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A Charles Olson Reader by Charles Olson 9781857547849
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57Charles Olson (1910-70) believed that poetry exists in an 'open field' through which the poet transmits energy to the receptive reader. Olson's influence on the development of British and American... -
Collected Prose by Charles Olson 9780520208735
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £30.73The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own... -
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics by Nathan Brown
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Poetry, or poiesis, has long been understood as a practice of making. But how are experiments in the making of poetic forms related to formal making in science and engineering? The Limits of... -
The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America by Abram Foley
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized "the author function" in his 1969 essay "What Is an Author?"... -
Black Mountain Poems by Jonathan C. Creasy 9780811228978
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and... -
Narrative Apologetics: Sharing the Relevance, Joy, and Wonder of the Christian Faith by Alister E. McGrath
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.73The Bible is a narrative--the story of God's creation, humankind's fall, and God's plan of redemption. And it is filled with countless smaller stories that teach us about people, history, and the... -
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward 9781471156519
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide... -
A Little History by Ammiel Alcalay 9780976014287
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.52Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, 'A Little History' explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm for American Studies. With... -
Shy of the Squirrel's Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books Andy Martrich 9781469682518
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) in 1951. Jargon quickly gained a reputation as the home of the poetic... -
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.35NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes-this one." -The Washington Post * "Dazzling." -The New York Times Book Review From the New York... -
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt 9780691205168
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.12Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the... -
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community by Martin Duberman 9780810125940
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42With faculty and alumni that included John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Josef and Anni Albers, Paul Goodman, and Robert Rauschenberg, Black Mountain... -
At Buffalo: The Invention of a New American Poetry by Sean Pears
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.20For more than fifty years, in literary circles certainly, 'Buffalo' has signalled not just the rust belt city in western New York but an active centre for poetry and speculative poetics in America... -
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.23For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe-taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides-embodies that art in her... -
Space Odes R. T. A. Parker 9781913861346
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62RTA Parker's Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re-writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding,... -
Ideogram: History of a Poetic Method by Laszlo K. Gefin 9780292740976
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The ideogram changed the course of modern American poetry, and Ideogram is the first history of this important poetic tradition. In modern poetry the ideogram is an idea presented to the reader by... -
Sublime Lungs Kate Noakes 9781915048318
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In Sublime Lungs Kate Noakes turns her attention to the breath. For the first time, she explores her lifelong asthma and explains the impact of this chronic and disabling condition. The breath and... -
Time of Useful Consciousness by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811220316
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.36New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At ninety-three, he shows more power than most any other poet at work today. Ferlinghetti describes... -
The Clinic, Memory: New and Selected Poems by Elaine Feinstein 9781784103200
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Elaine Feinstein's poems are the harvest of a lifetime in literature. This selection, made by the author herself, gathers work from over half a century of published writing, and is completed by a... -
Poems: (2015) third edition J. H. Prynne 9781780371542
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.98J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a... -
Salient by Elizabeth T. Gray 9780811229241
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In the foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, "This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought...