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Professor Coghill was invited to prepare this annotated edition of Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot himself, and he approved his introduction. Coghill discusses Eliot's subject matter, and the play's importance in his oeuvre. Forty pages of notes...

This collection spans twenty-five years in the career of this highly regarded poet. It features poems from the books Stars, Calling the Dead,When There Are No Secrets, and Against Dreaming, along with seventeen new poems.C.G. Hanzlicek won the Robert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945588471Author John MurilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 145mm *...

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." --Eileen Myles A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and...

This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T. S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative...

Soft spoken yet powerful, Serenity perfectly captures the constant battle of fear and courage that lives within us. The seeds of Serenity were planted in F.S. Yousaf's last collection of poetry, Sincerely. Struck by inspiration and overwhelmed by the...

This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and...

The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.About the AuthorDenise Levertov...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804607Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new colour. Through the lens of an iconic moment, the Annunciation of an unsettling angel to a young woman, Szybist describes the confusion and even terror of moments in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093942Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 7mm

'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of...

'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of...

James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374604301Author Delmore SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book of Frank follows the eponymous figure as he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989641562Author Neil HilbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 106g

This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved...

'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Gluck's masterpiece' The New York Times Book ReviewAn acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poetThis startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores...

Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus "for his...

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.Penguin Modern: fifty new books...

Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and...

"what is it that you want?"i want all this world can give me."then you're going to have to give it to yourself."i gave myself the world showcases the beauty of introspection and exploring personal conflict. Through a conversation with an inner voice,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141169Author Joyce Carol OatesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068939Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 159mm * 7mm

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely...

As a child during the height of the Cold War, Steve Healey learns that his father is a spy for the CIA. Beneath the banality of everyday life-the suburbs of Washington, DC; school and play; his parents' deteriorating marriage-assumed names, parallel...

Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humour earned her a reputation as the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'[Promises of Gold] has put Olivarez at the forefront of not only first-generation poetics, but of all poetry. This one here is for us -- the ones who hide garden shears in their poems' Javier ZamoraLove is at...

Part of the bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon, this collectible, hard-back edition of The Prophet provides an accessible and insightful introduction to this timeless spiritual work The Prophet is an inspirational book of 26...

This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish...

'THE BEST AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION.' - TIMEGathered on the occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a fresh and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry. The renowned...

The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a poet selects and introduces another poet whom they have particularly admired. Ted Hughes's classic selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry provides the perfect...

Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.' Jack Kerouac. Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel "On the Road", Jack Kerouac was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082570Author Kenneth FearingFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434070Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068816Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 235mm * 8mm

During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. His startling work alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) playful and recondite, affirms...

From the author of the wildly successful 2am Thoughts and Nineteen comes Rooms of the Mind - a journey into the parts of our psyche that can either hide and protect us or expose us to all that exists. Here you'll find an exploration of pain, heartbreak,...