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From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Geoffery Hill's darkly impassioned lyrics, from Denise Levertov's incisive personal and political insights to Wendell Berry's lovely evocations of the divine presence in nature, Upholding Mystery offers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591495Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 694g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595103Author Alex DimitrovFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 198g

A moving and kinetic collection of poetry from the 2018 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Monica YounUnexpected, unusual, and stirring, the poetry of Rosalie Moffett “takes us to the brink of a world continually unmaking itself,” (Georgia...

Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust. Alan Dundes' theses identifies a strong anal erotic element in German national character,...

"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature--honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."--Dennis Cooper "[Myles' writing] comes across simultaneously as effortless and utterly gorgeous...To...

John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize Poetry Category 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780819511928Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher...

An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor,...

By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112549Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 183gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

"Her complex ideas are born into verse with the easy, simple beauty that is typical of her stunning lyric style."-Boston GlobeAbout the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Reviews"The title of [Sarton's] luminous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062389091Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975524Author Nick LantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618565856Author William MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679766018Author W. S. MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640090958Author Wendell BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140587524Author Diane di PrimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307264428Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935904700Author CRISTIN O'KEEFE APTOWICZFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Reading the West (Poetry) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780679755272Author Sandra CisnerosFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Here is the first major-figure anthology of American poetry of the colonial and early national periods, an indispensable volume for both students and scholars of American literature and civilization. Five major literary figures are spotlighted: Anne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594984Author W S MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984310050Author James FrancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Hollyridge PressPublisher Hollyridge PressWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644450796Author Solmaz SharifFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701511Author W. S. MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 331Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979958892Author Tony HoaglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Hollyridge PressPublisher Hollyridge PressWeight(grams) 85g

Winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women through their pilgrimage in a mid-apocalyptic world. Exploring war, plagues, and the search for a new God in exile, these poems create a chorus of wanderers...

Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem...

In her third collection of poems, Claudia Rankine creates a profoundly daring, ingeniously experimental examination of pregnancy, childbirth, and artistic expression. Liv, an expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, are at an impasse from her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859652209Author Patti SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595042Author Robert HedinFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

love belongs to those who do the feeling-an exciting collection of new and selected poetry by Judy Grahn. The book contains selections from Judy's entire body of poetic work from The Work of a Common Woman, The Queen of Wands and The Queen of Swords, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394486925Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593765842Author Elaine KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593949Author Jean ValentineFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 127g

On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11-an event that caused their downtown apartment to become "suffused with the World Trade Center's carcinogenic dust"-Dan O'Brien's wife discovers a lump in her breast. Surgery and chemotherapy soon follow, and on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944380113Author Chelsey MinnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fence BooksPublisher Fence BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 170mm * 15mm