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John Berryman by John Berryman
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
The Heart is Strange by John Berryman 9780374535780
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.65John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately of love and... -
Homage of Mistress Bradstreet by John Berryman
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374506605Author John BerrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
The Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780374534554
Booksplease Price: $19.01John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780571400225
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37This edition of 77 Dream Songs faithfully replicates the iconic jacket, format and setting of the first edition, published in 1964. 'The poem then, whatever its wide cast of characters, is... -
Conversations with John Berryman by Eric Hoffman 9781496826336
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.96The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and technological transformations of the twentieth century,... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780571207695
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs John Berryman 9780571400133
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The never-before-published poems of one of the great American poets, edited and introduced by Shane McCrae.Only Sing is a continuation of John Berryman's vast project The Dream Songs. These 152... -
Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780374617943
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $22.40John Berryman's Dream Songs are arguably the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched... -
Antillia by Henrietta Goodman 9781496236081
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to... -
The Book of Frank by CAConrad
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination,... -
The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine by Don Share
Booksplease Price: $21.20To celebrate the centennial of Poetry, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed the magazine's vast archives to create a new kind of anthology, energized by a self-imposed limitation to one... -
Berryman's Fate: A Centenary Celebration in Verse by Paul Muldoon 9781851321124
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.90Gathering together poems by over fifty poets, Berryman's Fate is at once a testament to John Berryman's living presence in contemporary poetic culture and a gift on the occasion of the centenary of... -
Subjective Geography: A Poet's Thoughts on Life and Craft by Madeline DeFrees 9780899241531
Booksplease Price: $21.96This volume presents, in one piece, much of the careful and nuanced thought of one of the finest American poets of the twentieth century, and beyond: she died at the age of ninety-five in 2015... -
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... -
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The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse by Donald Davie 9780192821577 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.84Booksplease Price: $3.36What is meant by 'Christian' verse? What must there be in a passage of verse thst gives us the right to call it 'Christian'? These are the questions discussed in Professor Davie's illuminating... -
Bearings by Isobel Dixon 9781911027027
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20In her fourth collection Isobel Dixon takes readers on a journey to far-flung and sometimes dark places in poems that are vivid forays of discovery and resistance, arrival and loss. Bearings sings of... -
Figured Dark by Greg Rappleye 9781557288523
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Greg Rappleye's Figured Dark is a collection of contemporary lyric and narrative poems, set in an American landscape, which takes as its implicit theme the journey of the soul from darkness into... -
New and Selected Poems by Henri Coulette 9781800175525
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54This new selection of work (the first in over three decades) includes previously unpublished material and reveals the beguiling style and technical ingenuity of one of American poetry's best-kept... -
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to... -
Life Studies by Robert Lowell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Life Studies was first published in 1959.'In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of... -
Sing by the Burying Ground: Essays by Marianne Boruch 9780810146921
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Meditations on life, literature, and curiosity amid the shadows In her fourth essay collection, award-winning author Marianne Boruch explores the possibilities of hope even in darkness. Through... -
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias by Robert Archambeau
Booksplease Price: $102.18The poetry of John Matthias has long been admired by other poets for the way it refuses to be categorized. Lyrical and experimental, cosmopolitan and rooted in place, it challenges our received... -
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz 9780285636699
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Delmore Schwartz became the voice of a new generation, when In Dreams Begin Responsibilities was published in the debut issue of 'Partisan Review' in 1937. The title story tells of an unnamed... -
Look, Stranger! by W. H. Auden
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.77Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Jonas in Frames: an epic by Chris Hutchinson 9780864924353
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence of... -
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur by Richard Tillinghast 9780472065707
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23Robert Lowell was regarded by many as the greatest American poet of his generation. "Somehow or other...in the middle of our worst century so far," his contemporary and friend Elizabeth Bishop wrote,... -
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity... -
One Lark, One Horse by Michael Hofmann 9780571342297
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one of the definitive bodies of work of the last... -
The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz by Delmore Schwartz 9780374613938
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $27.48When Delmore Schwartz published his first short story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," in Partisan Review in 1937, he became an instant literary celebrity. After the appearance of his first book... -
Names Above Houses by Oliver De la Paz
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.86In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Paz uses both prose and verse poems to create the magical realm of Fidelito Recto - a boy who wants to fly - and his family of Filipino immigrants. Fidelito's... -
Antediluvian: Poems Kameryn Alexa Carter 9780822967675
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $19.39Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality.Jazzy, Surreal Poems That Tackle Desire, Mental Illness, Spirituality, and the EcstaticAbout the... -
Herzog by Saul Bellow
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his... -
A Whistling of Birds by Isobel Dixon 9781913437725
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Elizabeth Bishop's hawkweed, John Berryman's hummingbirds, Ted Hughes's burnt fox - the birds, beasts and flowers of Isobel Dixon's new collection are at times kin to D.H. Lawrence, whose essay... -
Meanwhile, Trees by Mark Waldron 9781780372969
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89These poems may sometimes pretend they're joking but they never really are. And what is it they're not joking about? Death for one thing, and the fact that we don't actually know who we are, and the... -
What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other by Jeffrey Schultz 9780820347219
RRP: $30.75Booksplease Price: $22.42The poems in What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other comb through the rubble of everyday life in search of the shards of beauty and hope that might still be found there. At the same time,... -
The Bughouse: The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound by Daniel Swift
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before... -
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani 9781451624380
Booksplease Price: $20.48Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry...