Peter Pauper Press, January 1937. Hardcover. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Octavo. Peach & white floral patterned paper covered boards with paper title plate with blue lettering & border affixed to spine. In blue paper covered slipcase with pink & black printed title plate affixed to one side..... 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
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
Penguin USA, September 1972. Paper Back. A classic of early English literature, by an anonymous poet from the time of Chaucer Although the date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is uncertain, and we know nothing about the author, its composition is roughly contemporary with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales..... More
Mentor Books, August 1987. Mass Market PaperBack. 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
Oxford University Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of close attention to..... More
North Star Press of St. Cloud, August 1996. Trade Paperback. More
Yale University Press, October 2021. Hardcover. A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The Times A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken..... 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, June 2014. First Edition. Pamphlet. The Albertine Workout contains fifty-nine paragraphs, with appendices, summarizing Anne Carson's research on Albertine, the principal love interest of Marcel in Proust's Á la recherche du temps perdu. First/first. Sunning along stapled left edge. Otherwise clean, unmarked, gently read. Complete number line: 10..... More
New Directions, October 2021. Hardcover. H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and..... More
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, July 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name, date inked on half-title; else, near fine. More
Duke University Press Books, November 2017. Paper Back. Originally published in 1939, Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Négritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it..... More
