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Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems by Gail Wronsky
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02This book collects over four decades of work by this unique and imaginative poet. Wronsky's poems, informed by her reading of classical texts as well as contemporary poetics, explore feminism,... -
Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile Pablo Neruda 9781945680649
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile is a stunning collaboration of visions: the vision of a great photographer and the vision of a great poet. Windows That Open Inward is a mosaic of visual... -
The Devil's Country by Perla Suez
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02This novel unravels a tale of vengeance and vigilante justice at the hands of an unlikely heroine, a fourteen year-old girl named Lum Hue, daughter of a white man and a Mapuche mother, and sole... -
There is No Road: Proverbs by Antonio Machado by Antonio Machado 9781893996663
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78"Traveler, there is no road; you make your path as you walk". While others suggest taking the road less travelled, Antonio Machado suggests that we each make our own road. In this series of brief... -
Notes from the Journey Westward by Joe Wilkins 9781935210368
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52"Wilkins' poems are savage and beautiful, full of hard-won lives and a godawful tenderness. In this book Manifest Destiny is more than political rhetoric--it's a call to find the limits of... -
The Poet and the Sea by Juan Ramon Jimenez 9781935210016
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40This bilingual collection traces Juan Ramon Jimenez's relationship with the sea, a major theme in his work, from his seminal book Diary of a Poet Recently Married alongside other poems from his body... -
Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow: Poems from Sung Dynasty China by Yang Wan-Li by Yang Wan-Li
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78The poems of Yang Wan-Li (1127-1206), esteemed as one of the masters of Southern Sung poetry, reflect the magnificent landscape paintings of Sung China. His work is full of humanity and a zest for... -
Women: Recados Gabriela Mistral 9781893996090
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52Most of these essays on women were originally published in newspapers and journals. Gathered together in English for the first time, they paint vivid portraits of some of the most extraordinary women... -
Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems by Tatiana Orono
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems of Tatiana Orono is the first English-language collection of Orono's poetry. Her poems draw on motherhood, the loses in the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1980s... -
Bruno Folner's Last Tango by Mempo Giardinelli
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Out of love and desperation, a man suddenly sees the possibility of changing his life completely and goes for it. It’s a daring move, and as with every bold venture, there’s a price to pay. In this... -
Necessities Christopher Merrill 9781935210467
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €8.93"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."--W. S. Merwin ... -
Looking for Dragon Smoke: Essays on Poetry by Robert Bly 9781945680267
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.78This collection contains some of Bly's seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on... -
Even So: New and Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems by Gary Young 9781935210337
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40"I was struck by the wisdom of this work, a quiet wisdom that inheres in images so fully imagined that one can never forget them. The language has been so thoroughly purified that truth becomes, in... -
The Garden Entrusted to Me: Essays on Poetry & the Writing Life by Robert Bly 9781945680854
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47The Garden Entrusted to Me collects Robert Bly’s essential writings on his life and practice of poetry, revealing his approach to technique and the experiences that formed him as a poet.Robert Bly’s... -
300 Tang Poems by Geoffrey Waters
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.02"The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel... -
They'll Be Good for Seed: Anthology of Contemporary Hungarian Poetry by Gabor Gyukics
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50A ground breaking anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry containing the diverse work of eight women and eight male poets with a wide range of subject matter and styles full of musicality, rhythm,... -
Aflame by Gary McDowell
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.09Via both associative lyrics and disjunctive narratives, Aflame looks to the intersection of T/time and experience, sex and fatherhood, husbandry and the cosmos, and whether the experiences Aflame... -
A Tree Becomes a Room by J. P. White 9781945680656
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €11.76Poems that travel with a sense of urgency, bearing witness to precarious beauty, fleeting joy and the unfinished work required to survive. The poems in this collection are located in many places... -
Still Life by Alex Long 9781935210290
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52"There is nothing 'still' in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these... -
Flares by Christopher Merrill 9781945680465
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.11The richly imagined fables, vignettes, and prose poems of Flares reveal the elementary strangeness of this world. Here is the improvised travel record of a poet haunted by history, who documents what... -
Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems: Recent Poems by Roberto Juarroz
