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One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry: Theory and Practice by Prof. Willard Bohn
Booksplease Price: $52.25Given that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the... -
My Name is Celia/Me Llamo Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz/La Vida De Celia Cruz by Monica Brown 9780873588720
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.19This bilingual book allows young readers to enter Celia Cruz's life as she becomes a well-known singer in her homeland of Cuba, then moves to New York City and Miami where she and others create a new... -
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Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another by Ilan Stavans 9780822324003 [USED COPY]
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $2.16It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the... -
Poetic & Real Worlds of Cesar Vallejo (18921938): A Struggle Between Art & Politics by R. K. Britton
RRP: $78.75Booksplease Price: $73.75The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life and work has encountered problems since the 1950s,... -
Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002 by Martin Espada
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $33.52Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martin Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the... -
One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry: Theory and Practice Prof. Willard Bohn (Illinois State University, USA) 9781501393723
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $85.60Given that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the... -
Final Exam Julio Cortazar 9780811217521
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Peron's government), Final Exam is Julio Cortazar's bitter and melancholy allegorical farewell to an Argentina from which he would soon be permanently... -
Lenin Lives? by Christopher Read 9780198866084
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $51.93Lenin lived a controversial life and has had a deeply controversial reputation in the centenary since his death (21 January 1924) His rise from a conventional, educated, provincial, and middle-class... -
An Apothecary of Art: To Soothe Your Soul by Ravenous Butterflies 9781849948142
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.75'This book combines great works of art with great thoughts from the likes of Sophocles, Harriet Tubman and Charlie Chaplin..... Intended to be a "journey" to help you through any stage of life, this... -
Gondwana Nathaniel Tarn (New Directions) 9780811225021
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83Gondwana: an ancient supercontinent long-dispersed into fragments in the Southern Hemisphere. Contemplating this once-massive landmass at the the end of the world while looking out at the ethereal... -
Ten Juan Emar 9780811232074
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.84A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemon, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts... -
Notes from Childhood by Norah Lange
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.00A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained, interconnected fragments begin with her family's departure to Mendoza in 1910 and... -
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O Annie Reiner 9781032742519
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $65.50The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's 'O' pays homage to Wilfred Bion's lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of... -
The Hoelderliniae by Nathaniel Tarn
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.58Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarn's new collection The Hoelderliniae is a love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich Hoelderlin?- the German Romantic poet-philosopher who spent the last thirty-six years of... -
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature by Scott M. DeVries 9781611485158
Booksplease Price: $238.16A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth... -
The Life and Death of Stars by Kenneth R. Lang 9781107016385
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $73.69In this well-illustrated text, Kenneth R. Lang explains the life cycle of stars, from the dense molecular clouds that are stellar nurseries to the enigmatic nebulae some stars leave behind in their... -
Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology by Willard Bohn 9781441153142
Booksplease Price: $55.86Surrealist Poetry presents new English translations of nearly 150 poems alongside their original French and Spanish versions.Founded by Andre Breton in 1924, Surrealism sought to examine the... -
Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology by Willard Bohn 9781441199775
Booksplease Price: $181.50Surrealist Poetry presents new English translations of nearly 150 poems alongside their original French and Spanish versions.Founded by Andre Breton in 1924, Surrealism sought to examine the... -
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature by Scott M. DeVries 9781611486902
Booksplease Price: $108.57A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth... -
How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them Dai George 9781399408318
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68'An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry' -- The IdlerHow history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - can teach us to... -
A History of Autism: Conversations with the Pioneers Adam Feinstein 9781405186537
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $74.99This unique book is the first to fully explore the history of autism - from the first descriptions of autistic-type behaviour to the present day. Features in-depth discussions with leading... -
A History of Autism: Conversations with the Pioneers Adam Feinstein 9781405186544
RRP: $209.90Booksplease Price: $185.60This unique book is the first to fully explore the history of autism - from the first descriptions of autistic-type behaviour to the present day. Features in-depth discussions with leading... -
Whoever Drowned Here Max Sessner 9781636281384
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $19.22Beloved by contemporary German readers, the poetry of Max Sessner is gathered for the first time in English in Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems. Painstakingly chosen from Sessner's... -
Pedro the Vast Simón López Trujillo 9781917189354
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Simon Lopez Trujillo's 'mind-blowing' (Gabriela Cabezon Camara) debut takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world,... -
Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 by Keorapetse Kgositsile 9781496221155
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and... -
The Promise by Silvina Ocampo 9780872867710
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.95Kirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and of Literature in Translation, of the year!* Voted one of the Big Fall Books from Indies by Publishers Weekly & LitHub's Most... -
A Line of Driftwood: The ADA Blackjack Story by 9781933527215
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.32A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE, 2021 Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous arctic... -
October 16, 1943/Eight Jews by Giacomo Debenedetti 9780268037130
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59For more than fifty years, Giacomo Debenedetti's October 16, 1943 has been considered one of the best and most accurate accounts of the shockingly brief and efficient roundup of more than one... -
Illiberal Europe?: Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine by Leon Marc
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.02Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about... -
Psalm to Whom(e) by Diane Glancy 9781885983343
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing Diane Glancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writings that considers the relationship between place and faith;... -
Trilce by Cesar Vallejo 9781848618404
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Trilce is one of the greatest monuments of twentieth-century poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as The Waste Land and The Cantos in the Anglophone world. Full of neologisms and obscure symbols,... -
Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist by Lois Gordon 9780231139380
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $54.31Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once... -
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach Sam M. Intrator (Northhampton, Massachusetts) 9780787969707
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $29.32Reclaim Your Fire "Teaching with Fire is a glorious collection of the poetry that has restored the faith of teachers in the highest, most transcendent values of their work with children....Those who... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years by Ilan Stavans 9780312240332
Booksplease Price: $44.50This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of Garcia Marquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research,... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421896
RRP: $86.10Booksplease Price: $65.33Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421889
RRP: $166.95Booksplease Price: $159.94Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied... -
Fate by Jorge Consiglio
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98This novel focuses on a group of characters who are all in different ways endeavouring to take control of their fate. Their desire to lead a genuine existence forces them to confront difficult... -
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique by Patrick D. Murphy 9781498521260
Booksplease Price: $107.52In Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of... -
Lamentations of Nezahualcoyotl: Nahuatl Poems Nezahualcoyotl 9781632063861
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.30From award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler's timeless verses.A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualcoyotl was a... -
How Yiddish Changed America And How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans 9781632062628
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $46.14Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how...