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Life Studies by Robert Lowell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Life 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... -
New Selected Poems by Robert Lowell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'THE BEST AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION.' - TIMEGathered on the occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a fresh and illuminating representation of one of the... -
The Poems of Robert Lowell by Lowell Lowell 9780371409916
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371409916Author Lowell LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint -
The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 by Robert Lowell 9780374538279
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.97I have sat and listened to too many words of the collaborating muse, and plotted perhaps too freely with my life, not avoiding injury to others, not avoiding injury to myself- to ask... -
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,... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by... -
The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle by Elizabeth Hardwick
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.57The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life, a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both... -
Proverbs of Limbo: Poems by Robert Pinsky 9780374611958
RRP: $34.84Booksplease Price: $22.20Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in... -
Dayswork: A Novel Chris Bachelder 9781324086499
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $15.99In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts... -
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... -
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition by Dylan Thomas 9781780227238
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do. Rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical and full of memorable lines, his poems are... -
Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir by Ivana Lowell 9781408810040
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63From the creator of Netflix drama House of Guinness 'Impossible to put down ... Never before has so much bad behaviour by people who should have known better been crammed into so few pages' - Rachel... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
Interview With A Ghost: Essays by Tom Sleigh 9781555974404
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.88In a collection of passionate and elegantly written essays, celebrated poet Tom Sleigh investigates poetry from the vantage point of his conviction that while life and art are separable, they aren't... -
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... -
Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy J. Schoenberger 9780306811876
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $25.59You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was... -
An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir by Ariel Leve
Booksplease Price: $15.79A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable... -
Red Carpet by Steve Malmude 9781800174979
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54While the place and year of Steve Malmude’s birth (Manhattan, 1940) nominally stamp him as a second-generation poet of the New York School, his hieratic, almost ideogrammatic poems, made slowly and... -
Careful What You Wish for by Peter Sansom
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20A night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival - Careful What You Wish For is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano... -
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328745637Author Megan MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks 9780571170357
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how far this makes Eliot suspect is what Ricks sets out... -
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... -
The Art of Angling: Poems About Fishing Dr Henry Hughes 9781841597881
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry-Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern... -
Picturehouse Poems: Poems About the Movies Harold Schechter 9781841598147
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston... -
The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet by Alice Oswald 9780571218578
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds... -
All Souls: Poems Saskia Hamilton 9781472158741
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia... -
The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 9780811211178
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire's verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable... -
The Italian Visitor by Grey Gowrie 9781847772329
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17From the opening poem, an extended elegy for the Cold War's ambivalent mix of irresponsibility and prosperity, to a concluding short memoir of Robert Lowell, The Italian Visitor is a book about... -
Crimean Sonnets: A New English Version by Kevin Jackson by Kevin Jackson 9781905208302
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $7.10Kevin Jackson's versions (rather than literal translations) of the sonnet sequence written in exile between 1824 and 1829 by Poland's greatest poet, Adam Mickiewicz, are both urgent and memorable... -
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... -
The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle by Allen Grossman 9780472066377
Booksplease Price: $17.54Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Changing Irish Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981 by Elgy Gillespie 9781843510185
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55This 'new journalism' by Irish Times women writers originally appeared on the Women First pages during the 1970s. Together, the pieces reflect the enormous social and political upheaval of the years... -
The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert... -
Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.66'Genius' The New York TimesIn 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Philip Gourevitch 9781847670335
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest... -
Poems: The Centenary Edition by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty...