléd lizard with your big mouth and your clutch of egg. Pure urge iguana —I wanna wanna wanna—heavy pet in a moist habitat. Your dewlap licks down my spine; your creep yearns, yearns your crawl, like a small machine that you rev...

"Nostalgic" Jar of feathers becoming, finally, another map: cloistered homage to a decade of geese haunting the grid of our steadfastness. Un-find the coveted ibis; kiss the scarlet of the robin's blurred departure. In the end, we were...

"His voice finds shape within every fragment. It is a voice that is at once forlorn and passionate and preoccupied with beauty...Joshua Beckman's poetry wears its heart on its sleeve."--Slope "Through repetition, rhythm, and a pervasively taut but...

Selected by Alice Notley for the National Poetry Series, Laynie Browne's sixth collection casts a spell. In these fragmented poetic tales, characters disappear and reemerge, their charms reconfigured, their stories unraveling, their happy endings elusive...

* Stunning, unsentimental retelling of women’s history that should appeal to feminist readers * Arresting cover art by Yves Tanguy * Muench’s poem “Her dreaming feet” won the Bright Lights contest in 2008, which included a reading in Times Square *...

*Muench has close ties with Chicago area: works for Another Chicago Magazine, teaches at Lewis University, and studies at the University of Illinois. *Recent Poetry in Motion Feature *Young, hip poet with much enthusiasm for her tour and promotions. Has...

*Blurbs from Linda Gregerson and Stanley Plumly; previous review blurb from The Gettysburg Review *Sleek, stunning cover art *Author tour of Ohio (Columbus), St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Chicago *Author well-connected in the...

The author of the cult novel, The Final Opus of Leon Solomon, makes a posthumous appearance with this powerful poetry manuscript. Written at the height of the anti-war movement, these poems bring together disparate threads of different historical...

* Winner of the 1999 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry judged by Charles Simic * Poetry in Ploughshares, Poetry, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Antaeus, Agni, Colorado Review, and Georgia Review * Well-connected in the university...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595028Author Lucia PerilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 184mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593994Author Josh BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593932Author Michael DickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 99g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593864Author Stephen KuusistoFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592102Author Ruth StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590757Author Stephen BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint 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 9781556591259Author Primus St JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

*Incredible discovery story: Thirty years ago, Lerman was a cultural icon. Known as "The Queen Lesbian of Greenwich Village," her work was sited in the NY Times as deserving "at least a double X." She had won the Juniper Prize and National Book Award...

Cate Marvin uses language the way a gymnast uses her body; she is a formalist who has thoroughly learned the pleasures and gains of abandon. But it is her excursions into wild image and passionate song that win the reader's heart. The heart is central in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566892179Author Andrei CodrescuPage Count 122Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 249g

From the poet’s birthplace in Graceville, Minnesota, to California horse tracks, from New York apartments to the Colorado mountains, Owen’s perceptive reports on the business of living resonate with humor, energy, and wisdom. Full of news and gossip,...

"Friend to objects, saints and dead celebrities alike, Elaine Equi is the real McCoy: a keeper of the sacred flame of language-joy. Her work re-alerts us to our earliest love of words as toys, jewels, confections. In doing so she juices up our thinking...

Throughout his life and in his writing, Bill Holm was a humanist whose obsessions included mortality and eternity. He paid special attention to the notion of cycles, patterns, movements, and processes, and many of his most moving poems are dedicated to...

"The best satirical mind in contemporary poetry" --Andrei Codrescu.Book InformationISBN 9781566890991Author Paul VioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 255g

Drawn from the environments of northern Vermont and the South of France, the poems in Rooms and Their Airs explore the interface of the human and natural worlds, further eroding that distinction with each poem. The verse here merges subject and object,...