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This is the first book by this author, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, resident in Alaska. The collection was the winner of the 1997 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.AwardsWinner of Brittingham Prize in Poetry 1997.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526816Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 171g

The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-eight poems; in music, grace notes are those added to the basic melody, the embellishments that-if played or sung at the right moment with just the right...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130383Author Carrie JerrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 100g

Voted one of the five best poetry collections for 2012 by Publishers Weekly, Animal Eye employs pastoral motifs to engage a discourse on life and love, as Coal Hill Review states "It is as if a scientist is at work in the basement of the museum of...

Four months after Cummings's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only in periodicals up to that time, make up 73 Poems. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001318Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

This ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the human condition. Employing both narrative and cinematic structure, Jordan re-creates the lives of Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and...

Winner, 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize The divine and the digital achieve a distinct corporality in Maya Salameh's How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Layering prayer with code, Salameh brings supposedly...

Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest. They will place my hands like this. It will look as though I am flying into myself. For half a century, Bill Knott's brilliant, vaudevillian verse electrified the poetic form. Over his long career, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592393Author Benjamin SaenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

A Fast Life establishes Tim Dlugos-the witty and innovative poet at the heart of the New York literary scene in the late 1970s and 1980s and seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic-as one of the most distinctive and energetic poets of our time. This definitive...

Leaving Saturn, chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through both formal and free verse poems, renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage, and creativity he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978998967Author Derrick C. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

With these dark, triumphant poems, Diane Seuss takes us on a journey through the landscape of the soul--and it's a world full of beauty and violence in equal parts. Relentless and incantatory, these poems are charged with an almost religious intensity as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for NAACP Image Award.Book InformationISBN 9780399155116Author Cornelius EadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam...

In Columbarium, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of century forms, or books of one hundred pages, Columbarium...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Award Finalist.Book InformationISBN 9781581952162Author Anne PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386015Author Doug NuferFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 92g

In To See the Earth Before the End of the World, Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of...

A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I...

Often compared to the works of E.E. Cummings and Elizabeth Bishop, these poems are a free-ranging exploration of outer and inner worlds, of nature and the human mind In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson's birth, The Library of America presents...

In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos inspired Natasha Trethewey to imagine the life of Ophelia, the subject of her stunning second collection. With elegant...

Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation' (Frank Bidart). This book - his first to be published in Britain - brings together poems from his first two US collections, "The Afterlife of Objects"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976965Author Associate Professor of English D A PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams)...

C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of his generation, a poet of intense and searching originality who made lyric sense out of the often brutal realities of everyday life. His poems are startlingly intense anecdotes on love,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947021679Author J E a WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Unsolicited PressPublisher Unsolicited PressWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934832592Author Maya Catherine PopaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint New Michigan PressPublisher New Michigan PressWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

Imperfect Paradise, published in 1988, is Linda Pastan's 4th collection and was a nominee for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Poems deal with birds, the past, children, beauty, rituals, myths, the moon, vacations, aging, death, family life, and hope...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989898478Author John RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Exot BooksPublisher Exot BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544586208Author Natasha TretheweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe ("a stolen people in a stolen land"), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred ad secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and...

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A book of bravado and...

National Book Award winner Gerald Stern's wistful and lively poems span countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history and mortality.About the AuthorGerald Stern (1925-2022), the author of nineteen volumes of poetry, was awarded the...

In No One's Witness Syd Zolf activates the last three lines of a poem by Jewish Nazi holocaust survivor Paul Celan-"No one / bears witness for the / witness"-to theorize the poetics and im/possibility of witnessing. Drawing on black studies, continental...

The inaugural volume in the new Spotlight poetry series, Where Shadows Will selects from twenty years of innovative poetry by writer, painter, and translator Norma Cole. Cole has been a fixture of the Bay Area scene since 1977, writing melodic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592898Author Michael DickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 155g

These are poems that rock you like a tilt-a-whirl, off-kilter and non-stop.In this collection of poems by Joe Hall, you might find yourself laid off at a cannabis grow or vomiting gold. You might find yourself screaming in your underwear at the tech bro...

Leviathan, the highly anticipated second collection by Michael Shewmaker, offers an innovative reimagining of the book of Job. Set in the landscape of modern East Texas, the poem unfolds in four cycles of interchanging monologues, each compounding the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523992Author Gjertrud SchnackenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...