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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941667132Author Gustave DoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Omo PressPublisher Omo PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 3mm

Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre's note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In Like,...

"We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion."-New York Times Book ReviewAbout the AuthorAdrienne Rich (1929-2012) was an award-winning poet, influential...

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is best known as a cultural and literary critic, as one of the primary forces behind the development of queer and gay/lesbian studies, and as author of several influential books: Tendencies, Epistemology of the Closet, and Between...

"Canonized for being insufficiently American although he took America as his subject, chastised for obscurity by readers who would not allow or would not read homosexual meanings, Crane embodies many understandings of America, and of the predicament of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735938Author Ollie SchminkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972869270Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 145g

Linda Gregg's abiding presence in the world of poetry - she has been writing for over 30 years - is a living testament to the longevity of her art and spirit. All of It Singing collects the ongoing work of Gregg's career in one book, including poetry...

Here are Sarton's observations and reflections, many of which came to her as if by magic during the small hours of the morning. Along with the daily events of writing a letter, appreciating her flowers, taking care of her car Pierrot, these poems wrestle...

Robert Wrigley is a poet of America's northern Rocky Mountains. Over three decades his poetry's pervading concerns have been rural Western landscapes and humankind's place within the natural world. His most recent poems have presented a portrait of a...

The first collection of the Beat mentor's long-influential permutation poems-one of the earliest examples of computer-generated literature Written between 1958 and 1982, Brion Gysin's "permutation poems" begin with short phrases or sentences whose...

Borrowing its title from an Ennio Morricone ditty in the spaghetti western Gunfight at Red Sands, Jennifer L. Knox's A Gringo Like Me contains poems at once raucous and sexy, tender and high. In favorites such as "Hot Ass Poem," "Cruising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374516222Author James SchuylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

A.R. Ammons produced some of the twentieth century's most innovative and enduring poetry, collected here for the first time in its entirety. Volume I follows Ammons's development through his National Book Award-winning Collected Poems 1951-1971 and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535209Author Spencer ReeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limon, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three...

Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether the voice embodied is that of 'an adult male of late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Children's Picture) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781568462011Author J Patrick LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint...

Becoming a parent changes everything. Fear and love live together. Suddenly there is a person in the world for whom you want happiness and safety, even when those two don't always coincide. Diary of a Young Father comprises forty letter-poems written by...

In the form of a journal covering the period December 6, 1963, through January 10, 1964, A. R. Ammons's long, thin poem was written on a roll of adding-machine tape, then transferred foot by foot to manuscript. He chose this method as a serious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450028Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 1380Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060951061Author Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 181g

A contributor to Donald Allen's seminal New American Poetry anthology, John Wieners was on the periphery of many of the twentieth century's most important avant-garde poetry scenes, from Black Mountain and the Boston Renaissance to the New York School...

As Marilyn Hacker has written, "Black, lesbian, mother, cancer survivor, urban woman: none of Lorde's selves has ever silenced the others; the counterpoint among them is often the material of her strongest poems."About the AuthorAudre Lorde (1934-1992)...

Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002, My Life is now firmly established in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997502121Author Patricia KeeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Neopoiesis Press, LLCPublisher Neopoiesis Press, LLCWeight(grams) 209g

From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486968Author Stephen DobynsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

Ernest Hemingway never wished to be widely known as a poet. He concentrated on writing short stories and novels, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1956. But his poetry deserves close attention, if only because it is so revealing. Through verse he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589092Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 136mm *...

The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124054Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130413Author Chris PreddleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985288396Author Shadab Zeest HashmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Poetic Matrix PressPublisher Poetic Matrix PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374502607Author Robert LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer not only in linguistic and typographic inventions, but also in sound and concrete poetry. But his prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062853677Author GennaRose NethercottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Second Language is the fourth volume of work from the highly acclaimed poet Lisel Mueller. The second language of the title, English, supplanted Mueller's native language when she came to the United States from Hitler's Germany at age fifteen. But other...

Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, "the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations" (citation for The Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592164Author C.D. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 184g