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The Importance of Being Ernest by Ernest Cline Publisher Comments The New York Times best selling author of Ready Player One returns to his roots in this poetic celebration of all things nerd-core. Cline's latest collection takes readers into a private landscape of science fiction, pop culture, and 80′s nostalgia.... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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e. e. cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by e e cummings Publisher Comments This edition of E. E. Cummings’s Complete Poems contains all the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including 36 poems that were first collected in the 1991 edition and 164 unpublished poems issued in 1983... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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The Inside of an Apple by Joshua Beckman Publisher Comments "If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman. He seems to be doing everything."Daniel... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud...: ...and Other Poems You Half-Remember from School by Ana Sampson Publisher Comments All of poetry's greatest hits—from the classics of Wordsworth and Pope to modern-day poets W. H. Auden and Ted Hughes You may remember the famous opening lines, "Tyger tyger, burning bright?" and "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" but... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Songs of Unreason by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments Number one on the Poetry Foundation Bestseller List, a Michigan Notable Book, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. "A beautifully mysterious inquiry."Booklist "Songs of Unreason, Harrison's latest collection of poetry, is a wonderful defense... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Inside of an Apple by Joshua Beckman Publisher Comments "If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman. He seems to be doing everything."Daniel... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected Poems, 1950 to 2013 by Robert Bly Publisher Comments Selected from throughout Robert Bly’s monumental body of work from 1950 through the present, Stealing Sugar from the Castle represents the culmination of an astonishing career in American letters. Bly has long been the voice of transcendentalism... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Just This by Margaret Chula Publisher Comments Just This is Margaret Chula's seventh collection of poetry. Although Chula's tanka convey contemporary moments, they are located in the tradition of classical waka, the earlier form of tanka. The book contains the traditional number of one hundred tanka,... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Ogre's Wife by Ron Koertge Publisher Comments Ron Koertge wants to do nothing but delight. Armed with his trademark wit, he introduces readers to Little Red Riding Hood all grown up with a fondness for salsa and chips, explores the thorny relationship of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese, spies a... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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River Walker by Scott Starbuck Publisher Comments River Walker presents 28 poems by poet, artist, and fisherman Scott T. Starbuck. The poems reflect his deep connection to place, his interest in culture and history, and his versatility with language and poetic form. The book was designed by Jonathan... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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Go Giants by Nick Laird Publisher Comments Go Giants, Nick Laird’s stunning third volume of poetry, is full of “epic ambition.” In a collection that’s “easily his most accomplished to date . . . [Laird] gives everything of himself in a poetry as expansive and thought-... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Boomerangs in the Living Room by Rex Wilder Synopsis Rex Wilder’s second collection introduces the world to a new form, inspired by Richard Wilbur: the boomerang, a four-line nouveau haiku that aims for permanence in an evanescent world.... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Haiku by David Cobb Publisher Comments In Japan, the natural scene and the details of human life are the common focus of the haiku poet and many artists. The inspiration of this irresistible book is to bring them together, revealing the talents of both artists and poets in making the obvious... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Hardcover
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Flirt (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) by Noah Blaustein Publisher Comments In this stunning first collection of poems, Noah Blaustein's narrators face the complexities that shape a life: adolescence, fatherhood, our responsibility for the lives of others, the exhilaration of romantic love, and memory. These anxious, frequently... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Hotel Oneira: Poems by August Kleinzahler Publisher Comments A thrilling new collection from one of the most original poets of his generation “His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy with a jazzy backbeat.” That praise appeared in the pages of The New York Times in... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Elegies by Muriel Rukeyser Publisher Comments "Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest." — Muriel Rukeyser, “Elegy in Joy” First published by New Directions in 1949, Muriel Rukeyser’s Elegies were written over a seven years period the end of the... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Becoming Judas by Nicelle Davis Publisher Comments The second collection by Nicelle Davis, Becoming Judas, is an “elemental bible-diary-manifesto,” that weaves together Mormonism, Mamaism, Manson, Lennon, Kabbalah, and the lost Gospel of Judas into am ecstatic, searing meditation on raw... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Charming Gardeners Signed Edition by David Biespiel Publisher Comments The formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiel's new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America. Roving from the old Confederacy of Biespiel's native South to Portland... (read more) Available October 10, 2013 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Almanac: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) by Austin Smith Publisher Comments Almanac 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 Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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