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Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt 9780802121790
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.15"Prosperous Friends proves Schutt to be one of the finest stylists alive."--Los Angeles Review of Books "Artful ...Astonishing ...Piercingly real ...The poetic concision and allusiveness of... -
![A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387620](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4728330/4727600/9781375387620__54426.1720921875.jpg?c=1 "A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387620")
A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387620
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375387620Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Gale, Study... -
A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler Nathan Kernan 9780374281175
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.49Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch,... -
The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry by Adam Kirsch 9780393062717
RRP: €49.39Booksplease Price: €41.80Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch-"one of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times)-has... -
Get the Money!: Collected Prose (1961-1983) by Ted Berrigan
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.04A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan."Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his... -
Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry by Michael Thurston 9780470657317
Booksplease Price: €96.78Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal... -
Aporias of Translation: Literature, Philosophy, Education by Elias Schwieler 9783030978976
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €129.77This book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation. Its... -
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism by Karolin Mirzakhan 9781498578936
Booksplease Price: €44.99An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts... -
Aporias of Translation: Education, Literature, and Philosophy by Elias Schwieler 9783030978945
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €129.14This book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation. Its... -
The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom Harold Bloom 9780300283839
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.50A selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters... -
The Revisionist & The Astropastorals by Douglas Crase
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations of the American landscape and Transcendental tradition. Out of print since 1987, The Revisionist has been enough in some opinions to... -
The Revisionist & The Astropastorals: Collected Poems by Douglas Crase 9781643620107
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.86MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book The Revisionist has still been enough in some... -
Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics by Professor Marjorie Perloff
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €27.13The "infrathin" was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a... -
Interpreting Interpretation: Textual Hermeneutics as an Ascetic Discipline by William Elford Rogers
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €38.53In Interpreting Interpretation, William E. Rogers searches for a model for literary education. This model should avoid both of two undesirable alternatives. First, it should not destroy any notion of... -
Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works by Mac Low,Jackson
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.20This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces, 'traditional' verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art. The works span the years from... -
Musicians and Copyright: A History of Collective Rights Management in the Music Industry Véronique Pouillard 9781526180148
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.49Musicians and Copyright explores the role of Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) in shaping the music industry from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Edited by VeroniquePouillard, Marius... -
Into the Weeds Lydia Davis 9780300279740
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her... -
Pitch of Poetry Charles Bernstein 9780226332086
Booksplease Price: €28.41Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is... -
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf'... -
Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics Marjorie Perloff 9780226712635
RRP: €98.77Booksplease Price: €95.34The "infrathin" was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a... -
Lyric Powers by Robert von Hallberg 9780226865003
Booksplease Price: €39.56The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. For Robert von Hallberg, the authority of lyric poetry has three sources: religious affirmation, the social... -
Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture: Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan Rona Cran 9781138743335
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.25Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. For... -
The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Between Radical Art and Radical Chic Mark Silverberg 9781138276178
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €59.73New York City was the site of a remarkable cultural and artistic renaissance during the 1950s and '60s. In the first monograph to treat all five major poets of the New York School-John Ashbery,... -
A Season: Poems Michael Joseph Walsh 9780820375526
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €15.99A Season is a visionary meditation born out of a spiritual crisis. As the poems attempt to remake a life within the ghostly limbo into which they've fallen-between self and world, sound and echo, the... -
The Letters Of James Schuyler To Frank O'hara by James Schuyler 9781885586483
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.53Poet Mark Ford has described the letters of James Schuyler as witty, graceful, sophisticated and gossipy.' Particularly poignant and delightful are these newly released Schuyler letters to fellow... -
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime Jenny C. Mann 9780691219240
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €27.48A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and... -
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the President by David Lehman
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.80Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743243506Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others by Bonnie Costello 9780691172811
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €46.58The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet's use of the first-person plural voice--poetry's "we." Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought... -
The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others by Bonnie Costello 9780691202907
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.95The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet's use of the first-person plural voice-poetry's "we." Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought... -
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime by Jenny C. Mann
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.95A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and... -
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History by Bob Perelman
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €40.76Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.85What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes... -
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg 9780691148663
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €37.12"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... -
Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery by Helen Vendler 9780691134741
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.56When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.36In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric by Virginia Jackson 9780691232799
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.36How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early... -
Ways of Re-Thinking Literature Tom Bishop 9781138675759
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.17Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity of views into what literature is today.The texts gathered in this... -
Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science by Mark Turner
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €46.77The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine 9780691203478
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €103.63What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes... -
The Transparent Lyric: Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams by David L. Walker 9780691612508
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.39Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally...