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Ghost texts--the overheard conversation, the remembered line, the daily paper--clamor to enter the poems in Michael Davidson's Bleed Through. Here, the page is a plane for working out aesthetic problems, engaging the reader's intellect and love of beauty...

Questions of geography, ethnic identity, and the corssing of cultural borders keep company with poetic form in this first collection of work. These poems will wound you and haunt you, but the larger knowing they bring is crucial . Susan Rich is a caring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971898189Author Geoff BouvierFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 145g

Best Books of 2011, Kansas City Star "[Jarman's] poems explore faith in its many manifestations, but there is something here transcendent that speaks to everyone. Highly recommended." Library Journal Bone Fires collects work from over thirty years...

This stunning second collection engages the "disciplines" associated with regimes of powers and sadomasochism. The work interrogates the social and linguistic space between regimes of power enacted on the body, and thereby the soul.About the AuthorDAWN...

A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Kirkpatrick's Odessa fighting for her life. The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the "emotional core of the self," and central to the process of memory. In poems endowed with this emotional charge...

Despite the deep-seated notion that the archetypal American poet sings a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with friendship and its pleasures, contradictions, and discontents...

Known for his art criticism, as the editor of Frank O'Hara's In Memory of My Feelings, and for his collaborative work with artists like Alex Katz and Philip Guston. Bill Berkson is well-loved by a wide swath of the arts community and this collection is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912516318Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Grey Fox PressPublisher Grey Fox PressWeight(grams) 99gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590788Author Thomas McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

"He brings something ancient and compelling . . . a kind of rare Sephardic wisdom, a brilliance traveling at the speed of Los Angeles light. He is one of America's very best poets. A true visionary."-Tomaz Salamun "Angel's poems are deceptively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890267Author Elaine EquiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 142g

Dara Wier's poems call to mind "the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska . . . [and] draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954484Author Virginia SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934639153Author Jasper BernesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Commune EditionsPublisher Commune EditionsWeight(grams) 180g

Of Nikolayev's accomplished first book, Robert Kelly writes: "Nothing escapes his formal insistence to renew. . . . A wild, generous book, full of invention." Monkey Time is the Winner of the 2001 Verse Prize, selected by Lyn Hejinian.Nikolayev is...

"Seething Nation! Vast & Flowing! Day & Night & Dawn!" Bold, sweeping, investigative, rhapsodic, hilarious, heart-rendering, thought-provoking, Edward Sanders' three-volume, America: A History in Verse uniquely and brilliantly tells "the story of...

'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey...

"Woodward seeks news rather desperately from outer space-and finds it in that huge vacancy, the human heart."-Jorie Graham Short, energetic, interlinked poems describe the daily and sometimes surprisingly routine nature of grief. Relying on youthful...

Included are selections from Hacker's first book, Presentation Piece (1974), the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a National Book Award Winner; Separations (1976); Taking Notice (1980), which was claimed as an integral part of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781904130604Author V. PenelopeFormat PaperbackImprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976161240Author Jack CollomFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 298gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. "Your...

From James P. Lenfestey, a collection of poems that lends delicacy and gentle humor to durable, long-lasting love. Writing love poems fifty years into a marriage is no easy task: "If he exaggerates his love, she'll know . . . And if his desire for her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595080Author Dean RaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451649833Author Saul WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130529Author David FerryFormat PaperbackImprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 285g

Rooted in places like Watauga County, Goshen Creek, and Dismal Mountain, the poems in Ron Rash's fourth collection, Waking, electrify dry counties and tobacco fields until they sparkle with the rituals and traditions of Southerners in the stir of their...

Talkativeness is yet another uncanny whistling choir in a reflective and engaging world all Craig's own.We will target mid-tier publications with an interest in poetry and fiction to run poems and reviews, since Craig's work is often narrative. Craig...

Beloved American poet Robert Frost's first three books, in one collectionThis volume presents Frost's first three books, masterful and innovative collections that contain some of his best-known poems,including "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575918Author Sarah de de LeeuwFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451419170Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 106mm * 30mm

Rachel Zolf's powerful follow-up to the Trillium Award-winning Human Resources is a virtuoso polyvocal correspondence with the daily news, ancient scripture and contemporary theory that puts the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine firmly in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616200725Author Julia AlvarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 140mm...

"For Brooklyn poet Anselm Berrigan, the political arrives in pieces, settling across his sprawling poems like dew or debris. Berrigan has always matched his experimental drive with a personable quality."--Michael Brodeur, Boston Globe "Anselm Berrigan's...

John Godfrey's masterful body of work has sustained its attentive, lovesick, unruly energy for over fifty years. The City Keeps brings together the best poems from his thirteen collections, plus some previously uncollected. "Dedicated to those who people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977047Author Mary Jo BangFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm *...

On the eve of Bern Porter's Centennial, his classic text, Found Poems, comes roaring back into print in a handsome new edition featuring two essays contextualizing his remarkable life and work. As Dick Higgins said, "Porter's Found Poems have the same...

The politics and poetics of language, culture and self all collide in Myung Mi Kim s Dura, a contemporary classic of Asian American and experimental literature, brought back into print by Nightboat Books on the tenth anniversary of its orginal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892554607Author Alexandra TeagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...