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On Imagination by Mary Ruefle 9781941411476
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.43"It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle... -
Golden Crumbs Mary Ruefle 9781804272824
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49In Golden Crumbs, Mary Ruefle, a master of the absurd aphorism and philosophical curio, shows us ancient anchovies, poets aspiring to be birds, a cryalogue, powdered glass for dinner, friends who... -
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle 9781940696515
Booksplease Price: $26.03Unlike many Wave titles, this paperback edition follows the hardcover by one year and will arrive in the market enjoying a year's worth of very strong publicity and word-of-mouth, attracting new... -
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.70This is one of the wisest books I've read in years...--New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She... -
Lit from Within: Contemporary Masters on the Art and Craft of Writing by Kevin Haworth 9780821419489
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America's most celebrated contemporary authors. Witty, direct, and thought-provoking, these essays offer something to... -
The Lights by Ben Lerner 9781915051080
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and... -
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women by Andrea Hollander Budy 9781932870268
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $46.35When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women is the first major collection of its kind in a generation. It features 97 of the most exciting poets in America including... -
Motel of the Opposable Thumbs by Stuart Ross 9781772141269
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.43In Motel of the Opposable Thumbs, Stuart Ross continues to ignore trends in Canadian poetry, and further follow the journey he began over four decades ago with his discoveries of the works of Stephen... -
Vivarium by Natasha Sajé 9781936797448
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $26.15A vivarium is an enclosure for living things - plants or animals - which might likewise be said of a poem. With a vivacious sensibility and unruly leaps from elegiac to ironic, Saje's new book is an... -
Insomnia Diary by Bob Hicok 9780822958420
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $30.81Bob Hicok's poems are often edgy, brazen, and funny. They're just as likely to be soulful, reflective, and provocative. Usually at the same time. As Hicok builds toward the punchline of a poem set... -
Defense Of Poetry, A by Gabriel Gudding 9780822957867
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $25.95Winner of the 2001 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeRunner-up, Society of Midland Authors 2002 Poetry PrizeGabriel Gudding's poems not only defend against the pretense and vanity of war, violence,... -
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism by Danielle Barnhart
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.85A collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender identity, and sexuality.Creative activists have reacted to the 2016 Presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle Barnhart... -
Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations Nick Flynn 9781733540117
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.48Stay brings together nearly thirty years of work (poetry, memoir, essays, interviews, plays, film), in a mixed-media retrospective that shows nothing is created in isolation. Threads in the artist's... -
Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology by Kathryn Nuernberger 9781350224582
Booksplease Price: $45.28A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing... -
The Station Before by Linda Anderson 9781789621679
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.92Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021Linda Anderson's much anticipated first collection travels across time and space, employing a range of voices, including historical... -
Rombo by Esther Kinsky
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00In May and September 1976, two earthquakes ripped through north-eastern Italy, causing severe damage to the landscape and its population. About a thousand people died under the rubble, tens of...