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Finger Exercises for Poets Dorianne Laux 9781324050667
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.01From "a poet of immense insight and masterful craft" (Kwame Dawes), Finger Exercises for Poets is an engaging and inspiriting invitation to practice poetry alongside one of its masters. With... -
What We Carry by Dorianne Laux 9781880238073
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880238073Author Dorianne LauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher... -
The Book of Men: Poems by Dorianne Laux 9780393342659
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.49Dorianne Laux's fifth collection of poetry peels back time to the summer of love and the Vietnam War. Her keen hindsight uncovers the humanity at the center of conflict with language that goes... -
Life on Earth: Poems Dorianne Laux 9781324110354
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.27In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and... -
Facts About the Moon: Poems by Dorianne Laux 9780393329629
Booksplease Price: $30.39In her powerful fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the grace of working people, she... -
Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems by Dorianne Laux
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.94Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne... -
A Study Guide for Dorianne Laux's for the Sake of Strangers by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375380195
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375380195Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Gale, Study... -
Best New Poets 2014: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers by Dorianne Laux 9780976629696
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.63Entering its ninth year, 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... -
Small Talk: Selected Poems by Peter Sears 9780899241364
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Small Talk gathers poems from Peter Sears's eight previous collections, and adds thirty entirely new poems. The many admirers of his poetry will be delighted to find so many old friends back in print... -
What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems by Kim Addonizio 9780393327090
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.39A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections and two books on writing poetry: The... -
Smoke by Max Brallier 9781880238868
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.88Dorianne Laux's long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes... -
Yellowrocket: Poems by Todd Boss 9780393338348
RRP: $30.45Booksplease Price: $28.10Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention, with poems in the Paris Review and The New Yorker and a series in Poetry. His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately features a... -
The Long Embrace: 21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip Levine by Christopher Buckley 9780899241715
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as many... -
Tell Me: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television by Don Hewitt
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. She is co-author with Dorianne... -
Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems by Kim Addonizio 9780393335255
RRP: $28.35Booksplease Price: $26.42With both passion and precision, Lucifer at the Starlite explores life's dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, suffering and moments of unexpected joy. Whether looking outward to events on the... -
Even So: New and Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems by Gary Young 9781935210337
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.88"I was struck by the wisdom of this work, a quiet wisdom that inheres in images so fully imagined that one can never forget them. The language has been so thoroughly purified that truth becomes, in... -
This Is a Book for People Who Love Dogs by Meg Freita 9780762483136
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Dog lovers rejoice! This Is a Book for People Who Love Dogs is a canine celebration featuring illustrated breed profiles, a history of how dogs evolved, and an exploration of the joys of sharing your... -
The Second O of Sorrow by Sean Thomas Dougherty 9781942683551
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.66Winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize Winner of the 2019 Housatonic Book Award for Poetry Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in... -
New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe 9781324117674
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $23.21Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine),... -
Mortal Trash: Poems by Kim Addonizio
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.76Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called "Over the Bright and Darkened Lands," canonical poems are torqued into new... -
New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe 9781324075035
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $38.72Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine),... -
Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes by Cheryl Dumesnil 9780822964315
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $31.14The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake. The... -
An Ordinary Life: Poems by B. H. Fairchild 9781324036852
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $35.43In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal,... -
The Way of the Earth: Poems by Matthew Shenoda
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42A lyrical collection examines the quotidian beauty that surrounds us despite deep loss and climate crisisThe Way of the Earth is the fourth collection from award-winning poet Matthew Shenoda. In... -
I Am Your Lifeguard: New and Selected Poems Charlie Smith 9781324118176
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $47.38Drawing on nine previous collections and including nearly fifty new poems, Charlie Smith's I Am Your Lifeguard marks the return of one of our most honest and unorthodox poets. The poems in this... -
Translation by Matthew Minicucci 9781606352625
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.57Winner of the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeJane Hirshfield, Judge "What are we to do with anger? What are we to do with love? What are we to do with one another, given all that happens and has... -
All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women by Enid Shomer 9780932112972
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.26Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers' notions of what defines erotic... -
Night Myths - - Before the Body by Abi Pollokoff 9781636281971
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75"A stunning debut, navigating womanhood, mythology, the body, and the surreal knowledge that dwells within."-Jane Wong, author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything... -
Red Obsidian: New and Selected Poems by Stephan Torre 9780889777750
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephan Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands. Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time... -
Threshold by Jennifer Richter
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.03Jennifer Richter presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term ""threshold."" Throughout the collection, the narrator experiences several acts of threshing, or separating-from... -
What the Earth Seemed to Say: New & Selected Poems Marie Howe 9781780377247
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05What the Earth Seemed to Say is a powerful collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of America's most daring and courageous poets. With its 'radical simplicity and... -
Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems Kim Addonizio 9781780372709
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45America's Kim Addonizio has been called 'one of the nation's most provocative and edgy poets'. Her poetry is renowned both for its gritty, street-wise narrators and for a wicked sense of wit. With... -
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject by Jared Harél 9781496237293
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42National Jewish Book Award Finalist Paterson Poetry Prize FinalistLet Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence... -
Rail by Kai Carlson-Wee 9781942683582
Booksplease Price: $26.54Set against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks, Kai Carlson-Wee's debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust, depression, brotherhood, and survival. These poems-a "verse... -
Home Front by Bryony Doran
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Even in peacetime, many women find themselves isolated in a wartime of their own when their loved ones are involved in conflicts overseas. As mothers or wives they live in a state of separation, from... -
The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri 9781945680618
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Winner of an Albertine and FACE Foundation grant. The Abduction details the terror and sorrow surrounding the abduction of Maram Al-Masri's only child by her then husband who fled to Syria, where due...