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Neighborhood Register: Poems by Marcus Jackson 9781933880259
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $13.86"A poet whose voice and message we trust. . .a singular and significant voice. You will not forget this neighborhood, or this poet." from the foreword by Toi Derricotte From the twilight towns of... -
Descent by John Haines 9781933880181
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $22.02This volume bears witness to John Haines's position as a true man of letters. The essays, reviews, chronicles, memoirs, and poems (spanning four decades) testify to the breadth and depth of his... -
The Bar of the Flattened Heart by David Keller 9781933880426
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50Keller's poems captivate the reader with a musical style that asks us to "listen" while reading. The voice shares words with the reader encouraging emersion into the poem, with both style and content... -
The Laundress Catches Her Breath by Paola Corso
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.16This powerful collection of poetry features a chain-smoking, working-class Italian American woman struggling to support herself and find meaningful work in a depressed mill town. She endures the... -
Where the Dead Are by Wanda S. Praisner
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50Praisner's poems speak to anyone who has experienced love, loss, and survival. The poet moves through time and space to offer glimpses into her life and the lives of others-lives both extraordinary... -
Against Consolation by Robert Cording 9780967885698
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58The title poem takes its name from a passage by Simone Weil, "We must not weep so that we may not be comforted." But in this and other poems, Robert Cording offers a more hopeful vision of our... -
The Silence of Men by Yusef Komunyakaa 9780972304580
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.36The Silence of Men confronts and breaks the silence in men's lives surrounding sex, family, power and violence; graphic and intimate, celebratory and heartbreakingly painful, these are the poems of a... -
The Poetry Life by Baron Wormser 9781933880051
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.35Baron Wormser brings to life the immense force poetry can have in people's lives. In stories funny, tender, sad, and edgy, the narrators register how poetry has changed how they see themselves, how... -
The Second Night of the Spirit by Bhisham Bherwani 9781933880112
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBHISHAM BHERWANI studied Fine Arts at New England College. He is also a graduate of New York University and... -
Little Boy Blue by Gray Jacobik 9781933880228
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.06Little Boy Blue is a lyrically-charged dramatic monologue in the voice of a mother to her absent son. In twenty-three movements, the speaker reveals the facts, feelings, textures, perspectives and... -
The Waiting Room Reader - Words to Keep You Company by Rachel Hadas
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.10From the introduction: "This book, the second in the Waiting Room Reader series, grows from the belief of its visionary originators, Joan Cusack Handler, director of CavanKerry Press, and Sandra O... -
Glorious by Joan Handler 9780970718648
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58Joan Handler's poems speak of the transmigration of a woman from an emotionally stifled girlhood through the first tentative steps of self-discovery, to, finally, the apostasy of womanhood and the... -
Same Old Story by Dawn Potter 9781933880402
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50Even as she reminds us that writing "doesn't solve anything," Potter is driven to chronicle "the years murmur[ing] their old tune" in this compilation of sonnets, extended narratives, and shifting... -
Confessions of Joan the Tall by Joan Cusack Handler
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $19.90A memoir written in the voice of a twelve-year-old Irish Catholic girl living in the Bronx in 1954, Confessions recounts one year in the life of Joan, a very tall, religious, funny, self-conscious,... -
Motherhood Exaggerated by Leonard Wexler 9781933880273
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $21.25In the past, the few memoirs about children battling cancer dealt mostly with death and grief. This passionate retelling by a survivor's mother is about the struggle to help shepherd her child out of... -
WORKS by Danny Shot 9781933880655
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.90The poems of WORKS traverse a course from the swamps of Shot's home state of New Jersey to the endless possibilities of the open road, with rest stops along the way to highlight striking moments... -
Love's Labors by Brent Newsom 9781933880525
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.19In a debut remarkable for its formal control and emotional range, Brent Newsom tunes narrative and lyric impulses to an idiom rooted in his native Louisiana. Love's Labors plumbs themes of family,... -
Letters from Limbo by Jeanne Marie Beaumont 9781933880594
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.90In Letters from Limbo, voices of the dead reach the living through various means, including the titular letters, revealing experiences harrowing and mysterious, and exploring limbo as an abode of... -
My Crooked House by Teresa Carson 9781933880433
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $16.95Cat hoarding. Panic attacks. Rigid perfectionism. Carson reconstructs, through a hybrid of received and invented poetic forms, the literal and metaphorical experience of the psychological... -
Misery Islands by January Gill O'Neil 9781933880464
