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Imaginative Transcripts: Selected Literary Essays by Willard Spiegelman 9780195368130
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €59.38Willard Spiegelman is considered one of the finest critics of poetry writing today and this volume collects his best work on the subject, offering essays that span his entire career and chart his... -
Re-making it New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition by Lynn Keller 9780521106771
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €42.45As a tradition modernism has fostered particularly polarised impulses - though the great modernist poems offer impressive models, modernist principles, epitomised in Ezra Pound's exhortation to 'make... -
Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays by Mark Ford 9783034302470
RRP: €81.40Booksplease Price: €72.47This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a series of entertaining and compelling readings of the... -
Halflife: Poems by Meghan O'Rourke 9780393333176
RRP: €17.26Booksplease Price: €14.80The insomniac speakers in Halflife are coming of age in a mythical world full of threat and promise. Seeking their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, they speak wryly of destructive... -
Hell, I Love Everybody: 52 Poems by James Tate 9781800173620
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Hell, I Love Everybody: 52 Poems by James Tate re-introduces the poet, providing a poem for every week of the year, every mood and season. It includes work from his first publication, The Lost Pilot,... -
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism by Karolin Mirzakhan 9781498578912
Booksplease Price: €102.85An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts... -
Continued by Piotr Sommer 9781852247027
RRP: €10.65Booksplease Price: €8.04Piotr Sommer is one of Poland's leading poets. Continued extends and enlarges the achievement of his earlier Bloodaxe selection, Things to Translate, and spans his whole career to date. The... -
The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet by Alice Oswald 9780571218578
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds... -
From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century by Jennifer Ashton 9780521101554
Booksplease Price: €38.22In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of... -
Beautiful Enemies Friendship and Postwar American Poetry by Andrew Epstein 9780195388985
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €30.49Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied... -
A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World: Poems by Adam Clay 9781571314413
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.22The distilled, haunting, and subtly complex poems in Adam Clay's A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World often arrive at that moment when solitude slips into separation, when a person suddenly... -
Art, Labour and American Life: 1917–2020 by Ben Hickman 9783031414893
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work's transformations... -
Elliott Carter's Late Music by John Link 9781009490269
Booksplease Price: €33.31The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book places Elliott Carter's music from 1995 to 2012 in the broader context of... -
Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets by Alex Katz 9798985761320
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €46.18Book covers, artist’s books, portfolios and more spanning Katz’s seven decades of collaborating with poets—from Frank O’Hara to Alice Notley Ruminating on his long and extensive interactions with... -
The Poetry of Disturbance: The Discomforts of Postwar American Poetry by David Bergman
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €106.73In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one... -
Motel of the Opposable Thumbs by Stuart Ross 9781772141269
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25In Motel of the Opposable Thumbs, Stuart Ross continues to ignore trends in Canadian poetry, and further follow the journey he began over four decades ago with his discoveries of the works of Stephen... -
That Still Moment: Essays on Poetry and Dance Edwin Denby 9781644231371
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €9.52The newest volume in the beloved ekphrasis series focuses on dance and poetry through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s greatest critics “I am interested at the moment in recalling to you... -
A Bridge of Words: Views across America and Japan by Hiroaki Sato 9781611720785
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.53Hiroaki Sato is best known as an expert and prolific translator of Japanese poetry into English. For 44 years, however, his day job was in the research department of a large Japanese trade... -
The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €24.84The surprising story of the relationship between experimental poetry and literary studies.In The Academic Avant-Garde, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews makes a provocative case for the radical poetic... -
Fables of Representation: Essays by Paul Hoover 9780472068562
Booksplease Price: €24.74From the acclaimed author of Winter (Mirror) and Rehearsal in Black, Fables of Representation is a powerful collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry, free from the stultifying... -
Voices and Visions: Selected Essays by Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr. 9780761821687
Booksplease Price: €79.23A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals... -
Reconfiguring the Modern American Lyric: The Poetry of James Tate by Anthony Caleshu 9783034301749
RRP: €89.31Booksplease Price: €80.21James Tate is one of America's most respected and senior poets, whose influence is increasingly widespread. However, his whimsical play has long challenged critics to read him with any depth. After... -
I Remember by Joe Brainard
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.17Joe Brainard's I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down... -
Best American Poetry 2010 by Amy Gerstler 9781439181454
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.02AMY 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... -
Periplum and other poems: 1987-1992 by Peter Gizzi 9781844710737
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Periplum and other poems brings together Peter Gizzi's celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem... -
Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry by Barbara K. Fischer
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €62.40This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of the museum. Turning to... -
The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews 9781421444932
Booksplease Price: €97.27The surprising story of the relationship between experimental poetry and literary studies.Shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize by The Modernist Studies AssociationIn The Academic Avant-Garde, Kimberly... -
PN Review 250 by Andrew Latimer 9781784108298
Booksplease Price: €9.21The November-December 2019 issue The celebratory 250th issue of PN Review Sinead Morrissey's StAnza lecture exploring Denise Riley's 'A Part Song' Elaine Feinstein's last poems Richard Price... -
PN Review 253 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: €10.42The May-June 2020 issue. Tributes to the great Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal. Phoebe Power's (Forward Prize winner) National Trust commissioned 'Once More the Sea' sequence in full. Walter Bruno's... -
The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling by Mary Kinzie 9780226437354
RRP: €96.39Booksplease Price: €93.46The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena... -
Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill by Mutlu Konuk Blasing 9780521106139
Booksplease Price: €38.22Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional... -
Shakespeare's Creative Legacies: Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers by Peter Holbrook 9781474234481
Booksplease Price: €35.56We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and... -
The Image and Influence of America in German Poetry since 1945 by Gregory Divers 9781571132420
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09This book focuses on the image of the US in German poetry and the reception of American poetry in Germany since 1945. Gregory Divers examines poems by major figures in 20th-century German literature... -
The Last to Leave: Selected Poems by Dirk van Bastelaere 9780907562702
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Dirk van Bastelaere (born 1960) is regarded as one of the leading poets in Flanders. He came early to prominence with his first collection 'Vijf jaar' (Five Years, 1984), which was awarded the prize... -
Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill by Mutlu Konuk Blasing 9780521496070
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €101.46Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional... -
PN Review 273 by Michael Schmidt 9781800173729
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06The September-October 2023 issue. During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry,... -
The Best American Poetry 1999 by David Lehman 9780684860039
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90Sales have escalated for THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY since the debut volume in 1988, and what has become a must for poetry lovers should stir even more excitement with Robert Bly as this year's guest... -
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991, Revised Anniversary Edition by James Schuyler 9781885983817
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.29This fully updated edition of James Schuyler’s letters to three dozen intimates, published on the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth, offers unparalleled insights into the lives, friendships,... -
The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling Mary Kinzie 9780226437361
Booksplease Price: €36.21The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena... -
The Power of Delight: A Lifetine in Literature, Essays 1962-2002 by John Bayley 9780393344929
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €35.11Beginning his career at Oxford in the 1950s, the ever-incisive John Bayley has been one of the great bulwarks--in the tradition of William Hazlitt and Edmund Wilson--of twentieth-century world...