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The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland by William Barillas
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge... -
Two Minds of a Western Poet: Essays by David Mason by David Mason 9780472051427
Booksplease Price: $50.19Praise for David Mason". . . richly evocative and rare . . ."-Publishers Weekly"David Mason has succeeded in restoring to poetry some of the territory lost over recent centuries to prose fiction... -
Another Place: An Ecocritical Study of Selected Western American Poets by Andrew Elkins 9780875652597
Booksplease Price: $30.46A sad fact of our region's literary heritage is that too many poets receive too little attention, writes Andrew Elkins. In Another Place Elkins sets out to right that wrong. Many good poets live and... -
Roman Poets in Modern Guise - The Reception of Roman Poetry since World War I by Theodore Ziolkowski
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.19Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets. Analogies with Rome have been a powerful motif in... -
Apostle of Desire 9781960145437
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27Pulitzer Prize Finalist and one of America's most revered military veteran writers, Bruce Weigl brings readers face-to-face with our country's legacy of violence, the suffering of combat PTSD, and... -
Apostle of Desire Bruce Weigl 9781960145697
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $33.89Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of America's most revered military veteran writers -Bruce Weigl brings readers face-to-face with our country's legacy of violence, the suffering of combat... -
Dance and Disappear by Laura Kasischke
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.90The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, the Midwest. But in addressing these topics, Laura Kasischke finds and reveals the... -
Somewhere We'll Leave The World by Russell Thorburn 9780814342541
Booksplease Price: $30.71The poems in Russell Thorburn's Somewhere We'll Leave the World are fluid and masterful with a flow that captures an authentic consciousness. These poems breathe and allow the reader breathing room... -
The Quarry by Dan Lechay 9780821415344
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Once 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,... -
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds by Billy Collins
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.11In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures... -
Beautiful Zero: Poems by Jennifer Willoughby 9781571314802
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.83Incantatory, intimate, and incendiary, the poems of this award-winning debut are filled with explosive wit and humor like "a knife you don't see coming." A kaleidoscopic intelligence flows through... -
Jane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention by Martha Collins
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $18.41For her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for nearly forty years, she... -
Swift: New and Selected Poems by David Baker 9780393358179
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.71David Baker, acclaimed for his combination of "visionary scope" (Gettysburg Review) and "emotional intensity" (Georgia Review), is one of contemporary poetry's most gifted lyric poets. In Swift, he... -
Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth by George S. Lensing 9780807116715
Booksplease Price: $66.55In Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth, George S. Lensing examines Stevens' gradual emergence and development as a poet, tracing his life from his formative years in Pennsylvania to his careers as a... -
Educating Learners with Down Syndrome: Research, theory, and practice with children and adolescents Rhonda Faragher (Australian Catholic University, Australia.) 9780415816373
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40For individuals with Down syndrome, the extent of the effect of intellectual disability depends largely on the degree of provision of appropriate support and intervention. In Educating Learners with... -
I Would Lie to You if I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets by Chard deNiord 9780822965343
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $36.95I Would Lie To You If I Could contains interviews with nine eminent contemporary American poets (Natasha Trethewey, Jane Hirshfield, Martin Espada, Stephen Kuusisto, Stephen Sandy, Ed Ochester,... -
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... -
Homelessness and the Politics of Social Exclusion by James D. Wright 9781412938075
Booksplease Price: $98.32"Homelessness is not one problem, but many different kinds of problems involving many different kinds of people, each of them homeless for different reasons or who have become homeless in different... -
Birthmark by Jon Pineda
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.87In Jon Pineda's debut collection Birthmark, loss takes the shape of a scar, memory the shape of a childhood, and identity the shape of a birthmark on a lover's thigh. Like water taking the form of... -
The Green Woodpecker: The Natural and Cultural History of Picus viridis by Gerard Gorman
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $43.47This book describes the natural and cultural history of an iconic and unusual woodpecker - a species that nests in tree cavities but which forages mostly on the ground. The Green Woodpecker, known in... -
Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety by Donald Hall
Booksplease Price: $26.25Now nearing ninety, Hall delivers a new collection of self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. He... -
