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Lines of Defense: Poems by Stephen Dunn 9780393350722
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.44In his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the... -
Foiled Again: Poems by J. Allyn Rosser 9781566638081
Booksplease Price: $29.90The seventh winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is J. Allyn Rosser's Foiled Again. Ms. Rosser's third poetry collection contains poems of startling range and depth. At the heart of the... -
Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in their Own Words by Tony Leuzzi 9781934414958
Booksplease Price: $32.76Passwords 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... -
A Map of the Night by David Wagoner
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.11David 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... -
Misery Prefigured by J.Allyn Rosser
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.03In her second collection of poems, J. Allyn Rosser explores the human condition in all its gloriously valiant pathos. Misery Prefigured dwells on our continual reinventions of self and world, and the... -
Blue Guide by Stephen Yenser 9780226951348
Booksplease Price: $108.00From Sfakian Variations - Goats bawl and goats' bells clink and ice in the glass of ouzo tinkles back and that is all the music - even tzitzikes rest and listen - anyone needs to face tonight, until... -
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times by Amanda Hesser 9780393337464
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $32.47Memorable moments with food-collected by "one of the best of the young food writers" (Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue food critic). New York Times Magazine food editor Amanda Hesser has showcased the... -
Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008 by MR X J Kennedy 9781929918966
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45"X. J. Kennedy's well-known travels between the realms of the comic and the serious qualify him for dual citizenship in the world of poetry. Here, the playful is on full display in verse not just... -
By the Rivers of Babylon by Antonio Lobo Antunes 9780300233414
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers "One of the essential writers of our tormented times."-Alberto Manguel,... -
The Canterbury Tales: A Selection by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140424454
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64This selection of the best-loved and most frequently studied of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales provides a fascinating introduction to one of the great cornerstones of English literature. The General... -
Whereas: Poems by Stephen Dunn 9780393254679
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $34.92Incisively capturing the oddities of our logic and the whimsies of our reason, the poems in Whereas show there is always another side to a story. With graceful rhythm and equal parts humor and... -
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $6.51INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye... -
Once: Poems by Meghan O'Rourke 9780393343946
RRP: $28.35Booksplease Price: $26.42The incandescent poems in Once, the second collection by an astonishing and formidable poet, explore loss, violence, and recovery. Facing a mother's impending death, O'Rourke invokes a vanished... -
Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present by Daniel Tobin
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $93.70This is the first major anthology of Irish American poetry. It breaks new ground in the field of Irish American literary scholarship by collecting for the first time the work of over two hundred... -
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases Maia Lee-Chin 9781524886349
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.56A USA TODAY BESTSELLER AN NPR "BOOK WE LOVE" FOR SUMMER 2024 A gorgeously illustrated guide to memorable Latin phrases, including famous quotations on love, death, nature, politics, and more.Latin... -
Up Late: Poems by Nick Laird 9781324110422
Booksplease Price: $24.99Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the... -
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan 9780007354184
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not... -
The Daily Mirror by David Lehman 9780684864938
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.29Following in the footsteps of such poets as Emily Dickinson, William Stafford, and Frank O'Hara, David Lehman began writing a poem a day in 1996 and found the experience so rewarding that he... -
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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan 9780007354184 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $4.70The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not... -
Dirt by William Letford
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98There are all types of bodies.If you're lucky you'll find someone whose skinis a canvas for the story of your life.Write well. Take care of the heartbeat behind it. Billy Letford's Dirt revels in the... -
Best American Poetry 2010 by Amy Gerstler 9781439181454
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $24.74AMY GERSTLER'S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected... -
Eternal Sentences by Michael McGriff 9781682261620
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Winner, 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Michael McGriff's Eternal Sentences bears witness to the world of gravel roads, working-class families, and geographic isolation in poems that illuminate... -
The Mining Road Leanne O'Sullivan 9781852249687
RRP: $18.80Booksplease Price: $14.20The Mining Road, Leanne O'Sullivan's third poetry collection, finds inspiration in the disused copper mines that haunt the rugged terrain around Allihies, near her home at Beara, in West Cork. Like... -
Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Basho by Steven D. Carter
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.00While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four... -
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse by Thomas C. Foster
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the... -
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood by Tom Phelan 9781501197109
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24"You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift-just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." -Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the... -
What Narcissism Means to Me Tony Hoagland 9781852246891
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He was American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming... -
Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Basho by Steven D. Carter 9780231156486
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $132.91While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four... -
Pretend You Don't Know Me: New and Selected Poems Finuala Dowling 9781780374246
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Pretend You Don't Know Me brings together in one volume the best of Finuala Dowling's funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections, with a section devoted to... -
Cailleach: The Hag of Beara by Leanne O'Sullivan
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50An Cailleach Bhearra, or the Hag of Beara, is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of western Ireland and Scotland, particularly in the Beara Peninsula in West Cork where... -
The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be by Thomas Lynch 9781324003977
Booksplease Price: $42.61For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's work with the dead and the bereaved has... -
100 Essential Modern Poems by Joseph Parisi 9781566636124
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.77Inspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny-here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable... -
A Quarter of an Hour Leanne O'Sullivan 9781780372228
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50In 2013, Leanne O'Sullivan's husband Andrew suffered a severe infection in his brain. He spent just over three weeks in a coma, during which time his temperature soared to 42 degrees. When he finally... -
Hotel Almighty by Sarah J. Sloat
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of pages from Misery by Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and... -
The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.28From one of the most famous poets in history comes a new selection of writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, providing comfort in a time of grief and words to soothe the soul. 'A treasure... -
Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey by Stephen Kuusisto 9781451689808
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $29.17In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and... -
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008 by Clive James 9781509824571
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80Selecting the very best of his work from over fifty years, Opal Sunset demonstrates Clive James as one of the most versatile and accomplished poets of the past half-century.Whether dealing in the... -
Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology by Amorak Huey 9781350020153
Booksplease Price: $53.53Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of... -
Late Invocation for Magic Jim Daniels 9781611865745
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $36.41In poems selected from his long career, Jim Daniels focuses on Detroit and other Rust Belt cities, where issues of class and race and justice play out in the streets and kitchens and backyards and... -
Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God Tony Hoagland 9781780374789
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Tony Hoagland's poems interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. His new poems are no less...