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Born in San Sebastian, and still living and working there, the Basque poet Eli Tolaretxipi has published two collections of poetry in Spanish - "Amor muerto naturaleza muerta" ("Past Love Still Life") and "Los lazos del numero" ("The Loops of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900771894Author Maurice RiordanFormat PaperbackImprint Poetry SocietyPublisher Poetry Society

Moon Chung-hee's lyrical poems represent poignant self-examination, evoking moments of bewilderment and hopeful resignation to the passage of time and imprisoning conditions of her life. Her work explores the desire to escape the fetters of domesticity...

This is a dynamic collection by the winner of the PEN West Poetry Award. Rich's poetry tracks the globe, drawing us into the lives of ordinary people on nearly every continent.Book InformationISBN 9781893996755Author Susan RichFormat PaperbackPage Count...

"Imagine Alzheimer's sufferers and their loved ones treading water in a choppy sea of exhaustion and despair. Now picture Nancy Lagomarsino's "Light From an Eclipse" as a life preserver, airborne and spinning toward them -- a missile of hope and survival...

This collection has the dizzying vividness of heightened perception. In poem after poem, solitude, war, exile and pain are illuminated with unforgettable subtlety, poignancy and detail. In the midst of war and chaos Susko maintains a spirit of wonder in...

America and Other Poems is the first English translation of a single volume by the seminal Japanese Modernist poet, Ayukawa Nobuo. One of Japan's most influential yet overlooked poets, Nobuo was an important voice for peace and probity in the years that...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, timeline, glossary, and correspondences between lines of the translation and those of the original texts. "A...

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...

Immersed in botanical insight, these poems embark upon an archetypal journey of introspection and awakening, transforming language in a show of poetic alchemy. Separating spirituality from dogma, and fusing contemporary and archaic traditions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975012Author Katie FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 168mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9781555974251Author Jim MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf...

'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999724750Author Justin LimoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Plays Inverse PressPublisher Plays Inverse Press

In his second book, Michael Earl Craig blurs the line between the documentary and imaginative impulses. The resulting poems mutilate pastoral myths - a man who has ignored horses his whole life but now wants to try touching one, or two gay donkeys and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948833526Author John J. FigueroaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Shcherbina emerged in the early 1980s as the spokesperson for the new, independent Moscow culture. Her work was first published in the official press of the Soviet Union in 1986, and five volumes of her poetry were published in samizdat prior to 1990...

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...

In her third collection, Beatty travels inside the body to the blood that codes us, moving beyond the language of post-confessionialism into fourth-wave feminism, challenging notions of the "romantic" "and the "brutal" and how...

Incantation and elegy shine through one another in this extraordinary poetic memoir When 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...

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...

Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative writers in America today, Leslie Scalapino persistently challenges the boundaries of many forms in which she works - poetry, prose, plays, and more. This outstanding volume includes work from...

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 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