Scavenger Loop: Poems by David Baker 9780393353471
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.04In this masterful new work by "the most moving and expansive poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright" (Marilyn Hacker), David Baker constructs a layered natural history of his... -
Ghost River Kris Johnson 9781780376479
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Ghost River invites readers to stare down blue-mouthed crevasses, venture into old growth forests, and peer beneath the floorboards of ancestral homesteads. In this lyrical and intimate portrait of... -
Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin by David C. Dougherty
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $57.06Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to... -
European Hours:: Collected Poems by Anthony Rudolf
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76For more than five decades Anthony Rudolf has been active as translator, critic, editor, and publisher: all in all, an enabler of writers and readers. His own poems come to him gradually, under... -
Much Ado About You by Eloisa James 9780007229482
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45A racy Regency romance from the New York Times bestselling author, Eloisa James. Never marry for love, it's the worst reason of all... Finding herself... -
Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It by Paul Donald 9781784274443
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.06Traffication develops a bold new idea: that the trillions of miles of driving we do each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat... -
The Committee of Men by James Ciano 9781960145918
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $39.88James Ciano's debut collection, The Committee of Men, explores the cycles of violence men inflict on one another and themselves, examining how silence, shame, and inherited expectations shape... -
Red Obsidian: New and Selected Poems by Stephan Torre 9780889777750
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.14A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephan Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands. Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time... -
Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War by Jason Lyall
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.58How do armies fight and what makes them victorious on the modern battlefield? In Divided Armies, Jason Lyall challenges long-standing answers to this classic question by linking the fate of armies to... -
Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War by Jason Lyall 9780691192437
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $181.90How do armies fight and what makes them victorious on the modern battlefield? In Divided Armies, Jason Lyall challenges long-standing answers to this classic question by linking the fate of armies to... -
Ryan's Occupational Therapy Assistant: Principles, Practice Issues, and Techniques Karen Sladyk 9781556429620
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $158.30A renowned and cornerstone text for the occupational therapy assistant for more than 30 years is now available in an updated Fifth Edition. Continuing with a student-friendly format, the classic... -
Lebanon and the Split of Life: Bearing Witness through the Art of Nabil Kanso by Meriam Soltan 9781839989636
Booksplease Price: $42.82This scholarly biography traces the life and art of Lebanese-American neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso (1940-2019). It explores key moments across the artist's transnational career by foregrounding his... -
A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke by William Barillas 9780804012317
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.31A constellation of essays that reanimates the work of this pivotal twentieth-century American poet for a new century. This volume is the first to reconsider Roethke's work in terms of the expanded... -
Eschatology in Crayon Wax: Poems by Joshua Robbins 9781680033076
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07Joshua Robbins's much anticipated and smartly provocative second book, Eschatology in Crayon Wax, evokes a feeling of being caught between a fragile yearning to be transformed and a whirlwind of... -
Finding W. H. Hudson: The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds Conor Mark Jameson 9781784273286
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.46An imposing, life-size oil painting dominates the main meeting room at the RSPB's base in the heart of England: 'the man above the fireplace' - always present, rarely mentioned. Curious about the... -
Alone in the House of My Heart: Poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Deeply rooted in respect and compassion for Appalachia and its people, these poems are both paeans to and dirges for past and present family, farmlands, factories, and coal. Kari Gunter-Seymour's... -
The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines by Kara Dixon Vuic 9780674986381
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $42.35The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.The emotional toll of war... -
Low-Carbon Birding by Javier Caletrio 9781784273446
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.21Birdwatching in Britain has grown increasingly dependent on burning fossil fuels. Regularly driving long distances to birding hotspots and frequent flying to see exotic species are seen as perfectly... -
Groundglass by Kathryn Savage
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06"Could there be something humbling and revolutionary in understanding myself as a site of contamination?" Groundglass takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul...