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Eight Mile High by Jim Ray Daniels 9781611861426
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $40.31In these linked stories, the constants are the places-from Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar; from The Clock, a restaurant that never closes, to Stan's, a... -
The Little Field of Self by Doreen Gildroy
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $151.32Dung Beetle; Be kind to me, a mess. I represent persistence - in the dirty thing; things larger than me; I do not fear. Whatever you think, or like - I live. Oh, marvell Pushing up the hill - rolling... -
Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken 9780195165470
Booksplease Price: $49.98Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense... -
The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses by Alice Quinn 9780393609370
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.50It would have pleased Walt Whitman, that poet of urban motion, to envision his words coursing by electrified rail through a diverse, global city of 8 million souls. Since 1992, with the presentation... -
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years by Jim Kacian 9780393348873
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.56Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art... -
War Bird by David Gewanter
Booksplease Price: $36.33From Three at 4:43, and here comes my friend, limping on his heavy boot, the heel come off. A cobbler's shop appears, and I buy the black nails, the dwarf's hammer, glue and strapping. I work hard on... -
American Classics: Evolutionary Perspectives by Judith P. Saunders 9781618117656
RRP: $179.38Booksplease Price: $172.15This collection of essays examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary framework to pose new questions about long admired,... -
The Poets Laureate Anthology by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt 9780393061819
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $57.33Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the world's finest military forces between 73and 71 BC, bringing both... -
American Comic Poetry: History, Techniques and Modern Masters by Jeff Morgan 9780786499847
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Comic poetry is serious stuff, combining incongruity, satire and psychological effects to provide us a brief victory over reason--which could help us save ourselves, if not the world. This book... -
Romey's Order by Atsuro Riley
Booksplease Price: $29.02From "Chord": come the marrow-hours when he couldn't sleep, the boy river-brinked and chorded. Mud-bedded himself here in the root-mesh; bided. Sieved our alluvial sounds - "Romey's Order" is an... -
Poems of Home by Various
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20Place of refuge, place where we can be ourselves; place we long to escape from, place where we are confronted by absence and loneliness; shabby downtown apartment or idyllic country cottage. Like it... -
Selected Poems by Bill Manhire 9781847772473
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $22.56Bill Manhire, by trade a medievalist and by vocation a poet,has - like those writers who invented and developed English poetry - helped to make something charged and original out of his... -
American Classics: Evolutionary Perspectives by Judith P. Saunders 9781618117663
Booksplease Price: $49.67This collection of essays examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary framework to pose new questions about long admired,... -
A Pocketful of Poems by Nikki Grimes 9781328497963
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328497963Author Nikki GrimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Clarion BooksPublisher... -
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue by William Logan 9780231147323
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $167.06The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book... -
Blue Hour: Poems by Carolyn Forche 9780060099138
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060099138Author Carolyn ForcheFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Fat Man and Infinity: And Other Writings by Antonio Lobo Antunes 9780393061987
Booksplease Price: $70.02Antonio Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, "the heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise... -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Homer
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.THE ODYSSEY, which tells of Odysseus's long voyage home after the battle of Troy, is one of the defining masterpieces of... -
Come On In!: New Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets long before he died in... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $31.14At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they... -
The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine by Joseph Parisi 9781566634687
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $40.93"The history of poetry and of Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable," wrote A. R. Ammons. Founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry magazine established its... -
Blessings for the Hands by Matthew Schwartz 9780226740942
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $83.11From The Sky Inside the Shaking TreeWhat you feelreveals you.Watchfor the sustenanceinclined to a source,enamored of singularity,quickly here and quicklygone, shadow from whichthe body's courage... -
Conversations with Ted Kooser John Cusatis 9781496855558
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, Conversations with Ted Kooser chronicles the Nebraska writer's rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize-winning... -
Fever by Ron Koertge 9781597090162
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.97"Ron Koertge can elevate the ordinary places of America -the backyard, the classroom, the mall- into scenes of mock-epic significance. He can just as easily lower the mythic worlds of Superman,... -
Watch by Greg Miller
Booksplease Price: $36.33Strasbourg The yellow and green rose, and the pink rock, The chestnuts blooming, the cobblestone square, Our Lady's tower rising everywhere, Dark timbered fronts; the mechanical clock Whose rooster... -
The Golden Shovel Anthology by Peter Kahn 9781682260951
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner... -
Conversations with Ted Kooser John Cusatis 9781496855565
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, Conversations with Ted Kooser chronicles the Nebraska writer's rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize-winning... -
The Best American Poetry 2021 by David Lehman
Booksplease Price: $29.45The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is "a 'best' anthology that... -
Babel by Barbara Hamby 9780822958598
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $25.66Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately... -
Poetry Book Society Winter 2023 Bulletin by Alice Mullen 9781913129460
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our... -
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty 9780393079012
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $46.78Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul-the... -
The Poetry Gymnasium: 110 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse Tom C. Hunley 9781476675824
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $39.33This expanded edition adds sixteen new exercises designed to inspire creativity and help poets hone their skills. Each exercise includes a clearly-stated learning objective, historical background... -
Medicine Show by Tom Yuill 9780226971650
Booksplease Price: $29.02From "Veritas": Imagining Heaven as Istanbul, or a beach south of Istanbul, Where your friends are preparing an apartment for you. And your Beloved. And sleeping fathers, babies plump. And shining as... -
A Map of the Night by David Wagoner
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.96David Wagoner's wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends... -
Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in their Own Words by Tony Leuzzi 9781934414958
Booksplease Price: $30.42Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such... -
Beowulf by Stephen Mitchell
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.36A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpieceBeowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures-a... -
The Floating Bridge: Prose Poems by David Shumate
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $25.66The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves... -
Hard Bread by Peggy Boyers 9780226069654
Booksplease Price: $46.55The poems in Peg Boyers's Hard Bread are "spoken" in the imagined voice of the Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). While much of the book is based on Ginzburg's life - her upbringing in... -
The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans Bill Knott 9781939568748
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The debut collection from Bill Knott that influenced a generation of poets and rockstars is now back-in-print for the first time in almost 60 years and includes a new introduction by Richard Hell... -
Lifesaving Poems Anthony Wilson 9781780371573
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he...