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"If you want to know what the '60s really were about, you'll find out between [these] covers."-The Kansas City Star "[Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century] restores Edward Sanders to his rightful place at the forefront of the poetry of his time,...

Hewett’s most recent collection was chosen for the BookSense Top 10, received the Publishing Triangle Award for Gay Male Poetry, and was reviewed in the Christian Science Monitor. Hewett’s handling of romantic clichés and traditional poetic themes...

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by C.D. Wright. This visionary seventh collection by the PEN USA Award-winning poet pivots around uncertainties, mysteries, and the unexpected to find the language of the mind's theater. Melancholy and playful,...

This Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial to the exact. There is an urgent voice, felt...

"Chungmi Kim explores the themes of longing and displacement in a culture she sees as both askew-like seeing 'the mountain upside down'-and engaging, as in her title poem, 'Glacier Lily,' where identity is born not of the purity of nostalgia but of the...

The poet employs colloquial diction, references pop and classical culture, and travels at 1000 miles per hour in his fourth collection. For those who think contemporary poetry is about abject confessions, vacation in Provence and opaque 'academicisms,'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337090Author Adrian BlevinsFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337243Author Jeffrey SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count 81Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable Press

This collection of poems by Elizabeth Robinson circles around and around the place of the individual in relation to an other or Other or others. If human experience is nested in relation, "the braid of bodies that engendered this self," it is also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990322115Author David LazarFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983934653Author Bruce BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934200773Author Sasha SteensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Fence BooksPublisher Fence BooksWeight(grams) 136g

“Mysterious and enticing, Murder (A Violet) is a brilliant narrative. This serial poem provides room for the reader to enter and participate in the game played by its textual agents—the assassin, the abbess, the janissaries, the vines, the trees. Flashes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979745041Author H L HixFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970625038Author Jacqueline WatersFormat 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 9780985981846Author Kate GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337083Author Eric PankeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594830Author Norman DubieFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 212g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594342Author Ed SkoogFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9781556594151Author Lucia PerilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 198g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591631Author Hayden CarruthFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590948Author Karen SwensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint 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 9781556590634Author Marvin BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971898103Author Kathleen OssipFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry ReviewWeight(grams) 283g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595721Author Dean YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9781931337151Author Patrick DonnellyFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 255g

"Smote is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace."—Robert Olen ButlerI release you like the crank-addled truck driverreleases his cargo at the midnight dockuntil the warehouse is one in a trailof crumbs, little...

The varying poetics of both ancient and modern Arabic poetry inflect this book-long exploration of the materiality of the body, negotiating the terrain of love-and its denials. Zaher explores the landscape of life fraught with disappointments and...

Artist and writer Felix Bernstein's first book of poems mordantly stages his attempt to pick between family, lovers, coteries, and solitude. Drawing on the story of child muse Eva Ionesco, Bernstein troubles the melodramatic coming-of-age story with his...

Influenced by the history of landscape painting, Cole Swensen's new book is an experiment in seriality, in the different approach and scope that language must take to record the way that fluctuations of minutiae transform a whole. These poems meditate on...

"I like being in the world of Craig's poems. Anything can happen, and probably will, and it will affect me in small or large ways that I couldn't have imagined. The precision of their imagery keeps me reeling with delight."--James Tate Thin Kimono...

Winner of the 2010 Kathryn A. Morton Prize Introduction by Amy Gerstler Hernandez is the author of two Young Adult novels from Harper Collins Hernandez's previous collections have won the Glenna Luschei (from Prairie Schooner and the Crab Orchard Award...

"Fort Red Border the title itself an anagram for the name of this remarkable collection's imaginary beloved shows how language can be pleated, unfolded, and creased all over again into an endless origami of Eros. . . . By turns clowning, worshipful,...

The counterpointed and imagistic work collected in Gaze reveals a poet uniquely concerned with the idea of vision: how the objective world (the world of time and memory), the world of the inner life, and the other world (the world of imagination and...

“Full of spondaic gravity and grit.” —BRUCE BOND Showcasing the fortitude and wisdom, the honey and fire, the jab and embrace of a master poet, With Mouths Open Wide is a landmark collection of more than three decades of writing. Including work from...

Lucy / your secret book / that you leaned over and wrote just in the dirt- / Not having to have an ending / Not having to last. . . . And so begins Jean Valentine's provocative new work, Lucy, a poem that pays homage to the three million-year-old...

Fire Break is a suite of untitled lyric poems which move through a succession of present moments, bringing through the weave both hard-edged engagement and uncommon harmonics. In the mix can be heard messages of desire, physicality, global imbalances,...

*Incredibly well-known poet with sixteen books of poetry, two books of non-fiction, and four translations; books published by Wesleyan UP, Michigan UP, Random House, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux *Author of six previous chapbooks, all of which are highly...

Baron Wormser, a master of the persona poem, is well known for his empathic exploration of possible lives. This fifth collection of poetry by this "fiction writer in a poet's body," includes an examination of his own life as well.Mulroney & Others...

Bad Judgment is Cathleen Calbert's second collection of poems. Calbert offers feminist fables appropriate to the millennium: tales of when the world lost meaning, of falling in love in an age of indeterminacy. Her sense of comic absurdity is uncanny: in...