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Ways of Re-Thinking Literature Tom Bishop 9781138675759
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity of views into what literature is today.The texts gathered in this... -
Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science by Mark Turner
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine 9780691203478
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £93.78What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes... -
Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery by Helen Vendler 9780691134741
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible... -
The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions by Robert Pinsky 9780691013527
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.44In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.73In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric by Virginia Jackson 9780691232799
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.34How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early... -
Note Book Jeff Nunokawa 9780691166490
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.48"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known."--Note Book Every... -
Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody by Charles O. Hartman 9780691610801
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics... -
Prose Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Hetherington 9780691180649
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £108.26An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history,... -
The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha by Hal Foster 9780691160986
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.00Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America by Jesse Zuba 9780691164472
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but... -
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric by Virginia Jackson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley 9780691136790
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes,... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America Jesse Zuba 9780691271118
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense... -
Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes by David LeHardy Sweet 9780807892817
Booksplease Price: £30.82This book examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Breton, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery--all chosen for the... -
The Orchid Boat by Lee Harwood 9781907587535
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these stories may co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a collage... -
Prose Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Hetherington
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.94An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history,... -
Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets by Geoff Ward 9781349225002
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.63Statutes of Liberty is the first full-length academic study of the New York School of Poets. It contains an introduction to the work of these writers, followed by chapters on the central figures:... -
The Art Of Attention: A Poet's Eye by Donald Revell 9781555974749
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.79Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies, it's... -
Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets by Geoff Ward 9780333786390
Booksplease Price: £46.74Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. This... -
Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets by Geoff Ward 9780333786383
Booksplease Price: £46.28Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. This... -
Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A. R. Ammons by David Burak 9780393059991
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £36.14This intimate collection of essays addressed to the common reader pays tribute to one of the twentieth century's major poets. Encompassing every phase of A. R. Ammons's oeuvre, from his beginnings in... -
Diversifications: Poems by A. R. Ammons 9780393044140
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.05The poems are on a diversity of subjects, but through them all runs the strong unity of vision that has led critic Geoffrey Hartman to acclaim Ammons as "a major American poet" (New York Times Book... -
Hotel Lautreamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay by Kent Johnson 9781848611894
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Named in homage to Isidore Ducasse, the Uruguayan-French poet who wrote Maldoror under the name Comte de Lautreamont, and with a knowing nod to John Ashbery's book of the same title, this is the... -
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... -
A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles by Millicent Dillon 9780520211933
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.56Tennessee Williams called Jane Bowles "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters." John Ashbery said she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language,"... -
The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage by Marjorie Perloff 9780810117648
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist... -
Continued by Piotr Sommer 9780819567680
Booksplease Price: £12.86Continued is a selection of poems by Piotr Sommer, spanning his career to date. A kind of poetic utterance, these "talk poems" are devoid of any singsong quality yet faithfully preserve all the... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder, a crucial... -
The River of Time: Time-Space, History, and Language in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Russian and Anglo-American Poetry by Ian Probstein 9781618116260
RRP: £80.50Booksplease Price: £59.80This book explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American... -
Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry by Mark Irwin 9781433134050
RRP: £85.25Booksplease Price: £75.42Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor... -
American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation by Daniel Katz 9780748691210
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68This is a study on the premise that expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it. Beginning with the late work of Henry James, this book goes... -
Selected Poetry of John Clare by John Clare
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This is the first selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of... -
Left Wing of a Bird: Poems by Arthur Vogelsang 9781889330877
Booksplease Price: £20.47"Vogelsang's poetry is both abrasive and generous."-John Ashbery "Vogelsang has found an interrogating voice at once dissembling and direct."-Stanley Plumly The poems in Vogelsang's fourth... -
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud 9780393341829
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.23The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the... -
The Country without a Post Office: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali 9780393317619
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.97"Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America's finest younger poets."-John AshberyAbout the AuthorAgha Shahid Ali... -
The Literature of the United States of America by Marshall Walker 9780333443279
Booksplease Price: £41.78American literature over the last four hundred years has developed distinctive qualities and traditions, partly engendered by the land itself. The rich variety of literature flourished as the land... -
New York Poets: An Anthology: Pt. 2 by Edwin Denby 9781857548211
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57The 'first generation' of New York poets - John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler - was celebrated in Mark Ford's "The New York Poets: An Anthology" (2004). Reviewing it in "The...