Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
Avon, November 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Poetry
The Conference of the Birds (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, July 1984. Trade Paperback. Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through..... More
Dearly: New Poems
Ecco, November 2021. Paper Back. A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her..... More
Dearly: New Poems
Ecco, November 2021. Paper Back. A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her..... More
Collected longer poems
Faber and Faber, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. First U.K. edition in dustjacket. Not price clipped. White sticker with British price over another British price somewhat obscured, but partially visible through sticker. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Bright, clean, sound, overall fine. 356 pp. More
The double man
Random House, January 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Minimal aging to book, and jacket shelfwear. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper. Contemporaneous review laid in rear, browning rear endpapers. Also laid in: receipt dated 1941 from Harvard Co-op Book Department. More
The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest (W.H. Auden: Critical Editions)
Princeton University Press, October 2005. Trade Paperback. Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As..... More
W.H. Auden: Selected Poems (Vintage International)
Vintage, December 1989. Trade Paperback. The author has restored the early vision of some 30 of his greatest poems, generally considered to be superior to the later versions. Edited by Edward Medelson. More
A Collection of Chinese Lyrics
Vanderbilt University Press, 1967. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn brick red cloth covered silver lettering. Non-authorial inscription inked front free end page. Clean, unmarked interior pages. 254 pages. More
I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
Harper Perennial, November 2021. Trade Paperback. An Instant New York Times Bestseller The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers, supporters and detractors--an artform that reclaims the vitriol from online trolls..... More
What Kind of Woman: Poems
Harper, November 2020. Hardcover. An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer.--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being..... More
What Kind of Woman: Poems
Harper Perennial, November 2020. Trade Paperback. An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer.--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships..... More
Glamorgan: He Who Would Be Cat
Companion Star, Inc., October 1998. Paper Back. Signed & Inscribed by Bain: 'To Laryy & Dennis - Best Wishes, Lauren.' Stapled Pamphlet. More
Poemes, 1987-1996: Una antologia (Varoic)
Edicions Documenta Balear, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Very minor shelf wear. Signed and dedicated by the author on the title page. Dual language English/Spanish. More
Damnatio Memoriae: Erased from Memory
Enitharmon Pr, April 2005. Trade Paperback. A sequence of poems which evokes the urban landscape of London, and the hidden beauties of the Lea Valley. Previous bookstore's stamp on first page. More
Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (A Brown Thrasher Books Original)
University of Georgia Press, November 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As the foremost translator of thirteenth-century mystic poet Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks reaches a devoted, inspired, and ever-widening international audience. Yet the foundation for Barks's work as a translator is his own significant body of work as a poet. Winter..... More
EGYPT
The Post-Apollo Press, May 2002. Paper Back. Poetry. In Dawn Michelle Baude's 'EGYPT' the poems are glyphs in a desert. and the shapes of the poems are tangible, as the poems say the intangible. Fragmented in the sense of seeming broken by time (not, as more commonly intended, to suggest..... More
Baudelaire -- Selected Verse with Introduction and prose translations by Francis Scarfe. (no. D56.)
The Penguin Poets, January 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First UK mass market paperback edition. Clean, without internal markings. Non-authorial inscription to verso of front cover. Edgewear to covers. Moderate darkening. In French & English. [273 pp.]. More
The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs du mal)
Liveright, December 2021. Hardcover. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life. First published..... More
Flowers of Evil : A Selection
W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1955. Trade Paperback. The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.Flowers of Evil: A Selection contains 53 poems which the..... More
Man Possessed; Being the Selected Poems of William Rose Benet
George H. Doran, January 1927. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'; Without dustjacket, black cloth with stamped red unicorn & tree front cover and red lettering on spine. Moderately edgeworn boards. Previous owner's name & a date inked front pastedown. 311 pages. More
Nothing in the World
Penguin Books, September 1972. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear on the cover. Minor foxing on the edges of the print block. More
HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET. A Poem, With Pictures by Ben Shahn.
Farrar Straus & Cudahy, January 1956. First Edition. Cloth. {6 & 3/8th' x 9 & 3/8th')Stated, 'first printing' on copyright page. In dustjacket with darkened spine and on verso. Tears top of spine and likewise bottom of spine and along folds. Flap is not clipped. Odor suggesting formerly shelved in..... More
One Art: Letters
Noonday Press, September 1995. Trade Paperback. From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux has selected over five hundred and has written a detailed and informative introduction. One Art takes..... More
From Jordan's delight,
Arrow Editions, February 1937. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Steel blue cloth with darker blue lettering along spine. Spine is browned from exposure to light. Likewise darkened top margins of boards front and back. Pale blue end pages. Darkened/dust stained top textblock edge. Review copy with 4 &..... More
