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American auteur Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams's genius for creating densely plotted scripts has won him broad commercial and critical success in TV shows such as Felicity (1998--2002), Emmy-nominated Alias (2001--2006), Emmy and Golden...

October Aubade If I slept too long, forgive me. A north wind quickened the window frames so the room pitched like a moving train and the pillow's whiff of hickory and shaving soap conjured your body beside me. So I slept in the berth as the train chuffed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113942Author Phillis LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

From his early spare poems written in Spain to the recent ruminative work exploring language, tradition (often Jewish and diasporic) and the self, this book collects four decades of Michael Heller's "tone perfect poems" as George Oppen described them...

"That's the magic of this book-the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page." -MAGGIE SMITH To Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935520344Author Jackie SheelerFormat PaperbackImprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596117Author Bob HicokFormat PaperbackImprint 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 9781946433787Author Lewis FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595295Author Melissa SteinFormat PaperbackPage 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.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Poetry) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781556593079Author Shirley KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S...

Acclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh collection. Whale Fall is about time, measured in the wingbeats of a hummingbird or the epochs of geological change, and about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703805Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

When the heart is touched it wants to sing songs of recognized experience. Call it poetry for then image, cadence and word melt together as one. This book of poems is about such experiences. That depth of feeling encompasses both desolation and...

In the Alaska-based poems of Bone Willows, the wheel of the year spins faster than in the Lower Forty-Eight: "Arctic spring bicycles down a bookcase." And the frantic course of time affects everything from non-human nature to the ways a couple with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595868Author Jennifer L. KnoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warren In her remarkable and assured debut, Alexandria Hall explores the boundaries and limits of language, place, and the self, as well as the complicated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592386Author John BalabanFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733674119Author Nin AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584770Author Nicole CooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593116Author Dean YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 340g

A book length series of poems, looking at life in all its imperfections through the viewpoint of an inextinguishable character whose spirit triumphs through humor. Clayfeld, a comic everyman, is the center of these poems about the nature of beauty,...

Picture reversing a rodeo: the rider flies back onto the horse, the horse bucks into stillness. A whirling cast of characters engage in self-interrogation and self-discovery and wrestle in similar fashion in the pages of Rodeo in Reverse, a debut...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914086994Author Margaret LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 95g

During the 1982 air strikes on Beirut, Faiz Ahmed Faiz asked his friend Mahmoud Darwish "Why aren't the poets writing this war on the walls of the city?" Darwish responded, "Can't you see the walls falling down?" Queer, Muslim, American, Kazim Ali has...

Letter from Ohio. The green so green it must be chemical. Faint drift of charcoal smoke. Rock radio. The pink azaleas thrusting at the blue. And all the same desires come crashing back: incredible X-ed out scenes and afterward the whoosh of traffic surf,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579049Author Jeffrey ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295630Author Dr Julie CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 67Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 122g

In this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The poems invoke characters inexorably linked to the land of Israel...

Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the home--and parents--you left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295357Author Jocelyn EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780812975611Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher...

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and...

As one of the most exciting new voices in American poetry, Zachary Schomburg's previous books have enthralled thousands of readers with surreal landscapes populated by gorillas in people clothes, jaguars, plagues of hummingbirds, and even Abraham Lincoln...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966339581Author Ed PavlicFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint American Poetry ReviewPublisher American Poetry ReviewWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930100308Author J P WhiteFormat HardbackImprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486264660Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

'Devotion: Guitar': From Tuscaloosa west to Mississippi then north to Memphis through country as unmusical as I was unloved by the decorous ardor of the South and the voice of one whose griefs were Cherokee, absentee, left in the Chevy and secret. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579162Author Tamiko BeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579025Author Jill McDonoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

Night Street Repairs contains elegiac meditations on time, modernity, and contemporary culture's unending flirtation with self-destruction. The many voices in these poems bear vigilant witness to humankind's urban wastes and wastefulness. Moritz's...