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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451493774Author Philip LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809850Author Patrice VecchioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936671335Author Gary HothamFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Pinyon PublishingPublisher Pinyon PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The voice in the headphones says, "you're rolling" . . . The Voice in the Headphones is an experiment in music writing in the form of a long poem centered on the culture of the recording studio. It describes in intricate, prismatic detail one marathon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593727Author Valzhyna MortFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 128g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394747705Author Sharon OldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 157gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 145mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561383115Author Mini Books DoubledayFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Running Press Miniature EditionsPublisher Running PressWeight(grams) 67g

In 1855, a small volume appeared, self-published by a failed Brooklyn journalist and carpenter: twelve untitled poems and a preface announcing the author's aims. A commercial failure, this book was the first stage of a massive, lifelong enterprise. Six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138149Author Jimmy Santiago BacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982401Author Clark Ashton SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 152g

In his third poetry collection, Itch, Zane Frederick scratches memory. He pokes the bear of his past. Ventures further out into its woods to see what still lurks and what needs to be settled. Itch captures the complexity of revisiting memory and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711473Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Children's Literature) 2015 and Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Children's Picture) 2015 and Children's Book Committee Award (Poetry)...

Hive is a remarkable debut collection of poems about brutality, exaltation, rebellion, and allegiance. Written in the voice of a teenage Mormon girl, these poems chronicle an inheritance of daily violence and closely guarded secrets. A conflicting cast...

Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from the poet's earliest childhood memories to the surprises that come with age.About the AuthorLinda Pastan (1932-2023) was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593826Author David WagonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912146Author Jack McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Poetry) 2005 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780375710858Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110072Author Dan FanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball Press

For nearly twenty years, Charles Anthony Silvestri has penned texts for some of the world's leading choral composers and ensembles. This comprehensive collection of Silvestri's lyric poetry spans his career from the first words of "Sleep" to the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060757199Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 97Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068854Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 155mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907119354Author Sara TeasdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Tigmor BooksPublisher Tigmor BooksWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712159Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

"What treasures of knowledge we cluster around." That This is a collection in three pieces. "Disappearance Approach," an essay about Howe's husband's sudden death-"land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth"-begins the book with paintings by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736789056Author James MoreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Viewless Wings PressPublisher Viewless Wings PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)...

Long live Man! sings the poet Gregory Corso-despite atom bombs and computers, cold wars that get hot and togetherness that isn't, too many cars and too little love...and in these poems he celebrates the wonders (and the laughs and griefs) of being a man...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156421737Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

“Poetry in service to humanity.” —BARRY LOPEZ Pattiann Rogers has built a reputation as one of America’s finest contemporary poets. Her writing—with its firm roots in science and the natural world—has been compared to Emerson’s and Whitman’s. She has...

Published in 1958, 95 Poems is the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime. Remarkable for its vigor, freshness, interest in ordinary individuals, and awareness of the human life cycle, the book reflects Cummings's observations on nature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062854155Author Campbell McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A collection in five parts, Susan Howe's electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths' inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also...

Brenda Coultas's prose poems take us on a well-documented tour from the Bowery, pre-1900 and post-9/11, to southern Indiana, pre-automobile and post-genetic engineering. Her poems are sculptures pieced together from bits of memory and a montage of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178645Author Elizabeth WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555772Author Cynthia Marie HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm)...

**A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012** Lew Welch was a brilliant and troubled poet, legendary among his Beat peers. Ring of Bone collects poems, songs, and even a few drawings, documenting the full sweep of his creative output, from his early...

Lake Superior is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same title--strata that inform the poem's ecological and historical resonance. Lorine Niedecker was a major American poet often connected with the Objectivists. She lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999501214Author Ford Freedom T'AiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Augury BooksPublisher Augury BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593317938Author Marge PiercyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf