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La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living by Jennifer S. Hasegawa 9781632430786
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $27.18From the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus, this collection of poetry is a field guide to... -
This Red Metropolis What Remains by Leia Penina Wilson 9781632430854
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $24.39Answering a call to go feral, these poems are part invocation and part prayer, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial... -
Raft of Flame Desiree Alvarez 9781632430816
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $27.18A painter and poet, Desiree Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca's passionate cante jondo, or "deep... -
Adam Cannot Be Adam by Kelli Anne Noftle 9781632430335
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $25.58Adam Cannot Be Adam is a text of constantly refracting mirrors providing us with insights beyond mere duality. These deft, inquisitive poems portray two Adams as external characters in an... -
The Color of Dusk by Robin Caton 9781890650087
RRP: $17.55Booksplease Price: $14.63In The Color of Dusk, Robin Caton bridges traditions of secular, religious, modernist, and post modernist writing to encounter word at its most unsettling, provocative, and urgent. At times... -
Thigh's Hollow by Dan Rosenberg 9781632430137
RRP: $17.55Booksplease Price: $16.50Thigh's Hollow locates the wound Jacob suffers from wrestling with a divine stranger, but in a voice more Esau than Jacob: a "box this telling comes through not of." These transgressions... -
Love, Like Pronouns by Rosmarie Waldrop 9781890650148
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.05With the title of her latest collection, Love, Like Pronouns, Waldrop demonstrates with deft humor the relational aspects of any discourse. And, she implicitly suggests the similar slipperiness in... -
Middle Time by Angela Hume 9781632430168
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $23.22A meditation on the body amidst a crisis of environment, Middle Time imagines the contours and limits (or non-limits) of bodies at a time when our attachments and our ecologies are increasingly... -
The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association by David Rothman
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.21This magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose's Lower East... -
Looking and Seeing/Seeing and Looking by Damon Potter 9781632431233
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $33.52Two books bound together that interrogate race—one from the perspective of a man of color, and the other from the perspective of a white man. This book brings together different perspectives under... -
You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis by Kelly Weber 9781632431240
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $30.62Poems in a range of forms that consider the queer body, chronic illness, and love amid rural plains landscapes. Set against a rural plains landscape of gas stations, wind, and roadkill bones... -
water/tongue Mai C. Doan 9781632430656
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $22.99Grappling with the shock of her grandmother's suicide, mai c. doan undertook a writing project that might give voice to her loss as well as to grapple with memory, and the challenge of articulation... -
Devonte Travels the Sorry Route T.j. Anderson Iii 9781632430670
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $25.58Devonte, the eponymous subject of the poems in Devonte Travels the Sorry Route, has a gift: he can travel across space and time. This extraordinary quality brings Devonte into contact with a broad... -
Train Music - Writing / Pictures C. S. Giscombe 9781632430885
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $28.76A poet and a book artist take a train across the United States, creating and conversing along the way. Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak... -
A Conjoined Book - Aftermath and Become Tree, Become Bird by Karla Kelsey 9781890650940
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $22.99Karla Kelsey's A Conjoined Book hinges together two texts-Aftermath and Become Tree, Become Bird-to create a meditation on the nature of aboutness. Aftermath unfolds after an unnamed... -
A Semblance - Selected and New Poems 1975-2007 by Laura Moriarty 9781890650278
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $21.22A Semblance: Selected and New Poems (1975-2007) is the first selected compilation of poetry by Laura Moriarty. Drawn from her previous poetry collections and including new work, this selected... -
Watchful by Molly Bendall 9781632430212
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $23.30Witness to the late and sorrowful pact between predator and prey, spectator and species, Molly Bendall's fifth book beckons the reader into the enigma of animal relation. "What's left?" she... -
Ambivalence and other Conundrums by Craig Teicher 9781890650773
Booksplease Price: $18.68These prose poems are parables of the human condition, written in plain-spoken unguarded candor, yet they sparkle with lyric surprise and imagistic inventiveness. Teicher is by turns seriously... -
Genghis Chan on Drums John Yau 9781632431004
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $27.18A diverse and cacophonous poetry collection tackling subjects from identity to current events. At once comic and cantankerous, tender and discomfiting, piercing and irreverent, Genghis Chan on... -
Strata by Ewa Chrusciel 9781632430564
