Death, Grief, Loss

The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug - some of the most famous tales of terror and the most macabre detective stories ever written. Acknowledged master of suspense, Poe was also a poet and...

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published...

Delving into his life and experiences of love, loss, growing up mixed-race in Newport, and more, this is the debut poetry collection from award-winning multidisciplinary artist and children's laureate Wales Connor Allen.From Lucent Dreaming, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646987408Author Ranata SuzukiFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ranata SuzukiPublisher Ranata SuzukiWeight(grams) 207g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608685295Author Roger HousdenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593801567Author Michael OndaatjeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283g

A neurotically funny collection that looks under the hood of adult lifeAs in life, she was a pain in the arsein death. He could hear her roaringall the way from the fifth circle,'Why the hell do you get to be in abetter circle than me, I'm...

Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."--FlavorWire "This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." --ElevenEleven "I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they...

Some say Abraham Smith's live readings are the best in America, except it's more accurate to say he howls rather than reads. So, better to call his readings hollerings, which often times might take place next to a tree. Listen to his howl via the...

A debut collection exploring the experience of first love and heartbreak through poetry, from actress and artist Bella Mayo.My Greenhouse is a collection of poems inspired by the author's first romance, beginning with the seeds of infatuation, blooming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524855031Author Taisia KitaiskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732861060Author Kindra M AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Blank Paper PressPublisher Blank Paper PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912849Author Anis MojganiFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the...

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic...

"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor." In Turning to Wallpaper, lush, elegant language contrasts with the disturbing and at times gruesome imagery to create a collection that knows exactly how to haunt the reader. Wong's words and artistry are vibrant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534880Author Megan FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804840085Author Andrzej KotańskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340638Author Sierra DeMulderFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982153380Author Gabbie HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 18mm

Readers call William's poetry "breath-taking", "refreshing" and "relatable to anyone".The Grief We're Given explores the collective and personal experience of grief and grieving through themes and tropes such as relationships, love, loss, nature,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596797Author Ted KooserFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Acclaimed Instagram poet F.D. Soul (@featherdownsoul) debuts a new poetry collection,telling her own invigorating, unapologetic narrative of love, loss, and adversity. Soul's words pulse, they are alive on the page, attesting to the significance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735112Author Donte CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This for YouI Wrote This For You: Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and photography project; including several new and never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595806Author Traci BrimhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

In this meditative and incisive collection, Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems reflect on desire,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035833887Author John Angus Walker-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA collection inspired by Hoa's mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam's diaspora.Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on...

An Instagram poet with hundreds of thousands of followers, Christopher Poindexter presents a new poetry collection themed on love in its many forms. OLD SOUL LOVE is a combination of new, never-before-seen poetry, mixed in with some of Christopher's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711664Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 181mm...

A successor to Korean feminist poets like Kim Hyesoon, Yi Won frequently writes about the perilousness of maintaining one's human identity in a high-tech, digital environment. In this debut book in English, her poems range from avant-garde prose poems to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956702040Author K a OppermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Jackanapes PressPublisher Jackanapes PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218148218Author Anvil LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Quaero LLCPublisher Quaero LLCWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912689Author Bill MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949944624Author Donald RevellFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525566141Author Scott McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615997671Author Ellen LordFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Modern History PressPublisher Modern History PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525566134Author Scott McBrideFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm