Strong Is Your Hold
Houghton Mifflin, November 2006. Hardcover. More
Houghton Mifflin, November 2006. Hardcover. More
University of Chicago Press, July 1993. Paper Back. The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1965. Paper Back. This is a shortened and rearranged version of The Songs of Homer, Professor Kirk's vivid and comprehensive account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. His purpose remains the same: to develop a comprehensive and..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2008. Hardcover. Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch--"one of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times)--has established himself among the most controversial and fearless critics writing today. Sure..... More
Humanities Press, January 1976. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards and stamped gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name written in ink on ffep. [247 pages]. More
Scott Foresman & Co, January 1964. First Thus. Paper Back. {6' x 9'} Heavily worn at edges with creases and rubbing. Previous owner's name written in ink half title page. [163 pages]. More
Harper, March 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "John Koethe's The Constructor is a scrupulous, elegant account of the meditative intellect as an instrument continually registering the passage of time. Exquisitely modulated and brutally honest, these poems would be harrowing were they not so seductively beautiful. No one writing in this country..... More
HarperCollins, October 1997. Trade Paperback. "As a poet who is a teacher of philosophy, John Koethe knows better than most of us the uses and dissatisfactions of both disciplines, if indeed they are disciplines. In this ravishing and haunted book he comes face to face with the time when 'more..... More
HarperCollins, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and as antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can..... More
University California Press, April 1970. Soft Cover. Octavo with worn cover. Sticker residue front cover. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [180 pages]. More
New York University Press / University of London Press Limited, 1968. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Moderate wear to over. Rubbing. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [327 pages]. More
Atlantic Little Brown, 1975, January 1975. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length gently creased from use; Previous owner name present at front free-end page; Text free of markings; An excellent reading copy. More
Ecco, August 2023. Paper Back. From the author of the award-winning Tap Out - "a gritty, insightful debut" (Washington Post) - Edgar Kunz's second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America. Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection..... More
Copper Canyon Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. With this, his first collection of poetry, Stephen Kuusisto (author of the memoir Planet of the Blind) explores blindness and curiosity, loneliness and the found instruments of continuation. Exploiting the seeming contradiction of poetry's reliance upon visual imagery with Kuusisto's own sightlessness, these..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1995. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Douglas & McIntyre, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2023. Hardcover. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. These poems transport us from a clifftop in..... More
Hub City Press, April 2024. Hardcover. From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose. In gorgeous and timely pieces, Joy Is the Justice We..... More
Hannau Robinson, Inc., 1969. Reprint. Cloth. Second printing. {7' x 9 & 1/2'} Green cloth covered quarto with gold lettering & decoration front board. Grey-green illustrated front and rear end pages.Previous owner's inscription verso of ffep. {44 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse--by..... More
Wave Books, October 2023. Paper Back. As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky's The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and imagined, inhabiting characters and spaces that have..... More
Penguin, (1968). Mass Market PaperBack. Pages browning, but a tight, square, clean copy. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1989. Trade Paperback. Brings together 175 poems that reveal Lawrence's virtuosity in this genre. More
Chatto & Windus, 1961. Hardcover. shelf wear and corner bumping on dust jacket as would be expected from age; small tear on DJ at top of front by spine; another small tear on top back of DJ near spine; mild page yellowing in keeping with age; price clipped on inside..... More
Conduit Books & Ephemera, March 2020. Paper Back. Poetry. Winner of the Bronze Medal in the 2020 Florida Book Awards for Poetry. In her second poetry collection SACRIFICIAL METAL, Esther Lee's poems offer a meditation through the lens of dance and human movement about the quiet dignities and alienation of..... More