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Spirit Boxing by Afaa Michael Weaver
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.83In Spirit Boxing, Weaver revisits his working class core. The veteran of fifteen years as a factory worker in his native Baltimore, he mines his own experience to build a wellspring of craft in poems... -
The Government of Nature by Afaa Michael Weaver
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.21This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which Weaver analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver... -
City of Eternal Spring by Afaa Michael Weaver
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.26Winner of the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Award (poetry category)This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two... -
A Hard Summation by Afaa Michael Weaver 9781941604007
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941604007Author Afaa Michael WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Central Square... -
Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems by Afaa Michael Weaver 9780822955542
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.56"Weaver's life studies and lyrics are imbued with a vivid sense of language, a vivid sense of the world, a vivid sense of their inseparability. And his tonal range-from unabashed passion to the... -
Plum Flower Dance, The: Poems 1985 to 2005 by Afaa Michael Weaver 9780822959793
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.70Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence "Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes... -
Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker by Martha Nell Smith 9780472037292
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Alicia Ostriker's artistic and intellectual productions as a poet, critic, and essayist over the past 50 years are protean and have been profoundly influential to generations of readers, writers, and... -
Rebuilding the Pyramids by Mike Amado 9780578000411
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £5.35In Rebuilding the Pyramids, we have the rare gift of a lyric carved in the patient space of the wish to live, to continue, to breathe, to make a genuine space inside our lives. The lyric here is... -
I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.42For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has... -
American Poetry Now by Ed Ochester
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £27.02American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary...