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I. by Gerald Stern 9781532362019
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532362019Author Gerald SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint < -
Galaxy Love: Poems by Gerald Stern
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30National Book Award winner Gerald Stern's wistful and lively poems span countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history and mortality.About the AuthorGerald Stern (1925-2022), the... -
In Beauty Bright: Poems by Gerald Stern
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.15The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern's previous work, move into an area of knowledge-even wisdom-that reflects a long life of... -
Divine Nothingness: Poems by Gerald Stern 9780393352863
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.82Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet's past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side of the Delaware River in... -
Odd Mercy: Poems by Gerald Stern 9780393316308
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.47The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are... -
Bread Without Sugar: Poems by Gerald Stern 9780393310108
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.35Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780393310108Author Gerald SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018 by Gerald Stern
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.97For five decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this "sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary" (Edward Hirsch) engages... -
Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry by Dara Barnat 9781609389079
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £66.49Walt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, become so instrumental in this area of poetry,... -
A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith by Ilya Kaminsky 9781932195194
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.43Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America's leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with spirituality and the craft of writing... -
Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses: Poems by Alberto Rios 9780393308099
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.77"Boldly playful, gymnastic and surreal."-Leslie Ullman, Kenyon ReviewReviews"Wonderfully odd, sometimes sad, never predictable. . . . Rios continually surprises us in the way he stretches the meaning... -
Landscape at the End of the Century: Poems by Stephen Dunn 9780393308532
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.67"Here is the mature work of a poet who has always managed to delight-but who now demands something more of us. He asks us to enter the twenty-first century with open eyes: attentive to the past,... -
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by B. H. Fairchild 9780393325669
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.47B. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamers-failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, college boys at a burlesque theater, the... -
Talking about Movies with Jesus: Poems by David Kirby 9780807137710
Booksplease Price: £40.59Celebrated poet David Kirby says that when he was a boy he wanted to run away and join the circus but never found one he liked, so he invented his own. Many of the poems in his dazzling new... -
Mexico in My Heart: Selected Poems Willis Barnstone 9781784100148
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New... -
Harbinger: Poems by Shelley Puhak 9780063233966
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233966Author Shelley PuhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry by Kim Addonizio
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.44The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing... -
Barter: POEMS by Ira Sadoff 9780252071201
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Ira Sadoff's new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: "But because truly being here is so much; because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange... -
The Poems of Jesus Christ by Willis Barnstone 9780393347265
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.00Jesus Christ, whose teachings have been on the lips of millions for two millennia, is revealed here as one of the greatest poets of all time. What happened to deafen us to the poetic nature of his... -
The Next of Us is About to be Born: The Wick Poetry Series Anthology in Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center by 9781606350218
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Next of Us Is About to Be Born is an anthology of fifty-five poets published in the ""Wick Poetry Series"" celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State... -
The Daughter of Man by L. J. Sysko 9781682262306
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The Daughter of Man follows its unorthodox heroine as she transforms from maiden to warrior-then to queen, maven, and crone-against the backdrop of suburban America from the 1980s to today. In this...