Penguin Classics, August 1983. Trade Paperback. Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four..... More
Penguin Classics, August 1983. Trade Paperback. Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four..... More
Penguin Classics, April 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her..... More
Alice James Books, April 2019. Paper Back. Paris Review Staff Pick A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness--how to be tender and feeling and still survive..... More
Black Sparrow Press, December 1995. Paper Back. Tom Clark's Like Real People is a voyage into autobiography, one poet's attempt to "tell his own life," first in poetry, then in straightforward, unadorned prose. Clean, sound. Very good+/fine. No internal markings, underlining or side-notes. More
Black Sparrow Press, March 1992. Paper Back. Selected work from Tom Clark's first quarter century of writing, from songs of innocence published when he was twenty-five ("Lake Life, I want to take a bath/ In you and forget death") to lines reflecting the disappointments and compromises of middle age ("While..... More
Awede, January 1995. First Edition. Paper Back. Limited edition of 500. Clean, solid. No markings. More
Knopf, February 2021. Hardcover. Tragicomic verses from the award-winning comedian and millennial renaissance woman. Catherine Cohen, the one-woman stand-up chanteuse who has electrified the downtown NYC comedy scene in her white go-go boots, has been posting poignant, unfiltered poems on social media since before Instagram was a thing. A self-proclaimed..... More
Black Sparrow Press, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with..... More
Black Sparrow Press, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with..... More
Estes and Lauriat. Cloth. 27 illustrations by Gustave Dore, Birket Foster & others. Worn floral end pages. Non-authorial inscription (dated 1892); loose binding yet still intact; much wear to board edges; heavy tanning & rubbing to spine; appears to have been rebound with Art Nouveau flower design cloth spine with..... More
Penguin Books, November 2000. Trade Paperback. With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as "the metaphysical dreamer" and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiographer..... More
Random House, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite poet."..... More
University of Georgia Press, February 2018. Trade Paperback. This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher P. Collins has taken his tours in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on..... More
George. Braziller, January 1967. Hardcover. Green paper covered boards with black lettering. Mild slant to spine. Darkening/discoloration to end pages, especially at rear. Small dark stop near top of spine, back cover. Tiny bumped tear bottom board edge of same.Otherwise boards are clean, bright without defects. Heavily damp stained jacket..... More
Anhinga Press, January 1989. Paper Back. Signed & inscribed by Corseri: 'For Walter & Naolco, 2 of the best, Gary Corseri 11/96 (Thanksgiving Day). Darkened spine. More
City Lights, 1969. Trade Paperback. 1969 facsimile edition of the original 1955 book. Signed and dedicated by the author on the inside of the front cover. Lightly bumped corners, light soiling and shelf wear. Mylar overwrap. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Citadel, October 1994. Trade Paperback. At the time of its release in 1860, Charles Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises (Les Paradis Artificiels) met with immediate praise. One of the most important French symbolists, Baudelaire led a debauched, violent, and ultimately tragic life, dying an opium addict in 1867. This book, a response..... More
Distributed Art Pub Inc, December 2002. Hardcover. Here, Damien Hirst and Paul Fryer have concocted an acute distillation of manners, cultures and prejudices, a polemic even, that reflects a light suffused with a powerful disinterest, a disturbing sine qua non. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in chipped, creased jacket. More
Signet Classics, July 2001. Mass Market PaperBack. O glory of the Latins, said he, "through whom our language showed what it could do, O honor eternal of the place wherefrom I was, what merit or what grace shows thee to me? If I am worthy to hear thy words, tell..... More
Sheep Meadow, December 1973. Paper Back. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. . . . not from the schools but from such a man as Mr. Ignatow, to whom language is like his skin, must we look for those innovations which will set us upon our feet in our writing--William Carlos Williams. His..... More
St Martins Pr, December 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. A couple of tiny closed tears on the edge of the jacket. Some pages marked with a star on the top corner. More
Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, January 2001. Paper Back. Inscribed by author. More
