Women Authors

Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize-now in one collectible volume "If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578616445Author N R HartFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Monday Creek PublishingPublisher Monday Creek PublishingWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

In this brilliant collection of new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant and revisits kitschy concepts like 'love' and 'illness', now...

Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago,...

Firebird explores the fires of destruction and rebirth, both literal and spiritual. Each poem invites the reader to consider 'the necessity of mystery', where grief and joy, death and rebirth, stagnation and transformation exist alongside one another,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593468111Author Sandra CisnerosFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry "A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems."-Publishers WeeklyIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137665Author Pattiann RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity." - Ocean VuongBread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imaging to explore the realities of economic necessity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787372788Author Lady Mary Wortley MontaguFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370644Author Alice GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738358106Author Kiara BlanchetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Kiara BlanchettePublisher Kiara BlanchetteWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535186Author Eliza GriswoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137832Author m.s. RedCherriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957596020Author B VigilFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 300 South Media GroupPublisher 300 South Media GroupWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In her fourth collection, Seni Seneviratne will extend her reputation as a fine poet whose incisive social and political concerns are matched by her meticulous care with the shape of each poem and the architecture of her collections, where individual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951724016Author Nicole LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Indie Blue Publishing LLCPublisher Indie Blue Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593465066Author Amanda GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 439gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993513107Author Siana BanguraFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Haus of Liberated ReadingPublisher Haus of Liberated Reading

Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne Laux's five expansive volumes, including her confident...

On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow - the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose...

Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook!The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.The real-life story of a relationship in the author's past told...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595752Author Ellen BassFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915760005Author Genevieve CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

A Telegraph Best New Poetry Books for Christmas 2021. Carcanet publishes several Catulluses: C.H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating...

Berg's hallucinatory, post-cataclysmic epic takes place in an unremitting future-past. The bodies mutate and hybridize. They are erotic and artificial, art and adrenaline. Available for the first time in English as a complete collection, the poems of...

Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912986Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Titled after the poem that burned up on Tumblr and has inspired wedding vows, paintings, songs, YouTube videos, and even tattoos among its fans, Mouthful of Forevers brings the first substantial collection of this gifted young poet's work to the public. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915796202Author Jennifer Rose WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Maple PublishersPublisher Maple PublishersWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681884Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Situated where salt and freshwater meet, where floods and fields ‘mingle parts’, Emily Hasler’s second collection exposes the dailiness of disaster to chart the constantly shifting courses of rivers and lives. Taking its name from the sections of...

Can you feel homesick and at home at the same time? Ever felt lost for words but full of things to say? Meet Andrea Davidson. In Eggenwise, Andrea explores moving to a different country, learning a new language, growing up and falling in love through...

"Em Strang's poetry reminds us that right dwelling is not just a theoretical or ideological concern; it must also be rooted in the gravity that structures everything, rich in the old pagan knowledge and unafraid to find a home for what we do not...

Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594981142Author Julianne DinennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Fernwood PressPublisher Fernwood PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804011952Author Anna AkhmatovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Swallow PressPublisher Swallow PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 8mm