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American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance by John T. Irwin 9781421421155
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £30.49The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their... -
Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle by Allen Grossman 9780472096374
Booksplease Price: £67.25Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits... -
Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty by Grace Schulman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos... -
The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry by Cary Nelson 9780190204150
Booksplease Price: £63.70The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive... -
The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle by Allen Grossman 9780472066377
Booksplease Price: £13.09Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits... -
Times Beach by John Shoptaw 9780268017859
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.09Winner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize, this ambitious collection of poems evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are... -
American Obscurantism: History and the Visual in U.S. Literature and Film by Peter Lurie 9780199797318
Booksplease Price: £45.04American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in U.S. culture. From its earliest canonical literary works through late twentieth and early twenty-first century film, the most compelling... -
The Cramoisy Queen: A Life of Caresse Crosby by Linda Hamalian 9780809329014
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.48This book deals with an American debutante turned expatriate writer and literary benefactor. Caresse Crosby rejected the culturally prescribed roles for women of her era and background in search of... -
The Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry by Jeffrey W. Westover
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.65Explorers, colonists, native peoples-all played a role in early American settlement, and the legacy they left was a turbulent one. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, as the... -
Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought by Michael Trask
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £46.48Modern society, Michael Trask argues in this incisive and original book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science's concept of erotic... -
The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence by John T. Irwin 9781421422619
Booksplease Price: £32.95Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you've likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on... -
Rouge Pulp by Dorothy Barresi 9780822957898
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.37Rouge Pulp explores notions of body and beauty, birth and death, in a contemporary America driven by its contradictions: material plenty and spiritual lack. Dorothy Barresi writes about strippers,... -
Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature by Jon Hegglund 9781498555388
Booksplease Price: £85.65Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From more familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart... -
The Shape of Regret by Herbert Woodward Martin 9780814347249
Booksplease Price: £14.47The Shape of Regret is a new poetry collection with a long shelf life, something that will be whispered about-gossiped about-by creative readers and writers for years to come. Herbert Woodward Martin... -
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" -... -
The Portrait Gallery Called Existence by Neeli Cherkovski 9780872869370
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In his final book, poet Neeli Cherkovski paints a portrait of his life through luminous details of encounters with his illustrious comrades."A prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who... -
Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860 by Paul Giles
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Paul Giles traces the paradoxical relations between English and American literature from 1730 through 1860, suggesting how the formation... -
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Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson 9780099223313 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.40Haunts of the Black Masseur is a dazzling introduction to the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping into the surf at Shelley's beach funeral, Hart Crane, swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of... -
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue by William Logan 9780231147323
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.67The 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... -
Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.66A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY AMY LIPTROT'A luminously romantic history of swimming'... -
Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century by Mark Sandy
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Concerned with the intermingled thematic and formal preoccupations of Romantic thought and literary practice in works by twentieth-century British, Irish, and American artists, this collection... -
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall by Christopher Nealon
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14What is it like to "feel historical"? In Foundlings Christopher Nealon analyzes texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century-poems by Hart Crane, novels... -
The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine by Joseph Parisi 9781566634687
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.99"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 reputation... -
In a Flash of Lightning: Fifty-Four Poems of Cosmic Vision by Zhao Si 9781550969412
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.08A poet who skillfully manages lines both long and short to create narratives and lyric diction as she composes universes of elegance, raw sorrows, and the joys of human existence. 'Zhao Si is a poet... -
Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives by Susan Howe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.10Great American writers-William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James-all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts... -
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780198753599
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £23.49Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and... -
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence" by John T. Irwin 9781421412306
RRP: £35.50Booksplease Price: £26.71"Fitzgerald's work has always deeply moved me," writes John T. Irwin. "And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions... -
El Dorado by Peter Campion
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.09Letter from Ohio. The green so green it must be chemical. Faint drift of charcoal smoke. Rock radio. The pink azaleas thrusting at the blue. And all the same desires come crashing back: incredible... -
A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry by Susan M. Schultz 9780817351984
Booksplease Price: £31.82A work in which a noted critic addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry. Silence, as Susan M Schultz argues, is an intellectual and aesthetic force, largely... -
The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History by Laurence Goldstein 9780472083183
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.31The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History presents a series of case studies that shows how poets perceived the new technology of cinema as a rival threatening to their prestige, but also as... -
The Selected Poems of José Emilio Pacheco by José Emilio Pacheco 9780811240192
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.86Jose Emilio Pacheco's Selected Poems is a major bilingual retrospective of the poetry of one of Mexico's foremost writers. Born in 1939, Pacheco achieved recognition early, and while still in his... -
Unlimited Eligibility?: Inclusive Democracy and the American Lyric Ryan Cull 9798855802245
Booksplease Price: £94.02What if increased visibility of marginalized identities-a goal of much socially committed lyric poetry in the United States-does not necessarily lead to increased social recognition? For many... -
BROKEN LANDSCAPES: Selected Letters from Ernie O'Malley, 1924-57 by Cormac O'Malley 9781843511953
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.35Ernie O'Malley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of the leading figures in the Irish independence and civil wars, he survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger strike, before going to the... -
Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank by Kathleen Pfeiffer
Booksplease Price: £45.60The friendship of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank was one of the most emotionally intense, racially complicated, and aesthetically significant relationships in the history of American literary modernism... -
The New Era: American Thought and Culture in the 1920s by Paul V. Murphy 9780742549265
Booksplease Price: £37.42In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as "modern," which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before-a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of... -
Unlimited Eligibility?: Inclusive Democracy and the American Lyric by Ryan Cull 9798855802238
Booksplease Price: £28.31Rewrites the dominant narrative of the political work of lyric poetry in the United States since the nineteenth century.What if increased visibility of marginalized identities-a goal of much socially... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 9780451530158
Booksplease Price: £5.01A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce's semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country... -
Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry: Against Vocation by Peter Riley
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £75.14In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all... -
Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past by Gary Grieve-Carlson 9781498550451
Booksplease Price: £52.92Ezra Pound's definition of an epic as "a poem containing history" raises questions: how can a poem "contain" history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional... -
Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics by Brian M. Reed
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £38.72Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable...