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And And And by Cole Swensen 9781848618831
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Swensen is psychopomp back to an orphic sense of voice, one the critic Elizabeth Sewell, in The Orphic Voice, describes as ...a kind of manual of language and mind as a dance of relations, moving... -
Veer by Cole Swensen 9781949944785
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949944785Author Cole SwensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint < -
Goest by Cole Swensen 9781882295432
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9781882295432Author Cole SwensenFo -
Ours by Cole Swensen 9780520254640
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.88These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles,... -
Gravesend by Cole Swensen 9780520273177
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.81"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65) The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or... -
Art in Time by Cole Swensen
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Historically, much landscape art has reinforced binaries such as inside/outside, subject/object, and culture/nature, thus reducing a complex network to an ornament that reinforces a sense of human... -
The Glass Age by Cole Swensen 9781882295609
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295609Author Cole SwensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint -
Noise That Stays Noise: Essays by Cole Swensen 9780472051557
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £21.52Praise for Cole Swensen:"One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry." ---Library Journal "Engaging and delightful." ---Publishers Weekly A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which... -
Best American Experimental Writing by Cole Swensen 9781890650964
Booksplease Price: £15.82BAX compiles the best writing inspired by an experimental ethos written in North America in 2013. It features 75 works by a diverse range of emerging and established writers. The anthology is a vital... -
Which Walks by Laura Moriarty 9781643622774
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A series of poems that explores walking, writing, and making as divinatory practices.Documenting (and interrogating) the poet's daily walks, Which Walks investigates the twin practices of walking and... -
The Magnitude of Us: An Educator's Guide to Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms by Marlee S. Bunch 9780807769881
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.61This teaching guidebook will help educators navigate emerging best practices to center historically marginalized voices and perspectives in middle, high school, and postsecondary learning spaces. The... -
The Magnitude of Us: An Educator's Guide to Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms Marlee S. Bunch 9780807769898
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £79.38This teaching guidebook will help educators navigate emerging best practices to center historically marginalized voices and perspectives in middle, high school, and postsecondary learning spaces. The... -
American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry by Dr. David St. John 9780393333756
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in... -
The Myth of the Simple Machines by Laurel Snyder 9780615161327
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £6.28The gorgeous simplicity of Laurel Snyder's language makes all the possibilities-and the impossibility-of living stand out starkly. Her machines are thought machines, memory machines, the machines of... -
Bethany Eden Jacobson: Ode to a Cemetery Bethany Eden Jacobson 9783777443645
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.58Green-Wood, founded in 1838, was a leader in the Rural Cemetery movement in America. Its 478 acres encompass magnificent grounds, grand architecture and world-class statuary. Throughout four seasons,... -
Trespass: Poems by Thomas Dooley 9780062338822
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.35The 2013 National Poetry Series selection, chosen by poet and novelist Charlie Smith. Established in 1978 by legendary editor Dan Halpern, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and... -
Pine to Sound by Nancy Kuhl 9781848614123
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"If an echo is a 'pining into sound,' Kuhl rewrites it in a way that gives pining uncommon agency - this is not a 'pining away' but a pining toward, a pining into. It's vigorous; it's vivid, but... -
Shearsman 135 / 136 by Tony Frazer 9781848618695
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The first double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2023 features poetry by Martin Anderson, Nora Blascsok, Melissa Buckheit, Stuart Cooke, Carrie Etter, Amy Evans Bauer, Alec Finlay, Amlanjyoti... -
If Trees Allay an Earth Retrialling by Peter Larkin 9781848618954
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39“Larkin’s way of pulling language up by the roots – literally, as we have frequently to go back to the root meanings of words to understand his unorthodox grammar – does not make it easy for the... -
Neo-bedrooms by Deborah Meadows 9781848617674
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Vivid with specifics, with instances of lived experience, this is a work firmly rooted in an earth that is itself unstable. Meadows explores that instability, explores our own complicity, and yet... -
Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry by Barbara K. Fischer
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of the museum. Turning to... -
Nativity by Jean Fremon
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Studded with five gouache drawings by Louise Bourgeois, this erudite, witty fable by the acclaimed author of Now, Now, Louison (2018) considers the ambiguous figure of the baby Jesus and its... -
Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Booksplease Price: £83.59Anne Carson's works re-think genre in some of the most unusual and nuanced ways that few writers ever attempt, from her lyric essays, enigmatic poems, and novels in verse to further forays into video... -
Ringer: Poems by Rebecca Lehmann
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.45Ringer approaches womanhood from two directions: an examination of ways that women's identities are tied to domestic spaces, like homes, cars, grocery stores, and daycare centers; and a consideration... -
Now, Now, Louison by Jean Fremon 9780993009389
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Progressing by image and word associations, Fremon evokes Bourgeois's history and inner life, bringing a sense of fascinating and moving proximity to the internationally renowned artist... The art... -
Anon by Steven Seidenberg
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.15Lyrical, aphoristic poems that move between forms and consider tropes of narrative. The narrator of Anon opens the sluice gates of embittered confession and philosophical reproach to release a... -
The Beautiful Immunity by Karen An-hwei Lee 9781961209077
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27A collection of poems that blesses the reader with a spirit of hope, solace, and inspiration in their own seasons of adversity.The Beautiful Immunity asks how we create good in an imperfect world of... -
Hitting the Streets by Raymond Queneau 9781847771575
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and... -
Water's Edge: Writing on Water by Forrest Gander 9780810145795
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A wide-ranging consideration of water's plenitude and paucity-and of our relationship to its many forms Water is quotidian, ubiquitous, precious, and precarious. With their roots in this element, the... -
It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image & Text Work by Women Artists & Writers Lisa Pearson 9780979956263
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10A marvelously bold interdisciplinary anthology, It Is Almost That collects works by women artists and writers who have constructed hybrid environments that merge image and text. The works in this... -
Desolation: Souvenir Paul Hoover 9781890650582
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.15Fiercely elegiac, the title poem of Paul Hoover's desolation : souvenir began as a "filling in" of the blank spaces in A Tomb for Anatole, Paul Auster's translation of Mallarme's grief-stricken notes... -
Vigilance Is No Orchard Hazel White 9781937658823
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In Vigilance Is No Orchard, Hazel White records her haunting romance with the Valentine Garden, created by landscape architect Isabelle Greene in the foothills of Santa Barbara, California. Jealous... -
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which... -
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wyrd] bird by Claire Marie Stancek
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a... -
Safe Houses I Have Known Steve Healey 9781566895613
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26As a child during the height of the Cold War, Steve Healey learns that his father is a spy for the CIA. Beneath the banality of everyday life-the suburbs of Washington, DC; school and play; his... -
oh orchid o′clock by Endi Bogue Hartigan
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27Poems that break down, expose, and reconsider our notions of time. This collection speaks the language of the clock as a living instrument, exposing the sensory impacts of our obsession with time... -
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan by Jean Daive
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth."Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait... -
Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966 by Andre Breton 9780872869394
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time."Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, Andre Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile... -
The Tranquilized Tongue: City Lights Spotlight No. 11 Eric Baus 9780872866164
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68In the tradition of French poets like Francis Ponge, Pierre Reverdy, and Rene Char, The Tranquilized Tongue offers a series of prose meditations in the form of surrealist declaratives, each sentence...