Copper Canyon Press, April 2019. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award 100 Notable Books of the Year, The New York Times Book Review One Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021 By some literary magic--no, it's precision, and..... More
Copper Canyon Press, February 2020. Hardcover. "By some literary magic--no, it's precision, and honesty--Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."--Craig Morgan Teicher, "I Reject Walls: NPR 2019 Poetry Preview" "A relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult jewel of a poem."--Rita..... More
Noemi Press, May 2014. Oversize Softcover. Poetry. "Launched by words 'fragile and ragged / as broken marbles' Bruce Covey's poems make huge leaps from thought to thought, instant to instant, presenting the pressures of the extreme contemporary in a new, vibrant, and often wry light. In striking images (a ten-pound..... More
Black Sparrow Press, December 2020. Hardcover. For nearly three decades, Richard Buckner has been traveling the byways of America, often alone and with little more than his guitars and notebooks. Now he's sharing what he saw, felt, and found. Long admired for his impressionistic and elliptical lyrics, Buckner has more..... More
Stonehill Publishing, January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Jacket is worn along edges and corner, else very good copy. More
Carcanet Press Ltd., April 2002. Trade Paperback. Revolutionary Sonnets explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering and funny. More
Penguin Books, May 1994. Trade Paperback. This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang..... More
Mentor Books, August 1987. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Collier Books, 1967. Paper Back. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Rubber stamped by a previous dealer lower right corner of same page: [224 pp.]. More
Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. Cloth. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/4'}. No dustjacket. Heavy foxing of internal pages. Darkened textblock edges. '30' written top edge. Maroon cloth with black lettering on spine, gold lettering front board, and blind stamped 'MK' on back board. With errata slip. 63 pages. More
Ahsahta Press, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Invoking theorists, philosophers, and such poets as John Berryman and Lyn Hejinian, the poems of Brigitte Byrd's third book ask the reader to follow a ribbon threaded among music, movies, poetics, and an unlinear sense of time. Its prose poems recount and deconstruct..... More
Modern Library, January 1949. First Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Bookplate adhered at one corner to front free (Kent) endpaper. Additionally, previous owner's name taped to same endpaper. Top edge of spine sunned. Top leading corner also has color loss. Jacket quite torn, chipped and tape repaire; still..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Unbelievable Alligator Press, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Poetry. FLOWERS OF BAD is David Cameron's false translation of Charles Baudelaire's 19th century masterpiece, Les Fleurs du Mal. Written over the course of 11 years, it includes translations of all of the poems in Baudelaire's masterpiece, barring those added to the edition..... More
Red Hen Press, January 2010. Paper Back. **Winner of the American Book Award **Silver Medalist for the California Book Award Suck on the Marrow is a historical narrative, revolving around six main characters and set in mid-19th century Virginia and Philadelphia. The book traces the experiences of fugitive slaves, kidnapped..... More
North Star Press of St. Cloud, August 1996. Trade Paperback. More
Nightboat Books, December 2010. Paper Back. This book gathers a decade of Caroline Bergvall's innovative pieces, from her long out-of-print performance text Goan Atom, inspired by the graphic contortions of Hans Bellmer's Doll and violent love fantasies of other radical body-inspired artists, The Shorter Chaucer, a series of contemporary tales..... More
Facets Of Life Poetry Collection, December 2001. Paper Back. Clean, solid, without markings or wear. Personal inscription by Watson: 'To DeJu. Keep smiling my friend and be Blessed! Enjoy! C.A.W. 7/8/08'. More
Burning Deck, January 2006. Paper Back. Poetry. Sharply drawn and lyrical, PERSPECTIVE WOULD HAVE US is the first full-length collection from poet Erica Carpenter. Carpenter is a Rhode Island native and received an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 1998. She is the author of a chapbook, Summoned..... More
E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Thus. Cloth. First American Edition in dust-stained, spine-darkened pink dustjacket with blue lettering and chipping/edgewear with considerable wear to top of spine. Spine & corners Carolina blue & boards sky blue. Much faded/darkened gilt printed paper labels spine and front board. Edges of cloth worn/frayed top..... More
Bantam, November 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. "What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively."--Hayden Carruth This famous anthology includes the works..... More
New Directions, December 2017. Hardcover. Anne Carson writes, "Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive..... More
Wake Forest University Press, March 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Clean and tight. Just a few turned page corners. Signed and dedicated on the title page. More
Imprint Twenty Seven, March 2022. Hardcover. Valentine Carter's fierce debut gives voice to the mostly forgotten and maligned female characters of Homer's epic The Odyssey. It is a celebratory ode to those who survive within and outside of gender norms. Faithful Penelope waits for her husband's return as she weaves..... More
J.M. Dent & Sons, July 1993. Trade Paperback. God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic..... More
