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ACROSS the RIVER by Texas Review Press 9781933896359
Booksplease Price: $8.95Set over the course of one winter at a hospital in Washington, "Across the River" is a linked series of stories about the trials of the body and their meaning for the spirit. From the psychology of... -
Heiress by Elisabeth Murawski 9781680031683
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.86Murawski is a master of consummate poetic craft, as comfortable in handling the rigors of formal poetry as she is the subtle demands of distinguished free verse. The poems of this remarkable... -
Because a Fire in Our Heads by Jay Udall 9781680031508
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.86These poems explore desire in its many forms-sensual, emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual-confronting an infinite cosmos, existential separateness and vulnerability, violence,... -
To Pay for Our Next Breath: Poems Volume 12 by Alfonso Zapata 9781680034141
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680034141Author Alfonso ZapataFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint -
Basic Heart by 9781933896281
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27"Basic Heart" is a primer on the emotional topography of the human heart, its complexities and fluctuations, its nuances and metaphors. From tropes grounded in the fantastic landscapes of awareness,... -
Constant State of Leaping by Karla K. Morton
Booksplease Price: $18.90This collection, Morton's tenth, is a bold book of poetry delving into risks. It's the moving forward; the constant discovery of new things. Using a combination of quotes, mythological images, and... -
How Many Faces Do You Have? by Mike Schneider 9781680031324
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.80How Many Faces Do You Have? is a poem sequence that interrogates intimacy, each poem a face the poet discovers, a reflection revealed in response to inner questioning. In a voice of quiet sonority,... -
Ephemera by Evana Bodiker 9781680031485
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27In Ephemera, winged creatures elegize and celebrate the beauty of evanescence simultaneously. The poems speak to the ambivalence of coming of age beset by the daily trials of chronic illness as... -
The Cave Volume 41: Poems by Ryan Vine 9781680034349
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.98Critics describe The Cave, the long-awaited second collection from award-winning poet Ryan Vine, as “powerful and completely realized,” “profound and enduring,” and “utterly masterful and deeply... -
Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems by Jack Butler 9781933896960
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.63Jack Butler’s Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems is a celebration that refuses to explain away pain and trouble, or to oversell the very transcendence it seeks. Its poems are always musical,... -
The M240 Machine Gun by Paul Ruffin 9781937875831
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.80The M240 Machine Gun traces the development of the weapon, currently the primary medium-weight machine gun of our military, through the latest configuration, the M240 SLR, designed and manufactured... -
Wooden Lions by Karla K. Morton 9781680031256
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.41Wooden Lions is the ultimate animal-lovers' book, with each poem in this amazing collection cradling the soul of a creature. Morton's poetry winds through our connection with the animal spirit,... -
The Geometry of Wishes by Randall Watson 9781680031614
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.86In Randall Watson's The Geometry of Wishes, as much a subtle narrative sequence as it is a collection of lyrical meditations, an ecstatic generosity arises from an elegiac base, moving through our... -
Maker of Shadows by Joshua Coben 9781933896427
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27Maker of Shadows finds regions on the map–Mumbai, Cape Cod, the Midwest, the Middle East–and in the mind where violence alternates with laughter, and despair gives way to desire. Tropical islands... -
Sometimes the World Is Too Beautiful by Swep Lovitt 9781933896632
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.63Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful combines poems selected from A Boy's Face With Swan Wings with recent poems. Set in the South, with references to Tennessee, the Gulf, Memphis, and Mississippi,... -
Learning about Fire by Ingrid Browning Moody 9781933896687
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.80The poems in this collection inhabit an intimate landscape of basement bathrooms and neighborhood pools, places where the familiar becomes strange: a house burns on an empty highway; Jesus has his... -
Genesis in Japan: The Bible Beyond Christianity by Thomas Dabbs 9781933896991
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Genesis in Japan rises from a journal of reflections that were collected by the author while teaching the Bible to Japanese university students in Tokyo. It relates the diverse responses to the Bible... -
The Downstairs Dance Floor by Taylor Graham 9781881515944
Booksplease Price: $8.95The poems in ""The Downstairs Dance Floor"" are inhabited by family survivors - a father and mother widowed early, who in a second marriage made the best of their losses; the only child of that... -
A Knock at the Door: Stories Lily Hoang 9781680033533
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75First there is a door, and it goes knock-knock. Who's there? Lily HoAng's A Knock at the Door peeps through a tiny, distorted keyhole, and on the other side, fairy tales wait-with patience, with... -
The Southern Poetry Anthology v. 2; Misssissippi by 9781933896243
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.41Often celebrated as the Literary State of the South, and quoted to have more writers per capita than any other state in the Union, Mississippi remains famous for its fiction writers: William... -
Yes, Cancer French Kisses by D. C. Berry 9781680031157
