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The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell 9780062059055
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062059055Author Randall JarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
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... -
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings by Walt Whitman 9780393974966
Booksplease Price: $17.41Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters,... -
Up Above the World by Paul Bowles 9780141191386
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip... -
Walter: The Story of a Rat by Barbara Wersba 9781590789483
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.24Two lonely creatures find that companionship is closer than they thought in this charming tale of friendshipThis is the story of a writer and a reader. The writer is a person. The reader is a rat... -
Dance and Disappear by Laura Kasischke
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, the Midwest. But in addressing these topics, Laura Kasischke finds and reveals the... -
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens 9780571228744
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27This collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets was first published in America in 1954. The Collected Poems was prepared by Stevens himself, shortly before his death, and contains all... -
Future Perfect by Charles Martin 9781421425351
RRP: $23.45Booksplease Price: $18.47The latest dazzling collection of poems from Charles Martin, a modern poet working within the possibilities of traditional measures.To be modern is to live not in a single era, but in a churn of new... -
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... -
On Poets and Poetry by William H. Pritchard 9780804011143
RRP: $64.32Booksplease Price: $50.96William Pritchard's collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin,... -
Paterson by William Carlos Williams 9781800173613
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.09William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), like his friend Ezra Pound, never finished his magnum opus, a poem as impossibly ambitious as the Cantos, but richly invested in the present world. It was... -
Prose: The Centenary Edition by Elizabeth Bishop 9780701186272
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.89Although Elizabeth Bishop is perhaps better known as a masterful poet, she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as this centenary edition of her prose demonstrates. From her witty,...