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $13.98At the center of her second book are two islands off the coast of Salem, Massachusetts, through which O'Neil finds the rough terrain of marriage and what it means to love in the face of adversity... -
Esther by Pam Bernard 9781933880488
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $18.68A novel-in-verse, Esther is molded with the poet's tools - among them sound and image, and the belief that the smallest increments of language can provide the grace to withstand, in the name of... -
Limited Editions by Carole Stone 9781960327000
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.13A portrait of marriage, caretaking, grief, and recovery. Carole Stone's Limited Editions is an end-of-life narrative journey, from her long-term marriage to the illness and death of her husband... -
Rewilding by January Gill O'Neil
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.36Rewilding, a relatively new ecological term, means to return an area of land to its original state. Reveling in letting go of the damaged and broken parts of ourselves while celebrating renewal and... -
Primary Lessons by Sarah Bracey White
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $19.67Ripped from middle-class life in Philadelphia, and transplanted to a single-parent household in the segregated south, Sarah, a precocious black child struggles to be the master of her fate. She... -
My Oceanography by Harriet Levin 9781933880679
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.90Levin plunges into psychic depths to confront desire, fear and loss. These poems expand borders as her language strives toward transcendence. The life and work of post-minimalist sculptor Eva Hesse... -
The Curve of Things by Kathy Kremins 9781960327055
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.29A heartfelt collection that tumbles through a life of love in all its iterations. In this collection of poems, curves in all their forms-a woman's full hips, a rolling mountain, water's soft bend,... -
Dead Things and Where to Put Them by Marina Carreira 9781960327130
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.71A collection that explores the beauty of survival in the face of upheaval and loss. Marina Carreira's Dead Things and Where to Put Them shares the hardships of marriage and motherhood during a... -
Dialect of Distant Harbors by Dipika Mukherjee
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.51This poetry collection explores themes of home, grieving, and kinship. With wonder, empathy, and even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors summons a shared humanity to examine issues of illness and... -
Deep Are These Distances Between Us by Susan Atefat–peckham
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.84Poems that imagine Persian and Iranian American lives. In Deep Are These Distances Between Us, Susan Atefat-Peckham troubles preconceptions of nationhood and fixed systems of power by bringing the... -
All at Once Jack Ridl 9781960327062
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.29A stunning poetry collection that offers solace and understanding. Jack Ridl's latest collection, All at Once, is structured as a lyrical collage that looks back at his eighty years of life in a... -
Threshold by Joseph O. Legaspi
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $17.94Threshold enters a landscape of seemingly perpetual in-between, crossing from conventionality to queerness; exploring the fluidity of gender; and translating the hard hold of family. The collection... -
Gloved Against Blood by Cindy Veach
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.90From immigrant women who operate the looms in textile mills of nineteenth-century Lowell, Massachusetts, to contemporary cafe workers who "sell espresso/fifteen ways" in gentrified mills, Gloved... -
When Did We Stop Being Cute? by Martin Wiley
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.84A coming-of-age collection set to the music of the 1980s and 90s. This novel in poetic form tells the story of a young man dealing with the challenges of growing up mixed-race in 1980s suburbia. In... -
But I Still Have My Fingerprints by Dianne Silvestri, Md
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.51Poems centered on survival and perseverance in the face of long-term illness. Delivered a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia with a ten percent prognosis for survival, Dr. Dianne Silvestri... -
The History Hotel by Baron Wormser
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.26Formally innovative poems that engage with history and the individual. In his eleventh poetry collection, Baron Wormser offers the wide range of subjects and imaginative approaches that his readers... -
In Inheritance of Drowning by Dorsía Smith Silva 9781960327079
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.43A memorable debut collection that explores colonial and generational trauma. In this striking debut, Dorsia Smith Silva explores the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico,... -
Seraphim by Angelique Zobitz 9781960327048
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.87Seraphim shares the joyous rhythm that sustains Black womxn. Seraphim, Angelique Zobitz's debut collection, radiates with light and wonder. These poems reveal how Black womxn and girls carve out,... -
Beyond the Watershed Nadia Alexis 9781960327093
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.32A hybrid collection that explores the dual nature of water as both a destructive and healing force, mirroring the experiences of Black women and girls. A hybrid collection of poetry and... -
Tilt / Beautiful People by Denise Duhamel 9781957946221
Booksplease Price: $15.99Tilt / Beautiful People brings to life two innovative poetry books integrated into one. In Tilt, Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton (1947-2023) write through climate change, Maureen's illness, and...