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.80An "X-ray" of Berry's two flings with Multiple Myeloma condensed into haikus. Except where he fudges-out of the haiku syllable-count strait jacket, then calls them cell phone texts, or telegrams, or... -
Low Country, High Water by Sally Stewart Mohney 9781680030679
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.80Inhabiting myriad landscapes, including the marshes, rivers, and sounds of the North Carolina foothills, as well as gulfs, floodplains, and theoverflowing banks of the Chattahoochee, Sally Stewart... -
Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle by Lyn Lifshin 9781680032895
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08This collection of poems captures the life and brilliance of one of racings biggest legends. In a lyrical style that brings the tale of Secretariat to life, Lifshin highlights the beauty and wonder... -
Third Class Relics: A Novel Elizabeth Genovise 9781680033113
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75Forty-one-year-old Abra, the narrator of Third Class Relics, gathers with her brother and cousins for an uncomfortable dinner the night after her father's wake. No one speaks of the one missing... -
Pastoral Habits by George Drew 9781680030792
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.41Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting itsfruit, discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe andthe stunted, so, too, any poet tries to judiciouslyreject less than sterling poems when assembling... -
Unburying the Bones Volume 1: Poems Victoria Buitron 9781680034462
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Unburying the Bones is a book of poetry that serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in their bodies, latent or bubbling-but always present-either in the firm of their ribcage or the soft of... -
In the Night Orchard: Selected Poems by R. T. Smith 9781937875657
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27In the Night Orchard is a retrospective collection of poems gleaned from over three decades of writing by a poet absorbed by nature and culture in the American South. These often-narrative poems are... -
Proprioception: Poems by C Prudence Arceneaux 9781680034028
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Proprioception tastes of a feral urgency to time, to presence, a need. The poems move through ideas of race, of fear, of sexuality, of life already lived in low-level terror now amplified, of the... -
Resurrecting Trash: Dan Phillips and the Phoenix Commotion by Don R. Bates 9781933896861
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59The Phoenix Commotion is a local building initiative created to prove that constructing homes with recycled and salvaged materials has a viable place in the building industry. This process uses only... -
Upon This Chessboard of Nights and Days: Voices from Texas Death Row 9781933896366
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.41In this unique book, prisoners on Texas Death Row share their feelings, hopes, fears, and memories with the reader through a series of nonfiction pieces and original art. This book was edited by... -
The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey: Poems Volume 45 Alex Mouw 9781680034509
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.51The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey confronts religious devotion as something you grasp and something that seizes you. Rooted in the landscape of West Michigan, these poems seek traces of the divine with... -
Transmission: A Novel by J. E. Sumerau
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75Transmission is a story about transformation and the development of self-love. After 20 years of traveling throughout the U.S., Millie Morrison returns to her hometown to make sense of the... -
Quiver: Poems by Luke Johnson 9781680033205
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Quiver is a book of reckoning, a book of ghosts, a book of lineal fracture and generational fatherlesness. It's a visceral guide through boyhood into fatherhood. One that yields witness to trauma,... -
Map Home by David Havird 9781933896946
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.80In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, "maps you home"-home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the... -
Fiestas by Jacqueline Bautista 9781881515951
Booksplease Price: $8.95If one aspect of their consciousness characterizes the Spanish, it is the prevailing philosophy that life is worth what it does to you. ""Fiestas"" is a collection of short stories about modern... -
Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine: Poems by Jesse Graves 9781680032673
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08The poems in Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine take part in many of the traditions of lyric poetry, including elegies for lost loved ones, odes to the beauty of family and the natural world,... -
Imagine a Death: a novel by Janice Lee 9781680032550
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31In the face of a slow but impending apocalypse, what binds three seemingly divergent lives (a writer, a photographer, an old man), isn't the commonality of a perceived future death, but the layered... -
Eschatology in Crayon Wax: Poems by Joshua Robbins 9781680033076
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Joshua Robbins's much anticipated and smartly provocative second book, Eschatology in Crayon Wax, evokes a feeling of being caught between a fragile yearning to be transformed and a whirlwind of... -
Dumb Luck & other poems by Christine Kitano 9781680033854
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.80Christine Kitano's Dumb Luck & other poems offers a portrait of a thirty-something Asian American woman who finds herself living in the relative safety of upstate New York before and during the... -
Unmoored: Poems Elizabeth Burk 9781680033557
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Poet Suzanne Cleary, author of Crude Angel, says this about Elizabeth Burk's new poetry collection, "Unmoored is both existentially serious and massively entertaining." It is arranged loosely in the...