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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534939Author Charles SimicFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761232Author Edna St. Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

America's Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. The poems in his final...

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as 'a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth .....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272757Author Edgar Lee MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068878Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068755Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 158mm * 7mm

What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and...

ConstellatedWhen the atoms in my bodyreturn to starsThey will not rememberthis five amout my window,neither the moorasleep on the horizon,nor, across her darkened hips,the scattersof bright yellow gorse.About the AuthorLola Haskins is the author of...

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2017Claudia Rankine described the poems in Alsadir's first book as 'lawless,' 'provocative, and 'heartbreaking' as they 'converse...

Each poem is tenderly crafted, reflecting Dan's extraordinary capacity to notice and value even the most subtle and transitory movement in a child's face, indicative of what might be going on inside him or her. The poems rveal his profound understanding...

"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody-language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this...

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are...

THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT CAME TO ME. NO MATTER HOW THEY GOT HERE, THEY DID THE F***ING JOB.Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on music; he's left it battered and bruised, too. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, here for the first time are his...

Acclaimed as "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time" (BOMB), Kimiko Hahn is a shape-shifter, a poet who seeks novel forms for her utterly original subject matter and "stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion" (Bloomsbury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608686971Author Natalie GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Frank O'Hara (1926-66) composed poems 'any time, any place', collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For O'Hara, the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and...

The poet has said of himself and his work: "I am not an experimentalist or an inventor, but a derivative poet, drawing my art from the resources given by a generation of masters--Stein, Williams, Pound; back of that by the generations of poets that have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316650007Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

For thirty-five years American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial poems-"Song of the Andoumboulou" and "Mu"-that follow a mysterious, migrant "we" through the rhythms and...

This beautiful collection of love poems gathers together thousands of years of timeless verse from around the world. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, traditional English classics sit alongside the works of Eastern writers such as Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027381Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174869Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless...

Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against...

In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the...

This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling...

Austin Kleon is a cartoonist and poet from Austin, Texas, who takes a page from an existing newspaper and blacks out words until he finds a new hidden meaning in the text. Hilarious and profound, silly and contemplative, the poems in this collection will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Stonewall Book Award (Literature) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781943977741Author Kay Ulanday BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Sibling Rivalry Press,...

Jane Hirshfield's urgent new collection is a book of personal, ecological and political reckoning. Her poems inscribe a ledger personal and communal, a registry of our time's and lives' dilemmas as well as a call to action on climate change, social...

Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize 2024. Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024. A The Telegraph Book of the Year. The Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month August 2023. The Grid is about the end of worlds, ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711480Author Frank O'HaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

In celebration of the American poet's centennial, Ask Me collects 100 of William Stafford's essential poems together in one title. As a conscientious objector during World War II, whilst assigned to Civilian Public Service camps, Stafford began his daily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735303Author Rachel WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems, Shanahan--queer and mixed-race--confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975395Author Mary Jo BangFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm *...

The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only...

SOME JOY FOR MORNING Now the connection with spring has dissolved. Now that hysteria is blooming. Says every day I want to fly my kite. Says what's a grammar when you is no longer you. My world is hydrogen burning in space and in the fullness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068786Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 25mm