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The Best American Poetry 2009: Series Editor David Lehman by David Wagoner 9780743299770
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $22.97Award-winning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry-"a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Eagerly... -
Central Air: Poems by George Bilgere
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $26.72New poems from the author of Imperial, and Blood Pages.About the AuthorGeorge Bilgere is the author of six previous poetry collections, including most recently, Imperial. The White Museum was chosen... -
Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic... -
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the President by David Lehman
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.42Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743243506Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Inquest by Michael McGriff 9781945680830
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27"A blend of the low-rent sociology of Raymond Carver with the quirky imagination of Richard Brautigan."–Billy CollinsMichael McGriff’s book-length poem Inquest is an oblique ode to Pablo Neruda’s... -
The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present by David Lehman 9781416537465
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $25.86There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant... -
Trespass: Poems by Thomas Dooley 9780062338822
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.62The 2013 National Poetry Series selection, chosen by poet and novelist Charlie Smith. Established in 1978 by legendary editor Dan Halpern, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and... -
Turning to Fiction: Poems by Donna Masini 9780393328448
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $26.09"Think about sex," this book begins, then moves through the places into which our longings lead us. Here are confessions whispered over the phone in "Phone Sex," sins recounted to priests, "pretend... -
Futura-isms by Futura
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.22A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneerFutura is a living legend-a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art... -
Poetry 101: From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry by Susan Dalzell 9781507208397
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across... -
Blood Pages by George Bilgere
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $24.92In Blood Pages George Bilgere continues his exploration of the joys and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in the Midwest. OK, maybe he's a bit beyond middle-aged at this point, and... -
Imperial by George Bilgere 9780822962687
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $25.41In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that... -
Cosmopolitan Greetin: Poems 1986-1992 by Allen Ginsberg 9780060926236
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926236Author Allen GinsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint -
I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First: Poems by Angie Mazakis 9781682261347
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.18Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize In the same way that the speaker in these poems often seems itinerant, lacking a place or person to call home, the poems themselves have their own roaming... -
Rx by Josh Sapan 9781636280394
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41In his debut collection, Josh Sapan guides us through a lifetime of love and loss as he navigates death-of loved ones, of crickets, of houseplants-in an American landscape teeming with wonder and the... -
Selected Poems of Donald Hall by ,Donald Hall
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.97Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects his essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry.“When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that's what I'd do my whole... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140380538
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74A lively, humorous retelling for children of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean.About the AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342, and... -
Halflife: Poems by Meghan O'Rourke 9780393333176
RRP: $28.28Booksplease Price: $24.53The insomniac speakers in Halflife are coming of age in a mythical world full of threat and promise. Seeking their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, they speak wryly of destructive... -
Good Poems by Garrison Keillor 9780142003442
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $39.18A selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems to inspire and be enjoyed by everyoneHere is an anthology of poems, chosen by Garrison Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their... -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers... -
The Little Field of Self by Doreen Gildroy 9780226293295
Booksplease Price: $46.55Dung Beetle; Be kind to me, a mess. I represent persistence - in the dirty thing; things larger than me; I do not fear. Whatever you think, or like - I live. Oh, marvell Pushing up the hill - rolling... -
Monologue of a Dog: New Poems by Wislawa Szymborska 9780063490420
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68"A Szymborska poem is always charming, wonderfully charming, charming as a small child singing, charming as a great pop-song lyric. But her poems are also, to use an old word, 'deep,' mysteriously... -
American Poetry Now by Ed Ochester
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $52.69American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary... -
After the Fall: Poems Old and New by Edward Field 9780822959809
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $32.55After the Fall refers to the twin towers, and is Field's ode to the events that transpired thereafter--the war in Iraq andthe attack on civil rights in America--as well as his own personal struggles... -
Art and Artists by Emily Fragos
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Painting and sculpture have inspired great poetry, but so also have photography, calligraphy, tapestry and folk art. Included here are poems celebrating Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa', Monet's... -
The Traveler's Vade Mecum: A Poetry Anthology by Helen Klein Ross 9781597092241
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41The original Traveler's Vade Mecum, published in 1853, contained thousands of telegrams. Ross chose telegrams as titles for poems solicited from dozens of poets, including Bollingen Prize winner... -
The Door by Margaret Atwood 9780547237701
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $25.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547237701Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Quaker Guns Caroline Knox 9781933517278
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43With the adventurousness of Ashbery and the gregariousness of Billy Collins, no one's bag of tricks is as bottomless as Caroline Knox's. They're Quaker guns, a creative ruse, the kind you couldn't... -
Harbinger: Poems by Shelley Puhak 9780063233966
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233966Author Shelley PuhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
The Afterlife of Objects by Dan Chiasson
Booksplease Price: $46.55Both intensely personal and deeply rooted in recognizable events of personal, familial or national significance, "The Afterlife of Objects" is a kind of dreamed autobiography. With poise and skill,... -
DARK HORSES: Poets on Overlooked Poems by Joy Katz
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.08Too many amazing poems end up overlooked by the academy and excluded from the canon, remaining largely unknown to the poetry-reading public. Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer's Dark Horses joyfully... -
The Lions by Peter Campion 9780226093109
Booksplease Price: $39.23In his second collection of poems, Peter Campion writes about the struggle of making a life in America, about the urge 'to carve a space' for love and family from out of the vast sweep of modern life... -
Subjects in Poetry by Daniel Brown 9780807176092
Booksplease Price: $51.89Daniel Brown's Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences their content. It... -
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty 9780393342413
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.71Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets-including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others-"this brilliant... -
Mirror to Mirror by Rajani LaRocca 9780063047518
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.35Rajani LaRocca, recipient of a Newbery Honor and Walter Award for Red, White, and Whole, is back with an evocative novel in verse about identical twin sisters who do everything together-until... -
Jab Mark Halliday 9780226313863
Booksplease Price: $39.82Human, hunger, happiness, hope, heart and Halliday all start with "h", as does ham. Accident? Maybe! But seldom have the flour of the humanistic and the egg yolk of honesty mixed more swellingly with... -
Eight Mile High by Jim Ray Daniels 9781611861426
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $26.64In these linked stories, the constants are the places-from Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar; from The Clock, a restaurant that never closes, to Stan's, a... -
The Little Field of Self by Doreen Gildroy
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $151.32Dung Beetle; Be kind to me, a mess. I represent persistence - in the dirty thing; things larger than me; I do not fear. Whatever you think, or like - I live. Oh, marvell Pushing up the hill - rolling... -
Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken 9780195165470
Booksplease Price: $49.98Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense... -
The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses by Alice Quinn 9780393609370
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.91It would have pleased Walt Whitman, that poet of urban motion, to envision his words coursing by electrified rail through a diverse, global city of 8 million souls. Since 1992, with the presentation...