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Collected Poems by James Wright 9780819568618
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.32A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.About the AuthorRobert Bly is the author of more than thirty books of poetry including: The Night Abraham Called to the Stars; Snowbanks North... -
Boyhood, Growing Up Male: A Multicultural Anthology by Franklin Abbott 9780299157548
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41This fiction anthology chronicles the varied experiences of the road to manhood through the personal narratives and poems of writers from around the world. The contributors include Shepherd Bliss,... -
Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, a Graywolf Anthology by Graywolf Press 9781644452660
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.34Raised by Wolves is a unique and vibrant gathering of poems from Graywolf Press's fifty years. The anthology is conceived as a community document: fifty Graywolf poets have selected fifty poems by... -
The Best American Poetry 1999 by David Lehman 9780684860039
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Sales have escalated for THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY since the debut volume in 1988, and what has become a must for poetry lovers should stir even more excitement with Robert Bly as this year's guest... -
Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation by Louise Carus Mahdi
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £36.80This interdisciplinary approach to rites of passage comprises 31 essays by outstanding contributors, including Marie-Louise yon Franz, Robert Bly, James Hall, Helen Luke, Victor Turner, and Marion... -
A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: Revised Edition by David Walker 9780932440778
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49One of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays--by William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich,... -
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside 9780691218861
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.61A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet... -
Twenty Poems That Could Save America And Other Essays by Tony Hoagland 9781555976941
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Essays on the vertigo' effects of new... -
Studying Men and Masculinities by David Buchbinder 9780415578295
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The late-twentieth-century anxiety about a 'crisis in masculinity' still persists today, particularly in English-speaking cultures. Studying Men and Masculinities offers an engaging and comprehensive... -
Robert Creeley's Life and Work: A Sense of Increment by Reverend Dr John Wilson 9780472063741
Booksplease Price: £27.69Since the publication in 1952 or Le Fou, Robert Creeley has been the subject of continuing critical review. He has been called a traditionalist by some. Yet he was influenced by the poetry of William... -
Poems Under Saturn: Poemes saturniens by Paul Verlaine 9780691144863
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one... -
Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems by David Ignatow 9781880238783
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42* Final collection by David Ignatow, whose career spanned half a century during which he published 19 books, the most recent being David Ignatow: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties (BOA... -
Bone Monkey by Janet Sutherland 9781848613478
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27This new collection from Janet Sutherland explores the deeply mischievous, but darkly malevolent figure of Bone Monkey. A trickster who has always existed, he's one of the old gods who sprang to life... -
The Branch Will Not Break: 20th Century Nature Poems of North America (Hardcover) by James Wright 9780359743346
RRP: £22.94Booksplease Price: £21.93The Branch Will Not Break is a reflective anthology of poems which evokes its author's upbringing in poverty-stricken Ohio during the 1930s and 1940s. Representing a radical and innovative departure... -
The New Men's Studies: A Selected and Annotated Interdisciplinary Bibliography by Eugene R. August 9781563080845
Booksplease Price: £81.77Nearly twice the size of its predecessor, this revised edition of August's landmark work contains more than 1,000 entries that cover such subjects as men's awareness, health, and rights;... -
The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism Sarah Gamble 9780415243100
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth... -
Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi by Shinkichi Takahashi 9780802137364
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66Shinkichi Takahashi is one of the truly great figures in world poetry. In the classic Zen tradition of economy, disciplined attention, and subtlety, Takahashi lucidly captures that which is... -
Alchemy: The Art of Transformation by Jay Ramsay
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.76Alchemy is best known as the age-old science of turning base metal into gold. But it is much more: essentially, it is a path of self-knowledge, unique in the Western tradition, with vital relevance... -
The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism by Sarah Gamble 9780415243094
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.65Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth... -
Working Classics: POEMS ON INDUSTRIAL LIFE by Peter Oresick 9780252061332
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12From the cannery rows of California to the sweatshops of New York, this anthology of poems captures the drama of work and working-class life in industrial America. It speaks of... -
Uncomfortable Minds by Larry Sorkin
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.91"Uncomfortable minds" is Larry's Sorkin's riff on poet e.e. cummings ' words, "Cambridge ladies who...are unbeautiful and have comfortable mind" which refer to the conceit that uncomfortable minds... -
Getting Started in Speaking, Training, or Seminar Consulting Robert W. Bly 9780471388821
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £23.21How to make a living speaking, training, and running workshops and seminars Expert Bob Bly shares his secrets for earning $1,000 to $5,000 a day, or more, as a self-employed speaker, lecturer, or... -
The Door by Margaret Atwood 9780547237701
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547237701Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
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 Best of "Witness" 1987-2004: Fiction, Poetry & Nonfiction by Peter Stine 9780870138294
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.65A special issue featuring the "best of writers": Witness is a literary magazine that, over the course of its twenty years of publication, has earned a reputation as "the writer's literary journal."... -
The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman 9781416576334
Booksplease Price: £22.23Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.From Nazism to... -
Good Poems by Garrison Keillor 9780142003442
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £19.83A selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems to inspire and be enjoyed by everyoneHere is an anthology of poems, chosen by Garrison Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their... -
Harbinger: Poems by Shelley Puhak 9780063233966
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233966Author Shelley PuhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
No Boundaries by Ray Gonzales 9781932195019
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.78As more poets write prose poems, one of the most common reasons they give for turning to them is that their fluent composition offers a "freedom of expression" lined poetry often restricts. To many,... -
Count Your Blessings: 63 Things to Be Grateful for in Everyday Life . . . and How to Appreciate Them by Robert W. Bly 9780785296782
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95As a child, when Robert Bly skinned his knee, his mother would always remind him to count his blessings because the injury could be worse. At the time, he found it irritating, but as an adult, he has... -
The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work by Juan Ramon Jimenez 9780983322009
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £12.92Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than the Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of... -
Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory by Judith Kegan Gardiner 9780231122788
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.92Why is there so much talk of a "crisis" of masculinity? How have ideas of manhood been transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold the key to the development of more egalitarian forms of masculinity?... -
Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory by Judith Kegan Gardiner 9780231122795
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Why is there so much talk of a "crisis" of masculinity? How have ideas of manhood been transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold the key to the development of more egalitarian forms of masculinity?... -
Times Alone by Antonio Machado
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £12.07Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland clearly... -
The Uncommon Speech of Paradise: Poems on the Art of Poetry by Robert Hedin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60The Uncommon Speech of Paradise showcases the work of 120 modern and contemporary poets from seventeen countries-Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, and Anna Akhmatova-as well as works by... -
The Quarry by Dan Lechay 9780821415337
Booksplease Price: £29.68Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there. Like James Wright, Robert Bly,... -
Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Coleman Barks 9780060750503
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America's bestselling poet Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks' delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your... -
Blue Hour: Poems by Carolyn Forche 9780060099138
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060099138Author Carolyn ForcheFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily by Gioia Timpanelli 9780393350104
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.80For years, Gioia Timpanelli has held audiences rapt with her retellings of ancient tales, often appearing with Robert Bly, James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, and Gary Snyder. Here, in fiction full of... -
Triquarterly 112 by Susan Hahn
Booksplease Price: £9.10Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. Under the editorial direction of Susan...