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Painters Who Studied Clouds, The by Will Kemp
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.75Brimming with wit, moments of acute observation and imagination, and written in a wry, self-deprecating Billy Collins-esque style, Will Kemp's third collection is replete with refreshing images for... -
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: $24.16New 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... -
Libre Skye Jackson 9798888454787
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.15A soaring collection of poems that deftly explores the familial, personal, and societal relationships of a young Black woman trying to make her way in a fraught world.Freedom reverberates in Skye... -
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the President by David Lehman
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.53Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743243506Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
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... -
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... -
Trespass: Poems by Thomas Dooley 9780062338822
Booksplease Price: $22.97The 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... -
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... -
Behind My Eyes: Poems by Li-Young Lee 9780393334814
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.40Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States' most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged): Poems by Judy Halebsky 9781682261330
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Inspired by Matsuo Basho's writings and teachings on poetics and haiku, the interrelated lyric poems in Sky of Wu investigate work and marriage, the... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Music's Spell Emily Fragos 9781841597836
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20Music may be the universal language that needs no words-the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it-but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to... -
Good Poems by Garrison Keillor 9780142003442
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $38.94A 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... -
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... -
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... -
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Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330482257 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $5.69In Hand in Hand, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has selected thirty-six of the best world poets writing today and invited each of them to select a love poem written by the opposite sex which will... -
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... -
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... -
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 Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
The Bright House by Ben Greer 9781933896618
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.93The Bright House opens with memories of Greer's life with George and Susan Garrett at their home in Maine. The ambiance of this collection is the mind of a boy trying to make sense of his troubled... -
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty 9780393342413
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.55Featuring 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... -
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,... -
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... -
Harbinger: Poems by Shelley Puhak 9780063233966
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233966Author Shelley PuhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
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... -
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...