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Boy by Tracy Youngblom
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.26A poetry collection focused on grief and the many ways it can impact a family. The death of a youngest child. An alcoholic and distant father. A grief-stricken family. A tentative faith. These are... -
Truth Has a Different Shape by Kari O'driscoll 9781933880761
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $19.47A family built, a family lost. Truth Has a Different Shape is a story of the power of compassion, of love and loss, revelations and relationship, and the evolution of self. Growing up in the 1970s... -
A Car Stops A Door Opens by Christopher Bursk 9781933880600
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50The poetry of A Car Stops And A Door Opens gives us an insight into the anguish of longing, be it the longings of a troubled student or an elderly grandparent. It is poetry that is grounded in the... -
A Half-Life by David S. Cho
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880891Author David S. ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint < -
The One Fifteen to Penn Station by Kevin Carey
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880297Author Kevin CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
Wonderama – Poems by Catherine Doty 9781933880822
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.36Winner of the 2022 Paterson Poetry Prize, this coming-of-age collection is set in 1960s Paterson, New Jersey.Wonderama is a collection of cinematic, surprising, and at times harrowing poems that... -
Rise Wildly by Tina Kelley 9781933880808
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.58In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching on matters such as marriage, child-rearing, and caregiving for her mother and her earth, Kelley's... -
History Is Embarrassing by Karen Chase 9781960327024
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $19.98A collection of essays full of startling directness, fearlessness, and surprise. Filled with profound reflections and snapshots from the past, Karen Chase’s History is Embarrassing weaves together... -
Without My Asking – Poetry by Robert Cording
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $14.85In poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking, takes its cue from Psalms 90's petition-"teach us to number our days." That biblical sense of limits-of what we can know and... -
Scraping Away by Fred Shaw 9781933880785
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $14.10In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of... -
Eleanor by Gray Jacobik
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $14.54In Eleanor, Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the... -
Sweet World by Maureen Seaton
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.90Sweet World reveals a 21st century life in the midst of an epidemic. It's not about hating, battling, or even ultimately surviving the ravages of the epidemic as much as it is an homage to a life... -
Uncertain Acrobats by Rebecca Hart Olander
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.51These poems address the universal experiences of death and loss, putting the complicated feelings of grief into words. Uncertain Acrobats evokes the feeling of unraveling. The central concern of... -
Mausoleum of Flowers by Daniel Summerhill
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.26A poetry collection that celebrates Black culture, creativity, and memory. From Kendrick to Kanye, to a Sunday in Oakland with Frank Ocean's falsetto in the foreground, Mausoleum of Flowers is... -
Deke Dangle Dive by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.51What is a person to do upon finding out that his older brother has six months to live? What is a father to tell his young sons about the everyday violence, inequities, and injustices of the world?... -
Cracked Piano by Margo Taft Stever
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.90Margo Taft Stever acutely observes and describes human society, past and present. From her compelling and beautiful descriptions of life inside a nineteenth-century private insane asylum to her... -
Pelted by Flowers by Kali Lightfoot
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.58Kali Lightfoot's kindergarten teacher told her parents that Kali had "a well-developed sense of beauty and can skip with both feet." This proved prophetic for a life that has included a number of... -
Her Kind by Cindy Veach
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.13Unique poems that bring history to life by weaving narratives of the Salem Witch Trials with stories of contemporary women. Set against the historical backdrop of the Salem Witch Trials, Her Kind... -
Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Wilderness and Adoption by Andrea Ross
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $19.59Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this... -
In the River of Songs by Susan Jackson 9781933880921
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.08A poetic meditation on life, loss, and legacy. "So what lasts?" asks the speaker in the poem "El Anatsui." This is the central question of Susan Jackson's new collection In the River of Songs... -
The Snow`s Wife Frannie Lindsay 9781933880815
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $18.68The Snow's Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending with a spouse's death. It examines the daily minutiae of caregiving, both the tender and the... -
Set in Stone by Kevin Carey
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $14.10In Set in Stone, Kevin Carey's poems tell stories as dreams, as memories, as rituals, or ceremonies. Carey writes poetry for the everyperson, poetry that deals with memory, loss, and nostalgia in an... -
Walking with Ruskin: Poems by Robert Cording 9781933880211
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50In his poem, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," William Blake hypothesized that "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." Of course, Blake's... -
door of thin skins by Shira Dentz 9781933880365
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.36A hybrid of poetry, prose, and visual elements, door of thin skins is a tale that unfolds in a psychotherapist's and a state prosecutor's office and the mind of the poet regarding it all- door of... -
Only So Far by Robert Cording 9781933880495
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.26In Only So Far, Cording's poetry vacillates between complaint and praise, lamenting and loving our "sowre-sweet dayes" as George Herbert's poem "Bittersweet" puts it. Behind the book lies the story... -
Tanto Tanto by Marina Carreira
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880907Author Marina CarreiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
The Body at a Loss by Cati Porter
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.90Cati Porter's mother began chemo on July 19, 2012, Cati's 41st birthday. Throughout the process, from diagnosis through treatment and recovery, Cati became her mother's patient advocate, attending... -
The Baby Book by Robin Silbergleid
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.28At twenty-seven, Robin Silbergleid decided to become a single mother by choice; The Baby Book depicts her long struggle to build her family through assisted reproductive technology. It is a bold,... -
Divina Is Divina - Poetry by Jack Wiler
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50In this posthumous collection, attention is paid to the present moment. Wiler examines, with humor, compassion and fearlessness, the pleasures in life-especially the varieties of love--from... -
The Disheveled Bed by Nicholas Christopher 9780972304535
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50A collection of poetry about dislocation in an unexpectedly childless marriage. A time of wandering follows a period of exile and adjustment both within and without. The poems are both lyrical and... -
Night Sessions by David S. Cho 9781933880242
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.34The collection presents snapshots of the Korean American experience through poems ranging from the hardships of first generation Korean immigrants, their blue-collar work (though many had... -
Neighborhood Register: Poems by Marcus Jackson 9781933880259
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $13.86"A poet whose voice and message we trust. . .a singular and significant voice. You will not forget this neighborhood, or this poet." from the foreword by Toi Derricotte From the twilight towns of... -
Life with Sam by Simeon Hutner 9780970718655
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58The collection is Liz Hutner's powerful testament to her son, Sam, bravely battling leukemia. The quietly eloquent photographs by Hutner's brother and Sam's uncle, Simeon Hutner, beautifully enhance... -
The Origins of Tragedy & Other Poems by Kenneth Rosen 9780970718662
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58Kenneth Rosen's poems are, at turns, idyllic, comic, conciliatory, passionate. He finds his imagery in nature, in history and literature, in contemporary political discourse and in mythology. He... -
The Red Canoe by Joan Cusack Handler 9781933880082
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50A practicing psychologist and former marriage therapist unveils the role of parents, religion, children, illness and the emotional fiber of spouses on the treacherous terrain of marriage. Red Canoe... -
Grub by Baron Wormser 9780967885674
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58Martin Mooney's poems are darkly comic, muscular, inventive and highly charged. Politics simmer beneath the surface of poems that find their energy in the everyday urban experience, be it work at the... -
We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders by Pamela Spiro Wagner 9781933880105
Booksplease Price: $15.79"...The word "mad'' may conjure up notions that are either arty or primitive. Neither would apply in this case. One of the more stunning qualities of these poems is their composure, their lack of... -
The Waiting Room Reader by Joan Cusack Handler 9781933880136
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50The Reader was co-sponsored and co-conceived by CavanKerry and LaurelBooks partner, The Arnold P.Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine. Publisher Joan Cusack Handler and Gold Foundation President... -
How the Crimes Happened by Dawn Potter 9781933880174
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.50Whether they're graveside tourists in Rome or lovelorn girls on a bus, the characters in Dawn Potter's ravishing second collection of poetry, "betray a fatal longing" for love's complications. By... -
Elegy for the Floater by Teresa Carson 9781933880075
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.36"...in these poems, (there is) a family of 12 with the mother, father, and speaker as the prime characters....In a brilliant crown of sonnets, its most important character, the speaker's brother,...