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The Sleep Hotel by Amy Newlove Schroeder 9780932440396
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $13.91Winner of the 2009 FIELD Poetry Prize, The Sleep Hotel is Amy Newlove Schroeder's first collection. This book is packed with surprising and courageous poems that are, by turns, dreamlike, sinister,... -
Prelude: Poems by Brynne Rebele-Henry
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $19.89Prelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of Siena. Speaking through a poetic persona of Catherine of Siena,... -
In Search of the Great Dead 9780809322602
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.18With grim humour and humourous grimness, these poems engage in the themes of death and fame. The title poem of this collection for example, records Cecil's quest for the tombs of the once famous dead... -
Autobiography of a Wound: Poems by Brynne Rebele-Henry
Booksplease Price: $20.72In ancient fertility carvings, artists would drill holes into the woman's body to signify penetrability, which is the basis of Autobiography of a Wound: allowing those wounds and puncture marks to... -
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay 9780822963318
Booksplease Price: $21.01Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category. Winner of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, poetry category.Finalist for the ... -
Life of the Garment: Poems by Deborah Gorlin 9780872331921
Booksplease Price: $14.14In her vital, elegiac poems, Deborah Gorlin inventories her dead in urgent acts of recognition and commemoration. Family members - both nuclear and extended - appear in their native stories to... -
Janet's Cottage: Poems by D H Tracy 9781587313936
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.23D.H. Tracy's debut volume, winner of The New Criterion Poetry Prize, marks a major event in contemporary poetry. Janet's Cottage collects the richly textured, highly musical poems that have become... -
回 / Return Emily Lee Luan 9781068751530
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.35Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese "reversible" poem, / Return is engaged in the act of looking back-toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory... -
Earnest, Earnest?: Poems by Eleanor Boudreau 9780822966302
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $17.73In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover's name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises... -
Oedipus The King by Sophocles 9780195054934
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36In this highly-acclaimed translation of the most famous of all Greek tragedies, Stephen Berg - a well-known poet - and Diskin Clay - a distinguished classicist - combine their talents to produce a... -
Tough Luck: Poems by Todd Boss 9780393356632
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48At the centre of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough... -
Radiation King by Jason Gray 9780999199435
Booksplease Price: $18.95Ten years in the making, Radiation King, the second full-length collection by poet Jason Gray, takes us to the beginning and the possible futures of the atomic world we created at the start of the... -
From Eves Rib by Gioconda Belli 9781880684139
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $12.93Gioconda Belli's poetry, widely published and revered in Latin America and Europe, celebrates the longing for a society in which humanity constructs its future, animated by an inextinguishable... -
Parallax Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach 9781682262689
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Julia Kolchinsky's Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet's birthplace. As her child expresses a fascination... -
The Gate of Horn: Poems 9780810152120
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.14Apart from two volumes published in the 1990s, the work of L.S. Asekoff has been winning admirers only among those lucky enough to encounter it in poetry journals and magazines over the last three... -
Plunder: Poems by Dorsey Craft
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.66Winner of the 2019 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. "You will love Dorsey Craft's rollicking persona, Pirate Bonny Annie, who, in this thrilling book of poems, serves up heaps of... -
The Invention of the Darling: Poems Li-Young Lee 9781324123477
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57"The poet of rapture and tenderness" (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God... -
Identifying the Pathogen Jennifer Militello 9781961209442
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $19.77A hybrid collection blending historical research and contemporary essays to consider the nature of oppressive marriage and gender inequity. Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries,... -
The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems by Nicole Sealey 9780810133129
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.84The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium, in conjunction with Northwestern University Press, is delighted to announce that Nicole Sealey is the winner of the fourth annual Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry... -
Twenty First Century Blues by Richard Cecil
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.06Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in this fourth collection from Richard Cecil. Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty... -
Open Fire: Poems by Deborah Gorlin 9780872333703
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $16.24Even as they consider the paradoxical properties of fire, its potential both for creativity and for destruction, the poems in this book burn with the intent to illuminate the objects of their... -
Being with Trees: Awaken Your Senses to the Wonders of Nature; Poetry, Reflections & Inspiration by Hannah Fries
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Whether on a walk a city park, local nature preserve, or national wilderness area, the wonders and healing power of nature are accessible to all. To enhance the experience and foster mindful... -
Good Morning and Good Night by David Wagoner 9780252072390
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.07By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's surprises, David Wagoner has succeeded in constantly expanding his range in a career that spans more than fifty years... -
Vanishing Acts by Brian Barker 9780809337279
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.76In Vanishing Acts, Brian Barker cements his reputation as one of contemporary poetry's great surrealists. These prose poems read like dreams and nightmares, fables and myths. With a dark... -
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran's Memoir by Khadijah Queen 9781538771150
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58It's the late 1990s-Tupac is taking over radio waves, Inkster, Michigan is as Midwest as ever, and a young Khadijah Queen has just been recruited to join the U.S. Navy while working her day job at... -
What Good is Heaven: Poems by Raye Hendrix 9781680033717
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Set in a rural agricultural community in north Alabama, deep in the Appalachian foothills, What Good is Heaven interrogates the complicated relationship between violence and love. Viewed through the... -
March Toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac 9780142414460
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.30From the multi-award-winning author of Code Talker comes a Native American perspective on the Civil War.Louis Nolette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian from Canada, is recruited to fight in the... -
Quiet Armor: Poems by Stevie Edwards 9780810146464
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.09New poetry from Stevie Edwards, author of Sadness WorkshopQuiet Armor, the third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships... -
Dear Diaspora Susan Nguyen 9781068751516
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The... -
Loew's Triboro by John Allman
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.95An evocative, often mischievous remembrance and reinvention by the poet of his youth in the New York City of the '40s and '50s. In Loew's Triboro, John Allman's fourth collection of poems with New... -
Bringing the Shovel Down by Ross Gay 9780822961352
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $19.16Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the... -
Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda & His Muse by Alexandria Giardino 9781944903343
Booksplease Price: $18.79A poetic, beautifully illustrated picture book inspired by Ode to the Onion by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Pablo has a lunch date with his friend Matilde, who shows the moody poet her... -
Crossroad Mirror: Poems Hussain Ahmed 9780810149304
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86War and its reverberations propel people across the Nigerian landscape in Hussain Ahmed's third collection In Crossroad Mirror many poems begin after sundown- in quiet moments when the bounds between... -
The Concrete River: Poems by Luis J. Rodriguez 9780915306428
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $15.83Winner of the Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, The Concrete River's poems illuminate the gritty idiosyncrasies of immigrant life in urban barrios spanning Los Angeles to Chicago to Harlem... -
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers by Natasha Trethewey 9780976629627
Booksplease Price: $19.51In just three years, ""Best New Poets"" has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology... -
Get Closer Ryan Van Winkle 9781846977367
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle uses photographs to access themes of abandonment, generational incomprehension and the very notion of how we end up where we are. This collection is a poetic... -
Second Nature by John C. Witte
RRP: $144.65Booksplease Price: $13.64John Witte's poetry sweeps the reader immediately into its crosscurrents, its passionate engagement and its ambivalence. Composed of staggered tercets, the poems in Second Nature track the chaotic... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: $36.85Booksplease Price: $19.01From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting... -
The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso 9780199535354
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581),... -
The Local World by Mira Rosenthal 9781606351055
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.93"Mira Rosenthal's The Local World incorporates deeply lived experience and mystery in a fluent shape-shifting that can take you anywhere- and bring you back, changed. The poems are beautifully...