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James Merrill: Selected Poems by James Merrill 9780375711664
RRP: $23.45Booksplease Price: $18.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711664Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
James Merrill Poems James Merrill 9781841598086
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to... -
Book of Ephraim by James Merrill
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711344Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
A Different Person: A Memoir James Merrill 9798217007677
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 1993.Book InformationISBN 9798217007677Author James Merrill -
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill 9780375711749
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $27.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711749Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint -
Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture Jason Schneiderman 9780472039845
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23What is the internet doing to poetry? Good question! In Nothingism, Jason Schneiderman grapples with the way that digital culture has begun to reshape America's poetry landscape, examining this... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.72In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
A Short Life of Kierkegaard by Walter Lowrie 9780691157771
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.82A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty... -
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing by Arnold Weinstein 9780691254791
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.82A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our livesWhy do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.70A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
Riverlight by Theodore Deppe 9781851322084
Booksplease Price: $20.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorTheodore Deppe worked as a registered nurse for many years before becoming a full-time writer and teacher... -
Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics by Frederick M. Dolan 9781501727801
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the... -
Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays by Amy Clampitt 9780472064571
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23Predecessors, Et Cetera collects Amy Clampitt's reflections on her predecessors (the poets Donne, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, and Marianne Moore as well as the novelists Henry James and... -
Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS by Edmund White 9780299170745
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging,... -
Between Lives: An Artist and Her World by Dorothea Tanning 9780810120853
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told.Fourteen years ago, the artist Dorothea Tanning published Birthday, a... -
Grace Hartigan 9781913875886
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.49Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention explores the significant impact mid-century American poets and poetry had on painter Grace Hartigan's early career during the 1950s and 1960s. Through a ... -
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse by John Hollander
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.11In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty... -
Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams by Rachel Hadas 9780472067190
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23Merrill, Cavafy, Poems and Dreams is a collection that--as the title indicates--looks both outward and inward. It begins with essays on Greek poets from Homer to Ritsos, in which Rachel Hadas's... -
Four Seasons by J. D. McClatchy 9781841597812
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $10.04Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson and Thoreau; from Keats, Blake and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes and Amy Clampitt. Here are... -
Poems Of The Sea J D McClatchy 9781841597461
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids,... -
Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan F. S. Post 9780198851417
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short... -
The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday TimesJust married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to... -
Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman by Alvin Feinman 9780691170534
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because... -
Cracks in the Invisible: Poems by Stephen Kampa 9780821419526 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $2.01Stephen Kampa's poems are witty and restless in their pursuit of an intelligent modern faith. They range from a four-line satire of office inspirational posters to a lengthy meditation on the silence... -
The Blue Maiden by Anna Noyes 9781786495815
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young...