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Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Wilderness and Adoption by Andrea Ross
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €17.02Adopted 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... -
Eleanor by Gray Jacobik
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €12.65In 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... -
Set in Stone by Kevin Carey
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €12.25In 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... -
Where the Dead Are by Wanda S. Praisner
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880358Author Wanda S. PraisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint -
Uncertain Acrobats by Rebecca Hart Olander
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.66These 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... -
Deke Dangle Dive by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.36What 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?... -
Boy by Tracy Youngblom
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €10.89A 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... -
The Body at a Loss by Cati Porter
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880716Author Cati PorterFormat PaperbackImprint -
Italian Blood: A Memoir by Denise Tolan 9781933880952
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €16.48A memoir dealing with the aftermath of abuse. “I’ve heard that some volcanic eruptions are soft with oozing streams of lava dancing down the side of the volcano like a Las Vegas chorus line. My... -
Rise Wildly by Tina Kelley 9781933880808
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.41In 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... -
Mausoleum of Flowers by Daniel Summerhill
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €10.89A 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... -
Divina Is Divina - Poetry by Jack Wiler
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880204Author Jack WilerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint -
Pelted by Flowers by Kali Lightfoot
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.41Kali 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... -
The One Fifteen to Penn Station by Kevin Carey
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880297Author Kevin CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
Truth Has a Different Shape by Kari O'driscoll 9781933880761
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €16.93A 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... -
Wonderama – Poems by Catherine Doty 9781933880822
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.23Winner 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... -
History Is Embarrassing by Karen Chase 9781960327024
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €17.36A 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... -
Tanto Tanto by Marina Carreira
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880907Author Marina CarreiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
Cracked Piano by Margo Taft Stever
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €15.01Margo 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... -
A Half-Life by David S. Cho
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880891Author David S. ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint < -
Lives Brought to Life – 20 Years of Literature of Emotion and Everyday Life by Joan Cusack Handler
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €22.05Founded twenty years ago by poet, memoirist, and clinical psychologist Joan Cusack Handler, CavanKerry Press has published fine literary work by established and emerging writers focused on the... -
Gloved Against Blood by Cindy Veach
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880648Author Cindy VeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint -
In the River of Songs by Susan Jackson 9781933880921
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.28A 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... -
Her Kind by Cindy Veach
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.33Unique 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... -
Without My Asking – Poetry by Robert Cording
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €12.84In 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... -
When Did We Stop Being Cute? by Martin Wiley
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €10.89A coming-of-age collection set to the music of the 1980s and 90s. This novel in poetic form tells the story of a young man dealing with the challenges of growing up mixed-race in 1980s suburbia. In... -
The Snow`s Wife Frannie Lindsay 9781933880815
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €16.59The 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... -
Sweet World by Maureen Seaton
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €15.01Sweet 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... -
Scraping Away by Fred Shaw 9781933880785
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €12.25In 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... -
The Laundress Catches Her Breath by Paola Corso
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €12.28This powerful collection of poetry features a chain-smoking, working-class Italian American woman struggling to support herself and find meaningful work in a depressed mill town. She endures the... -
Elegy for the Floater by Teresa Carson 9781933880075
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €12.47"...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,... -
The Breath of Parted Lips by Sydney Lea 9780967885629
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €25.34A collection of 130 poems contributed by Frost Place residents, many of whom have risen to prominence. Some contributors' poems were written during their tenures on the farm. Such poets as Robert... -
Against Consolation by Robert Cording 9780967885698
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €12.95The title poem takes its name from a passage by Simone Weil, "We must not weep so that we may not be comforted." But in this and other poems, Robert Cording offers a more hopeful vision of our... -
Life with Sam by Simeon Hutner 9780970718655
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €12.95The 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: €14.28Booksplease Price: €12.95Kenneth 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 Poetry Life by Baron Wormser 9781933880051
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €15.05Baron Wormser brings to life the immense force poetry can have in people's lives. In stories funny, tender, sad, and edgy, the narrators register how poetry has changed how they see themselves, how... -
The Red Canoe by Joan Cusack Handler 9781933880082
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €14.65A 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... -
Little Boy Blue by Gray Jacobik 9781933880228
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €12.20Little Boy Blue is a lyrically-charged dramatic monologue in the voice of a mother to her absent son. In twenty-three movements, the speaker reveals the facts, feelings, textures, perspectives and... -
Surviving Has Made Me Crazy by Mark Nepo 9781933880013
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €14.61Poet and philosopher Mark Nepo was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma in 1987. His journey back to health awakened a new life. In his latest book, Nepo explores how sacred and useful everything... -
We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders by Pamela Spiro Wagner 9781933880105
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €14.65"...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...