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The Galloping Hour: French Poems Alejandra Pizarnik (New Directions) 9780811227742
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.87The Galloping Hour: French Poems-never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime-gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love,... -
Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems C. D. Wright 9781852247621
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $21.06C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her... -
The City Keeps: Selected and New Poems 1966-2014 by John Godfrey
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $34.11John Godfrey's masterful body of work has sustained its attentive, lovesick, unruly energy for over fifty years. The City Keeps brings together the best poems from his thirteen collections, plus some... -
Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi 9781916751255
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Heaney Prize'Mirror Nation offers the best of what poetry can provide-a new way of seeing.' Firecracker Awards,Don Mee Choi delves into South Korea's violent recent... -
The Hoelderliniae by Nathaniel Tarn
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.75Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarn's new collection The Hoelderliniae is a love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich Hoelderlin?- the German Romantic poet-philosopher who spent the last thirty-six years of... -
Things on Which I've Stumbled Peter Cole 9780811218030
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18In Peter Cole's remarkable new book, the forces and sources that have long driven his work come together in singular fashion. Things on Which I've Stumbled rides a variable music that takes it from... -
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg 9780691148663
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $60.82"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to... -
Curating Modern Life: Frank O’Hara, the Mid-Century Museum, and the Art of the Cold War Matthew Holman 9781350398634
Booksplease Price: $42.26This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and abroad.Upon his premature death,... -
A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel by Laynie Browne 9781643620251
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $31.38A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes,... -
Curating Modern Life: Frank O’Hara, the Mid-Century Museum, and the Art of the Cold War Matthew Holman 9781350398597
Booksplease Price: $120.14This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and abroad.Upon his premature death,... -
Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems by Yang Mu
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.88Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. His poetic voice is subtle and lyrical, and his work is rich with precise images and crystalline thoughts invoking temporality and remembrance... -
Netsuke by Rikki Ducornet 9781566892537
Booksplease Price: $28.02A writer of great prestige, Ducornet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, winner of the 2008 Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and twice honored by... -
In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means by Esther Allen 9780231159685
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.66The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice... -
In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means by Esther Allen 9780231159692
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice... -
Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010 by Szilard Borbely 9780691182421
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $81.71An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from... -
Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi 9781950268931
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.33Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020).Much like... -
Haywire: New & Selected Poems Luljeta Lleshanaku 9781852249137
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. In Haywire she turns to the fallout of her country's past and its relation to herself and her family. Through... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the... -
Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010 by Szilard Borbely
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.36An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from... -
Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima by Naoki Inose 9781611720648
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $67.33A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide. Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose... -
Burning Tongues: New & Selected Poems Ales Steger 9781780376257
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Ales Steger was born in 1973 in Ptuj, Slovenia - where he grew up - then part of the former Yugoslavia ruled by Tito, which gained its independence when he was 18. He published his first collection... -
Pessoa: An Experimental Life by Richard Zenith
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.04FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYA NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery seems unlikely to be on offer again. It's that... -
Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance & Death in Haiku and Letters by Hiroaki Sato
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.67A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his supervising official, Kira Yoshinaka, during an... -
The Plotinus by Rikki Ducornet 9781566896818
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.63Incarcerated for his subversive connection to the old, living world, a prisoner makes the most of his isolation in this captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the enduring power... -
The Orange Tree by Dong Li 9780226826165
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $27.18Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration. Dong Li's The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows,... -
The Tranquilized Tongue: City Lights Spotlight No. 11 Eric Baus 9780872866164
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.89In the tradition of French poets like Francis Ponge, Pierre Reverdy, and Rene Char, The Tranquilized Tongue offers a series of prose meditations in the form of surrealist declaratives, each sentence... -
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $66.20Booksplease Price: $58.83"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when... -
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon 9781639550494
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.70An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves-from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet...