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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ' "...Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." ' This selection of Edgar Allan Poe's...

If you think often about the past or battle with overthinking and self-esteem, girl made of glass is for you. This collection is about finding yourself, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself. It explores the many ways our past haunts us, but will leave...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875087894Author Amy CarmichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint CLC PublicationsPublisher CLC PublicationsWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

'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...

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

This revisionary study of Wallace Stevens queries the dominant interpretations of the poet's career.Book InformationISBN 9781902210339Author Lee M JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Liverpool University PressPublisher Liverpool University...

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...

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...

Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his...

Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood,...

'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never...

Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his unique voice combining meditative speculation with what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry', in an oeuvre of astonishing profusion and exuberance.The...

'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...

"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,...

Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early...

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...

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...

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...

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

The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last...

Etel Adnan's evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan's meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.About...

WINNER OF THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532369Author Elizabeth BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375711763Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

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...

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...

Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688156817Author Tim BurtonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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 9781931082570Author Kenneth FearingFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865474772Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMESOut of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics with brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu.Through his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122522Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...

New work from an awardwinning poetJoanna Klink has won acclaim for poetry of bracing emotional intensity. Of her most recent book, Raptus, Carolyn Forche has written that she is "a genuine poet, a born poet, and I am in awe of her achievement." The poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887483363Author Ted KooserFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060882969Author Gwendolyn BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 1955 and Pulitzer Prize 1955.Book InformationISBN 9781101911686Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House USA...

Recyclopedia shows the extraordinary development of Harryette Mullen's career in her books Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T and Muse & Drudge, all originally published in the 1990s and now made available again to new readers. These prose poems and lyrics bring us...

Almost all other poetry anthologies have been edited and annotated by a committee of scholars. This is entirely Bloom's selection with his own inimitable commentary. This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six...