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This is the second book in our Marie Alexander pros poetry series. In Your Sun, Manny, Marie Harris has created a prose poem memoir that reveals in touching detail her story of adopting and caring for Manny, a child who was abused and neglected until he...

In these 37 prose-poems, ranging in density from short lists to treatises on poetics and philosophy, Anderson begins with a deceptively simple voice that breaks into dark hilarity: "No, you shall not be hurt. You may depart at once. All that is required...

Praise for Raymond McDaniel:"Raymond McDaniel's language trains every particle of your attention on the surface and what stirs beneath." —C.D. WrightFrom "Projection Box":Light is not light.Light is only one way things radiate,so light is an object...

Joel Oppenheimer was a student of Charles Olson at the original Black Mountain College, a fixture in New York’s West Village, and a lover of the NY Mets. His work embraces the taunt line of W. C .Williams. Lessons returns the work of this essential...

Moving from the mundane to the profound, first through observation of fact and matter, then shifting perspective, engaging a deeper sense of self, these poems re-imagine things great and small, making us care deeply about the world around us. In this...

Raconteur, poet, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu delivers in his inimitable, irreverent style a collection that traverses subjects from aging to consumerism and religion to mass media. Brilliantly funny yet deeply insightful, these poems illuminate...

Raconteur, poet, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu delivers in his inimitable, irreverent style a collection that traverses subjects from aging to consumerism, to religion to mass media. Brilliantly funny yet deeply insightful, these poems illuminate...

Poems in the Manner Of is an illuminating journey through centuries of writers who continue to influence new work today, including that of respected poet and series editor of The Best American Poetry David Lehman."Very few writers can actually shape how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988692206Author Sean Thomas DoughertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295319Author Tom ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 122g

Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse simultaneously celebrates and laments that “we are but decaying.” Betraying a love of old poems and symbols and new words and forms, these are poems where “the moon’s spritzing its perfumes and the phlegm is thick and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914086819Author Jean ValentineFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295142Author Sharon KrausFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint AlicejamesbooksPublisher AlicejamesbooksWeight(grams) 136g

Past Praise for Mother Quiet: "The aim of poetry (and the higher kind of thriller) is to be unexpected and memorable. So a poem about death might treat it in a way that combines the bizarre and the banal: the Other Side as some kind of institution—a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584039Author Jan Heller LeviFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 272g

"These are enormously arresting, odd, wryly humorous, gripping poems. And the variety of subject matter is astounding. I don't know when I've enjoyed reading a book so much."—David BudbillBook InformationISBN 9780822962649Author David ShumateFormat...

Julie Sheehan’s Thaw is the second winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham's Poets Out Loud program. Marie Ponsot, the judge for the 2000 Prize, chose...

In poems whose subjects range from theme parks to late-night radio, the aftermath of the Holocaust to television, The Life and Letters represents a celebrated poet-scholar at the height of his art.Book InformationISBN 9780226240671Author Irving...

Julie Sheehan’s Thaw is the second winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham's Poets Out Loud program. Marie Ponsot, the judge for the 2000 Prize, chose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970625045Author Clark CoolidgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985981853Author Lynette Reini-GrandellFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 136g

From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself. This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America's most celebrated...

Chamber after Chamber is about what fractures, fixes, and refills the hearts of two girls as they grow into women. A loose narrative in three sections, the poems follow a speaker and her cousin through their hardscrabble, backwoods childhood to their...

This is a dazzling third book from a seriously funny poet. In his third book, Ben Doller troubles the blast zone where evolution and manifest destiny collide. Working from primary sources including Captain William Dampier's pirate narratives and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976161233Author Jean DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Zephyr PressPublisher Zephyr PressWeight(grams) 241g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976161219Author Carla HarrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Zephyr PressPublisher Zephyr PressWeight(grams) 85g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974599519Author H L HixFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974599502Author H L HixFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976161288Author Alan BernheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967266879Author Julianne BuchsbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880238219Author Ms Natalie KenvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 127g

100 Best Books of 2011, Publishers Weekly 2011 Notable Books, Academy of American Poets From the powerful drama and formal boldness of "The Status Seekers" to the various theories of criticism in "The Nervousness of Yvor Winters," Kathleen Ossip's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890335Author Deborah KeenanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295012Author Rita GabisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 104g

“Public inscriptions are all around us. Their mystery and the lack thereof are the off-screen subject of Marjorie Welish’s gritty, beguiling Isle of the Signatories, to be pondered long after lesser inscriptions have given up their secrets.”—John Ashbery...

"Song of Napalm is more than a collection of beautifully wrought, heartwrenching, and often very funny poems. It's a narrative, the story of an American innocent's descent into hell and his excruciating return to life on the surface. Weigl may have...

In Laura Read’s second poetry collection, the former poet laureate of Spokane, WA, weaves past and present together to create a portrait of a life in progress. As the speaker looks back on her life, she exists simultaneously as all the selves she has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555974978Author William StaffordFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954245501Author Jen LevittFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 8mm

Praise for Greg Hewett: 2010 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry 2003 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Winner In poems that are full of wit, touching, and introspective, as well as formally inventive, we find the poet losing his...