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $22.99In Ewa Chrusciel's first book in English, Strata, an exile's memories are . . . at once a rapture of possession (of being possessed) and defeatingly untotalizable. Strata is . . . a tumultuous... -
Penury by Myung Mi Kim 9781890650377
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $18.92In Penury, Myung Mi Kim probes sanctioned norms of cognition by breaking communication into its most discrete components. With these irruptions and suspensions, she writes into extremes of forced... -
Storage Unit for the Spirit House by Maw Shein Win
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $27.18With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the... -
On Certainty by Karla Kelsey 9781632431202
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $30.19Lyrical poems that tell the story of a nameless woman navigating a technological dystopia. In the poems of On Certainty, an unnamed woman in a strangely familiar dystopia narrates a story of power... -
henceforce – A Travel Poetic by Kamden Ishmael Hilliard 9781632430687
RRP: $21.45Booksplease Price: $17.47In henceforce, Kamden Ishmael Hilliard's poems take us on unimaginable voyages within and beyond the contours of our quotidian experience. This is not simply geographic travel, however: though... -
Locus by Jason Bayani 9781632430632
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $22.99Life in a multicultural, multiethnic nation like the United States leads to complicated, sometimes fragmented experiences of our background and identity. In Locus, Jason Bayani's poetry explores the... -
Since Sunday by Brittany Tomaselli 9781632430731
RRP: $21.45Booksplease Price: $8.33What happens when the faith and community we once held close sours into an experience of tragedy? In Since Sunday, we find a poet who is rebuilding a sense of faith after fleeing religious abuse... -
Silences Martha Ronk 9781632430755
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $22.99Within the visual arts of painting and photography, Martha Ronk finds an undeniable presence lurking: silence. This character slips into pauses, hides between images, and expertly evades the grasp of... -
The Breathing Place by Cal Bedient 9781632430823
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $23.63The poems in The Breathing Place, Calvin Bedient’s fifth collection of poetry, take in and move through three areas of consideration. Focusing first on the turmoil of an imperfect world before... -
The Orchard Green and Every Color by Zach Savich 9781632430182
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $25.58In Zach Savich's new collection, intent seeing makes the present more present. Here clarity is a quality not of logic, but of perception-not of description, but of the landscape itself. The mysteries... -
ParaSpheres by Ken E. Keegan 9781890650186
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $25.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890650186Author Ken E. KeeganFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Omnidawn PublishingPublisher... -
The Madeleine Poems by Paul Legault 9781890650483
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $19.91Ann Lauterbach, the highly esteemed poet who selected Paul Legault's manuscript for the Omnidawn Poetry Prize, explains that in these poems, "History is here, in uneasy tangents; landscape is here,... -
The Unfollowing by Lyn Hejinian 9781632430151
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $22.99The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti-sonnets... -
Sham City by Evan S. Harrison 9781890650636
Booksplease Price: $18.68Banishing poets from the well-ordered city did not prevent the creation of fictions: SHAM CITY is the capitol of fictitious capital, a no place of evaporating value where things sue for "damages... -
The Uncertainty Principle by Bill Mayer 9781890650063
RRP: $17.55Booksplease Price: $16.50Many of these poems take as subject the encounters of the poet during an extended stay on the island of Paros in Greece. They demonstrate how language that intentionally draws little attention to... -
Tendril by Bin Ramke 9781890650261
Booksplease Price: $25.35By drawing the small instances of living to the forefront of meaning, this collection of elegant and lyrical poems reveals the value of simple events in our lives. Allowing the reader to follow the... -
Lyric & Spirit Hank Lazer 9781890650322
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $27.18Offering 12 years of incisive writing about contentiously debated topics in modern poetry, these essays, interviews, and reflections focus on two central themes -- the changing nature of beauty in... -
To Be Read in the Dark by Maxiine Chernoff 9781890650612
RRP: $17.55Booksplease Price: $16.50To Be Read in the Dark casts its strobe of radical vision on the dark crises of our common experience. Personal and prophetic, these compressed lyrics are capacious in meaning. Here is a penetrating... -
Aversions by Devin Johnston 9781890650162
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $21.22While the poems in this collection assay a very broad range of subjects, all of them demonstrate an awareness of what enormous challenges constitute the turning toward -- or away from -- the many... -
Aerial by Bin Ramke 9781890650605
Booksplease Price: $29.02Aerial is concerned with the sky-its cloud-laden aspects in the first section, its dry realms of severe spirituality in the second. And as poetry is always about attention to language, the words... -
Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs by Dan Beachy-Quick 9781632430076
RRP: $23.30Booksplease Price: $15.11Shields call out to the violence from which they also protect us, a paradox that belongs as well to the images etched upon them. In these poems seven shields each suffer a process, one of wounding,...