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Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems by Robert Pinsky 9780691278230
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.57The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate-now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert... -
The Life of David by Robert Pinsky 9780805211535
Booksplease Price: £12.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Proverbs of Limbo: Poems by Robert Pinsky 9780374609153
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.04Proverbs of Limbo, Robert Pinsky's first new book of poetry in eight years, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders. In this collection, the poet mines limbal... -
Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet by Robert Pinsky
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £13.09In late-1940s Long Branch, an historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighbourhood of Italian, Black and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet... -
The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky 9780374526177
Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526177Author Robert PinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems by Robert Pinsky
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60This text gathers together all Robert Pinsky's poetry, including 21 new poems. The verse essay "An Explanation of America" (Carcarnet, 1980) remains at the heart of this work. The book also includes... -
Jersey Rain: Poems by Professor Robert Pinsky 9780374527723
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527723Author Professor Robert PinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64 -
Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet by Robert Pinsky 9781324066071
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.23In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighbourhood of Italian, Black and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet... -
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters by Robert Pinsky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes,... -
Talking With Poets: Interviews with Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Michael Hofmann, and David Ferry. by Harry Thomas 9781590510957
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590510957Author Harry ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint < -
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the President by David Lehman
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.12Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743243506Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster 9780691234045
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.99A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to... -
Real Sofistikashun by Tony Hoagland 9781555974558
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.04A conversational collection of essays on poetry, offering a highly entertaining analysis of poetic craft with insightful writings on poets like Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Louise Gluck. Hoagland... -
Manderley: POEMS by Rebecca Wolff 9780252070051
Booksplease Price: £15.68Selected by Robert Pinsky as one of five volumes published in 2001 in the National Poetry Series In the Manderley of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's forbidding haven of mocking ghosts and secrets that... -
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Tony Kushner 9780802140159
Booksplease Price: £14.79As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates, a dangerous illusion persists that the American Jewish community speaks with a single voice, expressing universal, uncritical support for the policies... -
Boy by Patrick Phillips 9780820331195
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.28This second collection, a follow-up to Patrick Phillips' award-winning debut, navigates the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. Like Virgil's Aeneas, the book's central... -
Bad Boys, Bad Times: The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Prewar Years, 1937-1941 by Scott H. Longert 9780804012171
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68How to live with difference-not necessarily in peace, but with resilience, engagement, and a lack of vitriol-is a defining worry in America at this moment. The poets, fiction writers, and essayists... -
Old Heart: Poems by Stanley Plumly 9780393333183
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £12.58In Old Heart, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality in all its rich variety-in the detailed natural world at hand, in the immediacy of loss, and in his own personal encounters... -
The Best American Poetry 2009: Series Editor David Lehman by David Wagoner 9780743299770
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.78Award-winning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry-"a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Eagerly... -
How the End First Showed by D. M. Aderibigbe 9780299319847
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Crafting raw memories into restrained and compact verse, D. M. Aderibigbe traces the history of domestic and emotional abuse against women in his family. A witnessing son, grandson, nephew, and... -
What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump by Martin Espada 9780810140776
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump-about much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election,... -
Where's the Moon, There's the Moon Dan Chiasson 9781852248710
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation' (Frank Bidart). His latest collection, "Where's the Moon, There's... -
The Second Child Deborah Garrison 9781852247980
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Deborah Garrison's "The Second Child" is a book of poems about family in a world both more exciting and more frightening than ever before. It explores many facets of motherhood - ambivalence,... -
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781324066088
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A ground-breaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and... -
Natural History and Other Poems Dan Chiasson 9781852247362
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation' (Frank Bidart). This book - his first to be published in Britain - brings together poems from his... -
Estate Sale Dan Murphy 9781647692322
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry In a house full of stanzas found in Estate Sale, Dan Murphy opens the door on the objects of his life: accumulated experience and imagination, trauma,... -
Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric by Jonathan F. S. Post 9780520227521
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and... -
The Cineaste: Poems A. Van Jordan 9780393348736
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A. Van Jordan, an acclaimed American poet and the author of three previous volumes, "demonstrates poetry's power to be at once intimate and wide-ranging" (Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World)... -
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Scott Burnham 9780691230689
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.23An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the... -
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud Stephen Greenblatt 9780300283334
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy... -
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Mr. Bill Hayes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'I was riveted by Sweat and its extraordinary tale of the ups and downs of exercise over millennia' Jane Fonda 'Does what all good history books should do: take the past and make it vastly more... -
The Abundance Annie Dillard 9781782117735
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed...