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Honest, funny and deeply moving, this is an unforgettable story about facing the worst and surviving. Luke's life is rudely interrupted when his mum, Pat, collapses at the hospital where she works. Thoughtful Luke, nearly 15, and his accident-prone...

Honest, funny and deeply moving, this is an unforgettable story about facing the worst and surviving. Luke's life is rudely interrupted when his mum, Pat, collapses at the hospital where she works. Thoughtful Luke, nearly 15, and his accident-prone...

"Filled with sharp irony and passionate insight, the more than 100 poems in the collection span the career of one of the deans of contemporary poetry. . . . Ammons makes you laugh and forces you to think hard about the way humans relate to natural...

The Harvest and the Lamp, the third volume of the Colosseum Books series, is a singular collection of poems in a wide variety of forms and voices. Author Andrew Frisardi writes on fundamental human themes such as love and desire, death and grief, the...

From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain immortalised in the film Dead Poets Society, this short collection is the ideal introduction to the poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501182839Author Edith WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596476Author Olena Kalytiak DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975499016Author Sabrina Orah MarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Saturnalia BooksPublisher Saturnalia Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793408Author Megan FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596873117Author Dorothy BridgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 192g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Awards and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Book InformationISBN 9780140586688Author John AshberyFormat...

Your Personal God From Horace, Epistles, II. 2. II. 180-89 Jewels, marble, ivory, paintings, beautiful Tuscan meter? Pottery, silver, Gaetulian robes dyed purple - Many there are who'd love to have all of these things. There are some who don't care about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811218870Author Forrest GanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977639540Author Matthew DickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry ReviewWeight(grams) 213g

Jennifer Clement studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and French Literature in Paris. Clement is the author of the memoir 'Widow Basquiat', which made the UK Booksellers' Choice list, and a novel 'A True Story Based on...

Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same...

The chromatic, linguistically playful, erotic conclusion to Wayne Koestenbaum's acclaimed trance poem trilogy. Ultramarine distills gleanings from four years of Koestenbaum's trance notebooks (2015-2019) into a series of tightly-sewn collage-poems,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626863903Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 197mm...

Astoria examines the transitory physical world of the body and reflects on the seamless quality of the present moment. Surrounded by the rush and noise of trains, highways, and grocery store checkout lines, the narrator of these poems creates an intimate...

The language of Molly Brodak's first full-length collection, ""A Little Middle of the Night"", is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness and beauty, dreams and awakenings. As echoed in one...

Grappling with the shock of her grandmother's suicide, mai c. doan undertook a writing project that might give voice to her loss as well as to grapple with memory, and the challenge of articulation and of documentation, in all of their contradictions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486722Author Joseph MillarFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450618Author Tony GloegglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

The American prose poem has a rich history marked by important contributions from major writers. Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th...

This collection of recent poems is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, "All I ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life." For more than fifty years Ferlinghetti has been doing just thatilluminating both the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579131Author Taylor JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 136g

Innovative Beat poet Michael McClure has written a book of poems unlike any of his others. These dharma devotions are fruits of his Buddhist mediation practice. Like bold calligraphy moving vertically down a white scroll, they surprise the eye and...

Recognized for his "wildly original" poetry and his "uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative," Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley has "razor-exacted" and "raw-wired" an absorbing new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395924884Author Thomas LuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Acting as poetic records of light, the poems in Variations on Dawn and Dusk follow the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts the space of Robert Irwin's untitled (dawn to dusk) in the desert of Marfa, TX. Built on the footprint of the town's old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9781882295371Author Mary SzybistFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712227Author Sarah ArvioFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 159g

In this mosaic of sonnets, her fifth collection, Ellen Bryant Voigt takes on a monumental challenge: to conjure up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, a little-recorded event that killed 25 million worldwide, half a million in America alone. The Nation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of United States National Book Awards: Poetry 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780880014311Author James TateFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711344Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Listening LibraryPublisher Random House USA Inc

A scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. More Gone, number 18 in the Spotlight Poetry Series, is his first full-length collection in a decade, as well as the first to follow-up to his well-received memoir Can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925840Author Carolyn ForcheFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became...

These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe. "The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is fueled by Kerouac's discerning meditation on the nature of...

An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsaw-the book's central...