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52Roberto Juarroz's poems focus on the interior world or the internal experience of the exterior world. We are reissuing this collection of Juarroz's earlier work as a companion to the new volume. ... -
The Hunger in Plain View:Selected Poems by Ester Naomi Perquin
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52As a poet, Perquin is able to get into the minds of others. Whether they are the delinquents presented to us in Cell Inspections or the nameless, strange, but extremely recognizable figures in her... -
Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Dont Exist Agnieszka Kuciak 9781935210450
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02"Mystical, mischievous, and musical, Kuciak enchants me with the scope of her imagination, her whimsical flirtations with identity, theology, and the very nature of human existence. I am delighted by... -
Lessons: Selected Poems by Joel Oppenheimer 9781945680007
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40Joel Oppenheimer was a student of Charles Olson at the original Black Mountain College, a fixture in New York's West Village, and a lover of the NY Mets. His work embraces the taunt line of W. C ... -
Jade Mirror: Women Poets of China by Michael Farman 9781935210498
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40"A delectable selection of poems by China's greatest women poets in translations of exquisite beauty. A rare achievement!"--Red Pine "Jade Mirror's particular strength comes from the fact that all... -
Interrogation Room by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 9781945680151
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.29An innovative tour-de-force book of poetry exploring the dual conflict between North and South Korea as well as that of an Adoptee in search of and finding her birth mother.Book InformationISBN... -
Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai 9781935210184
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52"Adamantine bristles with taut, startling language that continues to yield surprises even after readers realize that they are at serious play within the fields of the human heart, a realm in which... -
Isla Negra by Pablo Neruda 9781893996076
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra. From his arrival there in the late '30s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that... -
Hourglass Museum by Kelli Russell Agodon 9781935210511
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52"Lyrical, intelligent, magical, and honest, the poems are both of this world and out of this world. Her uniquely true and mystical voice is like a glass of pure water: refreshing, healing, and... -
Inquest by Michael McGriff 9781945680830
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76"A blend of the low-rent sociology of Raymond Carver with the quirky imagination of Richard Brautigan."–Billy CollinsMichael McGriff’s book-length poem Inquest is an oblique ode to Pablo Neruda’s... -
A Zen Forest: Zen Sayings by Soiko Shigematsu
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81The essence of Zen is contained in the phrases and poems presented here, along with an introduction by Gary Snyder. The sayings range from profound to mystifying to comical and appear in vivid,... -
The Pearl Diver of Irunmani by Marc Vincenz
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Marc Vincenz seeks nothing less than to track and sing “the forms life takes / as it vanishes and reappears / then as it dissolves.” Marc Vincenz’s The Pearl Diver of Irunmani charts the paths of... -
Multiverse: New and Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems by Tzveta Sofronieva
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40Multiverse brings together four decades of work by the multi-lingual poet of whom Joseph Brodsky said “Listen carefully, she has something to say”. Sofronieva’s poetry covers a wide range from short... -
Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry by Eleanor Goodman 9781945680038
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52"Iron Moon is a monumental achievement. It redraws the boundaries of working-class poetry for the new millennium by incorporating at its center issues like migration, globalization, and rank-and-file... -
Beyond the Edge of Suffering: Prose Poems by Peter Conners 9781945680519
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.58Prose poems and flash fictions revealing the heart-wrenching, absurd, life-changing nature of living through Covid, political chaos, and personal upheaval. Peter Conners' unique blend of prose... -
KB: The Suspect by Marcelijus Martinaitis 9781893996281
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08"To the pantheon of East European poets-Zagajewski, Szymborska, Herbert, Holub -- we must now add Martinaitis. 'K.B.,' the poet's common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the... -
Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets Peter H. Lee 9781893996359
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02This first comprehensive anthology of modern Korean women's poetry in English demonstrates the originality and variety of the twenty poets whose work is presented. Each poet is represented with a... -
Open Your Eyes and Soar: Cuban Women Writing Now Mary Berg 9781893996649
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28The writing of Cuban women writers is virtually unknown in this country. Ten of the best Cuban women writers who have risen to prominence in the last decade of the 20th century are included in this... -
Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life by Robert Bly 9781935210641
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40"The most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers."--The New York Times "Bly's poems flow from ...the great current of longing for reality, true maturity, the devotee's call to... -
Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance by Rafael Alberti 9781935210917
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation "In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning...