Frank O’Hara, Marilyn Monroe, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg—champagne-soaked postwar Manhattan and bohemian 1960s San Francisco come alive in Berkson’s memoirs.Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived, a collage of bold-face names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man who could write “of [Truman Capote's Black and White...

Praise for Bill Berkson:"A serene master of syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous."—Publishers WeeklyWide-ranging and experimental, Expect Delays confronts past and present with rare equilibrium, eyeballing mortality while appreciating the richness and surprise, as well as the inevitable griefs, inherent in the time allowed.Dress TropeCritics should wearwhite jackets likelab...

Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook's lyric message to anyone who has dealt with addiction. "Side A" touches on all aspects of the human condition: life, death, love, trauma, and growth. "Side B" contains haunting black-out remixes of those poems.

Alexandra Elle writes frankly about her experience as a young, single mother while she celebrates her triumph over adversity and promotes resilience and self-care in her readers. This book of all-new poems from the beloved author of Words From A Wanderer and Love In My Language is a quotable companion on the road to healing.

The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take control of their own stories. Enemies try to judge, oppress, and marginalize her, but the witch doesn't burn in this one.

The Last Time I'll Write About You is popular Filipino YA and romance writer Dawn Lanuza's debut collection of poetry. Featuring beautiful, relatable poems about first love, this book is the perfect companion for anyone who has loved, lost, and emerged anew.

Teenage angst and reflection. An emotional journey expressed in a collection of journal poems written by a teen aged girl. The poems reflect on and explore love, life and the world around them. From first loves to lustful feelings to heart warming prose on nature.

Sunsborne pitches darkly into another world. Often the world and characters is hazy, but ''Sunsborne'' is a true picture of the reality, conflict and tensions.In the midst of a conflict torn situation there is love. Robin Wyatt Dunn presents an uncanny story of past and present, darkness and light. His way with language and its thick opacity create a stunning impact on the mind.If you are looking for ''meanings'', leave it. If you are looking for legerdemain stunts, leave it....

Though most of Jane Tyson Clement’s poems remained hidden in private notebooks during her lifetime, the few that traveled beyond her hands were widely admired and drew critical acclaim. Now, with this first comprehensive anthology of her work, the public can at last discover this gifted poet and give her the audience she deserves.Evoking comparisons to such better-known contemporaries as Jane Kenyon, Wendell Berry, and Denise Levertov, Clement is d...

A collection of poetry by Andrew P M Yiallouros, romantic, philosophical, spiritual, loving and sometimes silly in nature... Includes favourites such as "I will make you happier", "Lost Love", "It", "Suicide", and many more."Such a beautiful voice, the naivety is just on the right side of sweetness.""I just love it, it's brilliant, I love 'Walking in the Rain.'""I love your poetry, it's really beautiful!"Other titles and future works:The Dragon and T...

Straight from the journal of Rebecca Clare Smith (author of the Indigo Skies series & the Survival trilogy), this anthology brings you poetic ruminations on the exquisite form of the universe. Be that through the medium of love, loss, nature, or the small thoughts that catch us in the earliest of hours.Raw and untouched, these works have been crafted in the soul. Within these pages they are trapped in the hope that they, too, can speak to you.

The antidote to Valentine's Day if you like your reading sharp, not sickly sweet.'Jean Gill's spiky humour makes you feel as if she's caught you on barbed wire and yet makes you smile about it'- Mike Sharpe, Haverfordwest JournalistStrong, fresh, vivid poems from award-winning author Jean Gill, on an astounding range of subjects including adultery, AIDS and the Mexican Earthquake. If you crossed Wendy Cope's work with Sylvia...