University Of Chicago Press, November 2011. Trade Paperback. "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation--the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition..... More
Penguin Classics, November 1999. Trade Paperback. By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2013. Paper Back. Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences, Cathy..... More
Atria Books, February 2011. Paper Back. Icon of women's movement and author of over twenty books, including a narrative series on love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry. When Angels Speak of Love is a book of 50..... More
The Norton Library, January 1964. Trade Paperback. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Moderate wear to cover with superficial creasing, edgewear and toning. Previous owner's name inked and a previous dealer's large rubber stamp compete for space first inside page. [200 pages plus five page list of available Norton titles.]. More
Milkweed Editions, January 2022. Paper Back. Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire--and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks "what name / do you..... More
Wesleyan University Press, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Assembling Alternatives brings together five English-speaking communities -- the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland and Australia -- to discuss how national differences have inflected poetic experimentation. The 24 essays provide historic overviews, close readings, personal views and polemics on poetics as they have developed..... More
Harvest / Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Some scattered ink underlining & marginal notes. Darkened spine. More
Burning Deck, January 2007. Paper Back. Poetry. Winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award, selected by Thylias Moss. Catherine Imbriglio's first collection of poems PARTS OF THE MASS uses the Mass as a framework for her own stunningly original poems. Here we have language of the internal juxtaposed with..... More
North Atlantic Books, December 2009. First Edition. Cloth. ***Winner of Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as..... More
Olympic Marketing Corp, December 1982. Hardcover. Later printing. Clipped jacket. More
Loyola Press, April 1997. Trade Paperback. First published in 1969, Milward's "A Commentary On The Sonnets Of G.M. Hopkins" has-become a classic of Hopkins criticism. In the tradition of Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton, Jesuit poet Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote a series of acclaimed metaphysical and religious, personal and..... More
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1971. Cloth. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Edgeworn dust jacket. Reprint of Martin Secker & Warburg Limited UK edition. More
Wesleyan Univ Press, Conn, January 1962. Hardcover. Fifh printing (1967). Endpapers foxed; jacket darkened, chipped and clipped. More
Prentice-Hall, January 1962. Trade Paperback. 7TH PRINTING. More
Orange Alert Press, October 2009. Paper Back. This is a collection of prose poems that when collected tell the tale of a young man and his cross country travels. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In DJ with severely sun-bleached spine and mildly worn at corners and edges. Grey cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine and small floral decoration centered front panel. Mild dust staining to textblock edges. 30 pages. More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1977. First Thus. Paper Back. Mild edgewear to cover. Clean, unmarked. First thus paperback edition, complete number string. (197 pages). More
Random House Inc, June 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. Robinson Jeffers was one of the most controversial poets of the twentieth century. In this volume, essential poems selected from his major works provide an excellent overview of Jeffers's style and the themes present throughout his work. Drawn from volumes published throughout..... More
Hanging Loose Press, April 2011. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Jen Benka's elegant and superbly crafted poems reinvigorate our notion of the lyric. Welding language from diverse spheres military, political, legal, literary, pop she enlists the reader to help in this renewal process, urging: "trespassers take up your tools." "I'm a huge..... More
Unversity of pittsbugh, January 1977. Trade Paperback. Light foxing. More
White Rabbit, January 1968. Stapled Soft Cover. Much chipped & torn. At last account still holding on by one rusty staple. Scarce. More
Doubleday, January 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Darkened spine & margins; chipping & edgewear. Slanted spine. Gold lettering. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. More
Eyewear Publishing, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Over the last three years, Atlanta-based artist John Carroll has been on a journey of sharing a piece of blackout poetry with his social media followers every day. HIDDEN MESSAGES OF HOPE is a retrospective collection of his blackout poetry, along..... More
Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 1985. Paper Back. More
