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A beautiful portrait of how joy is an act of resistance. "My poems brought me to Oxford, Mississippi a.k.a. the velvet ditch: / a place you can fall into, get comfortable among confederate rebels," writes January Gill O'Neil in her stunning new...

**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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436255Author Natalie ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908129Author Emily FragosFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781638340485Author Darius SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027381Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

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 9781612547183Author Daniel BerriganFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Brown Books Publishing GroupPublisher Brown Books Publishing GroupWeight(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 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 9781960215185Author William WoolfittFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Belle Point Press, LLCPublisher Belle Point Press, LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771669108Author Stephen CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Book*hugPublisher Book*hugDimensions(mm) 203mm * 152mm * 5mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534217Author Nina Mingya PowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Wooichin J-son was born and raised in Singapore. He completed his BA at the University of Southern Mississippi and his MA at the California Sate Univeristy, Northridge. He now lives in Lakewood, California, and teaches writing.About the AuthorWooichin...

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...

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...

Through the creaking of bedazzled branches and the soft rustle of jeweled leaves, deciduous qween explores the queer world all around us-how we, like our environment, wear and shed different identities in our performance as human, as drag queen, as...

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...