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In her first collection of essays, Molly McQuade performs the role of the ideal reader-passionately interested in ideas and irrepressibly ambivalent. She considers poetry from its composition or translation to its publication, critical reception, and...

Entire Dilemma is Michael Burkhard's seventh collection of poetry and his first book since W.W. Norton published My Secret Boat (A Notebook of Prose and Poems) in 1990. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay...

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Eileen Myles. Set to the music of rain, these shattered elegies seek communion in the ethereal place between birth and death. “As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can...

Glean, a reference to the gathering of grain after harvest, explores the appalling trust implicit in any act of faith that prayer may not elicit a response. Spare and evocative, the collection struggles with a language at odds with itselfBook...

This remarkable second book from Diane Wald was a finalist for the 2002 James Laughlin Award. Michael Burkard writes "The Yellow Hotel is a sensational book."Book InformationISBN 9780972348720Author Diane WaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Wave...

In his debut volume, Richard Meier risks "an affront to the personal" by dismantling and reassembling the lyric "I." His poems demonstrate a dizzying grace while uncovering a terrain less vague than tremendously powerful. The emotional tenor of Meier's...

"Sharon Bryan's third collection reveals a clever, ironically detached curiosity about how human beings mediate experience through language. Whatever personal emotions underlie these witty, deftly-crafted poems are transcended by Byran's rationalism and...

Inventive, spontaneous, and playful, Levine's poems will enchant lovers of Dada poetry, absurdist theater, and minimalism. By the author of The Cycles of Heaven.Book InformationISBN 9780918273710Author Steve LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint...

Poems written between 1962 and 1987 encompassing Clark's full range of concerns: life and death, love and regrets, history and 20th-century society.Book InformationISBN 9780918273277Author Tom ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Coffee House...

Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience to critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning: commodification, environmental negligence,...

There is a price for what may be considered progress. In his debut collection, centered around the cracked industrial-pastoral of Appalachia, Walsh asks who rung up the ecological tab and who will be implicated by this line of questioning. Above the...

"In ABSENCE WHERE AS, Nathanael reads the unread book, 'the book that comes' to us nevertheless, that haunts and hovers unopened and dreamt, proceeding from the Ecrits of the visionary and revolutionary artist-activist Claude Cahun, to life's library...

The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape,...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author details an unconsummated love affair that sustains political, philosophical, and sexual interest over a lifetime. The truth is always different from what anyone says out loud, but who really cares? Not I, said the man...

"Thom Gunn, Barbara Guest, Robert Creeley, Philip Lamantia, all ghosts now, are invoked without sentiment and with plenty of wry humor." --Kevin Killian, Attention Span A power ballad was a hair metal band's voyage into the softer side of rock,...

"Postage Due is a dazzling series of necessary utterances. Wade uses the language of Christianity to section her book, fraught with joy and pain, to explore what we owe and to whom. She employs postcards, letters, and literary and pop culture...

"The most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers."--The New York Times "Bly's poems flow from ...the great current of longing for reality, true maturity, the devotee's call to the Beloved."--The Nation "Robert Bly changed the...

"Melding images of natural timelessness with appearances from contemporary culture, Koeneke's collection is easily enjoyed by the well-seasoned bard and poetic neophyte alike."--Bookslut Etruria is a diverse collection of poems featuring found language,...

An "exquisitely crafted" third collection of poems, this winner of the second-annual Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry offers a "prismatic portrait of the female body in the act of being touched" (G.C. Waldrep) The 18th-century glass armonica, a...

His arresting ninth collection of poems, Eric Pankey's Trace locates itself at a threshold between faith and doubt--between the visible and the invisible, the say-able and the ineffable, the physical and the metaphysical. Also a map of the poet's journey...

Martin's lines are a brief as breath, and cloister us at home, in winter, where the tiny everyday ministrations of love and parenthood are magnified and abundant with meaning. I wanted to tell you something About the shipwreck Of fatherhood, of...

"Eros, Indiscriminate" At the door the wolves step backwards into a box. My chained father attempts to wing himself with flame. His face hosts a second face seared by the mental hazards the wolves find stinky and reject. Outskirting his heart, mother...

Praise for Jack Marshall: "[Marshall] understands that all worlds, the material and the spiritual, are one, and that the neighborhoods and cities that no longer exist can be conjured by memory and reanimated by art."--San Francisco Chronicle From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566891165Author Susan Atefat PeckhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890854Author Michael CoffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 170g

Winner of the 2001 Poets Out Loud Prize, Door to Door ranges from the wry romance of “Changing the Oil” (“You make love the way you change the oil in your Oldsmobile”) to the salesman in the title poem who sees “what the glacier sees in the onslaught of...

This tenth collection of Irving Feldman's poems extends what readers and critics have long recognized as a body of work singular in its lyric, visionary, even prophetic intensity; its extravagant wit; its powerful storytelling; and its variety of voices...

Noelle Kocot recalls a break with reality that occurred a decade and a half ago in vivid, raw language, one word per line. The resulting slender columns are sharply focused and intense. There's a cult following for her unique imagination, self-professed...

A much anticipated third collection with poems mourning a mother figure, as well as recently deceased cultural icons. Praise for Kathleen Ossip: “Ossip conjures delightful and unexpected muses…shrewd and ambitious.” —New York Times Book Review "The...

"So unexpected, so revelatory, such exquisite prose (and poetry) these 'sequences,' as the editors choose to call them, may be undefinable, but they are certainly not indescribable. I describe them as hypnotic, startling, and alive."--Dinty W. Moore ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880238691Author William HeyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 212g

Double Jinx follows the multiple transformations -- both figurative and literal -- that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovid's Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in...

"What is a song but a snare to capture the moment?" Eric Pankey asks in his new collection, Crow-Work. This central question drives Pankey's ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art. Through subjects as diverse as...

Martha Collins offers haunting reflections on time and other subjects in Day unto Day, a spare and subtle seventh collection. The book consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Collins wrote a short poem each day. With...

Praise for Bill Berkson: "A serene master of syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous."--Publishers Weekly "That was Bill through and through, still curious and receptive after a lifetime of glamorous soldiering through the...

Praise for Eleni Sikelianos: Library Journal Best Books 2013: Poetry Electric as a lightning storm, wild as a first-growth forest, protean as fantasy's shape-shifters--that's Sikelianos's poetry, a real pleasure to read."--Library Journal Using text...

"Words are squeezed into usage that had no right to be there—nouns, verbs, who cares what they once were? There is something illuminating at the core of this book, something bright and burning we can carry with us wherever we go."—James Tate These poems...

A former U.S. State Department employee and the former program coordinator of the American Council on Germany, Mathys is now pursuing a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He brings the seriousness of his diplomatic background to his...

In this quiet, clear-eyed collection Townsend meditates on the varieties of loss, childhood bereavement, depression and divorce to arrive at the realisation that it is through loss that we come into possession of some of life's most profound gifts. She...

Here, at last, a major collection of John Brandi's work, spanning nearly thirty years of travels -- from early poems written in South America to those from India, the Himalayas, the Arctic, the North American outback, the deep solitude of New Mexico's...