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Incantation and elegy shine through one another in this extraordinary poetic memoirWhen poet Danielle Vogel began writing meditations on the syntax of earthen and astral light, she had no idea that her mother's tragic death would eclipse the writing of...

A whistling through teeth. / He shuts his eyes but still sees / the red glow of exit signs. Harold Hoefle's The Night Chorus rises out of forests and country roads, bars and buses, cities and small towns. These locales are the haunts of outsiders...

The poems of ancient Tamil are one of India's most important contributions to world literature. Presented here in English translation is a selection of roughly three hundred poems from five of the earliest poetic anthologies of classical Tamil literature...

From a 250 year-old manuscript come these selections from the work of America's first important poet, Edward Taylor of Massachusetts. He was regarded by Mark Van Doren as the writer of "the most interesting American verse before the 19th century...

Ben Belitt writes, "This volume--my fifth--extends and deepens a preoccupation I have had with the visible and invisible manifestations of people, places, and things. It offers a variety of poems of formal and textural density and, in addition, a...

Subtler, subtler, beat our hearts / down aisles of cluttered glitz. Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with...

I've lived the way a field is sometimes / a shelter for mice / or sometimes a source of game / for a hawk Inspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Vision presents a portrait of nature where the...

in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poem In this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often contradictory intelligence of the heart and mind. In three...

A scholarly edition of poems by John Cleveland. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198118398Author John ClevelandFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bookseller's Choice (Special Subjects) 2001 and Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Gold) 2000 and NAPPA Gold Awards (Folklore/Poetry/Song) 2000.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911379102Author Alan ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971822870Author William HeyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970625076Author John GodfreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 128g

A cross-genre book of poetry, photography and notes for choreography, A Lily Lilies maps space through language, language through movement, and both space and movement through pictures in sections that move from immense spaces of the American Southwest...

This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil Staiger, dean of Swiss critics, describes Professor Meyer...

Benny Andersen, currently Denmark's most popular poet, is virtually unknown in the United States. He is a poet of remarkable versatility, whose voices range from reflective to whimsical. His imagery is original and often surprising; his humor is...

To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442465558Author Deborah RuddellFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Margaret K. McElderry BooksPublisher Margaret K. McElderry BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565351Author Genevieve CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130055Author Peter DaleFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854112996Author Emyr HumphreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914237171Author Leilah KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Polari PressPublisher Polari Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914237096Author Barney Ashton-BullockFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Polari PressPublisher Polari Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914237058Author Sam MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Polari PressPublisher Polari Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934211567Author Jerome W ClintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971898165Author Kevin DuceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry ReviewWeight(grams) 184g

A world of history is a world of destinations and possibilities. In Tin Can Tourist Scott Hightower draws from a legacy larger than the limits of personal history, body, and brand. From the harsh Protestant landscape of his native central Texas to the...

Yes, it’s safe to go back to poetry. In fact, it’s highly recommended, thanks to Rex Wilder and his engaging first book of poems. Waking Bodies has already been praised by luminaries as diverse as the metrical Richard Wilbur and the asymmetrical Billy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934200391Author Nick DemskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence BooksPublisher Fence Magazine Inc, Division of...

Companion volume to Zephyr's '03 Ursu collection Goldsmith Market and her third third book to appear in English (along with the two anthologies: The Sky behind the Forest [Bloodaxe] and Angel Riding a Beast [Northwestern UP]).--Waiting to hear if Ursu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971822849Author Milton KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 286g

These poems crackle with aplomb and verve as they try to measure the distance between the ear, an organ of touch, and the often chaotic and sometimes orderly vibrations the ears permit the body to receive; in that gap between trust and faith is this...

"The Book of Funnels is one of the strangest and most beautiful first books of poetry I have read in a long time."-John Ashbery Christian Hawkey constructs a visionary world rich with fantastic imagery. In blurring the line of reality versus...

How do Bengali women love in times of social transition and political upheaval? These poems look at how Bengali women tell their truths of the heart and mind through their struggles for equality, opportunity, and recognition in a changing society. The...

"Magdalena" is a finely drawn collection which, with sometimes painful honesty, examines the vagaries and vicissitudes of a heart in conflict with itself. The poems invoke the nature of an independent woman embracing her sexuality, travels, and being in...

Ji-Woo Hwang's poems describe a life governed by the inescapable reality that all hell may break loose at any time, a reality that now permeates our own culture. His poems mix lyrical intensity with an acute political sensibility, creating an uneasy...

Featuring heartwarming passages by a renowned inspirational author, this gift book celebrates puppy joy, the 'welcome home' wag of the tail, unbridled affection, bittersweet love for an aging pet, and the sublime moments shared between humans and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062088482Author David St JohnFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936797738Author Author Ruth Ellen KocherFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

With the kind of largesse one might expect from a young mind fueled by coffee and tobacco and bent on an exploration of consciousness, one premised on the rat's brain as a mnemonic device and a mimetic structure for that which we see and know,...