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The Collected Poems of James Laughlin by James Laughlin 9780811218764
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.42Published in his centenary year, The Collected Poems of James Laughlin encompasses in one majestic volume all of the poetry (with the exception of his verse memoirs, Byways) written by the... -
Byways by James Laughlin
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $50.78The long-awaited memoirs of New Directions' founder. James Laughlin, the late founder and publisher of New Directions, was also a poet of elegance and distinction. At his death in 1997 at the age of... -
The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin by James Laughlin 9780811216678
Booksplease Price: $44.50James Laughlin-poet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directions-was still at work on his autobiography when he died at 83. He left behind personal files crammed with... -
Henry Miller and James Laughlin: Selected Letters by James Laughlin 9780393038644
RRP: $87.15Booksplease Price: $73.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin by James Laughlin 9780393246209
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $56.99A friendship struck in 1942 would last for forty-one years through critical acclaim and rejection, commercial success and failure, manic highs, bouts of depression, and serious and not-so-serious... -
Beside the Shadblow Tree: A Memoir of James Laughlin by Hayden Carruth 9781556590993
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590993Author Hayden CarruthFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint -
Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: Selected Letters by Guy Davenport 9780393059502
RRP: $87.15Booksplease Price: $72.91This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of The Geography of the Imagination. More than simply detailing an... -
James Laughlin, New Directions Press, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound by Gregory Barnhisel 9781558494787
Booksplease Price: $73.23Although James Laughlin (1914-1997) came from one of Pittsburgh's leading steel-making families, his passions were literary rather than industrial - he wanted to be a poet. Laughlin was a freshman at... -
The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter James McLaughlin 9780881634365
RRP: $130.18Booksplease Price: $126.17Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as the very material from which we... -
The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter James McLaughlin 9781138005860
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as the very material from which we... -
Phobia and American Literature, 1705–1937: A Therapeutic History Don James McLaughlin 9780198945987
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $169.66Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History tells a neglected, two-century history of phobia's gradual emergence as a variable suffix in medicine, politics, and literature, ready... -
The Selected Letters of John Berryman by John Berryman
RRP: $71.30Booksplease Price: $61.95A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind selection of Berryman's correspondence with friends, loved ones, writers, and editors, showcasing the turbulent, fascinating life and mind of one of America's major... -
Bearskin: A Novel by James A McLaughlin
Booksplease Price: $26.29WINNER OF THE 2019 EDGAR FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL"Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling-filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of... -
bury it by Sam Sax
Booksplease Price: $24.89sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer... -
Portraits in Steel: An Illustrated History of Jones and Laughling Steel Corporation by The Kent State University Press 9780873386241
Booksplease Price: $155.46This history of James & Laughlin Steel Corporation paints a gritty portrait of the successes and failures of the American steel industry. The 131-year life of this American business is presented from... -
Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
Pound's Cavalcanti: An Edition of the Translation, Notes, and Essays by David Anderson 9780691613529
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $84.90This book makes available the entire range of Ezra Pounds studies and translations of the technically complex philosophical poems of the thirteenth-century Florentine Guido Cavalcanti, Dante's first... -
The Distant Dead Heather Young 9780857308146
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more than it seems? Sal Prentiss, orphaned and burdened with a terrible secret, just wants a place to belong. Sal lives with his uncles on... -
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RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.85A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more than it seems? Sal Prentiss, orphaned and burdened with a terrible secret, just wants a place to belong. Sal lives with his uncles on... -
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Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop 9781788161732 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.14You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
Christmas Poems by Albert M. Hayes 9780811218085
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.72Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert,... -
A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs: Poetry by Hayden Carruth 9780811213868
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $32.30James Laughlin (1914-97) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions. A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, the last book of his own that he helped to prepare, is a... -
Whereso by Karen Volkman 9781942683087
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.26Known for the transcendent, abstractionist poems of Nomina, Volkman's newest collection returns to tangible experiences of the body-its range of expressivity and physical movement in space. Where is... -
Love Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9780811237499
RRP: $24.15Booksplease Price: $18.33Catullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare... -
Rayfish by Mary Hickman 9781632430311
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $28.20Mary Hickman's James Laughlin Award-winning second book, Rayfish, masterfully adopts and synthesizes the genre conventions of lyric poetry, nonfiction, and criticism, and extends the possibilities of... -
Nomina by Karen Volkman 9781934414064
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.74Karen Volkman's first book, Crash's Law, was a National Poetry Series selection, published by W.W. Norton in 1996. Her second book, Spar, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Merton
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.08Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive view... -
That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems by Vijay Seshadri 9781644450741
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $20.77No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical awareness, and intricate humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. His fourth collection takes on the paradoxes of time and space,... -
Angular Desire: Selected Poems and Prose by Srinivas Rayaprol
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.20Poetry Book Society Spring 2020 Special Commendation. A handful of writers defines the canon of postcolonial anglophone poetry in India. Srinivas Rayaprol has generally been omitted from the list,... -
That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems by Vijay Seshadri
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $31.69No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical self-awareness, and complex humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. In this, his fourth collection, he affirms his place as one of America's... -
Cyborg Detective by Jillian Weise 9781950774074
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $36.50In her third collection of poems, Jillian Weise delivers a reckoning to the ableism of the Western Canon. These poems investigate and challenge the ways that nondisabled writers have appropriated... -
Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig Ned Drew 9781933360485
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.81This concise overview of the work of designer Alvin Lustig (1915-55) focuses on his book covers, vehicles for his bold graphic experimentation. Here is a colorful and well-researched... -
The Poetry of Ezra Pound by Hugh Kenner
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25This pioneering study did much to rehabilitate Ezra Pound's reputation after a long period of critical hostility and neglect. Published in 1951, it was the first comprehensive examination of the... -
The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound 9780811213264
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $38.91Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said "[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it-in the words; fuses... -
Brother by Matthew Dickman
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38A dual-authored volume of poems from the multi-award winning Dickman twins - leading voices in America's outstanding generation of younger poets.Although the brothers extol differing inspirations... -
ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound 9780811218931
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.50This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound's aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9: 1939-1941 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $87.28This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After... -
Emporium Aditi Machado 9781643620299
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45In Emporium, Aditi Machado investigates transnationalism and translation in poems that follow a merchant woman as she travels a twenty-first century "silk route." As on the original silk route, this... -
Life Before Us by Romain Gary
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.68Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and... -
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach 9780803260979
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.80"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."-Janet Flanner,...