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Something for the Dark Randy Lundy 9781779400888
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779400888Author Randy LundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Regina... -
Field Notes for the Self by Randy Lundy 9780889776913
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.79Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles... -
Orphic Songs by Dino Campana 9780932440174
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.86This vivid presentation of Campana demonstrates why Italian readers have cherished his poems since the first appearance of Canti Orfici in 1914. Charles Wright's translation, Jonathan Galassi's... -
The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays by Garrett Hongo 9780472037025
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics... -
The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature by Charles D. Wright 9780521032117
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £44.52Irish monks and missionaries played a crucial role in the conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons and in the formation of Christian culture in England, but the nature and extent of Irish influence on... -
The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature Charles D. Wright 9780521419093
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02Irish monks and missionaries played a crucial role in the conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons and in the formation of Christian culture in England, but the nature and extent of Irish influence on... -
Beyond Cape Horn: Travels in the Antarctic by Charles Neider 9780815412359
Booksplease Price: £14.87Writer and Antarctic explorer Neider tells of his third trip to the frozen continent, describing the international stations there and the goals they are working toward. Neider also tours the... -
Palpable Magic by Gerry LaFemina 9781622880898
Booksplease Price: £17.13Palpable Magic features re-readings and reviews of such late 20th Century poets as Anne Sexton, Larry Levis, Charles Wright, Patricia Goedicke, and Wendell Berry, as well as provides commentaries on... -
My Life in Heaven by Mary Ann Samyn 9780932440266
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.19My Life in Heaven, the 2012 FIELD Poetry Prize winner, is "striking in its subtlety, complexity, and utterly distinctive voice," according to the prize judges David Young and David Walker. These... -
Memory Piano by Charles Simic 9780472069408
Booksplease Price: £25.52Memory Piano is another in the ""Poets on Poetry"" series from the brilliant and prolific Charles Simic. In all of his books, Simic examines not only other writers' works with an engaging and... -
Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty by Donovan McAbee 9781032654232
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty provides the first full account of the poetics of the former US Poet Laureate, who is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed English-language... -
Sorokin and Civilization: A Centennial Assessment by Joseph B. Ford
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study... -
Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty by Donovan McAbee
Booksplease Price: £60.08Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty provides the first full account of the poetics of the former US Poet Laureate, who is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed English-language... -
Sorokin and Civilization: A Centennial Assessment Joseph B. Ford 9781138514874
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study... -
Blues Poems by Kevin Young 9781841597584
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and... -
Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry by Martin Lammon 9780472066346
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14For twenty years, the Poets on Poetry series, under the editorship of Donald Hall, has provided readers with a variety of prose reflections, interviews, essays, and other works by America's leading... -
The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion by Mark Dion
Booksplease Price: £31.23This dazzling volume records the artist's travels through the Lone Star State, a grand expedition for our time Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world... -
Davide Rondoni: Art in the Movement of Creation by Gregory M. Pell 9781611478778
Booksplease Price: £76.51In this monograph, Gregory M. Pell provides a full-length study on the poetry of Davide Rondoni, one of Italy's most active contemporary writers and thinkers. This book includes comparative studies... -
Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems: Contemplation of the Divine by Joe Moffett 9781611461626
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £93.37Written from a literary critic's perspective, Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems borrows insights from Religious Studies and critical theory to examine the role of spirituality in contemporary... -
What is a Book? by David Kirby 9780820324784
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £18.25In this study David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reader, critic and book. He discusses his students, his... -
Memory Piano by Charles Simic 9780472099405
Booksplease Price: £78.99A volume in the Poets on Poetry series. Poets on Poetry collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the... -
How Poets See the World by Willard Spiegelman 9780195174915
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £75.07Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of... -
The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft & Culture by Brian Henry 9780974635354
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In-depth interviews with poets have been a popular feature of Verse magazine-and this volume collects many favorites, along with new interviews commissioned for this collection. The poets represent a... -
Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice Ana Manzano 9781032599779
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts.Authored by... -
Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry by Mark Jarman 9780472068029
Booksplease Price: £20.72Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and the lyric sequence Unholy Sonnets, is a poet associated with the revival of narrative and traditional form in contemporary American poetry. In Body... -
Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry by Mark Jarman 9780472098026
Booksplease Price: £78.59Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and the lyric sequence Unholy Sonnets, is a poet associated with the revival of narrative and traditional form in contemporary American poetry. In Body... -
A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson by Thomas Gardner 9780195174939
Booksplease Price: £42.09Critics have said that Emily Dickinson has no heirs, that her poetry represents the zenith of the experimental method she developed in the mid-nineteenth century. Thomas Gardner disagrees. In this... -
Exploring the Edges of Texas by Walt Davis 9781623496876
Booksplease Price: £17.66In 1955, Frank X. Tolbert, a well-known columnist for the Dallas Morning News, circumnavigated Texas with his nine-year-old-son in a Willis Jeep. The column he phoned in to the newspaper about his... -
Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres by Jahan Ramazani
Booksplease Price: £25.74What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system - "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse," in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its... -
Southern Appalachian Poetry: An Anthology of Works by 37 Poets by Marita Garin
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59The mountain South thrives on centuries-old traditions, a fact well known to readers of Appalachian literature, which is among the richest and most evocative of any region in the country. This... -
The Fsg Poetry Anthology by Jonathan Galassi 9780374606442
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.00Poetry has always been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity, ever since Robert Giroux first brought T. S. Eliot to the company. FSG's personality and literary profile have been... -
Six Poets from the Mountain South by John Lang 9780807135600
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang takes as his point of departure an oft-quoted remark by Jim Wayne Miller: ""Appalachian literature is - and has... -
Paper Anniversary by Bobby Rogers 9780822961246
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.16Starrett Poetry Prize "one of America' s most distinguished awards for a first book of poetry" for his collection Paper Anniversary. The collection will be published by the University of Pittsburgh... -
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets by Helen Vendler 9780674654761
Booksplease Price: £46.25The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose... -
Transformational Boards: A Practical Guide to Engaging Your Board and Embracing Change by Byron Tweeten 9780787959135
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.83Organized as a quick and user-friendly roadmap for board members and chief executive officers as they reflect on their roles and duties together, Transformational Boards offers an engagement... -
The Sociology of C. Wright Mills: Power, Politics, and Knowledge Francois Denord 9783031830112
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book retraces the intellectual career of committed sociologist and maverick, Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962), whose work is considered "classic" in the USA. Unlike some existing works that... -
Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson by Lisa Russ Spaar 9780813938509
Booksplease Price: £31.45Thomas Jefferson was a figure both central and polarizing in his own time, and despite the passage of two centuries he remains so today. Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia... -
Psychosocial Studies: An Introduction by Kath Woodward 9780415718851
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social. The bringing together of affect, emotion and feeling with social, political and cultural forces offers... -
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms by Kai Bird 9780684856445
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.19From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus-this biography of the Bundy Brothers inspired the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer.In this definitive biography of McGeorge Bundy... -
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace 9780691119816
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of...