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Of Mineral Tiff Dressen 9781643621418
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05A collection of lyric meditations cultivated from a deeply personal experience of the natural world, synthesizing the poet's experiences of the elemental and ephemeral; presence and place. In Of... -
Conversations with Michael McClure by David Stephen Calonne 9781496852007
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure's creativity. McClure (1932-2020) is notable not only for his... -
The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser by Robin Blaser 9780520258259
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £23.07Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. "The... -
Conversations with Michael McClure by David Stephen Calonne 9781496851994
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure's creativity. McClure (1932-2020) is notable not only for his... -
Groundwork: Before the War/In the Dark by Robert J. Bertholf 9780811216531
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.60I am speaking now of the Dream in which America sleeps, the New World, moaning, floundering, in three hundred years of invasions, our own history out of Europe and enslaved Africa.Robert Duncan, from... -
Paul Thomas Anderson by George Toles 9780252040368
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.42Since his explosive debut with the indie sensation Hard Eight , Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting artists. His 2002 feature Punch-Drunk Love... -
Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies by Adalaide Kirby Morris 9780807846704
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on... -
Paul Thomas Anderson by George Toles 9780252081859
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Since his explosive debut with the indie sensation Hard Eight , Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting artists. His 2002 feature Punch-Drunk Love... -
Denise Levertov: A Poet's Life by Dana Greene
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923-1997) "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, . . . and the most moving." Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four... -
Denise Levertov: A Poet's Life by Dana Greene 9780252080487
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923-1997) "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, . . . and the most moving." Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four... -
Duncan Roots and Branches (Paper Only) by R DUNCAN 9780811200349
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The poet has said of himself and his work: "I am not an experimentalist or an inventor, but a derivative poet, drawing my art from the resources given by a generation of masters--Stein, Williams,... -
Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
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RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age by Peter O'Leary
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.20In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary offers a new reading of modern and contemporary poets' treatment of religion and the nature of the divine in a secular age. The book seeks to come to... -
American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word by Albert Gelpi
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period, from Robert Lowell to Adrienne Rich. Gelpi argues that a distinctly American poetic... -
American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word by Albert Gelpi 9781107025240
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period, from Robert Lowell to Adrienne Rich. Gelpi argues that a distinctly American poetic... -
Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe by Peter Quartermain 9780521412681
RRP: £95.99Booksplease Price: £87.02Disjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time. Peter Quartermain suggests that... -
Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe by Peter Quartermain 9780521101301
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.89Disjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time. Peter Quartermain suggests that... -
Signets: Reading H.D. by Susan Stanford Friedman (Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 9780299126841
Booksplease Price: £25.55Bringing together the best criticism on H.D. (Hilda Dolittle), the editors have gathered the most influential and generative studies of H.D.'s work and complemented them with photo-biographical,... -
The Astonishment Tapes: Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends by Robin Blaser
Booksplease Price: £44.17The Astonishment Tapes is the edited transcript of revealing autobio graphical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser, a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San... -
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics by Jeanne Heuving 9780817358433
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first... -
Hermetic Definition: Poetry by Hilda Doolittle 9780811204538
Booksplease Price: £12.15H. D.'s (Hilda Doolittle, 1884-1961) late poems of search and longing represent the mature achievement of a poet who has come increasingly to be recognized as one of the most important of her... -
Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism by Albert Gelpi 9780521386999
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.89In this volume, seven renowned critics present different views of Wallace Stevens' place in the evolution of Modernist poetry. The essays offer a fresh scrutiny of the poet's work and influence,... -
Dark End Of The Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry by Maria Damon 9780816619870
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Damon foregrounds a number of modern American poets work and lives in order to argue that the American avant-garde is located in the experimental literary works of social "outsiders." Discussed is... -
Within the Inscribed: selected prose and conversations by Michael Heller 9781848617513
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50The title, and to some extent, the thematics of this book, is based on the volume's epigraph, a sentence of Geoffrey Hartman's: "The sacred has so inscribed itself in language that while it must... -
C. Day-Lewis: The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose by Albert Gelpi 9780198766117
Booksplease Price: £38.95C. Day-Lewis was a major figure in British poetry and culture from the 1930s until his death in 1972. The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose takes its title from the myth of Bellerophon and the golden... -
Northern Summer: New & Selected Poems, 1963-1983 by John Matthias 9780804008532
Booksplease Price: £22.05Northern Summer is a representative selection from John Matthias's previous books, together with a group of poems written since 1980. Robert Duncan wrote of his first book, Bucyrus, that in part... -
Companion Spider by Clayton Eshleman 9780819564832
RRP: £20.50Booksplease Price: £19.33Companion Spider is the accumulated work of a poet and translator who goes more deeply into the art and its process and demands than anyone since Robert Duncan. Clayton Eshleman is one of our most... -
French Love Poems by New Directions 9780811225595
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love... -
This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry by Jed Rasula 9780820344195
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.02Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds... -
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005 by Robert Creeley 9780520256200
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.38This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed... -
Bearing Across: Studies in Literature and Science by Steven Carter 9780761823186
Booksplease Price: £71.70Highly original and insightful, Bearing Across explores the complex interrelationships between American literature and science in the 20th century. Steven Carter begins this unprecedented work by... -
Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems: Contemplation of the Divine by Joe Moffett 9781611461626
Booksplease Price: £92.43Written 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... -
After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic by Ignacio Infante 9780823251780
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Translation-from both a theoretical and a practical point of view-articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of... -
Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008 by Norma Cole 9780872864740
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.92The inaugural volume in the new Spotlight poetry series, Where Shadows Will selects from twenty years of innovative poetry by writer, painter, and translator Norma Cole. Cole has been a fixture of... -
At Large: Memoirs, Essays, Interviews by John Matthias 9781848615175
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06At Large takes its title from John Matthias' "Editor at Large" column published during the last decade in Notre Dame Review. The book is in some ways a sequel to his previous volume of... -
At the Breaking Point of History: How Decades of U.S. Duplicity Enabled the Pandemic by Janet Phelan
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £13.80From lead pipes in Flint, Michigan, to a duplicitous water commission in Medford, Oregon, to a secret psychiatric ward at UCLA, to the elegant halls of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland,... -
"That Tongue Be Time": Norma Cole and a Continuous Making by Dale M Smith 9780826367976
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Originally from Canada, Norma Cole is a revered writer and visual artist who has authored and translated over thirty books and chapbooks. Though highly esteemed internationally in both visual art and... -
The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry by John Yau 9780472069521
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59The quarterly review ""MELUS"" said of John Yau, ""[his] poetic and critical writings...present an intriguing site of investigation into questions of racial authenticity,"" while ""Publishers... -
"That Tongue Be Time": Norma Cole and a Continuous Making by Dale M Smith 9780826367969
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Originally from Canada, Norma Cole is a revered writer and visual artist who has authored and translated over thirty books and chapbooks. Though highly esteemed internationally in both visual art and...