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Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018A New York Times Notable Book of 2018Even the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against,... -
Eternity: Selected Poems by Tracy K. Smith
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs' The New York TimesUS Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith... -
Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K Smith
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Award Finalist 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780345804075Author Tracy K. Smith -
Duende: Poems by Tracy K. Smith 9781555974756
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.76Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores the history and intersections of folk traditions and political resistance. One poem tells of a Ho-Chuk Indian boy, separated from his tribe by... -
Life On Mars by Tracy K. Smith 9781555975845
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.01In this brilliant collection of new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant and... -
The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith 9781555973919
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.19Recipient of the the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry prize for the best first book by an African American poet, The Body's Question confronts issues of loss, historical intersections between race and family... -
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K Smith 9781555978365
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978365Author Tracy K SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times Tracy K. Smith 9781324134299
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.09A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world. -
Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times Tracy K. Smith 9781324050988
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.50Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterised as "inaccessible", "irrelevant" or... -
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith 9780593467985
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593467985Author Tracy K. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Best New Poets 2015: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers by Tracy K. Smith 9780692420096
Booksplease Price: £10.40Entering its tenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology... -
Best American Poetry 2010 by Amy Gerstler 9781439181454
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.42AMY GERSTLER'S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected... -
The Best American Poetry 2004: Series Editor David Lehman by David 9780743257572
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.37The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. Guest editor Lyn Hejinian, acclaimed for her own innovative writing, has chosen... -
The Best American Poetry 2002 by Robert Creeley 9780743203869
Booksplease Price: £12.64Since its inception in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world as the preeminent showcase of each year's most important contributions to American... -
Freeman's Power by John Freeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the voices of protesters to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is... -
Freeman's Family: The Best New Writing on Family by John Freeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Freeman's: Family is the second literary anthology in the series reviewers are calling 'illuminating' (National Public Radio) and 'sure to become a classic in years to come' (San Francisco Chronicle)... -
Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism: Desire as Power Professor Chielozona Eze 9781350405677
Booksplease Price: £85.65The first extended examination into the structure of influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major Black women writers, an idea that has been widely accepted, this book explores Hurston's impact on... -
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope by James Crews
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An Indie Poetry Bestseller! What the world needs now - featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more. More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote... -
My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems by Yi Lei
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.08Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim-and with outrage-for her frank... -
The Best American Poetry 2021 by David Lehman
Booksplease Price: £15.02The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is "a 'best' anthology that... -
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... -
Stories From a Place Where All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Raven Jackson 9781960078025
Booksplease Price: £46.05A rich and layered photographic exploration of the people and places that influenced Raven Jackson's directorial debut film, Stories From a Place Where All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, the companion... -
The Ecopoetry Anthology, Vol. 2 9781595343086
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative book of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street, the editors of the daring first volume,... -
Peripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound, No. 6 by Sherah Bloor 9780674296299
Booksplease Price: £19.00Peripheries, No. 6, spans the senses with music, choreography, painting, sculpture, archival material, short stories, and poetry by Victoria Chang, Angie Estes, Aracelis Girmay, Joanna Klink, Alice... -
A Boxful of Poetry: Three Contemporary Anthologies with Four Illustrated Poem Cards; How to Love the World, The Path to Kindness, and the Wonder of Small Things James Crews 9781635868630
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.64James Crews's three anthologies of contemporary poems celebrating hope, wonder, kindness, and connection packaged in a beautiful gift box set with the addition of four illustrated poem cards suitable... -
Startlement: New and Collected Poems by Ada Limón 9781472160652
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50'I marvel at Ada Limon's ability to weave on the page her playfulness and wisdom. Her lyricism dances. This is the poetry of a tender and compassionate human' Joan Baez'Startlement is a book of rare... -
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return by CA Conrad 9781802065411
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The new collection from 'one of America's most legendary living poets' (Ocean Vuong), written in the drive to fall in love with the world again not as it was, but as it iswhen the hammerapproached we... -
Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects by Daphne Lamothe 9781469675312
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.44The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies—termed the post-soul era—created new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representation... -
The Furrows: From the Prize-winning author of The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell 9781529115550
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A powerful new novel about grief and mourning from the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Old DriftA BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR and NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARI don't want to tell you... -
Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson by Lisa Russ Spaar 9780813938509
Booksplease Price: £30.16Thomas Jefferson was a figure both central and polarizing in his own time, and despite the passage of two centuries he remains so today. Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia... -
Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects by Daphne Lamothe 9781469675305
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £67.40The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies-termed the post-soul era-created new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representation... -
The Study of Human Life by Joshua Bennett 9781526664532
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15**Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize** **Longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award** **Soon to be adapted for screen by Lena Waithe and Warner Bros.** An award-winning... -
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night: With a new introduction by Danez Smith Morgan Parker 9781472156273
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.94From the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award'Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music' Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade... -
Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body by RaMell Ross 9781913620981
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.73'I may pay rent to a friend for my place in Greensboro, but the South's my landlord; and I'm trapped in its stomach trying to get to its brain. Here, I see butterflies with Confederate flag-grown... -
Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, a Graywolf Anthology by Graywolf Press 9781644452660
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.32Raised by Wolves is a unique and vibrant gathering of poems from Graywolf Press's fifty years. The anthology is conceived as a community document: fifty Graywolf poets have selected fifty poems by... -
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science and Poetry Maria Popova 9781635868838
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The Universe in Verse is an ode to wonder and an exploration of the human search for truth and meaning. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the... -
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the President by David Lehman
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.06Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743243506Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Life in a Country Album: Poems by Nathalie Handal 9780822965947
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.78From migrations to pop culture, loss to la derive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape-borders and citizenship, hybrid identities and home, freedom and pleasure... -
Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech by Professor Allison Carruth 9780226837727
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55Tracing the convergence of ecology and engineering over the last three decades, this book pinpoints a new environmental paradigm that the author calls Nature Remade. Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies... -
Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran 9781324021322
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses, he leaps...