Poetry
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The Writing of an Hour [Paperback]
Brenda Coultas (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819580719
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
What actually happens within the revolution of the clock's hands? In The Writing of an Hour the poet considers the effort and the deliberateness that brings her to her desk each day. Despite domestic and day job demands and widespread loc... .... Learn More -
The Writing of an Hour [Hardback]
Brenda Coultas (Author)
£25.95ISBN: 9780819580702
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
What actually happens within the revolution of the clock's hands? In The Writing of an Hour the poet considers the effort and the deliberateness that brings her to her desk each day. Despite domestic and day job demands and widespread lockdown, Co... .... Learn More -
The Age of Phillis [Paperback]
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9780819579508
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley Peters published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Philli... .... Learn More -
Asked What Has Changed [Paperback]
Ed Roberson (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819580115
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing ... .... Learn More -
Gumbo Ya Ya: Poems [Paperback]
Aurielle Marie (Author)
£14.00ISBN: 9780822966661
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
"Some writers write poetry to flex what they can do. Aurielle Marie writes reckoning poems themselves come to work. Gumbo Ya Ya kicks with this lit lit magic, this insistent ele... .... Learn More -
Other Worlds [Paperback]
Albert Goldbarth (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780822966692
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Other Worlds is true to its title, from a look at our everyday joys and griefs as interpreted by the Mars of classic science fiction and the crazy domain of quantum physics; to studies of the many conflicting realities that America uneasily accomm... .... Learn More -
Little Pharma: Poems [Paperback]
Laura Kolbe (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780822966722
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Winner of the 2020 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry
The title Little Pharma is both a doppelgänger and a cri de coeur: as the poet’s dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky channels of the hospital and clini... .... Learn More -
Be Brave to Things: The Uncollectd Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer [Hardback]
Jack Spicer (Author); Daniel Katz (Editor)
£25.95ISBN: 9780819578150
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master
Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-ed... .... Learn More -
The Past [Hardback]
Wendy Xu (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819580450
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration
The poems in Wendy Xu's third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record of their namesake, while ultimately working to ... .... Learn More -
The Past [Paperback]
Wendy Xu (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819580467
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration
The poems in Wendy Xu's third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record of their namesake, while ultimately working to ... .... Learn More
