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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780983934660Author Diane RaptoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher...

A strong dose of Bukowski, Breaking Bad, and brilliance. Intense and gripping, with splashes of outlandish humor, it is a full frontal assault on the challenges of modern life for outsiders. As award-winning poet Mark Bibbins raves, "Thomas Fucaloro is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476731872Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

This is a youthful book, as its title implies, in as much as rock n' roll belongs yet to the young. Its debut concerns are those of the youth culture in as much as when we are young we are closer to home, to origin, to the primal disjunctions supplied by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979745058Author William HeyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974599564Author H L HixFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970625014Author Charles NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 85g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933377486Author Claire BatemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Eighth Mountain PressPublisher Eighth Mountain PressWeight(grams) 204g

DrunkYard Dog by Peter Carlaftes is a collection by a poetic master who has honed his intense, insightful and inspiring poetic voice on the playgrounds of the Bronx, and, later--the bars of Manhattan. Tales of bartender blues and bliss, injected with...

In a combination of discourse and lyric, paragraph and couplet, Bay Area poet and novelist Laura Moriarty explicates the poetics of a group of writers that resists categorization. This book-length essay uses the work of the California Tonalist painters...

"Pantheism and synesthesia are his visionary rules ...severe, contagious fun."-Boston Review "How much of what we call 'seeing' is actually 'believing?'" Geoffrey Nutter asks in his dazzling second collection. The quiet, daring "water voices" of these...

The poems in Folding Ruler Star are conceived as a value-neutral Paradise Lost. In other words, someone who is not God tells you to avoid a certain tree, and you disobey the instruction; the result is shame. Two characters agree that one of them is...

From street-gang punk, to navy recruit, to rent-a-Santa, a collection of poems celebrating the possibilities of the individual.Book InformationISBN 9780918273901Author Robert SwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee...

Governor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into "This whim / against what drifts to dark." The Address Book is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295234Author Suzanne WiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914086796Author Forrest GanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 113g

Footdreams and Treetales is a collection of ninety-two poems spanning several decades. Like paintings that attempt to render visible the invisible, the poems reflect Wolfson’s interests in philosophy, the history of religions, and, in particular, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594700Author Ted KooserFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 155g

Entering its fifteenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have...

In a bilingual collection (Greek-English) dedicated to the contemporary struggles of the Greek people, George Wallace rivets readers with his thoroughly original, modern day beat flow, elevating bakeries to the temples of gods and love to a powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977945849Author Ann IversonFormat PaperbackImprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972898409Author Jan BaileyFormat PaperbackImprint Leapfrog PressPublisher Leapfrog PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970625083Author Chris EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967266848Author Steve OrlenFormat HardbackImprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 336g

"Warren's first book of poems is highly self-reflective, interestingly interrogative, and a lot of fun."--Booklist Charged with swagger and sensuality, tenderness and cold fact, the 10th Spotlight series installment, Here Come the Warm Jets, is the...

Inspired by the Beats, Black Mountain, and the New York School, Lisa Jarnot emerged in the 1990s as one of the foremost poets of the post-Language avant-garde. Joie de Vivre draws on twenty years of work, from the bold fragmentation of her mixed media...

The second volume of our City Lights Spotlight Poetry series, Free Cell is the latest book of poems from New York-based poet Anselm Berrigan, one of the most influential American poets under the age of forty. In a departure from his previous work, Free...

Materialist, feminist, queer, hybrid-channeling the sensibilities of Gloria Anzaldua, Rosario Castellanos, Mary Kelly, Teresa Hak Kyung Cha, Cecilia Vicuna, Patssi Valdez, Bernadette Mayer-Carroll's second collection of prose poems and wordimages...

In the Volcano's Mouth is a traditional American road narrative rewritten for the new century, centering women-for so long victims or mute sidekicks in these types of stories-as the powerful central figures in a journey that is unequivocally feminist yet...

Poems look at high school sports, failure, nature, death, family life, reincarnation, the past, religion, and parenthood.Book InformationISBN 9780822953586Author Gary GildnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher...

Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation. Long admired and praised by other poets,...

1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner.The Water Between Us is a poetic examination of cultural fragmentation, and the exile's struggle to reconcile the disparate and often conflicting influences of the homeland and the adopted country. The book also...

Teacher/Pizza Guy is a collection of autobiographical poems from the 2016-17 school year in which Jeff Kass worked as a full-time English teacher and a part-time director for a literary arts organization and still had to supplement his income by...

Drawing on archival materials, biography, war journalism, and theoretical texts, the author argues that the visionary politics of H.D.'s long poems cannot be reconciled with the feminist agendas currently attributed to them.Book InformationISBN...

From Richard Howard's Foreword: "The burden . . . of this poet's responsibility . . . rests on his eloquence, his way of making us see. For him, . . . the significance of an event or a place is not to be found within it, as within a nutshell, but...

Throughout his career A.M. Klein was concerned primarily with his relationship to his community, seeing himself, and all serious artists, as necessarily shaping and being shaped by the community in which they are rooted. Yet Klein's vision of this...

The world of the troubadours of medieval Provence--of Bertran de Born, Arnaut de Mareuil, and Peire Bremon lo Tort--always fascinated Ezra Pound and, as Stuart McDougal shows, provided both themes and techniques for his early poetry. Pound's first...

A noted historian of Renaissance English literature and scholar of comparative literature, Rosalie L. Colie was also a serious poet. This volume brings together 31 of her poems, illustrating the striking interplay between her scholarship and her personal...

Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...

Set four hundred years in the future, Frederick Turner's epic poem, The New World, celebrates American culture in A.D. 2376. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available...