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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932360875Author C. A. ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a...

This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596353Author June JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives...

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...

The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and eventually rediscovers itself in a place of peace and closure. It's about learning to grow alongside grief. About taking the hand of your younger self and...

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

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 *...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: "Earth." There are no inhabitants, and no sun--only the broad sky, silent sea, and...

'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary Supplement'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and...

Winner of the National Book Award for PoetryAn adventurer, Lisel Mueller pursues the protean possibilities of communication. In Dreiser's works she finds language solid, ""as plain as money, / a workable means of exchange."" More often she experiences...

Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century. This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140586954Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 138mm *...

In her first collection since winning the National Book Award in 1993, Mary Oliver writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural world, of the delight of writing, of the value of silence. "[Her] poems are...as genuine, moving and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526533Author Li-Young LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250202628Author AlfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 127mm *...

In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence,...

'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves'Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse, and made him one of the greatest twentieth-century poets. Penguin...

The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. They reveal the poet at the height of her creative powers, exhibiting the startling imagery and...

A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to...

More of a story than a collection of poetry, Love by Night will whisk you away from your world and into the dreamy romantic night.Love by Night begins with anxious hesitation and nervous attraction, grows into tender affection, blossoms into passionate...

'Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising - the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He's a one-off, an American treasure' Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631226Author Ursula Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 193g

Sean Singer's radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman's, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134572Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892551279Author Marie HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The...

Etel Adnan's evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan's meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.About...

"Printer's ink is the greater explosive." Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of...

Some Problems with Autobiography, Brian Brodeur's fourth collection, grapples with the porous and fragmentary nature of midwestern American identity in poems that range across prosodic forms and hybrid genres. By turns self-mocking, meditative, and...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021**A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, 'one of the poetry stars of his generation' (Los Angeles Times).'We sleep long, / if not sound,' Kevin Young writes early...

This is a splendid book, morally serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning. - C. K. Williams, from his judge's citation for the 1997 Walt Whitman Award Barbara Ras, a poet exquisitely heedful of nuance both physical and visceral, cinches...

Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming humour, self-scathing and tenderness are all fuelled by an...

Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375711763Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593048Author John TaggartFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 552g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Boston Book Review (Poetry) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780140587647Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House...

American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune...