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Belmont: Poems by Stephen Burt 9781555976446
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.84In Belmont, poet Stephen Burt maps out the joys and the limits of the life he has chosen - or rather, the life that chose him - examining and reimagining parenthood, marriage, adulthood, and suburbia... -
Advice From The Lights by Stephen Burt 9781555977894
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977894Author Stephen BurtFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
The Poem is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them by Stephen Burt
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty-and sheer variety-leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The... -
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'The work of a genuine original ... surreal ... funny ... subversive' Sunday TimesWhat if a deer did porn? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? And what would Walt Whitman's tit-pics really... -
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich 9780393342789
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.19"Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she's racked up. . . . The events of our... -
Never-Ending Birds: Poems by David Baker 9780393339697
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.52Part map, part travelogue, part chronicle, part autobiography, Never-Ending Birds explores a variety of landscapes from Midwestern villages to the boroughs of big cities. Steeped in story-divorce,... -
Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012 by Adrienne Rich 9780393351835
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.04Adrienne Rich's Later Poems Selected and New displays the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most distinguished artists of American letters. After her death Rich left a manuscript that... -
Dance and Disappear by Laura Kasischke
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The 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... -
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... -
New Poetries V: An Anthology by Michael Schmidt 9781847771315
Booksplease Price: £15.93For two decades "New Poetries" has been a proving-ground for new poets in English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird,... -
A Glossary of Chickens: Poems by Gary J. Whitehead 9780691157467
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51With skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title... -
Almanac: Poems by Austin Smith 9780691159195
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.26Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural... -
The Cambridge History of American Poetry by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £43.76The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing... -
On Whitman by C. K. Williams 9780691176109
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.51In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as... -
How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers by Marc Woodworth
Booksplease Price: £38.03If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid cliches (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write...