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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...

One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2016 "Cortazar's verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical, full of animals but deeply human. Cortazar is a people's...

Alabama focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Labyrinth, meditation, fable, and peasant poem, formed from interleaved strands of prose vignettes and lineated poetry, this...

This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of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 9781646036035Author Rafaella del BourgoFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Regal House PublishingPublisher Regal House PublishingWeight(grams)...

Poems exploring the push and pull of migration and immigration, familial archive, and regional history. Through one state to another, from one country to the next Indifferent Cities traverses both distance and time to reconcile the most confounding...

The Weight of Drought explores forms of grief through the internalization of experience and wanders further to wonder if the past is too far away to fix the present while also serving as a love letter to Nebraska. This collection offers a millennial...

No Charity in the Wilderness is a long journey into the new American West. From the southern border to the isolating two-lane highways in the desert, this collection is a prayer of reconciliation with so much that troubles us-those who live without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985008005Author Marc WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sea Crow PressPublisher Sea Crow PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525503177Author Cynthia KosciuczykFormat HardbackPage Count 66Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988904205Author Laura NewbernFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Changes Pub.Publisher Changes Pub.Weight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774390771Author David MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 62gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 140mm * 25mm

Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire's infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943306169Author Dave OliphantFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Alamo Bay PressPublisher Alamo Bay PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735906805Author PiantaFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint TerzamediaPublisher TerzamediaWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 2mm

The poems in Polly Buckingham's debut collection, The River People, move through both dream and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political. The speaker in these poems is often in a state of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870817660Format HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Ragged BearsPublisher Ragged Bears

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957840178Author Robin ScofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Mouthfeel PressPublisher Mouthfeel PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957840215Author Xochitl-Julisa BermejoFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Mouthfeel PressPublisher Mouthfeel PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 233mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742627Author Danny CaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Blue If Only I Could Tell You is the thirteenth collection of poetry by Richard Tillinghast. Long awaited, the book is his first since Wayfaring Stranger came out in 2012. Melodious, lyrical, these poems of place and displacement are deeply personal at...

The fall of the Iron Curtain in the early 1990s ushered in a new tide of European immigrants to the United States. These populations, which hailed primarily from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, were largely adrift in America's cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773861142Author Tariq MalikFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin Press

A scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. More Gone, number 18 in the Spotlight Poetry Series, is his first full-length collection in a decade, as well as the first to follow-up to his well-received memoir Can...

Heralding a new regionalism, New Brunswick interrogates the popular representations of Shane Neilson's home province. Structured as a group of serial long poems, this fifth book by the winner of the 2017 Walrus Poetry Prize recasts the political,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lohn Foundation Prize for Poetry, Western Canada Jewish Book Awards 2020 (Canada). Short-listed for City of Vancouver Book Award 2020 (Canada).Book...

Deeply rooted in respect and compassion for Appalachia and its people, these poems are both paeans to and dirges for past and present family, farmlands, factories, and coal. Kari Gunter-Seymour's second full-length collection resounds with candid,...

*Selected as a Top 10 Must-Read Book About Antarctica by the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators Poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield's fourth collection, Toward Antarctica, documents and queries her work as a guide on ships in...

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.

No one will protect you. Months after being named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. announced his decision to leave the public school system. His career as a high school English teacher had spanned more than a decade...

These remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree-trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem - 'From the very limit of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375526Author Najwan DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; blending biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Riach’s poems...

A native of the Bay Area, Ross J. Farrar is an internationally renowned singer, songwriter, and lyricist for the post-punk band, Ceremony. In his debut book of poetry, Farrar conjures a narrative voice that evokes Alan Vega of the band Suicide and other...

A moving lyric meditation on the Congo River that explores the identity, chaos, and wonder of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as race and the detritus of colonialism.With The River in the Belly, award-winning Congolese author Fiston Mwanza...

'Jam is for Girls' is Shagufta K's fiercely honest debut collection. Her work lays witness to the immigrant experience and gives voice to the women who made journeys into unknown lands through the eyes of their daughters. This is not a collection that...

Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a pioneering collection of verse written in Jamaican Patois, the first of its kind. As a committed leftist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377346Author Lakdhas WikkramasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476779324Author Saul WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MTV BooksPublisher MTV BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 13mm

One of Moldova's most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Pa un's style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic. Canting Arms, the first collection to bring Emilian Galaicu-Paun's work to Anglophone readers, is...