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Be With by Forrest Gander 9780811226059
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.09Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with... -
The Trace Forrest Gander 9780811224864
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of... -
Twice Alive by Forrest Gander
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.92In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental,... -
Eiko and Koma by Forrest Gander
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.31For over thirty years, Eiko & Koma, the Japanese-born choreographers and dancers,have created an influential theatre of movement out of stillness, shape, light, and sound. In tribute and... -
Torn Awake Forrest Gander 9780811214865
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.35In his new collection Torn Awake, Gander continues to blend passion with intelligence, unveiling the forces of physical nature and personhood, the self as a construction of reciprocally reflective... -
Mojave Ghost Forrest Gander 9780811237956
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.18Mojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness. Moving through grief and loss towards a renewal that... -
Core Samples from the World by Forrest Gander
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811218870Author Forrest GanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Water's Edge: Writing on Water by Forrest Gander 9780810145795
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23A 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... -
Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond 9780691280448
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.25A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest GanderEven Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of... -
Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond 9780691280462
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.30A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest GanderEven Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of... -
It Must Be a Misunderstanding: New and Selected Poems by Coral Bracho 9781800171978
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.83Shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclan Prize 2023. Mexican poet, teacher and translator Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951. She has published several books, two in English thanks to... -
Sur's Ocean: Classic Hindi Poetry in Translation by Surdas 9780674290174
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $19.30"John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities of Krishna, the many-named god, while introducing us-with subtle occasional rhyme-to a vividly... -
A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose by Major Jackson by Major Jackson 9780472039067
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $21.40In this collection of essays, interviews, and notes, Major Jackson reveals and revels in the work of poetry to not only limn and give access to the intellectual width and spiritual depth of poets,... -
Assembling the Shepherd by Tessa Rumsey 9780820321684
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $18.36Driven by an endless matrix of poetic forms, the poems of Assembling the Shepherd create a world where allusions to Plato and the Dead Sea scrolls intermingle with car culture and terrorism, where... -
Reading Sand: Selected Desert Poems, 1976-2000 by 9780874174984
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43The ascetic and enigmatic vastness of the Great Basin has challenged the talents of many writers, but few have met the challenge as successfully as William L. Fox. In Reading Sand, Fox's elegant... -
A Marginal Sea by Zoe Skoulding 9781800172517
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55Shortlisted for the Wales Poetry Book of the Year Award 2023. A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Mon/Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of... -
Sun in Days: Poems by Meghan O'Rourke
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.17From acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes... -
Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics by James Byrne 9781911469193
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.11Atlantic Drift publishes twenty-four poets from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada in an exciting partnership between Arc Publications and Edge Hill University Press. This anthology seeks to highlight... -
Psalms by Julia Fiedorczuk 9780299346942
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.43Fiedorczuk was inspired by her readings of the original Hebrew Psalms, as well as by the process of learning to sing. In her poems she captures the heartache and joy of the Biblical Psalms, but in... -
Spectacle & Pigsty Kyoko Yoshida 9781890650537
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $12.51If you think of haiku when you think of Japanese poetry, this book will be a huge surprise. The strange and wild poems of Kiwao Nomura deal with sex and loss and memory by making unpredictable leaps... -
Cold Mountain Zen by Hanshan 9780811240284
Booksplease Price: $15.93The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, mystics, crazy... -
The Roof of the Whale Poems by Juan Calzadilla 9780299346645
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47Venezuelan poet Juan Calzadilla (b. 1931), past recipient of the National Prize in the Visual Arts and the National Prize in Literature, is considered one of the most influential poets of the Spanish... -
The Galloping Hour: French Poems Alejandra Pizarnik (New Directions) 9780811227742
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.92The Galloping Hour: French Poems-never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime-gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love,... -
The Hoelderliniae by Nathaniel Tarn
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.87Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarn's new collection The Hoelderliniae is a love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich Hoelderlin?- the German Romantic poet-philosopher who spent the last thirty-six years of... -
[White]: Poems by Trevor Ketner 9780820360393
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $19.39[WHITE] is a book born from obsession. This debut collection of poetry from Trevor Ketner follows two paths of obsession, laying them over one another to tease out a critique of whiteness in the arts... -
Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi 9781916751255
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96Shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Heaney Prize'Mirror Nation offers the best of what poetry can provide-a new way of seeing.' Firecracker Awards,Don Mee Choi delves into South Korea's violent recent... -
Things on Which I've Stumbled Peter Cole 9780811218030
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01In Peter Cole's remarkable new book, the forces and sources that have long driven his work come together in singular fashion. Things on Which I've Stumbled rides a variable music that takes it from... -
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg 9780691148663
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $42.34"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to... -
Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010 by Szilard Borbely 9780691182421
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.08An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the... -
Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010 by Szilard Borbely
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.99An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from... -
The Orange Tree by Dong Li 9780226826165
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.98Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration. Dong Li's The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows,... -
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $39.09"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when...