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Literature in the Age of Lingua Franca English: The Zero Style Justin Quinn 9781032861630
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $72.42The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a 'bridge language' affects world literature by analysing what it is, how it works,... -
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays Jesse McCarthy (Harvard University) 9781324091479
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.56Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature... -
Dream of a Word: A Tia Chucha Press Anthology by Quraysh Ali Lansana 9781882688302
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.14Since 1989, Tia Chucha Press has been a leader in publishing artistically innovative and culturally provocative voices in poetry. The roster of poets the Press has brought to publication reflects a... -
Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Carrie Conners 9781496839527
Booksplease Price: $55.71Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late... -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror by Carlos Basualdo
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $83.71An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America's most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is... -
House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems by Betsy Sholl
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.64The bluesy, rich, and vital poems in House of Sparrows look for grace and beauty not outside of the suffering world but within it. Betsy Sholl explores the shifting ironies and contradictions in the... -
About Crows by Craig Blais 9780299291945
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.86An unsentimental and at times disquieting first collection, the poems of About Crows excavate self, family, race, location, sex, art, and religion to uncover the artifacts of a succession of... -
State of the Union: Fifty Political Poems by Joshua Beckman 9781933517339
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43From rough optimism to sharp criticism, fifty American poets present new work dissecting the current political climate in America. Wide-ranging writers bring their bold voices to this collection,... -
Forest of Noise Mosab Abu Toha 9780008738860
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88'Powerful, capacious and profound' OCEAN VUONG 'A book you won't soon forget' ILYA KAMINSKY 'Astonishing' TERRANCE HAYES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN... -
Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America by Calista McRae
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $75.72A poet walks into a bar... In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric... -
The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish by Joshua Weiner
Booksplease Price: $36.33First Walk after Cancer. New ugly house (too big) with girl on porch cradling lacrosse stick; a Spanish lady, lost? Speaking Spanish to Bluetooth in her ear; tied rods of rebar webbing a bridge under... -
neckbone: visual verses by Avery R. Young 9780810140523
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.63The ""blk alter"" of Avery R. Young's poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, neckbone: visual verses. Young's years of supernatural fieldwork within the black... -
Primer by Aaron Smith 9780822964346
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $28.92In his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment. What is the face we prepare in our... -
Heard-Hoard by Atsuro Riley
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $23.95Recognized for his "wildly original" poetry and his "uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative," Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley... -
The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water by Cameron Barnett 9781938769269
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $25.23Winner of the Rising Writer Contest (2017) Cameron Barnett's poetry collection, The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water (winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Contest), explores the complexity of race and... -
O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry by David Ben-Merre 9798855804089
RRP: $170.63Booksplease Price: $139.19Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of "O" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more so, of writing.In poetry circles, "O" is commonly associated with apostrophe-a dramatized... -
Aurum: Poems by Santee Frazier 9780816539628
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53Unflinching and magnetic, the language and structure of Aurum never strays from its dedication to revealing the prominent reality of Native people being marginalized and discarded in the wake of... -
Poor by Caleb Femi
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Rough Trade and the BBCShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio... -
Love's Austere and Lonely Offices: Street Portraits and Poems Marcus Jackson 9798899480508
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12An astounding collection of photographs from a renowned poetCreated during the tumultuous years of 2020 and 2021, Love's Austere and Lonely Offices: Street Portraits and Poems intersects the lens of... -
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays by Jesse McCarthy
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $39.33Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature... -
Astra Magazine, Ecstasy: Issue One by Nadja Spiegelman
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.30Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and... -
Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson by Lisa Russ Spaar 9780813938509
Booksplease Price: $61.33Thomas Jefferson was a figure both central and polarizing in his own time, and despite the passage of two centuries he remains so today. Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia... -
Often, Common, Some and Free by Samuel Amadon
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $27.18Poems considering ever-present transformations and resisting destruction. This is a book about transformation. Moving across varied formal and aesthetic terrains, these poems take on the subject of... -
The Cineaste: Poems A. Van Jordan 9780393348736
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99A. Van Jordan, an acclaimed American poet and the author of three previous volumes, "demonstrates poetry's power to be at once intimate and wide-ranging" (Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World)... -
Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa John Murillo 9780819501349
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $35.26Anthology of new work honoring the legacy of a celebrated African American poet /> />This carefully and generously curated mosaic of essays, letters, and poems reveals the profound impact that poet... -
Lives by CJ Evans
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.852021 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry "The book is intimate, expansive, and in moments, willfully hopeful." -Victoria Chang, winner of the PEN Voelcker Award for OBIT Here are... -
Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa John Murillo 9780819501332
Booksplease Price: $91.57Anthology of new work honoring the legacy of a celebrated African American poet /> />This carefully and generously curated mosaic of essays, letters, and poems reveals the profound impact that poet... -
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'Essential reading' Roger Robinson'Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent' Mary Karr'Sure, wise and devastating . . . a joy' Caleb Azumah Nelson'Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise,... -
Joy Is My Middle Name Sasha Debevec-McKenney 9781804271872
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety,... -
Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry by Rita Dove 9780143121480
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $36.78Penguin's landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove) Rita Dove, Pulitzer... -
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan by Randall Kenan 9781324064596
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.73Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction... -
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems by Adrian Matejka 9781324097501
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.84Revered for his "patient, clever, controlled, [and] visionary" (Hanif Abdurraquib) poems, Adrian Matejka has been a mainstay of contemporary American poetry for over two decades. Gathering hits from... -
frank: sonnets Diane Seuss 9781804271575
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,' Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at... -
My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet 9781608467679
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York... -
fox woman get out! India Lena Gonzlez 9781950774982
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Take the body and split it wide open. Fill it with light. See the multiple interiors, the layered death, the familial mythology, the throb and splendor of being, the shedding of the body altogether:... -
Every Hard Sweetness by Sheila Carter-Jones 9781960145123
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27In Every Hard Sweetness, Carter-Jones chronicles Civil Rights' era atrocities through the story of her family's experience with an all-too-common practice in which Black men were wrongfully... -
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan by Randall Kenan 9780393882162
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $35.69Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction... -
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka 9780802124685
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.50One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the... -
Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $33.03The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to... -
In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf by Heather Christle 9781472158697
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'In a memoir that pulses with feeling and intelligence, [Christle] excavates the past to expose difficult truths' GuardianWhen Heather Christle realises that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share...