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Experience in Groups Geoffrey G. O'Brien 9781940696669
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Experience in Groups sings and thinks the forms of belonging that organize our lives, offering poems that move with honesty and formal intelligence between the individual and the collective. In a... -
Baby, I Don't Care by Chelsey Minnis
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.07"One of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I've read in some time."-Dwight Garner, New York Times"In a flurry of ideas, and with her typically sparse and open-ended lines, Minnis... -
City of Corners by John Godfrey
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54"While others are busy catching their own reflection in the storefront of poetry, [John] Godfrey goes to work on the damage and squalor of the overlooked. His genius rings true."-Peter Gizzi With an... -
The Book of Frank CAConrad 9781933517490
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles. Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque... -
Selected Poems by Dara Wier 9781933517568
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle...Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets... -
Copy by Dolores Dorantes 9781950268573
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $32.13"Without the copying process," the poet Dolores Dorantes has said, "there would be no life, no reality." Through deconstructed dictionary entries and powerfully syncopated, recursive texts, Copy is a... -
Violet Energy Ingots by Hoa Nguyen 9781940696348
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forces--from the economy to the environment, from the Mayan predictions... -
Cities at Dawn by Geoffrey Nutter 9781940696331
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.30Lush, surreal, cinematic, and imagistically precise, Geoffrey Nutter paints the world into his fifth collection of poems. His poems display a consciousness in awe of all matter, be it organic,... -
24 Pages and other poems by Lisa Fishman 9781940696102
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.91Lisa Fishman's sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each other--whether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic;... -
Underworld Lit by Srikanth Reddy 9781940696942
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $36.50Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family... -
Sky Contains the Plans by Matthew Rohrer 9781950268054
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $36.50Matthew Rohrer's latest collection explores the space between wakefulness and sleep, that drowsy loosening of consciousness called hypnagogia. Comprised not of dream-poems but poems that strain to... -
No Real Light Joe Wenderoth 9781933517223
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54"Joe Wenderoth is a brilliant writer, original and subversive, sensitive and strange. I read his work with awe and admiration."-Ben Marcus "Joe Wenderoth's brave new poetic talent is like nothing so... -
I Heart Your Fate by Anthony McCann 9781933517513
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14"The poems of Anthony McCann are beautiful, brutal, and unerring. They present us with, or return us to, a complicated, violent, poignant, weird, and mysterious world--a world which is very... -
Notes From Irrelevance Anselm Berrigan 9781933517544
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14Berrigan's audience is deservedly broad and loyal: he is among the most respected and well-known poets writing in America today, both for his work, which unceasingly challenges language and the role... -
He Paves the Road With Iron Bars by Caroline Knox 9780972348768
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24- Knox's last collection was reviewed in The New Yorker, among other venues. - Knox is widely respected both in her generation and among a younger generation of poets. - Except for A Beaker: New and... -
How Small Brides Survive in Extreme Cold by Steve Shavel 9780972348737
Booksplease Price: $21.63Clumsy acrobats tumbling through the circuses of philosophy, architecture, politics, religion and just about anything else you can think of, Steve Shavel's wild meditations drift and whirl with... -
Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot 9781950268924
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable... -
Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson 9798891060388
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891060388Author Maggie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Opera Fever by Chelsey Minnis 9798891060401
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $30.49The poems in Chelsey Minnis's Opera Fever read like a dangerous bodice-ripper, glamorous and haunted.From the covid claustrophobia in which they were written, these poems sharply maneuver from steamy... -
Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker 9781933517421
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X's likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Sharon Olds."-The Believer Rending the terrorizing forces of modern existence from... -
If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep by Joe Wenderoth 9781933517872
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.73"Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection Letters to Wendy's, Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to... -
Underworld Lit by Srikanth Reddy
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family... -
Animal Days by Joshua Beckman
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $36.50Enacting both the pain and heightened awareness of a body in crisis, Joshua Beckman’s latest collection of carefully assembled poetic fragments seeks to elucidate the synthetic reality of being sick... -
Preserving Fire: Selected Prose by Philip Lamantia 9781940696706
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.30"Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand." -Lawrence Ferlinghetti"An inspired consciousness set at full tilt in raging protest, kisses, prayers,... -
While Standing in Line for Death by CAConrad 9781940696553
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.68Winner of the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry "From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an... -
Sunny Wednesday by Noelle Kocot 9781933517391
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Often breathtaking ...this latest collection from Kocot intersperses frantic images with hauntingly simple and loss-laden outcries. Throughout, there is the poet's thwarted longing for an... -
Royals by Cedar Sigo 9781940696522
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $32.55Rhythmic and energetic poems, exciting to hear read aloud. Sigo is a Native American and gay poet, and we expect that this book will particularly interest both communities. In 1995 Sigo was... -
The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft & Culture by Brian Henry 9780974635354
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14In-depth interviews with poets have been a popular feature of Verse magazine-and this volume collects many favorites, along with new interviews commissioned for this collection. The poets represent a... -
Trances of the Blast by Mary Ruefle 9781933517735
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.68"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."--David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey "What a civil,... -
Moongarden by Anthony McCann 9781933517025
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Like moonlight, McCann's attention gives weird clarity and an alien glow to post-industrial landscapes and human interiors. These poems are startling and irreverent, but also emotional and... -
Superior Packets by Susie Timmons 9781940696058
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.30"Very fast, very conceptual, funny and magical. Nobody like her. I loved her work then and now."--Eileen Myles Thirty-five years' worth of poems by Susie Timmons, a poet beloved by her peers,... -
Phantom Pains of Madness Noelle Kocot 9781940696256
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.30Noelle Kocot recalls a break with reality that occurred a decade and a half ago in vivid, raw language, one word per line. The resulting slender columns are sharply focused and intense. There's a... -
In the Still of the Night by Dara Wier 9781940696560
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $32.55"Wier is a poet concerned with capturing the fluidity of thought and experience and not diminishing its forward charge in doing so. Wier's lines have always had a wild whitewater crash to them,... -
Experience in Groups by Geoffrey G. O'Brien 9781940696652
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $36.50Experience in Groups sings and thinks the forms of belonging that organize our lives, offering poems that move with honesty and formal intelligence between the individual and the collective. In a... -
Woods and Clouds Interchangeable by Michael Earl Craig 9781940696812
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05With his fifth collection of poems, Michael Earl Craig delivers a fresh set of tableaux that have us squinting aslant at the ordinary. Dexterously constructed, the scenes, conversations, letters,... -
The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom Magdalena Zurawski 9781940696843
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Taking readers from suburban carports to wintry Russian novels, from summer tomato gardens to the sublime interiors of presleep thoughts, Magdalena Zurawski's poems anchor the complexities of our... -
God's Green Earth by Noelle Kocot 9781950268023
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The poems of Noelle Kocot's latest collection are ones of acute astonishment, tracking the intense spiritual and ecstatic elements that pervade the everyday world, the "fine surges of torrential /... -
Shelley Gave Jane A Guitar by Richard Meier 9781933517100
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.44"Basking in the twilight of Late Romanticism, Meier ...finds the rays seductive but damaging ...Meier's sophisticated debut promises further developments."-Publishers Weekly on Terrain Vague ... -
The Pedestrians Rachel Zucker 9781933517896
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45"Zucker is a poet of bottom-scraping, blood-chilling existential anxiety, one among many, and a poet of New York City, one among many, and a poet of American Jewish inheritance, one among many, and... -
Profane Halo by Gillian Conoley 9780974635323
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Conscious of politics and of music, these poems continue Conoley's explorations into the questions of grace and redemption, self and other, death in life, language and being, democracy and song. This...