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After Ruben by Francisco Aragon 9781597098571
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44*Starred Booklist Review* After Ruben unfolds as a decades-long journey in poems and prose, braiding the personal, the political & the historical, interspersing along the way English-language... -
In the Key of New York City: A Midlife Memoir by Rebecca McClanahan 9781597098502
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55In this lively and deeply affecting memoir, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York as only a stunned newcomer can: in overheard conversations on park benches, songs and cries sifted... -
New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims by Kazim Ali
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.11From the Introduction: "The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions of Islam, as well as a full range of genres-poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, political... -
Give, Eat, and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar by 9781636280875
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44Give, Eat, and Live is a selection of poems translated from the 12th century Tamil poet Avvaiyar, arguably one of the most important female poets in Tamil's two-thousand-and-five-hundred years of... -
Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems by Frederick Morgan
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $12.90In Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems, Frederick Morgan reworks and amplifies, in his extraordinary poetic range, the fundamental human themes that preoccupied him-love, death, pain, the nature and... -
Work & Days by Tess Taylor
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60In poems full of bounty, loss and the mysteries of the body, Taylor offers a rich, severe, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. In 2010,... -
Illuminating Fiction Sherry Ellis 9781636281926
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $33.05Illuminating Fiction contains nineteen interviews with fiction-writing luminaries including Edward P. Jones, Julia Glass, Amy Bloom, Jill McCorkle, Margot Livesy, Ron Carlson and Steve Almond. The... -
Under a Future Sky Brynn Saito 9781636281070
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.67Brynn Saito takes her readers on a journey with her father to the desert prison at Gila River where, over 80 years ago, her grandparents met and made a life together. Born of an unquenchable desire... -
The Discarded Life by Adam Kirsch
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.68In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch... -
The Nightlife by Elise Paschen
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.66In Elise Paschen's prize-winning poetry collection, Infidelities, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems ". . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world." In her third poetry... -
Body Painting by Jane Hilberry 9781597090131
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20In Hilberry's poems, the body is a canvas on which a whole range of experiences are painted: grief at the loss of a sister, the adolescent search for God, sexual passion, and ordinary pleasures such... -
Hunger by 9781586540616
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15"Lola Haskins's range is broad; her perceptions are always surprising. Natural objects surpass themselves and episodes of women's history are rewritten in this lively, adventuresome collection." ... -
Rx by Josh Sapan 9781636280394
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15In his debut collection, Josh Sapan guides us through a lifetime of love and loss as he navigates death-of loved ones, of crickets, of houseplants-in an American landscape teeming with wonder and the... -
Sex Augury by C Bain 9781636281322
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01Sex Augury is a collection that practices divination with the symbolism of our radically changed and changeable world. Exercising trans poetics, C. Bain denormalizes the violence embedded in the most... -
Beyond Repair: Encounters in a Fractured World by Sebastian Matthews
Booksplease Price: $17.67In 2011, my family was in a major car accident. We were hit head-on by a man in the throes of a heart attack. It took three years to recover from our injuries, and a couple more to deal with the... -
I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom by Kim Dower
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.80Kim Dower's poetry has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache," and by O Magazine as "unexpected and sublime." Acclaimed for... -
The Sound: New & Selected Poems by David Mason 9781597096133
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.34In The Sound acclaimed poet David Mason collects his best shorter work of the past forty years, including lyrics like "Song of the Powers" and darkly brilliant narratives "The Collector's Tale" and... -
I Wore this Dress Today For You, Mom by Kim Dower 9781636280882
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.49Kim Dower's poetry has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache," and by O Magazine as "unexpected and sublime." Acclaimed for... -
American Bastard by Jan Beatty
Booksplease Price: $15.75American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents-and continents of desire as Beatty finds her birthfather, a... -
Call Me Fool by Bill Trowbridge
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.38Trowbridge's Fool is based on an archetype that runs from the beginnings of storytelling up to modern films (silent and sound), fiction, poetry, and stand-up comedy. He is combination schlemiel and... -
Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 9781597090292
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.84Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's debut, Water & Salt, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices... -
Amplified Dog by Charles Harper Webb 9781597090223
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44Charles Harper Webb's eccentric and distinct writing style makes this collection of poetry a funny and charmingly memorable read. A melting pot of pop culture, historical references, and everyday... -
Old Guy: Superhero: Superhero William Trowbridge 9781888996425
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $6.84Meet Oldguy: your regular aging superhero whose powers have dwindled over the years, and whose very mechanics are seriously fizzling. In seriocomic misadventures, Oldguy valiantly attempts to... -
Six Mile Mountain by Richard Tillinghast 9781586541125
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15Six Mile Mountain is the seventh of Richard Tillinghast's twelve collections of poetry. The poems in this book, sometimes political in emphasis, sometimes sensual, sometimes elegiac, are rooted in... -
The Lifeguard Laura Kasischke 9781636282893
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636282893Author Laura KasischkeFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen... -
Kill Dick Luke B Goebel 9781636284651
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636284651Author Luke GoebelFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen... -
The Lifeguard Laura Kasischke 9781636282879
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636282879Author Laura KasischkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red... -
Sugar Land by Tammy Lynne Stoner 9781597096270
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.27Sugar Land is a southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation. According to a starred Kirkus Review, Sugar Land "is a postcard of small-town Texas life from Prohibition through civil... -
Black Was Not a Label by Kathryn H. Ross 9781636280998
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60BLACK WAS NOT A LABEL is a collection of essays that explores the intersection of faith and racial trauma and the attempt to come to terms with instances of otherness, isolation, racism, erasure,... -
I Only Cry with Emoticons Yuvi Zalkow 9781636280370
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.43The Rumpus Book Club Pick, May 2022Most Anticipated Books of 2022, The Rumpus16 Upcoming Books from Indie Presses You'll Love, BuzzFeedBest Books of the Summer, Powell'sSaul doesn't get why he's... -
The Opposites Game: Poems by Brendan Constantine 9781636283685
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.70AUTHOR OF FIVE POETRY COLLECTIONS * NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AUTHOR, Brendan Constantine presents his newest collection, The Opposites Game. A playful and profound meditation on language, binaries, and... -
Singer Come from Afar by Kim Stafford
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20The five sections in Kim Stafford's Singer Come from Afar hold poems that summon war and peace, pandemic struggles, Earth imperatives, a seeker's spirit, and forge kinship. The former poet laureate... -
Ghost Apples Katharine Coles 9781636280844
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.38In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so asks what... -
Something Indecent: Poems Recommended by Eastern European Poets by Valzhyna Mort 9781597099783
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.31Something Indecent is intended as a kind of symposium on European poetry. Seven contemporary Eastern European poets-Adam Zagajewski, Vera Pavlova, Tomaz Salamun, Ales Steger, Nikola Madzirov,... -
I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend by Ron Koertge
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend easily solidifies his reputation as a poet who is very funny and also very serious. In these surprising and delightful poems, a mannequin joins the Me Too... -
The Darker Face of the Earth by Dove 9781586541200
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $20.37The Darker Face of the Earth, a play by the poet laureate of the United States, creates a human drama of classical proportions. Behind the facade of antebellum Southern plantation life unfolds a... -
As the Sky Begins to Change by Kim Stafford 9781636281476
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20As the Sky Begins to Change is a book of poems to wake the world, lyric anthems for earth and kin. In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with... -
Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe by Jim Tilley 9781636281490
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.33In Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe, Jim Tilley draws on his experience as a poet and mathematician to fix a lens on the current raw state of the country and the world and on interpersonal... -
House Without a Dreamer by Andrea Hollander 9781586541149
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15In the forty poems of her first full-length book, House Without a Dreamer, winner of the 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Andrea Hollander explores the complicated emotions that accompany both... -
A Walled Garden in Moylough by Joan McBreen 9781586540777
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.82A Walled Garden in Moylough demonstrates the ultimate gift of Joan McBreen's poetry: her ability to distill the essence of a moment. She does this with an effortless elegance, a sure touch, and a...